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is PRfSFRVFR OF BEAUTY
To This Vegetable the Perennial Charm and freshness
of Queen Alexandra Is Attributed
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Special Foreign Service
ONDON, July 2.-When two or
4 three London DANES made the
discovery, recently, that Queen Alex
andra had been for years a hearty
eater of celery, these smart women
promptly decided that her majesty's
perennial youth and beauty must be due
to this diet. Accordingly celery eating
now has become general among fash
ionable women, so general in fact that
the beauty Doctors of London are
beginning to feel the effects of the new
craze in decided falling off in pa
tronage. Meanwhile market gardeners
have been puzzled to know why a de-
mand for celery sprung up SO suddenly
in fashionable establishments. The
queens celery is grown at Sandring-
ham where the most of the vegeta bles
for the royal table come from, and
determined effort is being made by
women who desire to be more beauti-
full to get sample of the species so
that they may grow it for themselves.
Fruit and vegetable dealers who cater
for fashionable West end people have
as a result of the craze manufactured
a new name for this celery. 1t can be
seen in the best shops marked up
Royal Sandringham,'' the desire being
to convey the impression that it is the
same species as that grown at Sand
ringham for her majesty. The new
name enhances the value so per cent
although it is exactly the same quality
that has been supplied to the pur-
chaser for number of years back.
Always handsomely and smartly
dressed, though without an attempt at
overextravagance, the Duchess of
Marlborough has struck out in a new
: .s.,1 Gov I1(x-
best gowns. The queen during her re-
cent visit to Ireland set the fashion
by wearing a dress made of poplin
and the duchess seems to have been
the first to follow suit. A few days
ago member of a Dublin firm ar
rived in London with samples of the
richest poplins manufactured by the
house. Her grace was SO delighted
with the stuff that she Immediately
gave an order amounting to close upon
$4,000. Hitherto she had favored
French houses and now that she has
transferred her patronage to Ireland
London customers are somewhat jeal-
Gus. Other American society women
are following the example of the duch-
ess, and on their return home after the
season their trunks will be packed with
Irish poplins. Count Wards women
friends particularly are showing a par
TALLY for this material and it is ex-
pected that poplin costumes viii be
seen at some of the lavish entertain-
ments which he proposes to indulge in
during the season. Many of the Amer
ican feminine visitors to London are
going over to Ireland at the end of the
London season for no other purpose
than to examine on the spot the new
material which has become another
sort of society craze. Poplin is by no
means a new discovery. having been
Il
has survived the decay of Irish trade.
The manufacture is sort of trade Sc
cret and the old hand looms are still
employed in producing it.
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hostesses in London have been noted
for the newness of arrangement that
they have displayed, and naturally
enough the ideas they have evolved
have been largely copied. The occa-
sional table with its tiers of flowers
is distinctly American and will this
season be one of the special features
of the London drawing rooms and
boudoirs thrown open to receive So
ciety. Whether the table is large or
small it will have it's floral pyramid,
where the vases filled with flowers,
each row of different height. form
circles on the table around one very
tall vase of flowers as the center.
Three, four, five, and even six of these
rings of delicate blossom and foliage
mount high above the different tables
both in drawing rooms and boudoirs.
For the dinner table decorations
there is not much doubt that the
choice of ConSuelo, Duchess of Marl-
borough, will be one of the leading
styles of the season. This is to have
long narrow table ornamented with
three beautiful silver baskets filed
with pink and white blossoms. The
floral decorations at this duchess
London home at As Portman square
are always matter of great moment,
Ior the dowager entertains very large
=, o ~.AAA0 AZ iSciot Ill &C uflluGTs pdTIl6S
week, and her home is ALWAYS won
derfully beautiful with cleverly ar
ranged flowers.
But there are changes all round in
the floral fancies of the society wom-
an Her flower boxes which, standing
on the window Lodges of her house,
make SO gay an appearance when So
clety is at home in London, will this
year be filed with everything but the
pink ivy geraniums and white mar
guerites that have pleased her for Sc
long. One of her fancies leads her to
have about her boudoir great clusters
of the Chatepey, a new English grown
rose with outer leaves that curl tightly
back, which when placed beside
pink rose looks almost yellow, and
which when in near touch with a yell
low flower, is decidedly pink. Har-
rissii lilies she also much admires at
the moment But the decorative piece
de resistance this season is decidedly
the dwarf orange, hanging in tiny balls
OF rich golden hue and lighting up
the whole room with their glow. So
difficult have these tiny orange trees
been to obtain and so rare are they in
London that they have created quite
a furore. Yet the most startling change
in the choice of flowers comes in this
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however, will have nothing to do with
unnecessary extravaganza.
Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart and her
daughter Miss Anita, of New York,
have arrived in London for the season.
They are staying at one of the fash
ionable hotels and are inundated with
invitations from some of the leading
members of the American colony set
tiers in London. They were the guests
of Lady Craven for three or four days
after their arrival in London. They
also stayed at Cliveden, Mr.. Astor's
place up the Thames. He showed
them the beauties of the upper reaches
of the river and they also enjoyed a
full days outing around Windsor in
his fashionably equipped motor. They
also had a motor ride in Rotten Row
accompanied by young Mr.. Astor. They
will leave London for Paris next week
for shopping purposes and will return
to London where they mean to spend
the remainder of the season before re-
turning home. Lady Mary.
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age to live upon. She does not make
her home at Mayfair, but has a small
mouse In Queensborough Terrace,
BaysWater, which is anything but a
fashionable district.
Lily, Duchess of Marlborough must
DE known no longer as a 'doggie" wom-
an. Her kennels have been for years
represented re at every important dog
snow in the country, and she inyarj-
ably carried away some of the most val
liable prizes The absence of her dogs
from the recent show held at the Crys-
tai palace near London was one of the
most discussed features of the whole
exhibition. FancierS were puzzled over
such notable absentee, especially
those who had no hint that she was
about to abandon dog breeding for ex-
hibition purposes. The recent edict of
Queen Alexandra that it would be no
longer In good taste for society women
to carry their toys" while paying Wis
its is one of the reasons that has
prompted the dowager duchess in her
-action. She also has come to the con-
clusion that taking is so persistently
resorted to in preparing toys, for ex-
h1bftion that it frequently happens
that the best dogs are passed over and
prizes obtained by mediocre mongrels
The practice has grown so extensively
during recent years that dog "doctors,'
as distinct from legitimate veterinary
surgeons have grown into a f1ouriShing
community. The duchess is one of the
lskeenest judges of toys in England,
but 1t was not before Lady Wimborne
! Withdrew her support from a number
OF 'doggie" associations that her grace
commenced to view the situation so
seriously. She is disposing privately
OF most of her dogs and many of them
are said to be realizing handsome
prices. She will retain number of
fayorite toys and other breeds. but
her kennels will be no longer what
they We're
Lady Grey Egerton, who formerly
was Miss May Cuyler, has joined the
ranks of American women who are
going in for lavish entertaining this
season. Her husband is an enthusias-
TIC sportsman much given to horse
racing which, however, Lady GREY
Egerton abhors. If her husband had
his way all their entertaining would
be confined to sporting men and
women, but her ladyship insists that
that particular element be eliminated
When she edits the cards of invitation
RMS sometimes causes little tiffs, but
In the end the lady usually has her
own way. Her pronounced partiality
for her own countrymen and women
does not add to her popularity in
English society. All her parties are
decidedly American, and this season
particularly she is making a feature Of
having gatherings at her house in
Carlos street almost exclusively Amer
l.ican.
1t is from America that fashionable
London hostesses are culling ideas
for the floral decorations of their
houses for all kinds of smart .func-
lions. Each season there are differ
ent flowers that take the lead as fa-
vorites, and different forms Of ar
rangement that make the luxuriantly
furnished and spacious reception
rooms blaze of floral beauty. And
Ior several seasons past the America
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Special Foreign Service
ONDON, July 2.-Lord Grimthorpe.
who celebrated his eighty eighth
birthday the other day, is well known
In this country on many accounts, but
perhaps most famous on account of his
enthusiasm over-clocks! He probably
Is the best posted man in England on
clocks and other timepieces; has writ
ten several books about them and made
their study lifelong pursuit.
At Batch Wood, st. Albans his coun-
try seat he has an extensive workshop
fitted up with every requisite for the
pursuit of his favorite hobby, and in
former days. when attending to his leg
islative duties at Westminster, he fire.
quently carried home with him the
watches of brother parliamentarians
that stood in need of hospital treat
ment. To whatever political party
member belonged Lord Grimthorpe was
always willing to set his timepiece
right for him.
If this peer could have his way he
probably would make it misdemeanor
publicly to exhibit clock that is not
a good timekeeper. "a public clock"
he once declared, should not be al
lowed to vary more than five seconds in
any week" That this is an ample mar
gin Lord Grimthorpe has demonstrated
in the great timepiece at Westminster
which he himself designed and which
goes with weekly variation of scarce
ly second.
Church restoration is another of his
hobbies, but in this his achievements
have hardly been SO fortunate. He
spent pile of money in repairing ST.
Adams abbey and bringing it up to
date. AS tangible and enduring me-
mento of his labors he added to the
adornments of the west porch several
sculptured representations of his own
physiognomy. But instead of the pop
ular applause that he had anticipated,
his efforts evoked a storm of derision
and it was generally maintained in
artistic circles that the old church
would have Jared much better If his
lordship had kept his hands off it alto
gether. The controversy resulted in
the addition by one photographer of a
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CLARA WARD HAS
ELOPED ONCE MORE
Former Princess Now Runs Away With
a Canvasser

PARIS, July 2.-There is consider
able interest here over the news that
Clara Ward, who married the Prince
de Chimay and afterward eloped with
Rigo, gypsy violinist, has now run
away with a canvasser in the service
of Thomas Cook & Sons, tourist agents
in Paris. She made an agreement to
pay Rigo 1000 francs a month.
Child of caprice, Clara Ward has
gone from one adventure to another
since the day when she deserted her
husband, Prince Joseph Of Chimay and
Caraman, for Hungarian gypsy min
strel, Rigo. She is now only in the
early thirties of her life, but has run
the gamut of experiences which would
round out dozen lives of willful, err
rant women endowed with gifts of
beauty and unlimited wealth.
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AMERICAN WOMEN DAZZLE LONDON
Fashionable English Hostesses Gull Many Correct
Ideas From the United States
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Special Foreign Service
ONDON, July Probably Prin-
- cess Louise Augusta Of Schles-
wlg-Holstein, King Edwards niece.
wishes heartily that she were not a
woman of the royal blood. Or, per-
maps, 1t would be better to say wishes
that she were not the bearer of a
courtesy title" for the rank thus con-
Ierred Is preventing the princess from
foiiowing the dictates of her heart. Her
mother Is Princess Christian, one of
the daughters of Queen Victoria, and
py royal warrant her father was grant
cd the prefix Of III r. H" and per-
mission given that his children should
oe hlshnesses. AS the bearer of this
royal utle, Princess Louise Augusta
cannot marry commoner-which is
exactly what she wants to do. The
man VINO has won her heart is English
and well known in society here, but
at present l am not permitted to di-
vulge his name
IL is not that marriage once tried
proved such happiness to her that this
royal woman would wish to marry
again, Tor those who have been in q
position to know say that no ordeal in
history SurpasseS in refinement of cru
eity and brutality the married life of
FrlhcesS Louise. Some years ago this
uauShtef OF Princess Christian was
given In marriage to Prince Aribert of
AHhdlt, a German princeling, who.
hter heaping miseries upon her. did
not scruple to place upon her the ie-
nomlny OF divorce. His excuse for thi,
dctIon was that she had borne him no
neir, and by availing himself of an old
leuual law Which holds in all the little
German mediatized states, giving df
Vorce on such grounds, he was able to
push ms claim successfully. The
Whoie scandal was vigorously hnshed
up from the English side, and his wife
IN name only was not even permitted
ey ner relatives to appeal or protest
against such an unwarrantable excuse.
AS the result Of this outrageous case
the princess is extremely shy, and al
though tall and slight and most charm
ing 10 those whom she knows we'll.
carries IN her face touch of sadness
tnat appeals nightly to everyone who
knows of the almost inhuman cruelty
TO which She has been subjected. Her
health has been so impaired that che
has been spending the winter with the
governor of Ceylon, accompanied nv
! Miss Hughes, who is always in attend
ance on royalty, and in an unofIicial
way by the Hon. Alec Yorke, the Ia te
queens equerry. So pleased was Prins
cess Louise with her tour in the Ea ST
and her stay in Ceylon that the gov
ernor and Lady Blake induced her to
spend three months with them. But
the princess has now returned to Lon
don. and, being royalty, is obliged to
keep up a certain amount of state
and this on the merest pittance, for
her income of $4,000 a year is hardly
. munificent sum for a royal person
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out England as. the place where the
week end was invented. The men
in the accompanying picture, wearing
the uniform of the London metropoli
tan fire brigade, made the official test
of the apparatus before it was shipped
to Tring..
The engine is built for hard service,
with the minimum of wear and tear.
With running gear of the best known
to automobile construction, it can carry
eight men and a good supply of hose
thirty miles an hour on the road, and
when the energy of the powerful mo-
tor is turned upon the pumps, 800 gal
Ions of water per minute pour from
the nozZles.
1t is no wonder that the baron
bought the best he could, for besides
the palace in which he lives, he has to
protect the greatest private natural
history collection In the world. which
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Wife of the American Ambas-
sador Gives Uncle Sam the
Most BrllIiant Representa-.
ton He Ever Enjoyed at the
German Court-The Towers
More Than Sustain Their
Reputation for GiIded Hos
pitality Among the Elect

small villas. The Pringheim palace
was secured for the Towers at rental
of $4,000 year, just $500 more than
Mr.. Towers salary as ambassador
Having been deserted for several years
they refurnished it from top to bottom,
and turned 1T into one of the most
gorgeous private homes in all Berlin.
Its stately exterior, with the stars and
stripes flying from the top on festive
occasions, fills every American who
sees it with justifiable pride that his
country is so substantially represented
in this metropolis of fine houses and
homes. The interior is richly decorat-
ed with mural paintings, tapestries and
art works, and imposes it's luxurious
ness upon the visitor at first glance
through wide marble foyer and stair
case leading up to the reception rooms,
dining salon and dancing hall on the
second floor.
A Splendid Reception
Equipped with her magnificent home.
Mrs. Tower early after arriving here
in 1903. set about to entertain in keep
ing with the status of her country has
come to occupy in the diplomatic and
political realm. Loyalty American, her
first formal "at home partook of
spieAuiu reception TO the Berlin Amerf-
can colony" which numbers, with its
ductuating student element, some 1900
or 1000 persons. Her most brilliant
affair-at least. the one which made
the capital ring with her fame as a
clever hostess--was the dinner party
in honor of Emperor William in De-
cember of last year, when the kaiser
for the first time in the history of
American diplomatic representation in
Germany "set foot on American SOIL"
as he himself put it,
The kaiser marveled at the beauties
of the embassy and remarked that it
was in full accord with the Importance
of the United States as a world
power"-a hint that blind believers in
"Jeffersonian simplicity" may well take
to heart. His majesty escorted Mrs.
Tower to dinner and devoted himself
almost exclusively to her during the
long and elaborate menu Prince
Henry was among the other guests, as
well as a number of German cabinet
members and distinguished army and
navy officers. This was the kaiser's
= first appearance at the embassy dinner
for the season, and the fact that he did
not pay his customary visits to the
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=
is the special hobby of his only son,
Walter. Although there is hardly an
animal above or below the earth
of which Walter Rothschiid has no
specimen, the member of parliament
contributes most of his spare time and
large share of his income on birds
and-his fleas. Only last August he
offered reward of $4,000 for a perfect
specimen of the flea which makes life
interesting for the arctic fox So far
as known, however, that particular
flea is still at large.
Nor is this the only part of the col
lection in which fire would mean ruin.
Besides his numberless cabinets of
dead specimens, In quarters of special
construction animals of every sort
abound, many of them too wild to roam
about the park, and an outbreak of fire
in this "zoo," unless promptly con-
trolled, would soon undo the work of
more than twenty-five years.
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Special Foreign Service
ONDON, July 2.-That enterpris-
4 ing nobleman, Baron Alfred de
Rothschild, for some time has pos
sessed, at his country place in Buck
inghamshire, fire department of his
own whose equipment has excited the
envy of his wealthy neighbors. but re-
Gently he has supplemented it by the
addition of motor fire engine, and
can now boast that he has by long
odds the most up-to-date and efficient
private fire department in the United
Kingdom.
Today the engine-which cost $4,000
and its capable crew are housed at
Tring Park ready to extinguish any
thing from a fire among Walter Roths-
child's pet fieas to a serious blaze in
the great mansion so famous through
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Speclal Foreign Service
ERLIN, July 2.-Mrs. Charlemagne
- Tower, wife of the United States
ambassador to Berlin, has left for her
annual summer visit to America after
giving Uncle Sam the most brilliant So
cial representation he has ever known
at the German court. It has, indeed
been of so notable a character that the
representation of other great powers
has seemed modest by comparison. No
one who knows what a powerful ad-
Junct to diplomacy hospitality consti-
tutes in glittering capital will deny
that America is fortunate in having in
the "kaiserstadt' SO experienced and
accomplished hostess as Mrs. Tower,
who alone of our "ambassadresses' en-
joys the distinction of having repre-
sented her country at three great Eu-
ropean apitals-Vienna, ST. Peters,
burg and Berlin.
The Towers came to Berlin from Rus
sia with reputation for magnificent
entertaining, which they have more
than upheld at the kaiser's court. Ru-
NOR had it that they spent 100000 a
year keeping Americas end up at
St petersburg. Soon after their ar
rival. in Berlin they became the envy of
the local diplomatic corps by announc-
ing that they had leased for an en-
s>aSSy the famous Pringheim granite
palace on the fashionable Koenigs
Platz, directly in front of the reichs-
Tag building and In the heart of the
city's most aristocratic and exclusive
quarter. Owing to the fact that we
expect our ambassadors and ministers
to foot their own bills, none of Amer
ica's diplomatic. representatives in Ber-
I'm had ever before been able to afford
anything but hotel apartments flats or
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new verb in the dictionary, ''to. grim
thorpe which, according to the defini-
ton appended, means to spoil an an
eient building by restoring it, Also
some irreverent critics made free with
the strenuous peers name and dubbed
him Lord "Grimfault." But that he
meant well nobody disputes and in his
own person he has strikingly demon
strated the value of hobbies as an aid
to longevity.
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AGED ENGLISH NObLEMAN IS VERY
HIGH AUTHORITY ON T|MEP|ECES

Lord Grimthorpe, at the Age of
Eighty-eiaht, Seems to Care
More for Clocks Than Any.
thing Else on Earth-Lord
'.:Grimfault" Has Also Another
Hobby in the Way of Church
Restoration
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NO NOTICE YET
COUNTY JUDGE LIGHTFOOT
DOES NOT THINK THERE WILL
BE A QUARANTINE.

So far no actual cattle quarantine
has been established against Nc
Cracken county. 2
County Judge X. T. Lightfoot this
morning stated that he had talked
with Inspector Hopkins while the
latter was here and it was his opinion
the situation was not so alarming as
it has been made to appear.
Judge Lightfoot states that he sup
poses IL q quarantine 10 established he
will be served with a notice to that
effect. In fact Judge Lightfoot treats
the matter great deal more lightly
than DIR. Warner, the local milk and
meat inspector. who thinks the coun'
ty will be quarantined.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-20
MORE SUSPECTS
THE POLICE TRYING TO BREAK
UP GANG OF THIEVES.

Dude Stone, Earl Howell, Dick Viii
liams and Warner Rudd, oolored, were
arrested last night a. suspects.
1t is known that there 10 an organ
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-20
He LOOKED AT DEATH.
BUT ILLINOIS CENTRAL BRAKE.
MAN STILL LIVES TO TELL OF
HIS NARROW ESCAPE.

Sam Hargrave, a young brakeman
from Murphy sboro, ILL.,, looked death
in the face last Thursday afternoon in
The Illinois Central yards in this city,
and lives to tell thu tale, says tho
Mounds Leader.
Locomotive No. Sl2, south bound,
was pushing some cars in the yards
here, and Hargrsve was standing on
the front end of the train, when II
jamming Of cars caused him to lose
his balance and fall from the top Of u
box car in front Of the train. The
terrible fall broke two of his ribs and
nearly broke his back, but he did not
lose his presence of mind. He seized
the brake beam and was dragged the
length Of car before the train could
be stopped.