The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
VANITY, THY name.
IS REALLY MAN
Women Reyel in Costly Things,
but Men Excel Them in
Purchases.
CLOTHES OF WOMEN
FLATTER MANS C0NCEIT
British Snobs Pay Exorbitant
Prices for Furs in EndeayOr
to Be Pretty.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.
al Cable To The Trihune

ID lAoh hHIHb6Id.
Special Gable to The Tribune.
LONDON, April 30-Twenty- i've hun-
dred dollars for an undrcssed fox skin
seems almost incredible and yet that rec
ord was made at the recent spring fur
sale In London. Another skin from the
same animal went at tho bargain price
or S23b0 because 1t had q few more white
hairs In IT than are permitted 10 ennblo
,oSd!s sMn to pr rank Al at the fu5rieE's.
reaches its destined weare- It will be
worth $1,000 and il would take two skins
TO make stole. Tho color fades In tho
wearing. so that this costly fur will very
shortly be worth only a third OF its pres
ent value. Vanity, thy name Is really
man. For, truth TO tell, IT is only in !.
country where The nagnificence of his
WoulenS clothes Hatters a mans self
esteem that colossal sums will be spent
on them. While these are the most val
uabe or fours. there are others calcu-
is dreaming when he knows the prices
paid for them.
Costly Otter Skins.
Next 10 tho costly foxes ara the long
mouse-gray or dark sea otter skins Sea
otters once abounded in the Behring sea
they are not prolific, and more than
century of slaughter has rendered them
rare. The Russians buy these skins for
$500 apiece, and will cur them into coat
collars FOR their wealthy MOBILES Dark
Siberian sables, about a foot long and
nearly as Wide, sold for from $3.50 10 $3.50
each. All furs are advancing enormously
in price. Silver fox leads. with a rise
OF 100 per cent since March. 1909; skunk
and opossum come next, with Go per cent.
Real skins worth only IS each forty years
through the entire list My lady, If she
would be fur clad, must pay for IL.
Kitchener Fatalist.
It is only those who know Lord Kltcb-
ener well who are aware how strongly
fatalism Is lngralned in his character.
ln-chlef in South Africa the talk In tho
headquartcrs mess turned upon tho mill
,ary future OF those present II WAS
that Lord Kitchener would sooner or
later find himself Installed at the war
office, and certainly at that time every
however, shook his head -and said, with
n smile: "I think you are all wrong.
Somehow l have n feeling that convinces
me / shall never occupy any position at
the war office" This belief has. Il any
thing, become strengthened since that
time. On another occasion, during the
Soudan campaign. Lord Kitchener was
warned not TO expose himself SO reckless
y when in action. II shall never be
&illed." he said. When my time comes
shall die peacefully in my bed" Many
demonstrate this rather strong side of
Lord Kitchener's character which, by
the way, appears 10 have missed previous
notice.
Remarkable Banquet.
That was Il remarkable banquet held
in London the other day. when the de-
seendants OF the great English poets were
gathered together for the first time.
Coler1dge representing Colerldge) the
Duke of Norfolk (genry Howard. Earl OF
Surrey. the Countess OF Warwick Love-
Hugel tSir Philip Sidney. Sir Robert
Edgcumbe CWycherley), the Lear OF
Lytton tBulwer Lytton and Owen Mere
Hubert Maxwell-scott (Sir Walter Scotp.
Mr. Gust CMilton). Miss Evelyn Lang
Osaac Watts). Baron Ernest de Bcrtouch
Carl OF Rochester,. Tennyson D'Eyn-
and family were represented by the Rev.
j. W. Shakespeare. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Shakespeare, Mrs +. Walton. Francis
Frank Hart.
When Edward Returns.
When the king returns TO this couu-
try he will proceed almost Immediately
To Newmarket to see the race for tho
Two Thousand Guineas. and will then rc-
Turn TO town, where he will remain al
most entirely throughout the season.
paying but brief visit to Windsor His
majesty hopes to pay several week-end
mer, and intimation of this has already
been conveyed TO several whom his
majesty proposes to honor.
Chimpanzee Skaters,
Chimpanzees that roller-skate arc !hs
attest society craze, They arc being
broken in and trained by n firm OF Lon
Ion importers and supplied 10 fashion
able people pets After six months
raining the chimpan2ec is said 10 be
'ft for any society and an acquisition In
my home" Roller skating Is an extra"
If his education. lie is taught pri-
narily to dress himself. TO eat and drink.
md to comport himself generally like
little boy,
War Craft of England.
The laying down of the keel OF the new
the Thundercr. at tho
Thames ironworks will bring into eX-
steuce the twelve hundred and twenty
seventh man-ot-war built for the royal
navy on the river during four centuries
II warship building. In that total is
ounted every class Of warcraft OF which
here Is record-from sailing three
lockers of tho olden time, and modern
irst- class battlcships, 10 gunbohts, sloopS
# war and corVettes of the days or
pars and sails, and modern torpedo
,onts and destToyers. AT Trafalgar, In
act eleven of the twenty seven ships
hat formed Nelson's line OF battel were
london or Thames built ships Eleven
M of Nelson's thirteen ships at the bat
he Thames. Thirteen OF nuncanS SIX
cen al Camperdowu We're Thames built
1en of war. Seven OF the seventeen
ncn-o f-war that took part at tho bonn
ar,Imept OF Sebastopol in the Crtmcen
,,r wcrc also Thames built