New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-27
LONDON NOTES
II HUMOROUS PEER.
Lord NesctOR's Speeches-A
Lady Alderman.
London. March 16.

I
like Lord Tsibblesdale. but he has shrewd
common sense. with a happy talent for
genial pleasantly When the tall. un-
assuming baron talks about his fellow
/ backwOOdsmen as he has done this week
In the House Of Lords the benches are
al once filed and the galleries are all
agOg with excitement. for he Is never
duIl. and cOntrives 90 get more fun out
OF political situations than more preten-
tious humOrists. Thrice welcome In
these portentOus days OF storm and stress
Is the speaker who does not take too
serious a view either Of himself or OF
politics.
Lord Newton spent seven years IN
the diplomatic service and thirteen years
/ in the Commons and ne has done more
work since ne entered the gilded cham
/ Der than any colleague who has not been
on the front benches; yet, while he has
been the pioneer Of the reform move
ment and opened the way for the APP
pointment Of lord ROsebery's commit
tee. ne assumes with a ocular air that
he is one Of the two hundred nOnentities
destined to be thrown 70 the democratic
wolf. notwithstanding their heroic eff
/ forts to vote for themselves and 20
escape political extinction.
While Lord Newton is a consistent re-
former. who agrees with Lord ROsebery
that an hereditary chamber is out % date
he does not believe that II will be pos
sibIe 20 get rid OF the backwOodsmen-
you may expel them by the front door,
he has said in a passage OF amusing
banter. "but they may reappear by the
/ back door or down the chimney" This
is what is likely to happen under any
scheme OF selection or election. If the
hereditary principle disappears from the
constitution OF the upper house. peers
will be allowed 90 stand for the House
of Commons. a privilege which Is now
denied 90 them. When they have served
in the lower house for a short term they
may BE- qualified for entrance into the
upper house on some such order OF merit
as Lord Newton himself proposed in his
reform bin. II Lord ROsebery's scheme
OF elections from county councils. or any
variant Of il, be adopted for invigOrating
the upper house with fresh blood, the ex-
cluded peers may return TO their natural
environment through the municipal
fues.
So long as England dearly loves
lord" il will be extremels difficult 10
keep the peers out Of Westminster by
methods Of indirect election. Of which
they can readily take advantage. Prob
ably Lord Newton is not far from the
truth when he assumes that while a re-
formed House Of Lords will contain tenn
pOrarily a few asseTtive and self-satis-
fed persons. and not he so pleasant a
place as il is now. the old set will grsdu
ally work their way back by hook or by
crook. and speak with more authority
than at present.
| The election Of Lady st. Heller as
alderman in the London County Council
/ is a we'll deserved compliment % one OF
the most useful women in society.
While she has been an indef 4tigable and
/ brilliant hostess for many years, and
has done not little literary work. she
has displayed practical intelligence In
/ the management Of charities and is
known to possess a high order Of
/ business capacity. While she has never
allowed politics 20 interfere with her
/ friendships and has plumed herself upon
her ability to draw men OF all parties
into her receptions and 10 entertain them
/ tactfully she has been herself an ardent
/ Tory. and has taken the keenest interest
/ in Parliamentary debates and in public
life She will have two colleagues in
her new sphere Of activity in the London
/ County Council-Miss Susan Lawrence
on the Municipal RefOrmeTs' side and
Miss Adler among the Progressives.
Women are now represented for the
/ first time in this metropolitan parlia-
ment. and there Is committee work for
which they are pre-eminently fitted
Social questions will MI up much OF the
/ time of future legislators. and women
can handle them with tact and sound
I judgment.
/ Mr.. cyril Maude's daughter has re-
ceived a most encouraging send-Out for
stage career this week at the Play
house. She was the girl in Mr.. Austin
/ StrOngs sentimental "TOymaker Of
Nuremberg" and there was not a trace
OF stage fright when she peeped over the
garden wall and smiled upon her bashful
lover as he played his flute Royalties
were in the box 20 listen 20 her birdlike
song, the stalls were crowded with actors
and actresses 20 applaud her heartily
for her fathers and her mothers sake.
and there was a critical audience. which
might have raised objections 10 an old
fashioned piece OF the Dickens pattern If
the occasion had not been an amiable
rcvel Of good will
II was a more promising start than
Ellen Terry made as a Child Of eight in
the precocious part OF Mamillius I'm The
Winters Tale" with hair coiled in tight
curls above the bravery OF red and white
and with a small gO-cart trailing be-
hind her. Miss Margery Maude acted
with charm and naturalness, singing her
verses prettily and captivating the audi
ence with her artless ways and girlish
beauty
u was "A pleasant thing To- see her
father acting with her az the old toy
maker. ana doing his best To sweeteu
the representation So that the childish
ness and tenderness rather than the
aruiiity ana feeblrness Of advanced
ears should be expressed with rx-
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