Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-15

Ridley is the German ambassador, and
next to Count Metternich comes Earl
Brownlow. Yet other notables in the ter
race are Lord Revelstoke and Lord Mount
stephen. The place, in fact is a sort of
residential annex of the house of lords.
The beermaker has confided to a news
paper reporter that Mr.. Gladstone was
very charming man. l knew him person
ally. But I regard him as one Of the
worst enemies my country ever had. and
therefore / was not willing to see a tablet
on my house with his name on it. 1t was
large tablet. and as I would not have
it on the walls. my nephew, Mr.. Walter
Guinness. suggested that 1t should be in
the porch of the house. In that case
should have seen it from my study win
dow"
Although Lord Ardilaun will not allow
the London county council to afix the
tablet. he has apparently no objection to
harboring interesting relics of that states
man within the walls of the house. Thus
he is the owner Of the round table upon
which the Irish Church was disestablished,
while some Of the G. o. MS china as
well as his bookcases and few carved
busts, all Of which the present occupier
purchased, are still to be found at No. IL.
The staircase at No. II Is reported to be
part of the identical staircase of Old
Carlton House, but there is no definite
evidence of its genuineness. Some years
ago Lord Ardilaun had 1t extended at
the summit, SO that the guests at a big
reception might not suffer the incenven-
fence Of overcrowding-a state of affairs
Gladstone to blurt out that some people
could not keep the rule of the road
Yeomen of the Guard.
The Corps of Gentlemen alarms had
q mess dinner last night at st. James
palace. 1t is not a frequent occurrence.
They only exist as a mess on occasions
of royal ceremonies, when they entertain
guests, the officers Of the Yeomen of the
Guard generally having mess dinner at
the same time. The Yeomen Of the
Guard are so well known that the severe
absence from publicity of the other body
is almost startling. Very few, l ina CINE,
know what they look like, or even know
of their existence. A gentleman at farms
seven days duty in the year. and he
does it in a uniform which costs about
9100. The gold-laced coat with long
tails and heavy epaulets, and the tall
helmet almost covered by the dropping
white feather plume make as fine show
as any uniform in existence.
The Gentleman-a Arms is an ancient
figure. and generally looks it. marching
with such determination to show no de-
crepit stiffness that one is half afraid of
his falling to pieces with the jar of put
ting his foot down. He clinks spurs, too.
as he goes. for he belongs to day
when to be horsed was a class distinction.
You see 1t in the fact that 1t was pro-
vided by Henry VII in the establish
ment of the corps that each man should
keep two horses and a servant, and yet
the corps has never in it's whole career
done mounted duty, and never does 1t
now though 1t wears spurs. They We're
at one time something like a noble
guard such as the pope has. Nowadays
they are appointed more for distinguished
service than for family merits. Their
weapon is spoken of now as a halberd,
but earlier generations called 1t frankly
a pole-ax.
Bridge accessories are among the most
popular gifts of the season, but it is
noticeable this year that tones of green
are rarely used in the manufacture of
these trifies- 1t is violet. white. browns
i'm fact. any color save green, which is
it's requisition. This. it appears, is ex-
planned in the fact that bridge players,
who are proverbially superstitious have
come to discover that green brings bad
luck
No one with any sense of the fitness
of things in bridge ever thinks Of playing
with green backed cards. Good fortune
is assured by sitting facing the east, in
view of the fact that the sun rises in
that quarter. To drop card as you cut
forebodes disaster and for an adversary
to cut toward himself instead of from
him is another means of inviting trouble
for a dealer. l.. H. MOORE.