The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-22

old school come into their own again,
and all unconsciously the vast company
falls into the n of the early
Georgian period, when men wore
square-tajled coats, took snuff with an
air, and carried a challenge TO a duel
in their eyes.
Americans in Society.
The Ross Winans, of Baltimore, have
Won a firm footing in the quieter and
more dignified element of London soci-
ETY.. Their ball, given at Claridge's the
other day for their only daughter, who
was recently presented at court, pro-
v!ded a representative gathering of the
higher and better element in society.
Such a representative gathering of the
a TAT ladies of the old school has rare
ly been seen.
One-half the titled danes in the
rooms had at one time or other at
tended Queen Victoria and her success
sor. Many of the prettiest girls and
best dancing men in London We're pres
ent. but they were assuredly not of the
smart set, representing as they did the
element of good taste and good form
which once more is becoming evident
after an eclipse of so many years.
Mrs. Ronald's house continues to be
the mecca of the ambitious men and
women of the art world, and every
titled family in England is at one time
or other represented in her m~usicales,
which are continued without intermis-
sion on Sunday afternoons throughout
the summer.
The duke and the duchess of Marl-
borough go everywhere. Their name
are found on every Inner and every
dance list, but so far they have made
no apparent effort to open Sunder-
land house to their friends, a circum-
stance which has evoked considerable
and by no means fattering comment.
A Genial Old Duke.
Humanity is perhaps poorer for the
passing of the genial. democratic, chat
~ old prince. grand duke of Mecklen-
burg-Strelitz, and one of the last octo-
geparian rulers who for nearly fifty
years had with SO much smiling pa
tience borne total blindness.
Through half a century of darkness
he loyalty tried to forget the truth
so poignant-that the loss of sight had
been unwittingly caused by his son and
successor.
A ball pitched with great force at
q wicket struck the prince. then a
handsome, stalwart soldier, between
the eyes. telling him to the ground.
From that momen dated the gradual
decay of the optic nerve.
Yet he somehow contrived to enjoy
life, went into society as far as he
could do So. an was never so happy
as when quietly sitting en- fannie with
~ hllIB anu queen OIL England and
recalling other days.
To the people of his little province,
to every one of whom, down to the
smallest children, he was a familiar
and much loved presence, and for
them he was ever apart from his af-
Fiction. invested with a certain pathos
as the nephew of the heroine and
martyr. Queen Louise of Prussia.
But to the last day of his life he
declined to attend upon the house of
Hohenzollern n he never forgavs
Prussia the conquest of Hanover
Clipping Bureau for Kaiser.
The Emperor William has at last
succumbed to the influence of an ad-
vertising age and abandoned his imper-
ial dignity in the modern rush for
notoriety.
1t was recently found that the emper-
or had subscribed to several clipping
agencies. the sole duty of five secre-
taries being to file away every news
p reference to their august master,
and as these references number several
hundred a day it will be seen that
their appointment is no sinecure.
\ second half dozen are occupied in
looking up items of news which may
have some interest to the kaiser, and
these are carefully laid before the en-
peror each morning in a scrap book
The recent death of the Princess
Mary Of Hanover recalls the pretty lit
tie love story of the Princess Fred
erica and the Baron Pa~el Rammingen,
her fathers best loved friend and aG-
wiser.
In the bitter war with Prussia the
old king of Hanover had no finer SOL
der in his little army than the baron.
He 1t was Who led the H~anovertans
III the victorious engagement at Lam
gensalza, capturing the Prussian bat
tertes aud breaking a quare OF Prus-