Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-16
And Experience Has Proved That
His Dab Titles Usually
Stick Hard,
PARK LANE, "KAFFIR CIRCUS"
Society Seeks to Emulate His Example
And Is Comforting Numberless
Queer Soubriquets,

Special Correspondence.
ONDON, July 6.--Nlcknames are
many IN smart London society
ana generally, to the disgust OF
the victims, they are so appro-
pirate and clever that they stick for
llfe-time, The latest object Of the So
ciety wag's cynicism is Admiral Sir
John Fisher. who has just been ap-
pointed frst'lord Of the admiralty. Be
fore that Admiral Fisher had the COM
mand at Portsmouth, the most inn
portant naval station in Great Britain
Here, by inviting the king to view this
and the other display, and the Prince Of
Wales TO 20 aboard this or the other
vessel Of warfare, and by otherwise
keeping himself prominently before
royalty. he not only obtained promo
ton, but has earned for himself the
soubriquet OF THE King Fisher"
But the king himself is often the au-
thor Of the nicknames that are at
tached TO different members OF socie-
ty, From his royal master Lord
Ribblesdale got the title OF The An
cestor," for the king declares he looks
exactly like an old portrait in the
high collar and stock which he always
wears around his throat. Park Lane
the home OF the millionaires, has been
dubbed by the king the "Kafir Cir
Gus" because all the South African
magnates OF the KafIir market have
congregated there. For some unex-
planned reason three stone statues
were set on top OF the wonderful house
which the Inflated Barney Barnato
built for himself in Park Lane, and
which Is now inhabited by Sir Edward
Sassoon. These the king called the
pstrlfed siinrrhoIdera'F" When Str
Edward Sassoon bought the house, the
first thing he did was to remove these
statues and send them TO Preston park
at Brighton. town with which the
sassoons have always been largely con-
nected, Mr. Henry Labouchere. Nj p,
once wittily described Brighton as a
long sea front with a Sassoon at each
end and the metropole In the middle.
the Metropole II Brighton's chief hotel.
BOOTS ALSO STICKS.
So unkind are many of the nicknames
that once established they are difficult
TO erase from the memory The pet
name for Sir Francis Jeune. the presi-
dent OF the divorce court, Ia Boots"
for his family and friends declare that
his feet are so large that his boots
come into view long before himself is
seen. Still more trying is the SQUIRT
quet Of a woman who has been all her
life struggling to ascend the social
scale I'm smart society. and step by step
has succeeded until last year she
reached almost the height Of her am
billions by marrying her daughter to an
I'll al a
social stronghold are thrown open wide
to her, all the world talks of her by
the comlcal nickname that too plainly
indicates her original position. For
Mrs. Edward Darrell, whose daughter
Is the Countess OF l<innoull, was I'm the
days OF her youth a columbine I'm a
provincial pantomime when she met
one OF the Broadwoods Of plano fame
and married him When he died he left
her lot OF money and she later mar
ried member Of the good old Darrell
family, one OF whose ancestors known
as wild" Darrell figured so largely In
all the doings Of the Hell Fire" club
about the end OF the eighteenth CEN
fury. Since Miss Darrell became Coun-
tess OF kinnoull last year society that
went tlmorously to greet Mrs Darrell
as a hostess now eagerly accept and
return her Invitations all the time talk
Ing about her as "Hoop-lal or the
Semi grandl'
MUST GO THE PACE.
The up-to-date engagement in soole-y
Is a very rapid afrair and II there IL any
truth In the saying "Happy's the WOO
ing that's not long ADDING" the happi-
ness OF the son OF Lord Garvagh and
the daughter Of Mr.. Carl RUDE ought 70
be thoroughly assured for within an
hour of the meeting Of this young cou-
pie their marriage engagement was an
nounced
There had been no thought OF such an
alliance beforehand, or at least Il had
not been discussed ubtil the meeting
took place, but the young couple took
matters into their own hands, and made
almost without a moments hesitation
the compact which is TO embrace the
length OF their lives
Mr.. Carl RUDE is partner IN the
Wehrner, Belt firm Of South African
fame, and It is said that he is so de-