The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-20
BY ROBERT BRODERIcK.
Copyright. 1907, by the International
 Press Syndicate )

Copyright. 1907, by the lnternational
 Press Syndicate )
 London Jan. 19-A social position that makes her the Mrs. Astor of Eng land is held by the Duchess of Devon shire who has been entertaining the King and Queen at Chatsworth. the Dukes great palace in Derbyshire.
 Her society career dates back more than fifty years. AS Lady Vaudeville daughter of Count Alten of Hanover, she was a court beauty in the days of the Prince Consort her husband hold ing the position of Lord of the Bed chamber to Prince Albert.
 When Lord Vaudeville succeeded to the Dukedom of Manchester, his beau tiful wife became a Duchess for the first time, attaining high position as a society leader. She was very soon given the highest position among court ladies, that of Mistress of the Robes.
 Left a widow by the seventh Duke of Manchester, she gained her second Du- cal title by her marriage in 1898 with the Duke of Devonshire who has been a minister in several Unionist cabinets.
 In her declining years the Duchess still has the reputation of being one of the wittiest women in England and an inveterate bridge player.
 Ireland Is waking up and is pos sessed with the determination to be- come a busy industrial country. From political agitation and saving money to emigrate with, the Irish are turn- ing their energies to the development of their once ''distressfuT' country into commercial prosperity. They now rec ognize that the Wyndham land act was an effective measure in putting the agrarian question on the road to the ideal solution.
 Their hostility to England being thus disarmed the Irish people begin to think that to stay in Ireland and work up a national trade would not be bad change from anti-English plotting and wholesale emigration.
 The revival of peaceful activity in | Ireland Is shown everywhefe today by | the innumerable money making propo- sitions that are afoat. Business men are engaged on new schemes of every kind and plentiful employment for | needy Irishmen is promised
 The native industries of Ireland are being helped along by vigorous can wasting by such organizations as the Industrial Development Association. Many aristocratic ladies are working hard to revive the gentler industries 1 among peasant women. Lady Aber- deen. the Vicereine. having been suc- cessful in extending the lace making craft to large proportions.
 A cooperative creamery has been founded by a Duchess a Countess is fostering the tweed industry on ner estate, and a priest has collected $50,- 900 to start a woolen mill
 Everybody Is being urged by circu- lars and shop signs to buy only Irish goods and a national trade mark was recently adopted. This is a simple de- sign in the style of ancient Irish art, with the words Made in IrelandS in Irish characters.
 Meanwhile the government Is expect ed very soon to take over the Irish railroad system, and effect very neces- sary reforms At present the railroads of Ireland controlled by a large mum Der of small companies are very inerh- ciently and expensively worked.
 A better system of government IS also promised. several departments be- ing overhauled with a view to thor ough reorganization giving better or dered less expensive and really popu- lar system at Dublin Castle Mucn good work to this end was done nV Secretary James Bryce whose depart ure to the United States Is being gen orally deplored in Ireland
 The Jewish community and the Jew
 ish members of Parliament haV' viewed with emphatic disfavor th' suggestion for the formation of Jew
 ish party in the House of Commons s' that the interests of the Hebrew com l munitv may receive careful attention