Evening star., 1901-05-13
eleven Murillos, twenty Fortuys and eish-
teen GoyaS
Public Exhibition of Tanning Wild
Beasts.

eleven Murillos, twenty Fortuys and eish-
teen Goyas.
Public Exhibition of Tanning Wild
Beasts.
The jaded appetite of Iondoners is to
have q fresh flip in the shape of wild
beasts being trained in public, The daring
experiment is to be tried in a week or two
at the Hippodrome by the German beast
tanner, Herr Sawade. who has just received
two magnificent Bengal tigers, fifteen
months old, an African lion and two Ger
man boarhounds. AS soon as they become
accustomed to- the surroundings of the
Hlppodrome they will be turned into the
arena at each performance with the educat-
ed troop and be gradually trained in
view of the public. Thus are promised
an opportunity of seeing how wild beasts
are reduced to a perfect state of submits
sion There has always been public de-
sire to see chow it is done" Doubtless
the wish will be gratified. OF course. the
beasts will be tanned after a fashion be-
fore being exhibited. They will not be
actually wild.
Changes at Windsor Castle.
1t would never do for Queen Victoria to
appear at Windsor Castle when the sea-
son begins, which it will shortly. She
would not recognize many of the rooms
she used to inhabit changed have they
been, and some of the customs of the new
reign would be sure to shock her Royal
commands to dinner and lunch will be
frequent. and open house will be kept.
1t Is an innovation by means likely to
be palatable to our elders that after din
ner the men smoke in all the drawing
rooms of Windsor Castle. OF course. they
don't actually puff a cigarette when ad-
dressing the queen, but it is quite Liberty
Hall. The queen herself first smoked be-
cause of her asthma and her sister, the
Empress of Russia brought back to the
annual fanny gathering in Denmark the
habit of the Russian ladies who perpetu-
ally smoke cigarettes. Nearly every young
married woman in society and almost every
girl in her first second season indulge
in surreptitious cigarettes.
After what is termed Il hen lunch''-that
is midday meal where men intrude-
cigarettes are handed round as a matter
smoke before any man except their own
husbands, and few grown up girls have
mothers sufficiently educated up to date to
permit themselves to see their daughters
enjoy the fragrant tobacco.
| hear that Queen Alexandra Is person.
ally anxious to reduce her court, and that
In any event her majestys maids of honor
Will md their duties made StudouSiy light.
The queens simple tastes and aversion to
fuss and ceremony are well known. OF
course, for the dignity becoming the throne
1t will be necessary to hedge the queen
consort round with noble ladies and serv-
ing misses, to say nothing of equerries and
men alarms. but their royal mistress will
have little use for them.
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sold. but it is highly improbable Osborne
apart from Windsor and Sandringham is
the only royal residence out of London
which is comparatively near. 1t is known
that the king has no great liking for Wind
sor, and it is Improbable that he will part
with the one royal residence which is at
the seaside. The king takes great inter-
est in yachting. and this consideration
alone would probably determine him to re-
tain Osborne. 1t is quite likely that it may
be maintained on a more modest scale than
hitherto. The king is to do with fewer
chaplains than the late sovereign. AS the
existing chaplaincies fall in they will not
be filled up until there is a considera BILE re-
duction in the number.
HumOr in the Emerald Isle.
One of the funniest bits in Capt Basil
Hoods libretto of THE Emerald Isle" at
the Savoy, is the lord leutenant's apos-
trophe to his daughter Rosie when she an
nounces her love for Terence descendant
of Brian Boru Listen. girl; apart from
being daughter of a viceroy remember
you are of ten times royal birth for as is
generally now the case among the English
aristocracy. some of the richest if not
biuest blood, of all America flows in Your
veins. Your ancestors upon the other side)
comprise two railway kings. a copper queen
and half dozen pork-pe potentates The
democratic principles that must lie in your
blood with such an ancestry will prompt
you, L am sure. to love lord
The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Com
pany today held press view of a number
of valuable exhibits destined for the Glas-
cow exhibition. There are pearl necklaces
valued at 23,G8: fine turquoise set this
way and that: silver porringers resembling
In design those made in 1890. silver gild tea
and coffee services and the like In this
section the Goldsmiths Company's .'ex-
hibit" will doubtless rank high
L. H MOORE.