Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-05

rush Of thousands Of people from the coun-
try into West End life. In fact, the deliy-
cry OF the Kings speech heralds the London
season, which will go on until July, to the
delight of the cabmen. who have had a
sorry time since Christmas.
Made Love to Pretender's Queen.
There Is a peer now, living whose father
Is said to have made love to the wife of the
young pretender. In letter dated August
IS, 1774 Horace Walpole wrote: 1.-The young
Mr.. Coke has returned from his travels in
love with the pretender's queen, who has
permitted him to have her picture" The
presumptuous youth afterward became ia
nous as Mr.. Coke of Holkam, and was for
many years father Of the house of COM
mons. He was created Earl Of Leicester in
1887, and died in 1912 at the age Of eighty
eight. Twenty years before his death he
married second time. and the present
EAR or Leicester Is his eldest son by that
marriage. There are many interesting
points in the family history of which two
may be mentioned.
Mr. Coke, having, quickly recovered from
the destinations ofathe pretender's queen -
married his first wife in 17T5, and lust a
hundred years afterwards, In 1876 his son
took second wife. The present earl had
haf-sister, who became a widow lob
years since, her husband Lord Andover
being killed by the bursting Of a gun. Lord
Leicester is not the father of the house of
lords, though he comes very near it. He
succeeded to the peerage in 1912, but was
not qualified to sit in the house until he
came Of age on December %, 1s43. The
present father Of the lords appears to be
Lord Templemore, who succeeded In 1887,
and came OF age on June ii, 1912 The
dignity Is sometime claimed for Lord NeI
son, as he has been longest a peer, having
succeeded his father in 1885, but he was
then boy Of twelve, and was not entitled
to seat in the house until 1874 In point
OF age the senior peer is Lord Gwydyr,
who horn Anril Of h,,t
not member of the house of lords until
the death Of his cousin in 1870.
English Cooking is Bad.
English cooking is SO bad and the diff
Guilty Of getting decent cook so great that
new departure by the London school
board will be welcomed, as it ought, by
long suffering public. Scholarships for
cooks may sound Gilbertian but it Is a
sober and businesslike proposal of this
great education authority to supply Lon
don with competent cooks, trained and per-
fected in their art. The technical educa-
tion board offers twenty free scholarships
In cookery to girls between the ages Of
eighteen and twenty-one who have been
in domestic service for a year. If they
can pass a qualifying examination by pre-
pairing few simple dishes, they will be
given three months free tuition at the Ma
tional Training School Of Cookery.
The scholars will be provided with lunch
cons ana teas Tree OF Cnarge, and lest
there should be any difficulty In the way
of the poorest servant maid taking advan-
tage Of this educational opportunity, tram
way, omnibus or railway fares will be paid
to all who live more than three miles from
the school, For the future, then, London
should be able to rear a race of cooks who
will make English cookery at least pas
sable. At any rate, with an ample supply
Of capable cooks looking for employment
Housekeeping would lose half it's terrors
Famous Eating House Closes.
Simpsons, the famous eating house in
the Strand, well favored by Americans is
no more. On Saturday night 1t bowed to
the inevitable in the guise of the county
councils Strand improvement scheme, and
closed its doors. 1t promises to reopen
next year in handsome premises, with the
old service, and its English foods but
much of the old charm must be gone.
There was no ceremony, no fuss-it would
not have been Simpsons had there been.
The joint was wheeled round, and snuff
box was offered as usual. Sidney's CHEEKY
Good night-no grGood-bye," if you please
rang in the VISITORS ears as he departed
casting a last glance round the old famil-.
lar room. That same Sidney has been In
SIMPSONS a generation. 1t Is with pride
that he will tell of the present-day, middle
aged patrons whom. In the long years ago
he used to help on to. chair, and to pro-
vide with the little knives and forks re-
came in company of, their fathers. Such
is the service and such is the continuity of
patronage which have always been Simp-
sons. II "a
Movement for Union Jack Club.
A movement is, on foot for the establish
ment in the metropolis Of a club for the
use of soldiers, sailors and that undervalued
branch of the service, the marines-the
"jollies'' of Mr.. Kipling and their COM
rades-who are soldier and sailor, too"
Very appropriately, the institution is to be
known as the Union Jack Club, and It's
prime purpose is to provide place wherein
q man who is on leave or adrift in London
can find a comfortable bed, good meal
and security from the human sharks that
invest the streets eager to poison him with
bad liquor and relieve him of his pay 1t
is also designed as a national memorial to
those British soldiers and sailors who have
fallen in recent campaigns. and it would
be difficult to devise better one than a
provision for the welfare of the survivors,
The management Of the club is to be In
the hands of an executive committee, which
already contains many influential names.
Subsequently this committee will be assisted
by subcommittee elected by the members
A large number of bed rooms. 1t is stated,
will be provided at a reasonable cost also
lockers for kit and safe in which val