New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-09

MN at all Official and state functions ana II repre-
sentins him at funerals. both q. home and abroad
moreover. when a foreign sovereign scion Of any
reigning family to visit the Court of st.
James's one of the Kings lords in waiting is dele
gated TO act the escort OF the distinguished
guest. usually receiving from the latter. in recoS-
milton of his services. an order of knghthood.
1ewelled snuffbox. gem studded cigar or
some other costly souvenir. which is usually
Verted into cash after decent interval by the
cipient The lords in waiting usually take OF
duty OF month each and in addition TO the pres
tige of the Office enjoy emoluments to the extent
of about 5000 each we'll all sorts Of priv
leges, such as. for instance. immunity from jury
duty and from serving as sheriff of county.
The custom Of changing the lords In waiting with
the administration dates from the reigns OF Will
lam III and Queen Anne. the ministers OF the day
insisting upon having voice IN the selection OF
the encourage OF the sovereign declaring that they
could not undertake the responsibility 20 Parlia-
ment for the acts OF the IL the latter were
surrounded by lords in waiting who opposed
to them politically. Sir Robert Peel. It may be
remembered, went so far as TO demand OF the
late Queen Victoria that she should change. not
only her lords. but likewise her ladies. IN waiting
with the advent to Office of his Cabinet. and when
she demurred rendered the resignation Of his ad-
ministration thus bringing about the political crisis
which Is known ~ this day in English history as
1.-THE bedchamber question"
Few Englishmen in public life more widely
known In America in a social sense than the new
Lord COlebrooke who for many years was in the
habit Of spending his winters in New-York and at
Aiken, usually the guest OF the late William &.
whitney, of whom he close friend. His wife,
Lady Colebrooke. tall. handsome. dark haired and
dark eyed woman. is OF the many daughters
OF the late Lord Alfred Paget, and sister, there
fore. of General Arthur Paget, married to the
daughter OF the late Mrs Paran Stevens and q
sister too. OF Almerio Paget married to Pauline
Whitney. and of Sydney Paget well known the
American turf as the manager OF James b Hag
gins great racing establishment. She is a mag
nhcent whip and horsewoman and among her &C.
complishments possesses, too those OF the sculptor
end Of the Joiner. She is. indeed. wonderfully
skilful carpenter and she has likewise established
q school for carpentering at Abingdon. her hus-
bands place in Scotland for the instruction OF the
tenantry. Lord Colebrooke owns about forty thou
sand acres in Scotland, and his baronetcy dates
from the year of Wolfe's death on the Plains of
Abraham. His family hailed from Kent originally,
and among its most famous members In the past
have been Robert Colesrooke the British Anlbassa-
dor to Turkey at the beginning OF the eighteenth
century.
THE ETERNAL FEMININE IN PARIS.
Paris is the only capital IN the world where the
feminine population exceeds the masculine element
by nearly quarter of a million This appears
from official statistics recently issued and goes lar
to explain why the French metropolis should enjoy
great a fame for frivolity. while It also accounts
for the fascination which this gay city offers to all
foreigners and especially to Americans 1t is diff-
cult TO assign any reason for this numerical supe
riority OF the women to the men on the banks Of
the Seine. But It is after all perhaps appropriate.
since Paris has always been regarded as tho head
quarters OF feminine fashion.
KING LEOPOLD BARS ABSINTHE.
King Leopold has just affixed his signature to
parliamentary measure, thereby converting It into
law Of the land which is destined 70 prove Of last
ing benefit to the Belgian nation, and which may
even be described one OF the best memorials OF
his reign. 1t IS a statute prohibiting under the
penalty Of heavy fine and severe Imprisonment the
manufacture. the transport. the sale and even the
very storage and keeping on the premises OF alb,
smthorttes assign the origin OF more than two
thirds Of the cases Of insanity IN the kngdon
ana the injury to the people more far reaching
pe6p ogs e be 10 to
the urgent pleadlngs Of the leading physicians OF
Leopold and to endow the French code with a law
gnd onsn1tion Of the one snuIant which above
all others permanently affects and destroys tns
addicted thereto.
REAL ORIGIN OF ORDER OF THE GARTER.
II would seem that the British Order of the Gar
ter which has Just been conferred by King Edward
upon the Mikado, has much more ancient origin
than that popularity ascrbed to It IN connection
with the pretty story OF King Edward HIS picking
up from the floor the garter OF the lovely Countess
OF Salisbury, which she had lost while dancing and
returning It to her with the words, 'Ioni soft qui
NAL pense." which used by the knights
OF the order their motto and inscribed IN gold
on the blue velvet garter which forms part Of the
insignia. On the occasion OF the Field of the Cloth
Of Gold King Henry VIII bestowed the order the
French King. Francis I, and caused Sir Robert
Taylor. the Master Of the Rolls, 10 furnish to
the French monarch a written account OF the
orders origin, which has recently been discovered
among the priceless literary treasures of the Ma
tional Library of France. at Paris.
According TO this docuESent the order was first
founded by King RichaTN Coeur de Lion while
crusading in the Holy Land, where he inspired
his knights with renewed courage by fastening
leather thongs, or carriers. around the knees OF
those who had distinguished themselves by some
conspicuous feat OF gallantry-a sort OF twelfth
century Victoria Cross. OF course. the King Ed
ward III and Lady Salisbury story as to the
foundation OF the order is more picturesque and
doubt from monkish libraries before Henry VIII
dispersed them when he confscated the rnonasteries
IS more likely to be authentic.
MARQUISE DE FoNTENOY.