The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-15
ny La MAIt0UISE DE FuNTENoY.
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~ INFERIOR WILLIAM Inns so many
Il designs. both of n political and a
commercial character, In China,
that the selection OF his new
Minister Plcnlpotcntiary at Pekln can
not fail to prove OF interest to all those
people In this country who are follow
ing with interest tho events In the far
Orient Ipstcad of taking n diplomat
for the post, his choice has fallen upon
a distinguished member OF the consul r
service. from which II may be gathered
that he intends that the development
OF Teuton trade in the Celestial King
dom shall play n larger role than here
toforc IN the activities OF his Legation
at Porkin.H The new minister's name
Is Won liaXthausen, who was born about
nifty years ago. in Laucnburg, and has
Tor the past year been employed in
the Department OF Foreign Affairs at
Berlin. lie has been IN turn Consul
IT Marseillcs, Narna. Cracovic. and Lem
berg. acting Minister and Consul-Gen-
eral in iinyti, then Consui- General in
Warsaw, and i'll Amsterdam. and, final
Is, acting Minister and Consult General
in Bolivia.
Princess Pauline Nicttcrnich. who in
spite of her seventytvc years is still
the most powerful figure of Viennese
| society. and The leader of all the re-
vcls for which that gay metropolis Is
so celebrated, was asked the other day
Tor an expression Of opinion OH what
is known US the harGm skirt She re-
piled. with a smile. 1T is not for tho
mating. in a very diplomatic manner,
| that the time for the jupc culotte had
not yet arrived. at the same time call
| ing attention 10 the fact that more
led The fashions. and was the dictator
of all feminine elegancics in Paris.
where she was Austrian ambassadors
from 1853 until the downfall of the
Napoleonic empire. eleven years after
wards. and where she may be said TO
have created Worth, and other famous
couturicrs. The views OF the princess.
who since she resumed her place in
NienncSe society or rather at It's head,
after the Franco German war, has
raised several million dollars for chart
table purposes. by means of the fctes
which she organized for The purpose.
OF the great world in the lSaIscrstadt,
and the harcm skirt is adjudgcd. not
merely. premature. but impossible. l
may add that Princess Pauline and her
friends were equally opposed to the
lobblc skirt. which In consequence
thereof never caught on at Vienna.
The imnendng investitnrc OF the
of Wales, at Carnarvon Castle. of
which Tho Chancellor of the Excheqner,
, Lloyd George, is the cons able. holding
his Office from tho sovereign, has
served TO revive the discussion concern
ing the proper means of honoring the
memory of The last sovereign Prince
of Wales nmely, Llcwcilyn. with some
| monument over the last resting place
OF his headless body. The head was
cut off. paradcd about London. and set
up with other heads, on spikes, n / tho
Tower of London. where IL presumably
shared their fate. that is 10 say, eX-
posed to wind and weather. IL was
eventually disintegrated and sea altered.
There were many legends and stories
regarding the locality of the sculpture
of the remainder of his body. Accord
ing to ancient tradition, 1t was en-
tombcd in stone coffin, in n wall of
Llnnrumncy Hall. a very ancient Welsh
manor hoiise, situated on one side of
! the Rumney Valley. where the his
torian. Edward Freeman spent many
years. In ancient times IL was the
habitation of settlement of monks
from ieynsham Abbey, and 1t has been
owned in turn by the Kemeyes. the
Morgans. the 1.ewises. and the VIII
IL the wall In which the body of
I4Icwellyn is asserted 10 repose. has
never been examined, 1t Is because II
would have boon virtually necessary
TO upset tho entire house BY tearing
down the whole wall. which Is hardly
worth. while. in order to Investigate
what is. at the hest, a local tradition.
For the locality, Of the real grave OF
Llcwellyn WIS definitely established
about n couple of years ago. by Ed :
ward B. Nicholson, the eminent libra
rian OF tho world famed Bodlefan Ii
brary at Oxford by means of the de-
4 ciphorinr OF an ancient inscription that