Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-19

in Downing street as Lamps" owing to
the enormous spectacles which he wears
is mentioned to succeed the late Sir Michael
Herbert as British ambassador at WASH
ington. The origin of the statement is
probably due to the fact that Str Thomas
brother. Sir Percy Sanderson, has been for
several years past consul general at New
York. All his official life, which covers
period of forty-four years, Sir Thomas has
been connected with the foreign office--in
fact. he is practically the foreign Office
himself for, being the permanent secretary
of that department. he is quite Indifferent
to the ups and downs of party government.
Probably no man living has had a keener
insight into the politics of Europe during
the last thirty years. Sir Thomas has
acted in a secretarial capacity to a whole
host of foreign secretaries and other Off
Gals. including the late Earl of Derby
and Earl Granville
Blue Blood Espouses Broad Acres.
The alliance of commerce with blue blood
and broad acres proceeds apace. Viscount
lngestre. the heir to the Earl of Shrews-
bury and Talbot, premier earl of England
and ireland, whose engagement to daugh-
ter of Mr. Charles Wilson of Hull is an
nounced. is not only the descendant of the
Earl OF Shrewsbury who superintended the
execution of a former Duke of Norfolk and
also succeeded him as earl marshal but he
can trace his ancestry to Norman
times. The first Earl of Shrewsbury was
that Sir John Talbot the great Alcides," as
Shakespeare terms him, who was with
Henry V when he died, one of the most re-
nowned captains in the warike times in
which he lived. and who seemed to inherit
the heroic spirit of his royal master. This
famous knight and belted earl in Henry
v! reign was terror to the Frenchmen.
his conquerlng troops dominated France
until the old veteran, in his eightieth year
after having taken part in forty battles
Tal
and thenceforward English DONNA ton in
France declined. Lord Ingestre who has
been on Lord kitchener's staff, was only
twenty-one last month, and his father is not
yet forty-three.
Women's Agricultural College.
Studley Castle, in Warwickshire is to be
opened by Lady Warwick as a women's
agricultural college on the 9th of this
month. 1t will commence with about sixty
students, and, being an ideal SPOT for the
purposes intended is practically assured of
success During the five years Lady War
WICK has conducted this movement about
go women have passed through the in
structior classes. number of them are
now in South Africa, and others are con-
templating settling in Canada either as
gardeners, dairy managers poultry wo-
men. The demand for women trained in
the lighter forms of agriculture seems to
be great, and especially for those who can
VI Sd1ilZe the business or the small cO-ODer-
at1ve societies which the Agricultural Or
ganzation Society are fostering If the
money could be found, women's agricul-
tural settlements in all parts of the coun-
try would be started at once.
Wesleyan Fund Accumulates Slowly.
AS was anticipated by the executive COM
mittee, payment of the remaining circuit
promises to the Wesleyan century fund of
t1,OOO,OOO is being made very slowly In
terest on investments, however, brings in a
large income-about f2 900 for the next six
months, and at this rate, with the addition
of payments from some of the circuits, it
is believed that the fund will be completed
by the time of next years conference. The
fund now amounts to t0I4,322. Some odd
things have been offered from time to time
for the benefit of the fund, such Tur
key carpet, Queen Anne sugar basin, ban
gleS music box, and an Irish terrier.
Among the subscribers are Lord Rosebery
and Lord Wolseley.
Mr.. Phil Mays Drawings.
The exhibition of the drawings of the late
Mr.. Phil May, which was opened on Mon
day at the Leicester Galleries. Leicester
square form a very good representation of
his work. He was admittedly supreme in
black and white art He was, however
not only an artist, but a humoriSt 1t was
the sense of humor underlying all his work
no less than it's skill and spontaneity, that
gave it it's special and distinctive character.
Many of the drawings now shown have APP
peared in Punch but others will be new
to those who go to see the exhibition Tine
collection includes a group of very excellent
political portraits. They likenesses
with just the touch of caricature in them
required to give Zest and distinction. The
artist has caught Sir w. Harcourt in one
of his most dignied moods. and MI. La
bOuchere with the thin, hooking smile on
his face. He has not been so successful
with Mr. Morley or Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman but he has reproduced with
admirable force the SNUG complacency OF
Lord I4ansdOWne. Perhaps Phil May has
been most successful of all with Sir W.
Allen The knight Of Gateshead is wearing
a blue nautical suit, with the well known
bowler hat, and waving his right hand just
in the act of delivering a fierce denuncia-
ton of the Belleville boilers. He has repro
duced, too. the characteristic features of
the lord chancellor withsa tone of savage
caricature in its outlines. Phil. May was
a great student of London life, especially in
the poorer parts of the town. No man ever
hit off with more point or with more sue
cess the manners or the fo:bles of the East
End and some of his sketches of low lie
are very clever and dramatic in their vigor
OF the building of theaters in Lon
don there is no end, and the latest venture
to be announced is the most novel. 1t will
take the form of a playhouse without pit
and gallery, which is exceedingly strange,
seeing that it is to be built for Mr.. and
Mrs Seymour Hicks (Miss Ellaline Terriss)
two artists who owe great deal of their
popularity to the occupants of these seats.
The theater will be very small affording
seating accommodation for about 500 per-
sons only and il will be situated near Lei
cester square. opposite the Prince of Wales
Theater. Building operations are to COM
mence early in the new year.
L. II. MOORE.
GAMBLING IN MEXICO.