The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23
ENGLISH SOCIAL AFFAIRS
BY LADY MARY MANwARING

r.onaen. october 22.-(Special.) )-Field Marshall Lord Kitchener of Khartoum' with the reputation, undeserved by the
 way of confirmed woman-hater, Will make his first appearance pe1ore ,he i''a' rimonial altar on November l.
 He will not however. be one or the nrincinals His old comrade in arms Gen Archibald Hunter, will on that day +alxa to himself a wife in the person or Mary. Lady Inverclyde widow or the second Lord Inverclyde, who was cnalr-
 ,,,., of the cunard Steamship company. ond k of K. has consented to act as pest
 man. a v,,,, he attended by the most famous men ana women in the country. VII, | General Hunter is one of the pest llkeo | men in the army and was pai | eavorite of the late king.
 | The Archbishop Of York, It Is under s+ood will perform the marriage cere-
 monv while pr. Boyd Carpenter Vne bishon of Ripon), and Prebendary Ander- con inc rector of St. Georges, Will as- sist The reception will be held at the hride's house in Upper Grosvenor street. The militant suffragettes certainly have
 .he courage of their opinions and lose no opportunity of pressing their proposanda | .o the front A case In point occurred a' | he Hippodrome recently during the per | eormance of a comedy sketch called "H. M e perhans" Part of the plot is the discovery of a number of suffragists who
 are in hiding on the deck of battleship,
 and who on being discovered are hune | ,yerboard without ceremony.
 1 Some half dozen suffragists who occu- | ,,ed seats in the front of the hall rose | rom their seats and loudly protested
 oainst the rough handling which their
 s,sters in the play received, and refused
 Q be shouted down by the audience. | As the women persisted in their pro est the police were called in and the
 nterrupters forcibly elected. They Of | -ared great resistance. however ant
 lung with might and main to the or I hestra railings.
 Many people have forgotten. that Sil
 frederick Treves, who went to Balmora | he other day, operated a few years agt n King George V, and he has therefore had the unique experience Of performing
 perattens on two kings of England. l Although the great surgeon has lont since retired from general practice, h' still attends on the royal family. He Il
 an intimate friend of King George. whc | admireS hlS OutSpOkeH iidAhci no "oii os his surgical genius
 Sir Frederick, indeed, has never beer
 fraid of saying exactly what he thinks
 He told King Edward, when the famou. operation of 1908 was decided on that h'
 would give f10,000 to escape the duty ol | performing 1t.
 If he chose, Sir Frederick Treves nigh at this moment be earning the largest
 income enjoyed by any medical practi- tioner, for he Is still as able and active as | ever. He retired from practice because he was really tired of taking out an ap pendix every morning. He performed ar operation as regularly as he had his | breakfast, and far more regularly than he had his lunch, for he often had tt l lunch in his carriage as he went his round of visits
 l Sir Frederick, 1t is said, has performed | now fewer than 1000 operations for ap pendicitis and never lpst a case.
 | Farnham, Surrey, has just lost very paragon of a telephone operator and 1 judging from the comments of telephone users one whose like is not easily to be found in the country. For six years Miss | Lila Patrick brought joy to the telephone subscribers of Farnham and district, fol l not once was she known to make a mis- take or to have lost her temper. Wher subscribers heard that Miss Patrick was
 to marry they immediately sent not only their good wishes, but also handsome wedding gift, and in addition separate presents were sent by other telephone users. We will never see her like again. said. fin a tone of regret, the subscriber who headed the list "she always spoke politely, was obliging and courteous. did
 her best. was quick in getting numbers
 never cut you on'too soon. never put vol