The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-16
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the One at the
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NJ course 1t was a dreadful state
~ of affairs from the standpoint
of Lady Bantock-but think
what it mean to Bennett-Bennett, the
butler, whose father and grandfather
and all their kin mad served Bantocks-
to find in the new mistress of Bantock
Hall his own pretty, Maynard, unman-
ageable niece, who had skipped away
years before to capture footlight fame!
Good, pious Bennett, to whom "dooty"
and a sense of position were more i'm
portant than all the qualities that
make life livable-think of the turmoil
into which the advent Of Lady Ban
took threw him and his twenty-five
other relatives, all servants in Bantock
Hall! Poor Bennett, and poor lesser
BENEFITS!
One couldn't blame Lady Bantock.
Nary an Idea a she of what was
coming her way when she consented to
marry the ardent young artist who
pretended such poverty. Lord Ban
took carried out the Lord Burleigh idea
to h very last ditch, and It was not
until the little lady had met his maiden
aunts and come a C to face with her
uncle-butler that the awful truth
dawned upon her. 1t was then too late
for flight, and she had to face the
music.
Pious, "dootifur' uncle-butler and his
pious "dootifur' family decided to give
her q chance. Under their careful
guidance she should develop into a
model Lady Bantock. vi frivolity
should be sat upon and high spirits
squelched. Lady Bantock. the essence
Of demure m~eekness, was all compli-
ance. Uncle-butler began to hope. Per-
haps all hon was not lost after all.
He received an awful jolt, however,
when the second footman, Ernest Ben
nett, Lady Bantock's favorite cousin,
was greeted with a resounding kiss and
asked voluble questions about his
family of rabbits. Ernie disappeared
quickly, a resounding cuff offsetting
his lady cousins kiss, and the disci-
plining of Lady Bantock began in
earnest
Jane ON the job.
Jane Bennett, her cousin, austere
ar stout, was appointed to act as her
mad, and Immediately began to exert
her influence. Lady Bantock was asked
to array herself In a cracking black
silk robe, worn by the former mistress
of Bantock Hall, while her own clothes
received suitable alterations. In a
hundred and one other ways was the
influence of her servant-family felt.
At last the worm turned. I'm
either an angel-no, that's too strong.
we'll say SANTA saint or a-the oppo-
SITE" Lady Bantock lac declared
naively to DIR. Fermsntel, the family
friend. About this time the opposite
began to assert itself. A half-dozen
of her chorus friends descended upon
Bantock Hall to offer congratulations.
Uncle-butler tried to dismiss them
with a glass of beer in the servants
hall. Lady Bantock ordered them
brought up to her apartment. with as
many bottles of champagne. Up they
trooped, followed by the scandalized
Bennett family, bearing the hated fzz
water n trays of glasses. Lady Ban
took gloated over their distress and
cast care to the winds. Picking VI
her silken skirts. she waltzed and sang
her old music-hall song, chucking the
irrepressible Ernest under the chin and
inveigling him into the dance before
he realized what he was up to. At last
the chorus bunch departed, on the run,
to catch their train Lord Bantoch
and George p. Newte, Lady Bantock's