The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06
Whenever Member of Cont
mental House QuarreIS With
His Sovereign He Seeks
Sanctuary with John Bull.
INCREASE IN INSANITY
THE CAUSE OF ALARM
Wonderful Motor Race Course
At Weybridge Doomed TO
FaiIure--- Electric Culture
System Experiments.
By Richard AbercOrn.I

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| London. Oct. 5,-England is rapidly
becoming the home of banished royal
ty. Directly a member of a ContineE-
tai royal house quarrels with his SOW
ereign and incurs the displeasure Of
land and generally manages to thrive
very we'll
OF important banshed royalties,
England shelters several. but at pres
ent the palm of quantity goes to Rus
STA, for the Little Father" has
testy temper and resents his relatives
coming between the wind and his au-
tocratic nobility. There are three
Russian Grand Dukes in England at
present. waiting for the royal wrath to
cool.
One is the Grand Duke Cyril, who
married the divorced wife of the Grand
Duke of Hesse, and who earned the
Cars disapproval for his pains. He
has been waiting for the clouds to
roll by as a guest of Princess Henry
of Battenburg at Osborne Cottage, in
the Isle of Wight.
Another is the Grand Duke Michael,
who incurred the royal displeasure by
marrying an English lady, the Count
ess Torby He is so hopeless of ever
being recalled to Russia to bask in
his sovereign's smiles that he has TAX
en- up permanent residence here at
Knele Hall, in Staffordshire.
The third distinguished Russian is
the Grand Duke Paul, who was at one
time the son-in-law of the King of
Greece, and who also disappointed the
Car by what he was pleased to term
a NAL apropos marriage. Strange to
say, the entire exiled trio and their
respective wives are superlatively hap
: Ply.
= The increase of insanity in this coun-
try gives English people cause for
grave fears when they read the annual
report of the Commissioners on luna
cy the report contains appalling Stats
tics, but no suggestion for stemming
the tide of dementia.
The total number of insane persons
in England and Wales was on Janua-
ry 1, last, 1888. an increase of 1000
on the figures for the previous year.
The great majority of these were
classed as "pauper lunatics,' there be-
ing only $3.50 inmates of private asy-
lums and 963 criminal lunatics. This
shows how lunacy is practically con-
fined to the poorer classes. among
whom the scourge is growing every
year. There is now one insane person
to every 2S2 of the population.
|. London and Manchester show the
largest increases in insanity among
J. the cities and counties of England.
Some comfort is given by the com
5. missioners where they show that the
total increase for England and Wales
S is lower than the average increase for
the last ten years and less than the
increase in any year for five years
1t is also pointed out that many lu
?. natics Of the milder sort are now
treated in the asylums who would be
left at large some years ago. so that
part of the increase is accounted fol
by more careful control of the coun
try's insane.
= The wonderful motor race course
known as Brooklands at Weybridge
which is the largest in Europe. il
l. doomed to failure. The recent acct
d dent in which motOrist was killed
= has made matters even worse, and thu
general opinion is that by next sum
! mer the directors, who have spent vas
sums of money, will have to close thu
- track.
=, The chief trouble lies in the fact tina
4 the directors have lavished money il
:, catering for the commercial advertis
ing section Of motorists and have done
J. little or nothing for private owners
.r who can now be counted in their thous
II ands.
e The private owners have paid on
|. or two visits to Brooalands, and afte
> being snubbed and badly catered 70
have vowed never to go again. Tn
public too is far too fond of horse rae
n ing to attend the motor races in an.
-. numbers. At the first meets enormou
crowds were present but the novelt.
d wore off quickly and the attendanc
rs has been small of late.
k A story is going the rounds of couT
Dr. try house parties concerning the
Of Duchess of Roxburge (nee Goelet1
N who is said, during a recent flying vi:
i it to town TO have visited a clairvcy
Il ant living in humble circumstances i
al a poor district in London.
The Duchess was thickly yelled, an
the clairvoyant who could not poss
s., bly, have known the identity of he
!. visitor, told the Duchess great des
- of her history and wound up by re
marking that a son would never b
born to her.
Although the Duchess tried to Iaug
it off with her friends she was COZ
siderably upset for time, for shout
she have no heir the Dukes brothe
Lord Alistair Innes-Kerr who is :