The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-07
GOSSIP FROM ABROAD
PREPARATIONS FOR CORONA.
 TON DAY IN ENGLAND.
The King and Nobiiity-Jewels of Lady Londonderry and the Mar
 quis of Anglesey-Curious
 Aversion to American Flag. ..

| ihe'uie'S Oi sham calves for human legs are receiving large orders from England in view of the coronation. The Truth oplnes that this is not correct. since The | number of the brseched will be limited
 ana there are many excellent man;ifac- | turers Of aids to symmetrical legs in
 London. The customers of one of tbem
 are actresses and other women engaged at theatres. His manner of proced,Ir, l IS tnls. He puts on the legs to be treat
 e ca a set or tights Then he marks on | me outside the changes needed. These | are woven into the stun itself, and thus | defy detection. Calves are often in the wrong place. Either they are too high | or too low; and common failing is I thick ankles. which is remedied by in-
 creasing the girth of the leg above the
 ankle. But theatrical ladies are by no 1 means the only customers. Among them are many fine ladies end fine gentlemen l Why should fine lady want to have
 ner legs put right, for she does not show | them? Well, she does occasionally" | says the manufacturer. "In getting out
 or her carriage her petticoats get caught up sometimes. When I have improved | her legs the petticoats arc caught up al-
 most always" The fine gentlemen order
 tights for their arms and busts. Thus
 a poor. eedy-looking creature appears
 when walking a wel-set-up man, with an expansive breast and arms that are | not spindles.
 Edward VII. has never given the older | aristocracy much encouragement and | since he has become King they have had
 less than ever. The list of the people whom the King visits seldom presents
 names of those whose titles are the old
 est or whose influence with the people
 is great. The reason of this may be | traced back to the days of the late Prince Consort, who, when he came to
 London. found the entire aristocracy ar rayed against him, solidly and sulleniy. They did not want another foreigner in the royal family and they were not at a I1A rfx t~s., TAt- result was that he, who had so much influence over the Queen. succeeded in making wide gulf between the sover- eign and her most powerful nobles, a gulf deepened by suspicion on the side of the 1 nobles and fear of their ascendency on the other This spirit was handed down by the Prince Consort to his son, who Is now King, and he has never fully shaken 1t off. That, too Is why the old CT aristocracy seems 70 care little what | is done at the coming coronation. There l are some old and influential families whose hereditary right must be acknowl- edged in the ceremonies. and they will, of course insist upon their full share ally eager ones among the titled masses are those whose coronets are still bright and untarnished by age. And there are enough of these to make brilliant show at the coronation next June.
 Diamonds and Pearls.
 
 of diamonds and pearls has already at- tracted attention at two great func- tionS this e1son, promises to maintain, | at the coronation, the reputation which. | at Queen Nicto 'a's coronation, the Lady Londonderry of that day won. Goals and | diamonds are not very far apart in con- position; and, at any rate, the Durham coalfields of the Londond erry's lave Kept the family diamonds from fitting
 after the manner of so many family dia- | monds in the course of two or three gen
 erations. Lady Londonderry. as Cleo | patra. was in a dress literally embroid- | cred with emeralds and diamonds from | top to toe wrote a fashionable diarist | about fancy ball in 1885. And in 1888, | at the coronation. the record of an ob- | servant onlooker. and one who had the
 Hebrew eye for jewels-Disraeli 1t was | declared: Lady Londonderry blazed
 among the peeresses." History repeats
 itself. Next June will see the same dia-
 monds blazing on a different but an | equal beauty. Solomon in all his glory was never ar
 rayed so gorgeously as the Marquis of l Anglesey. in the pantomime which he has | been playing to crowded houses at An 1 glesey Castle. The following description | of his costume in the character of Pekoe
 appears in The Liverpool Daily Post: Ut | Is composed chiefly of thousands of glit- | tering diamonds of the first water. strung l together in sort of transparent network cuirass, which is fitted on over the
 
 | clothed. On arms, legs, hands. body. feet, ! head, he sparkles back and front in | diamonds and other precious stones. Tas- sels of diamonds dangle about his knees. | strings of diamonds make sparkling danc- | ing gleams of light as they swing from his wrists. Of the sort of glittering lace work in which he Is clothed every thread Is string of large diamonds. with
 threads intersect. Where the lace is | worked into designs the design is in the rarest and richest precious stones. And so on and so forth. The loss of the S250. COG worth of jewels which were stolen from him some months ago seems to have Eeen a mere hagatelle to this noble Marquis, for 1t Is estimated that those now worn in the pantomime are of the value of over million.
 Historical Parallels.
 History" says The Lordon Chronicle, has been ransacked for parallels to our struggle with the Boers, but 1t has not yet been noticed how closely it repro duccs the broad aspects of the war be- tween Russia and Sweden. The Boers have, indeed, done for US precisely what C: ar Peter predict d Charles XII. would do for the Russians I know he said, that the Swedes. though mere hand full of men compared with the Russian army, will beat us for a long time, but at last they will teach us to beat them. From at least one point of view that Is probably the last word that can be said of the South African war. There is another comparison, suggested by cer- tain incidents of the war. It is slightly more 'odious' but not therefore the less interesting. The question was being dis cussed in club room as to whether tho 'unmounted men preferred dispatch had ever been equaled in English history for well for the peculiar qualities that | made it so famous One of those present declared that it had not only been eQualed but surpassed, and by the Ad- miralty. In proof of it he stated that during the war of 1872 with America the Admiralty sent out to Kingston, on the northeastern side of Lake Ontario. where our fleet was stationed, quantities of water casks, in the belief that Lake On tario was saltwater lake"
 Stars and Stripes Tabooed.
 "London's fashionable world is having a good laugh over the Dictionary of National Biography which seems to be a clever take-off on Who's Who?" ac- COT ding to The Paris Register. For Americans. the life-history of Mir. Will interest. We learn that he is Briton. born within sound of Bow Bells (and therefore a Cockney'.) The account says that when he came into possession of Cliveden estate he added Walled-on to his other names. As he has a curious aversion to anything suggestive of the Stars and Stripes he never lifts his eyes to the sky at night. his servants arc forbidden to wear striped trousers Cliveden woods"
 American Criticism.
 What gives American criticism it's greatest charm in the eyes of a sophis- ticated older world is the ferocIous touch of internationalsm that 1t rarely lacks,