Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
been two distinguished ex-viceroy's OF In
dia Lord Dalhousie and Lord Dufferin.
Remarkable Elderly Duchess.

been two distinguished e1-VlCeTOy VI AAs-
dia. Lord Dalhousie and Lord Dufferin.
Remarkable Elderly Duchess.
The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn is over
ninety years Of age, and though she Is now
ill., is expected to recover. She is a remark
able old lady She has 205 direct descend
ants living. She had seven daughters, ana
of these one is duchess, two married mar
quises and four earls. The full list Is:
Duchess of Buccleuch. Marchioness OF
Lansdowne. Warehouses of Blanford,
Countess of Durham, Countess of Lichfeld.
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe and Coun-
tess of Winterton. This is surely rec
ord" All the duchess sons were In the
short parliament of 1SS5-6-the duke (who
had just succeeded) and George, Clauo,
Frederic and Ernest.
She was born Lady Louisa Russell,
daughter of the sixth Duke OF Bedford, ana
was therefore sister of Lord John Rus
sell, or rather half sister, for she was
daughter of the dukes second wife, Lady
Georgiana Gordon, whose mother was the
famous Jane. Duchess of Gordon, raiser OF
the Gordon Highlanders. James vivac1ty,
playfulness. high spirits and love of prac-
teal joke descended very markedly to the
Duchess of Abercorn.
Her husband, Lord Abercorn, was one of
the handsomest men of his time. When he
gave a fancy ball, in which he appeared
as Charles l. Everybody who had Van
Dyck's portrait in his minds eye said that
the likeness was simply lifelike, the same
long oval face, the same pointed beard
and the mustache turned up at the ends.
When he left Ireland he was made duke
by Lord Beaconsfield. He is THE Duke in
Lothian.
When he was boy he proposed with
boylike gravity. to Lady Louisa Russell at
a cbildren's ball given by the Prince Regent
at Carlton House. In consonance with the
common fate of boys proposals. nothing
tn,t@, r,a1 N<xt flof &c 70
years afterward when they met young
man and young woman at London ball.
Lord Abercorn said, DO you remember
what l said behind the curtain at Carlton
House? Well, say it again."
Last Sunday was show Sunday, and al
though the observance is falling into disuse.
there are still studies in ST. Johns wood
and Chelsea where this is not known, and
pictures were arranged and admired and tea
prepared in the nice old social way. Mr..
Hubert Won Herkomer is sending portraits
of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord
Shrewsbury and Mr.. Stanhope Forbes, Lord
Mount-Edgecumbe. Popular painters are
showing more and more a pardonable tend
ency to drop into the more lucrative art of
portraiture, but despite this we are prom
ised many exciting 'subject-pictures"
Another of Mr.. Forbes canvases Is "A
Rescue at Dawn. early morning breaking
cold gray sea, q boat load of rescued wo-
men and children being brought ashore. Mr..
w. b. Wollen Is sending Waterloo, the
ton, giving command, is in front of the
picture. Mr.. John Carlton, too. has been
at the wars. His part is "A Scene in the
Peninsular War" The stage is well repre-
sented Mr.. John Collier sending a portrait
group of Mrs Kendall, Miss Ellen Terry
and Mr.. Tree in the Merry Wives" Mr..
Harrington Mann a full length of Miss
Marie Studholme and Ito the New Gallery
a portrait of Mrs. Forbes Robertson Miss
Gertrude Elliott.
A Typical Art Academy.
There is every promise of the academy
being a typical one nor will there be any
falling off in numbers 1 notice among the
list published that one lady is sending
"Ambushed-a lion running toward the
spectator with javelins falling round him."
Burlington House yesterday might well
have been mistaken for sort of Harrod's
stores or Whiteley's. Vehicles of all shapes
and sizes, horse-drawn, motor-drawn and
man-drawn, each parcel-laden, crowded
the neighborhood awaiting their turn to
unload their freight. 1t was the last send
ing-in day for paintings by non-members
intended to be exhibited in the academy's
spring show, and each parcel represented
a picture. In size, and, no doubt, in SUBJ
ject they were miscellaneous as the con-
veyances carrying them. In the great hall
some of the art students formed them
selves into unofficial hanging COM
mittee, and did as scant and sharp justice
to some of the intended exhibits as the real
executioners probably may do.
The late Sir Edwin Arnold was inordi-
nate tea drinker and an inveterate smoker.
He smoked nearly all the time that he was
awake. If smoking be an amusement of
the eyesight he must have lost all pleasure
in 1t, for he became totally blind long be-
fore his death. His salary the Daily
Telegraph at the outset was only f20O
year, but it eventually became $1,000. He
and Mr.. ]. NJ. LIE Sage made. the paper what
1t is today, with it's profit last year of
100000. L. H. MOORE.