The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21


which correspond more nearly to the
great body of our people"
"Well-the class next in rank 10
! the nobility are the untitled gentry.
/ While they do not, of cou Sc, resort to
/ fistic brutality, they are as rule,
convinced that their wives are inferior
/ Their horse, their dog and gun, and
/ then wife, is the order of preference
| from the masculine point Of view.
/ The lives of their wives and children
/ however, are delightful; they are gem
orally spent in the healthy air of the
/ country and the town house is used
but in the winter months. Our mer-
chants, professional men and the mid
Gle class generally, maintain strict dis
cipline in their households, such as
would be intOlerable to an Americans
wife and children. There is one thing,
however, in their favor which Ameri-
cans might initiate, and that is the re-
speCt and Difference of the wife and
children for the husband and father,
which are profound, and undisguisedly
reveFential, while their love is no less
than the wives and children of other
nationalities. To be a man in this
class is delightful. in England, to be a
woman of this class is delightful in
your country Do you catch my mean
ing?' and the Duke smiled significant
ly.
The Duke refrained from expressing
any views on his own Glars, the titled
and privileged nobility, and the pro
prieties prevented us from opening up
subject he did not touch.
We have given at some length the
views of the Duke as a prelude to what
follows. The gentleman companion
and attendant on the Duke was a man
Of broad views CompaniOnable and so.
ciable. This gentleman was Of good
family and must not be confOunded by
the initiated reader with servant or
valet The Duke treated him on terms
Of equality, or nearly 80. From this
source we ascertained a great many
facts touching the Newcastle family
in general, and the d. ke in particu.
lar
The present Dukes father was a no.
torious spendthrft and libertne. So
much 80, that he aleinsted the love Of
his duchess and she became equally
reckless and finally eloped with Hope
the Amsterdam banker and diamond
king. BY him she had the Dukes half
brother, Lord Frances Hope born in
WedlOCk, however, as the elder New
castle died in time to permit Of the
marriage Of the Duchess to Banker
Hope.
When the Duke was a baby in arms
his nurse let him fall from her arms
and broke his back During his long
minority and because of his crippled
condition when attaining years Of dis,
CretiOn. he was prevented from fol.
lowing the usual pace Of the scions of
the nobility. and consequently the es-
tates which were greatly in debt
through the prOtligacy Of the father
became uninCumbered and increased
enormously i'm value owing to valuable
coal deposits which We're judiciously
and economically developed and man
aged
The Dukes hobby--Sor every Duke
has "a hobby-was the collection of
newspaper clippings of and concerning
the treatment lives and happenings
Of children. He had enormous scrap
books on this subject Hence his opin.
ion on the superior treatment Of
American women and children is au-
thOritative. He made it a study. At
the period of our voyage across the
ocean the Duke eXaCted a promise to
let him from time to time, know how
our young Steward, to whom he was
much attached progressed, and to send
him his photos as he developed These
are now, no doubt, pasted somewhere
i'm his scrap book. Here is an extract
from a letter from His Grace, although
marked personal, the paragraph quot
ed is given in violation thereof to serve
"a public purpose
"It turned out just as you predict
ed. AT the entertainment and other
functions ! attended the most beautiful
of the unmarried women, in New York,
thought me handsome.
Several covert propositions for the
DuCal hand as you called it, and Z
few more direct" NO-I will
marry in my own class. Got
photo, with cigar in mouth; very
laughable"
The references here made relate to
the disgusting attempts of the New
York society danes to marry one of
their number to the hunch back duke,
despite the fact that it was no medical
secret no heir could be expected. He
subsequently married, as he said he
would, an English heiress The
photo with ''the cigar in mouth was
that of the child he was interested in.
It was the Dukes habit on board the
boat TO humor the childs strange
taste for cigars by sticking one in his
mouth and seeing him promenade the
deck, when the boat was pitching or
rocking. IL is impossible TO throw a
fv "a Ina lAaf
as the little one instinctiyely or natu-
rally goes with the rise and fall of the
ship.
Coming back, at length to Lord Fran
ces Hope a passable physical speci-
men Of the nObiAty He is next in
succession 10 the present duke. If
Miss Yohe, the actress who married
him is not divorced for her adulterous
intercourse with Captain Strong she
will be duchess Of Newcastle. Lady
Francis Hope as she is now called,
has made a terrible sacrifice for her
American paramour She will miss,
without doubt, being mistress Of one
of the Wealthiest peers i'm England, for
the present duke is saving and when
Lord Frances succeeds he will be rich
beyond the dreams Of avarice.'
The Hope Diamonds We're left
Lord Francis, the second son, by his
mother on condition, however, that he
should ASSUME the name Of Hope.
hence this strange title in the ducal
family Of Newcastle.
The editor of The Globe has no pre-
tensions 10 enter the field with "FOn-
teunOy' the great nobility chronicler,
who spaces a column every day in all
the leading daily papers OF the country,
on the aristocracy and nobility Of
Europe and especially Of England,
but il this great writer will deign to
drop us line we will furnish him
some interesting facts on Newcastle,
Hamilton and q few other Dukes and
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