The Saint Paul globe., 1904-04-17
EDWARD WANTS A
HOME IN IRELAND
Lady Mary Gossips About Some
of the Houses of the Great
I'm Britain.
Special Foreign Service.

OPCNAdI HOIS1Sn service.
LONDON, April 16.-English soci-
ETY. Is all agog at present over the
prospect of royal residence in Ire
land. King Edward feels that the
proper way to conciliate the Irish peo-
pie Is to make them happy and pros
porous in their own country, and he
believes much can be accomplished in
this direction by the court taking up
It's residence there for a portion Of
each year.
Ireland is not rich in aristocratic
mansions, so those who follow royalty
about are somewhat anxious as to
where they can obtain suitable es-
tates If Ireland is to have a royal
residence. Strangely enough, the first
to anticipate after the Duchess of
Manchester royal residence in Ire
land is the Duchess of Roxburghe. Her
recent visit to Ireland was mainly d.
rected towards that object. She had
an interview with a firm of estate
agents in Dublin who have a monop-
oily of negotiating the leasing and sale
OF the finest residences in Ireland. AS
result Tanderagee castle, which at
present belongs to the Duke and
Duchess of Manchester is likely to be
"
Roxburghe- The Manchesters have de-
cided that Kylemore is to be their
permanent residence in Ireland and
that therefore their occupation of Tan
deragee would be unnecessary extrav-
agance The Duchess of Roxburghe
has been over the castle and it is un-
derstood that she is satisfied with it's
size, equipment and general surround
lnRS. If
more, but it is the best place available
in Ireland at the moment.
Meantime the Duke and Duchess are
looking out for a favorable spot in the
fashionable quarters of London upon
which to erect a town residence. A
site in Mayfair close to where the new
residence of the Duke and Duchess
of Marlborough stands was submitted
to them, but the price asked was so
exorbitant in the estimation Of the
duke that it was declined with thanks
Fashionable real estate agents know
that they are looking out for a site, and
as there is not much competition in
THIS particular direction the duke and
duchess are bound to pay dearly for
the luxury of town residence. tr=
1t is not generally known that the
great London landlords such as the
all the fashionable part of the West
End, the Duke of Bedford, Earl Cado-
gan, etc, are also their own real estate
agents. They not only control the rents
but receive commission on the sales
OF their own properties. The reports of
the enormous wealth of the duchess
and the expressed desire Of her mother
to see her first in everything had pre-
pared agents and landlords to expect
very good time Immediately she set
out spending money.
Controls Her Husband.
In spite of the fact that she leads
an exceedingly quiet life there is no
American woman in the English peer
age who has greater controlling in
huence on her husbands actions than
Lady Barrymore. When she married
Lord Barrymore (then Arthur Smith
Barry in 1889, this lady was the widow
of Arthur Post, of New York. BY birth,
however, she was Elizabeth Wads-
worth, daughter of Gen. Wadsworth,
| of Geneseo, N. Y, and sister of Craig
| Wadsworth, the congressman. Her
| present husband, who was made a
baron in 1902, is a great Irish land
lord. Prior to his marriage with the
former Mrs. Post, the name Of Smith
Barry was held in execration through
out Ireland, and so corially was its
owner hated that if he had not been a
typical absentee landlord spending all
his time and money out of Ireland, it
| is doubted whether he would have
| lived to enjoy his elevation to the peer
age. All this bad feeling has now
been removed, however, and Lady
| Barrymore is responsible for the new
condition of things
In fact, she has accomplished ex-
| actly what the American heroine of
! Richard Whiteing's novel, THE Yel-
| low Van,' tried to do but without sue
| cess. Lady Barrymore insisted upon
| living for a considerable portion of the
| year among her husbands tenants
| and she devoted much time to moving
among them in a quiet, unostentatiouS
way studying their little peculiarities
and sympathiZing with them in all
| their troubles and miSfortuneS The
! agent who had hitherto been master
of all he surveyed" no longer enjoyed
the privilege Of debating his own
| terms and imposing his own conditions
on the Tipperary tenants. He was al
| lowed to retain his position, but Lady
Barrymore became practically her
! husbands agent. Lord Barrymore in
| spite of his reputation for being a
| harsh man, submitted calmly to his
| Wlfe'S ideas and today landlord and
| tenants are on the best of terms. The
/ family residence had got into a state
| of decay, in consequence of Lord Bar
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England or some other place in Eu-
rope. Her ladyship set about putting
| 1T in order and although 1T cannot
| compare with other lordly mansions in
| point of architecture, it is expected to
serve the purpose intended by her
| ladyship. The presence of herself and
her husband there during portion Of
| the year will be the means of creating
| a certain amount Of employment for
a section of the tenants whose poverty
had hitherto rendered them a source
of much trouble to the anagement Of
the estate. Now that they will have
means to earn, at least part of the
rent, it viii be paid without mur-
mur. Another thing her ladyship has
done is to encourage cottage indus
tries on the estate. Old women and
young girls are provided with mate
ria1s for knitting, sewing and embrQid-
cry work at which these peasants are
experts. A portion of this work she
distributes among the poorer tenants
and for the remainder a market is
found in London and elsewhere.
Mrs. Frederick Harrison's suggestion
that the sort Of character book which
is used on the continent for record
ing the services and credentials of do
nestle servants should be adopted in
England has called forth much COM
ment, for here as in America, the serv-
ant girl question is always a live one.
In continental countries every servant
is required to keep such a character
hook and an Authoritative nature iS