The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-28

j part is thinking of spending $4,000
on the decoration of her salon. the.
style of the Louis XIV period has been
chosen. The plain ceiling, surrounded
by carved cornice, is upheld by four
marble Corinthian columns with gilt
bronze caps. The gold used will cost
more than $4,000, the Savonery car
pets several hundreds of dollars more,
and the old French furniture just as
much as the buyer likes to give. The
long windows look into one of the most
charming views in London and the
room itself measures 4 feet by IS feet.
Other models of rooms for the same
house show an Adams library, with the
book shelves let into the walls, and d
dining room of the Georgian period.
Portraits are to hang on the oak-carV-
ed walls, and the hangings are Of
crimson damask. Altogether the dec
Grafton and furnishing Of this house
will cost nearly S25O,0O0.
Up Park Lane another house is IN
process of transformation. This is
Brook House, until lately the property
! of Lord TweedmOuth, and now in pos
session of Sir Ernest Cassel. It will
contain a lift which viii probably be
the most costly in existence. To allow
room for this lift to the Well-known
reception rooms. Sir Ernest has bought
No. 27 Upper Brook street the next
house. The billiard room, built away
from the house, has been torn down,
and a. banqueting hail will be built on
\ the site. Sir Ernest is determined to
make this superior to that in any pri-
vate house in London. and worthy Of
4 the royal guests who honor him with
| their presence. The dancers and din
/ ers of next season are promised the
| sensation of visiting the two most lux
urious modern houses in the world.
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Scarcely forty years ago Sir Ernest
/ Cassel came to England with no pros
poets to speak of. and started the ordi-
nary, monOtOnOuS work of a clerk in a
Liverpool Office. He was in London
not long after, Flooding in the same
| way. But very soon his grasp of
! finance began to tell. His first great
known firms in the city from ruin.
Since then he has made several for
tunes, and two years ago he could af-
ford to hand the king a check for ST.
600 600 to be used against the scourge
of consumption.
w. K. darcy. who this week gave
! an interesting house party at Newman
ket. is another very wealthy man who
/ built UP his own fortune. In his case
luck had a good deal to do with it. He
/ was solicitor out in Queensland, and
bought quarter-share in the Mount
Morgan gold mine before anyone knew
of the fabulous richness OF the soil
there. Mount Morgan, unlike so many
of the hills advertised on tempting
prospectuses, was really a gold mine,
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career has resent led that of the hero
of 1.-The Walls of Jericho" has taken
his place in English society as a mill
ionaire.
A very interesting birthday fell last
week=that of the Earl of Leicester.
who is 50 years old. 1t will be remem-
bered that Lord Leicester was seriously
i'll three or four months ago, but his
| wonderful constitution (the Cokes are
nOtOriouslv a lOng-Iived race1 rein
forced by the frugal habits which make
him seem a peasant in disguise, enabled
him to pull through. He is an inter
/ esting old man, living, as might be ex-
pected, a style of life very different
from that of most of his cOntempOrar-
les. He is. like many of them, a de-
vOtee of sport, but he understands
| sport game in which the player
must risk defeat and hardship. There
fore the shooting parties at his Nor
folk place. Holkham, are arranged on
| what would be considered stole princi-
pies by many modern sportsmen. No
driving about to wait for birds at care
fully picked corners" with a host of
keepers doing the dull work: no elab-
crate luncheon served by buffers and
| shared by the ladies of the party: but
q determined trudge over the fields and
lanes, a piece of bread and cheese in
the sportsman's wallet. with whatever
else he may require cut from the side
board before starting. Lord Leicester
has no fewer than fourteen children
now living-seven sons and seven
daughters The first Lady Leicester.
famous over the country side for h ar
skill in making the dumplings dear ia
her husbands heart, died in 1870. Lord
Leicester married again five years Ia
ter. when he was ffty-three. Marriages
at a greater age than that are. how
ever. a family tradition. The present
peers father was nearly seventy when