The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09
FIERCE QUARREL BEHIND THE SCENES Lord Curzon Said to Be the h.
 nocent Cause SEEKS POLITICAL HONOR Princess of Wales Spends Great Deal of Her Time in Library and
 Grounds of Windsor
 Castle.

London, June S-There has been very fierce quarrel of which the public is un- aware, behind the scenes at Conservative headquarters Lord Curzon was the inno- cent cause of all the trouble which arose just before the Stepney election.
 When Sir ". Evans Gordon, the idol of Stepney," retired on the grounds of i'll health, the conservative officials at once selected Lord Curzon as a proper person to fill the vacancy. This decision was violently opposed by Sir W. Evans Cor don, who protested that Lord Curzon was the very last person to represent Stepney, an East End working class district. Sev- eral officials cordially agreed with Sir William, while others were equally warm- ly in favor of Lord Curzon.
 Sir Williams argument was that Lord Curzon was too cold a personality to appeal to the rough East Binders, and that had he been selected he would prob- ably never have visited the population fin their homes Sir William and his wife, the Dowager. Lady Tweedale lived part of the year in summy Stepney street and were personally known to all the poor in the district.
 Another drawback to Lord Curzon was his lack of great wealth, which is es- sential In district where constant de- mands are made on the purse of the par lamentary representative.
 Lord Curzon, it is well known is most anxious to enter parliament, and he will be selected for the first vacancy provided it is not an East End or poor constit- ueney.
 The friends of Mrs. George Cornwallis West Qady Randolph ChurchilD declare that proud as she is of the wonderful political career of her son. Winston Churchill, there has been a serious differ ence of opinion between mother and son over the violent attacks made by the latter on the London press.
 Mrs. West has always been something of a journalist herself, and she has im- pressed upon her son that no good can come from his violence, which Is bound to react upon himself in the end.
 MT. Winston Churchill himself is in an extremely bad temper over the "get- ting back at him" article which have re- gently appeared and which have proved to the public that this brilliant, but cratic young man has unsad and un- done everything he said and did a very short time ago.
 His mother being possessed of more tact, is doing everything in her power to steady her son down, but the son is in no mood just now for lectures
 The Princess of Wales is becoming more and more attached to the neighborhood of Windsor, and often during the past few weeks she has motored from town down to her place at Frogmore just to see how "the garden Is getting on''
 Few people are aware of the fact that the princess has a perfect detestation of public functions, such as the laying of foundation stones and the opening of pub lie buildings. Of late she has taken the deepest interest in the history of Wind- sor Castle and has spent hours boring over the books in the Castle library.
 But her gardening and her children are her chief joys and if she had not her bur densome duties to perform she would divide her time between the cottage near Sandrlngham and Frogmore. In her household the princess Is worshipped as the kindest of mistresses, but she delib- erately puts herself in the background as far as the public is concerned. knowing that she can never be so popular as her mother-in-law, the ever youthful Queen Alexandra.
 At present the princess chief concern is her boy at the Naval college at Os- borne from whom she receives daily let ters which keeps the whole household in state of amusement. In one of his re- cent letters Prince "David' remarked that he was putting on weight and would soon be agle to knock the stuffing out Of another boy, whom he mentioned by name
 Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson has been one of the many visitors to her sister, Mrs. Astor (Mrs. Shawl at Clrveden- on-Thames, which is looking perfectly beautiful in its summer foliage.
 The house parties assembled at C1iveden talk of little else but the coming happy event. in the Astor family, and Mrs. Gib- son has been accompanying her sister to town on all her shopping expeditions.
 Of these two handsome sisters London CTS narrate that Mrs Gibson tells funny stories while Mrs. Astor gives extra points 70 them Mrs Astor in fact has obtained the reputation of telling the best stories of anybody in che smart set, with tho possible exception of the Duchess of Devonshire.
 The duchess by the way. has been tell ing story very much against herself. .What a lot of very new people there are about" said the duchess at function the other day to a cynical financier, himself .extremely new" T can almost smell them" added the duchess.
 Really" remarked the financier, look ing hard at the wonderfully made-up face of the duchess, T can only smell paint
 Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard of New York, who has just arrived in London after series of adventures that rarely fall to the share of a woman. however venture some has been responsible for con- siderable amount of sensation.
 Her late husband. MT. Hubbard, who was we'll known in New York. as the edi- tor of "Outng" and the author of ''The Lure of Labrador" was stricken down by starvation in his efforts to trace the course of the Nascaupee river In the Labrador peninsular.
 Mrs. Hubbard, a slim msp of a woman, with double share of zeal and enterprise, determined to carry out her husbands work and set out for that purpose two years ago. But it is not generally known that the real object of her expedition was to find the remains of her husband and give them reverent buriai.
 She succeeded in her laudable endeavor and not only was able to see her late hus- band inferred with fitting obsequies, but has carried out her ambitious task of ex ploraton so well that she has greatly riched our knowledge of the interior of Labrador.
 Mrs. Hubbard will return to America after featuring her exploits to the Royal Geographical society and other English learned bodies
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