Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-16

heads of the guests, and the name of every dish on the menu suggested aer- ial night in some way, whlie even the serviettes were folded to initiate the Wright aeroplanes. An American at tomey who happened to be present, said it was the eutest thing he had ever seen and went about crazy afterwards over the sport of making his toy aero get move on.
 Lovers of dogs will be touched to hear of the devotion of lady belong ing to the American set in Rome, to her Irish terrier. According to the particulars conveyed in a friend s let ter. she was almost prostrated by grief when the little animal recently died. It was duly embalmed and encased in an exquisite coffin and then the owner ought the aid of firm of London at
 ,neys to find spot in Ireland where
 canine bones might rest in peace mat famous race-horse owner, Joseph Lowry, being true sportsman, allowed the dog to be buried on his estate and received big cheek for the burial ground. The bereaved owner accom-. panied her cotiined pet to the place of interment and then made tracks again for the Italian sunshine, feeling a good deed had been well done.
 In spite of the flattery which it is customary to ladle out to all officials Lord and Lady Aberdeen are freely criticised in certain influential circles of British society. A great change has come over the character of the gathe- iugs of the Dublin viceregal lodge since Lord Aberdeen has been King Ed ward 's chief representative there. The trouble is that Lady Aberdeen is faI too much of a democrat to suit the taste of the average sticklers for eti quette, who recognize as many fine shades of taste as the natives of Brit ain s Indian empire.
 Not long ago lady who only boasts "Honble' as handle to her name complained that at viceregal dinner she was the guest highest in rank next to the hostess, whereas in former days she was socially eclipsed at such func tions by all sorts of people of the high est rank. Furthermore I am given tC understand that Lady Aberdeen ha, given much offense to the frigid wor shipers of class by herself correspond ing with an Irish storekeeper about tn, arrangements for some charity enter tainment or bazaar. English aristo crats are mostly ostracized by the smart set when they become out-and-Out dem Ocrats. But the Aberdeens have a hos of friends and can well afford to d, without the society of the people the, have disgruntled.
 Frau Bertha Krupp, the richest wo man in Germany, has one strange hob by. She runs a first class hotel il the little town of Essex at an anuua loss of more than SlO0,OOO. The lord ly little hostelry is solely for the pur | pose of rendering hospitality to the rep resentatives of foreign government who have to remain in Essex while tn | munitions of war for their respectiv | cOuptries are manufactured.
 Officials from Central and SoutI American republics, from Russia, Japal ] and Spain have been entrtained fo months together at Krupp hotel, regard less of expense. Travellers in the ordi nary way sometimes find accommoda tions there, but only when the room are not required by officials from tn various countries.
 | One of the most cosmopolitan crowd
 in the world gathers under the roof 0
 this famous little hotel in Essex. l ------------------