The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-12

dragged before the public in his con-
nections with the card sharper, Sic
vier Her ladyship is one of the best
loved women in society. She is unob-
trusive, gentle and charitable to a fault.
She aspires to nothing higher in the
social scale than her position entities
her, and all her spare time is devoted
to helping hospitals and other charit-
able institutions.
Whether the hopes for big Amer
lean season will be realized this year
is still a great matter of conjecture
and in many quarters it is almost pos
sible to say that they will not. At
some of the very best hotels in Lon
don it has been ascertained that there
is a tremendous falling off not only
in the number of the American visi-
tors who were expected as a matter
of course, but among those who some
three or four months ago had actually
engaged their rooms at the different
hotels, for these now write to counter
mand their order giving some trifling
excuse for their change of plans. At
one leading hotel quite half the rooms
ordered some time ago will not be re-
quired this season, and at many of the
other hotels the percentage is almost
as high. Many Of those who are ar
irving and making plans to reach Lon
don are to stay at the hotels but two
or three days instead Of weeks, and
instead of passing on to the continent
for a long tour, going from one pleasure
resort to another and spending money
freely, they will go to some quiet out
OF the way and very inexpensive place
in Switzerland, and stay there for the
whCle of the summer, outstanding their
money. To keep up appearances many
feel that they must come to Europe as
usual, and by the folks at home 1t is
imagined the same brilliant round or
gaiety will be entered into, but IN Lon
don the mode of their coming is found
to be very different, and on all sides
there is fear that this will be but
sorry season SO far as the American
visitors are concerned.
There is no man in the British peer
age who knows better how to dress
well and at the same time economically
than Lord Curzon. When he arrived
in London the other day after his f1ve
years in India number of smart
tailors were on the railway platform
waiting to see the Immediately
dressed George Curzon," as he is
familiarly known to West end outfit
ters. They gazed in admiration on his
faultlessly fitting frock coat and care
fully pressed trousers, and wondered
if they could be the same for which
he was measured when he received his
Indian appointment His lordship has
the reputation of being able, by care
full manipulation, to wear his clothes
out to the last thread. One of his
Wallets is always a practical tailor, and
it is his duty to see to his lordship's
clothes. His wardrobe consists of
seven coats, seven pairs of trousers and
seven waistcoats. He wears one of
each once a week, so that no one has
ever seen him, since he became pub
tic man, wear the same coat or pair of
trousers two days consecutively. In
this way he has established reputa-
ton for being one OF the best dressed
men in parliament, although his ward
robe is of so limited q capacity. His
linen was always spotless, too. He has
seven pairs of boots, and these are
most carefully soled and heeled when
the necessity arises, just like the pedal
coverings of any plebeian. Altogether
it is estimated his clothing never costs
him more than $500 a year. Wallets