Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-20
CHANGEFUL LONDON
Sale of Warwick House Caus-
ing Much Comment.
FLIGHT TO THE SUBURBS
Even Working People Are Deserving
the Congested City.
OLD STREET FAIR ABOLISHED
Increasing Part Women Are Playing
in the Life of the Metropolis.
Good Season Ahead.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


LONDON. December I, 1907.
Unless something untoward should hap
pen. it looks as If the next London season.
beginning with the opening of parliament
at the end of January. will be one of the
most brilliant on record. The king has
given it to be understood among his own
immediate circle of friends that he will
be glad to hear of their giving large en-
tertainments, and it is expected that he
will go out and about a good deal himself
The opera will be better patronized
than ever. especially since the return Of
| Tetrazzini has been assured. Ranelagh
and birmingham have already arranged
full list of fixtures, then the Olympic
games will bring, thousands of foreigners
to London and will indirectly be the cause
of much public and private hospitality.
The Anglo-French exhibition in connec-
ton Herewith is already an assured sue
cess and at least three mover enterprises
| to amuse the fashionable world are being
| quietly prepared.
All the great" hostesses will give balls,
and the foreign office and other receptions
VIII ne on an extensive scale. Altogether
everything promises to make the season
as brilliant as 1t will be memorable, and
tradespeople, who have complained of
pad seasons of late years, are rejoicing
IS also great demand for houses and
mats in the West End, so that rents in
This quarter are going up.
Women and Charity.
A noteworthy feature of public life in
the metropolis this season is the prorni-
nent part which women-apart from those
CLAIMANT and demonstrative members of
the sex who are demanding the suffrage
are taking in gatherings having for their
purpose the promotion of humanitarian
OBJECTS and the amelioration of social
conditions. No longer are ladies' content
10 attend meetings of this kind as silent
listeners to speeches by men. In an ever
increasing measure they are taking the
lead, and the events of yesterday in! Lon
don alone furnish examples of certain of
the manifold activities in which their
ssSHhpathles md an outlet. Members of
the royal family are conspicuous in the
movement, and while Princess Christian
performed the opening ceremony at a sale
OF work on behalf of friendless girls
frlncess Henry of Battenberg attended
meeting of the Association TO- Pro-
noting and Training and Supply of Mid
wives. and Princess Louise, Duchess of
Argyll. accompanied by the duke. opened
hall adjoining the Queen Victoria's Sea-
mems Rest at Poplar
A lady doctor presided over drawip,
room meeting. at which an account of the
school for mothers and a description of
modern methods of diminishing infa ntile
mortality were given by lady speakers:
tne nenehcent operations of the police
court mission were aided by a sale of
work. which the Countess of Coventry
lnaugurated; three other prominent So
clety women welcomed large number of
visitors to the Royal School of Art Needle
Work: and Lady Troubridge opened the
Novelists's Bazaar, arranged with a view
TO further an effort for providing useful
framing Tor poor girls of gentle birth No
less than four other bazaars were he'd
Sale Of Warwick House.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick are
breaking an old. if not historic, assoc.a-
ton with London in forsaking for all
time Warwick House, st. James Park
their town residence. The reason of the
sacrifice is not stated. but it is not likely
to be an exposition of socialist practice in
selling all their possessions to bestow
| them on the poor.
Warwick House is another capture" of
the American. Miss Dodge. wealthy lady
from over the seas became fascinated
with the prospect of the old house. which
commands such charming view of ST.
James Park and is so near the heart of
London society and the sale was effected
by private treaty. That was little time
ago, and. peeping in the house today, l
was confronted with wealth of builders
scaffolding and materials. The interior
Is undergoing wonderful transformation
both in construction and in Identification
Meanwhile. interest is turning on the
disposal during the ensuing week of the
entire contents of the residence at Cado-
gan rooms. knightsbridge. whence every
thing, whether Of great or little value has
been removed. Modern and antique
French and English furniture pictures
enamels. books and wines in their sew
eral ways suggest veritable feast of
good things for the connoisseur Louis
ky, XIV and XVI designs are conspicu-
Gus in the furniture to be placed under
the hammer. The pictures include sew
eral which carry the mind away from the
busy metropolis to the ancient home of
the Warwicks-among them a pen-and-
nous Canaletti and three bf f. Mura' S
charcoal drawings of the historic pile.
Depopulation of "The Radius"
The steady migration of population to