The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
IRISH MEMBER SPOUTS CLASSICS
Mr. Field Turns Loose ThunderS of Rhetoric i'm Para.
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the Pre-. RaphaeIites

was something inspiring in the ideal of
peace on earth and good will toward
men, and we could not do too much
toward securing its realization. Per-
sonal freedom was of small value un-
less it was accompanied by social and
economical freedom as well. The world
was daily shrinking, we were brought
nearer and nearer together by discov-
cries and inventions, and might all
hearts be brought closer together at
the same time, and might the influence
of interna donaI journalism ever be
exercised in that direction.
A third claimant to the earldom of
Milltown has arisen in the person of
Mr.. Charles Herbert Leeson a Liver
,, pool insurance manger, who lives at
Russborough house, Nicola, near South
port. The earldom has lain dormant
since 1881, when the seventh earl
died unmarried. He succeeded his eld-
er brother, who was married but had
no issue, and he in turn succeeded
his eleder brother who never married.
Thus the fourth earl was the father of
the fifth, sixth and seventh earls. The
committee of privileges has yet to de-
eide who, if anyone, is to be the eighth
earl The three claimants to the title
are: Charles Herbert Lesson, who
claims was descended from a cousin Of
the first earl, John Lesson, who claims
was the third son of the second son Of
the third earl and Robert William
Frederick leeson, who claims was
grandson of the third son of the third
earl Mr.. G. NJ. Lesson says that his
branch of the family left Ireland for
Lancashire twenty years ago and start
ed in business in Manchester. They
afterwards removed to Liverpool. Mr..
Lesson is now seeking for certificates
and other documents in order to lay
his claim before the committee of priv
ilegeS.
The king has approved the appoint
ment of the Hon. Alan Johnstone, c.
V. c., councillor to his majesty,S en-
bassy at Vienna, to be his majesty's
envoy extraordinary, and minister
plenipotentiary in Copenhagen, in sue
cession to Sir Edward Goschen, K. c.
NJ. c., X. G. V. c., promoted to the en-
bassy at Vienna. The new British
minister to Denmark, who was born in
1856, is the second son of the first
Baron Derwent. He entered the diplo-
matte service in 1879, and was appoint
ed to the embassy at Vienna in the
following year. Thence he was trans
ferred to Washington, and in 1885 was
temporarily attached to the legation at
Belgrade where, after a short period
of service at the Hague, he acted as
charge d'affaires in 1887 After serving
at Kobe, Washington and Athens, Mr..
tary of legation at Copenhagen 1S95),
and at various times acted as charge
From Denmark he went to Darmstadt
and in 1902 was appointed secretary of
the embassy at Vienna. In 1895 Mr..
Johnstone married Antoniette, only
daughter of Mr.. ]. K. Pinchet Of New
York.
Mr.. John Morley has lately declared
that the day has passed when the main
duties of women lay in the kitchen and
the nursery. 1t is to be understood
that this is cause for congratulation.
Nevertheless, infants are still born, and
people still prefer their food cooked.
1t was perhaps, memory of these ele-
mental facts which stirred Mr. Henry
Hobhouse, M. P, to protest at Taunton
that he could not follow Mr.. Morley in
his Civilizations. Mr.. Hobhouse believes
that girls should be taught matters
domestic, and he told one story more
about American education. In that
happy land it appears girls are. taught
how to sleep gracefully, and not to
snore. The process of instruction must
surely be edifying. One does not, how
ever, gather that Mr.. Hobhouse pro-
poses to include it in the curriculum of
schools of Somerset over which he pre-
sides. This is disappointing.
The earl and countess of Oxford,
with their one child, Lady Dorothy
Walpole, are now settled at Wallerton
hall, fine old Georgian mansion in
Norfolk, which is their family resi-
dence. Wallerton was designed by
Ripley and built by Horace Walpole at
built in the same county by his
brother, Sir Robert WalpoIe. The house
was not occupied for fifty years. but
the present Lord oxford, who was born
there, has had the place entirely reno
waited and redecorated, the work oc-
cupying two years. Wallerton stands
in the midst. of a beautiful wooded
park surrounded by pleasure grounds.
Lord Walter Kerr, G. c. B., formerly
first sea lord of the admiralty, and
Lady Isabel Kerr have taken lease of
Coughton court, Sir William Threck-
morton's fine old place in Warwick
shire, for six months, and will go there
Immediately after Easter. Coughton
was built in the fifteenth century,
added to in Henry Wits reign and
practically reconstructed by Sir Robert
Throckmorton in 1880. It has been the
principal seat of the ancient Catholic
house of Throckmorton for hundreds of
years, but the present baronet now re-
sides in Puckland, his seat in Berk-
shire, not far from oxford.
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The craze for the fashion of the new
directoire period has caught on as
tonishingly in London, where the long
coat is infinitely more becoming to tall
English women than to the tiny Pa
risiennes who have brought about the
revival. The duchess of Portland,
Lady Helen Vincent, Lady Crossley,
Mrs. Rupert Beckett and Lady Evelyn
Guinness are among those who have
favored the new style, and at recent
dinner parties look beautiful in the all
fashionable three-quarter length coat
made in light colored taffetas, with
embroidered lappels and old diamond
buttons.
Princess Christian, who was accom-
panied by Princess Victoria, paid a
visit to Windsor workhouse this week
and opened a sale of work. The arti-
cles were made by sick men in the in
firmary wards and blind women. Aft
erward her royal highness made a tour
of the wards and spoke a few kindly
words to the sick and suffering.
Princess Christian and Princess Vic
toria wrote their names in the visitors