The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-08-26
LONDON'S SUMMER :.
SEASON is ENDED
Metropolis Is Deserted by the
Society Folk Who Make
the Big Ooings.
PUBLIC DANCES VOGUE
1t Has Largely Taken the Place of the
Private BaIl-Charity the Special
Fad Of London Society
Gossip of the Town.
Copyright, 1904, by w R. Hearst)

| ing through the streets and squares OF
the west end, we confront an endless
succession of barred and boted doors
with staring white blinds and dust COW
cred entrance halls. Society has flown
to the four corners OF Europe. there to
remain unit. the sogs anu bleak winds
of November shall have settled down
upon England, and Christmas is III
sight. OF the Americans who play an
accustomed part in the socia! tread
mill of the season. scarcely one re-
. mains in town. Those who still claim
a domicile in America are on their way
home or preparing TO sail for New York.
OF those whose homes are permanently
in London. the RoXburghes are snugl,'
ensconced at Floors castle. where the
dowager empress Will shortly join
them. The MalbOroughs having kept
their home in town closed during the
season. have retreated to Rlenheim and
will presently make their way to Mar
ienbad, there to JOIN the little coterie
of courtiers around the king. Mrs.
Ronalds and her daughter. Mrs. Richie,
are at Eastburne, and toward the end
OF August viii go on to iHarritz. Mrs
Adair is in Scotland. Lord and Lady
Bateman, honeynooniny in Carlsbad
and later in Paris, will GO on TO their
home in Shobbon hall. Herefordsh!re.
Mrs. Mackay will go on to Hamburg
and Lucerne, and, as her wont is. win
ter in Nice. Lord and Lady Chevles-
more, Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert Beckett,
Lady Naylor Leland. the countess of
Essex. and Mrs. Frank Avery will wan
der through the continental spas. Mrs.
Frank Mackay. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross VIM
ans and Mr.. and Mrs. NeWhouse will go
back. like the Vanderbilts. 10 the Uni
ted States. Mrs. Jack Leslie will be
wherever the duke and duchess OF Con-
naught go, and the destination o. this
amiable royal couple has not yet Beer
settled.
Public VS.. Private Dancing.
One of the marked and most inter
esting features OF the season lay in the
almost complete Abandonment OF the
private dance in favor OF the public
ball. Thus IS illustrated the growth Of
the democratic spirit in the British
aristocracy For ten years the society
woman of exalted position would have
frozen with horror at the bare thought
OF an appearance 1T promiScous as
semblage. The stately and elaborate
balls, which years ago lent beauty,
tone and distinctiveness TO a London
season have been almost entirely alb
sent. Those who would seek an eN-
PLANTATION need not travel far to find
one. The woman whose great Inherited
wealth renders her impervious To the
influences eNerted by the wealthy par
venu, be he Of New York, Chicago or
South Africa. fatty refuses to entertain
or to recognize people, who in these
days could scarcely be excluded from
any great social gathering, and they
accordingly seek refuge in a policy of
absentation. Many of the great
houses--Gros"enor, Dorchester, Chel-
sea and Observation-Disclosures been closed
from April to August The great lady,
defying the spirit OF the age. simply
and sternly refuses to be affronted by
a..
duchesses of Norfolk, RoXburbh, Man.
chester and Marlborough have not as
yet taken their places among leading
hostesses Lady Rothschild has spent
the summer in the country. Stafford
house, famous for It's hospitality III the
cause of philanthropy, has been the
chief seat Of public entertainment. The
close Of the season saw the warm
hearted duchess OF Sutherland over
Whelmed by a StnTIn of applications
from all and every kind Of charity for
the use of Stafford house in the coming
year.
imposition on Artists.
One OF the most gratifying signs CT.
the times is in the revolt OF those in
high places against the imposition on
artists through the constant repetition
of the charity affairs. wherein sing
ing and other performances are de-
manded BY greedy and selfish women
Sutherland is the first to take a firm
stand on behalf of the oppressed, and
her example has been followed by the
duchess OF Somerset. In the future
those ladies will withhold the use of
tneii houses for charity concerts unless
they receive some proc: that the artists
engaged are to receive. adequate re-
enumeration FOR their services.
Reference to Stafford house recalls
the memory of pretty compliment
paid to the then duchess OF Sutherland
by Queen Eictnrir, who was decidedly
sparing IN compliments. Il come"
said the queen. from my house TO your
palace And a paiace indeed it is
The construction as Il royal residence
was one of the many eStrava gances
associated With the malodorous career
Of George w, then prince Of Wales
Then it was that the prince regent,
breaking under mountain of debris
entreated the then marquis of Stafford
to take the building off his hands and
finish it. To this gentleman, after
ward first duke Of Sutherland, and his
successor, the second duke, the COM
pletion of the building was left. Cne
stately reception room to the left Of
the great hall is never opened save
when royalty visits the duke. or when
hriGf. of the house goes out into
new life" 1t is a sacred law of the
family that the whole building, save
for the private apartments, shall be
free to art and science, to philanthro-
py. and to the political purposes of the
conservative party" Grisi. Monjeni.
Mnlib-en, Chaplin, Rubinstein, Arabella
Goddard, Lablanche. Albani, Tietjens,
De Murdcn, made melody within it's
Wat!s; Shaftesbury elouuently pleaded
the cause Of the white slave of the Lon
don aluns; Lloyd Garrison, the cause
Of the black slave OF the plantation Mis-
E.ona:les, reformers, princes, poten-
.sites the world over have been among
those to whom Stafford house has ten
dereG welcome. It's art treasures no
less than It's historic associations are
almost with out parallel among other
private dwellings, contemporary with
Itself.
Charity as Ed.
Neser in the history of nations has
charity III all forms been 50 popular as
IN the reign OF King Edward VII. 1t
IS TOW regarded US IN indispensable
adjunct to the position of every leader
O. women that her name shall be iden-
tilted with some scheme for the gener-
Ell good. The queen. with her Alex
anara trust and her-$children's hos
pitfalls. The Princess Christiana with
the South Kensington Art Needleworik
school, the duchess OF Sutherland with
her Scottish industries, the 1narchion4
tess of Dufferin and Rose, marchioness
of Headfort. with the Irish cottage in
dustries, the countess Of Jersey with
her slum children, the countess OF,
| Warwick turning women into agricul-
tnrists and the duchess OF Portland
and Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild distrib-
uting their husbands winnings on the
turf among various charities, provided
an exalted example for the world Of
women to follow. I
Lady 0ancombe's Engagement.
TO Lady Utica Duncombe in her en-
gagement to Colonel Everard Barring,
is due the credit of giving society Its
Quietus on the last Day CT che season.