Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28

his grave Illness by copious bulletins it was
believed that he was permanently abolish
Ing the silly convention. Nothing of the
sort.
The king has recently been ILL., and the
incident has been kept Il profound court
secret. The accident to his ankle was not
of real consequence. except that il has rem
dered him more disciuclined for walking ex-
ercfse than ever, and he now shoots from
pony trap or motor. The real trouble
with the king in his breathing. He is a
corpulent man. and his physicians have not
concealed from their royal patient that he
has slight apoplectic tendencies. And 1t is
a positive fact that one night within the
last six weeks at about in the morning.
1t became necessary to call his medical at
tendant. The king is not young and he has
been fairly hard liver in his time.
The members of the United Service Club.
at the corner of Waterloo place and Pau
Mall, are now resuming the full enjoyment
Of their commodious home. on the comp;'.-
ton of very important and expensive alter
atoms. The United Service is to the naval
and military services what the Carlton is
TO conservative and the Reform TO intellec-
tual liberalism. 1t stands in the heart CT
what once was clubland but which is now
on its eastern extremity, clubland having
followed fashion westward. During the
last few years the Pail Mall clubs, while
maintaining their prosperity and popular
Ivy. nave Deeu COInpSIleQ Dy circumstances
to take serious heed 10 the future. In sew
eral instances their leases have only COM
paratively short time to run, as leases are
now measured. In the case OF the Union
Club Trafalgar square, the committee de-
clded some time ago. in order to obtain a
fresh lease, not only to cancel its exist
ing lease and to spend very large sum IN
improvements, but also to pay ground
rent which would have been regarded
exorbitant even for Trafalgar square, 1.-The
first site in Europe" when the union was
founded eightyfour years ago. The same
consideration has affected the committee Of
the Athenaeum Club, opposite the United
Service, and known to clubmen as Dish
ops Gate" because of the large Episcopal
element among it's members, and TO dis
tinguish 1t from Cripple Gate" the name
first accorded by some wag, out of COM
pliment to the bravery of the senior COM
Blatant heroes who form the membership CT
the United Service.
1t comes with something like shock 10
those familiar with the reproduction in
print shops of the handsomest face that Sir
Thomas Lawrence ever painted to learn
that the original of the portrait is still alive
at Moseley by Hampton court. and has
Just entered on her ninety-seventh year. AS
a girl Miss Crokers beauty created a III
rore in an age markedly susceptible TO fem
inlne charms, and royalty went out of rs
way to see the face Lawrence had painted,
and George " and William " each gave
her a royal salute in her early teens
Another long link with the past is the
aged Earl OF Leicester, whose father was
in parliament before the younger Pitt was
born And it is only three years ago since
the widow Of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst
was still alive, and Lord Lyndhurst was
born in Boston, Mass, in 1862 and was
lord chancellor when George the Fourth
was king These hands across the ages
are always fascinating to think upon.