The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21
NEWCASTLE'S DUKE
And Our Acquaintance with This
Hunch Backed Peer.
BROTHER OF LORD FRANCIS HOPE
Whose Wife Has lust EOpsd with Tho Son Of
ES.MaIor Suong-A yoage Aouss the
Atlantic With The Ouke-His Views on Anad.
can LIis-How the Duchess, His Mother
EIOped with Banker Hope, Of Amsterdam.

The escapade Of Captain Strong
and Lady Frances Hope i'm San Fran.
cisco the past week. has been aired i'm
every daily newspaper in this country.
and no doubt also in England. where
the husband Of the Lady is at present.
The editor Of The Globe became ac.
quainted with the Duke Of Newcastle,
brother of Lord Francis Hope on an
ocean liner i'm 1887, and for some years
after conducted a desultOry cores
pondence with the Duke
An unique ngure I'm the peerage of
Great Britain is the present Duke Of
Newcastle He is about four feet il
height hump-backed and deformed.
He is nevertheless a superiority reiin-
ed and cultured gentleman. betraying
no traces i'm the sweetness of his dis
position and temperament eharacteris-
Tie of the hunch back or the deform-
ed.
A younger child Of the writes at the
interesting age Of three years first at
tracted the attention of His Grace on
board the liner, and through the medi-
um of the child we became acquainted
on reasonable terms of intimacy with
this scion Of England's aristocracy.
The month was January. and on our
first social conversation We expressed
surprise that he undertook a voyage
TO America at such a season.
WHY, my dear sir said Newcastle.
81 am going over at this season just be-
cause Of your climate
You will find It, at a events. braC-
ing and cold i'm New York was our re-
ply
But / am running away from the
damp cold ~nter of England. and
Florida and not the New York climate
is what / seek. This is my second
trip TO the States. ! find your Florida
climate am ideal one, and | can not un.
derstaud why so many of you Ameri-
cans seek the Mediterranean i'm winter
when your own climate of FLORIDA is
much more genial and delightful"
Americans do not go abroad for
climate. your grace
For what then pray?"
'Well-to spend money. have a good
time as we cali &c. and see a different
style of living people. manners, ETC.,
20 their own. Besides, many of them
have the pardOuabIe curiosity of wish
ing 10 see the ancient an historic
places history poetry and romance
have f8miHarized them with
'Ah-ycs. / can understand all this,
hut there are Americans who travel for
climate, or, at least, who say so, for !
have met them iu Italy. Southern
France and along the show places Of
the Mediterranean Interesting inya-
lids and very CompaniOnable people.
too despite their real or imaginary
ailments
"Do you travel through Florida, or
anchor yourself at ssme hotel?' we
EcutUred To- ask.
"Oh-I live vixen there with my
brother Lord FRANCES Hope He has
lam orange plantation, and IS more than
half American. He rs a lively young
man. not ar aII like me " and the Duke
smiled doprecIa~ingly suddeOly he
burtod out.
"Do you know why Hope and ! like
Amer.o8ns2"
Bowug questiOniugly and remaining
silent as we surmiscd the Duke did not
expect us no guess be Immediately
said.
Because you Americans are the best
husbands and fathers in the world.
You treat your wives as equals and
you do not mlstreat your children
"Is not this a universal Caucasian
trait your Grace
No am sorry 10 say it ia not
Iu England the lower classes treat
their women as they We're chattsls and
their children coarsely II not brutaiy
Now ion America ] have observed that
your wife whippors are OstraCiscd
| and cruelty 10 csldren by parent.
calls forth your strongest indignation
laudmostcOudignp punishment YOu have
| very few cases of such. We in England
have more cases of this kind befOr,
70 single magistrate than you have 10
The whole Of your country A com
mon Eu.lishman thinks that his wiz,
| Is his property and that children must
| Ue beaten and put under the seyersst
! discipline Indeed the lower order.
consider It their duty 10 whip their
| wives whenever they think thGir bet
| tar hairs conduct calls for it. and. in.
| stead of a5 with your people "a repri.
mar| 0r word quarrel lie English
msu knocks bic wife on fHe jaw and
the domestic fuss Us over"
'How about your middle classes,