Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07


upon it, 1 seem to feel re golden dollars!''
WHEN Lady Selwell's nephew married an American
w girl, the daughter of an officer in the American
army the match considered very brilliant for
the young lady, as her husband young, handsome
and attractive Baronet They lived happily at first,
and had daughter and then twin boys, three spen
did children. Everything going very satisfactorily
with them, when the demon Jealousy crept into their
home life and by degrees drove love from the reside
and brought misery and Distraction ending divorce
But the aunt one day said to
al don't regret the marriage, because it was good
thing to mix little plebean blood with our patrcian
blood, and it will be great advantage the descend
ants of our old, historical family
THERE are great many people who seek the secret
of giving a successful dinner Let us hope how
ever, that they find it in other way than that
which recall hearing from friend who was my host
at a dinner attended in New York last winter. He
noted for his successful dinners Having little talk
with my host after the ladies had left said to him:
"What is the secret of your great in giving
such remarkably satisfactory dinnersl"
And remember his answering me with such kind,
gentle SMILE if his heart filled with love and
sympathy for all humanity. In low voice he said to
me, "Mr Martin to give successful dinner you must
have heart of ice.
WE all familiar with the ludicrous snobbery
among English servants that existed in the time
of MIR. Pckwick. Not SO many of us, however, APP
preclate what snObbery exists today in the realms of
the Servants Hall | was once visiting Baron Ferdi-
nand de Rothschild, when my valet came to and
asked II he could go to London by the morning train
and get back in the afternoon.
said to him, @Why do you want to go?"
He replied, 4Oh sir only stopping here few
days, did not put in my evening suit and last night,
you being foreigner found myself ranked above all
the Others and had to take precedence of those who
travelling with Dukes, Earls and Viscounts
outranked them ALL and took in the housekeeper to
dinner. And my modification was great when noticed
thai everyone of the around the table in
ing Clothes and alone in my ordinary black suit.
By the way sir he continued perhaps you, being
American, don't know that in the Servants Hall the
Wallets and maids always called after their masters
and mistresses names They don't call them Lady So
and So but simply by the last Thus Earl Cork's
servant would be called Cork And in the Servants
Hall they seated at the housekeepers table in ex-
acy the same grade and rank that observed by their
masters and mistresses up stairs
THE Archbishop of York once told me the following
story. His wife sister of the great Lord
Darlington and one day the Archbishop and Lord Bar
rngton walking down Portland Place, talking to-
gcther when they suddenly upon two little chill
dren. Lord Darlington stopped and said:
4What fine children these are! Remarkably fine
childIen Nurse whose children are they2'
My Lord, they re yOurs!" exclaimed the nurse, and
moved on, showing strong evidence of rage.
Lord Darlington turned to the Archbishop and said,
allow wrong of me to be vague! really should see
more OF my own children, SO that | might know them
in the street."
But when the nurse arrived home she met Lady Bar
ringon on the steps and she said, "Oh my Lady I've
had such blow this little while ago. meeting his Lord
ship, who didn't know his own children, when l had
just that minute before said to the of Mrs Green
howe's children, Here comes the great Lord Barring
ton who is proud of his children!' And when his
Lordshp arrived and stopped us, and said, Nurse,
whose children they? | was so overcome with dis
appointment that thought should lack the power of
saying They your Lordships.' Oh, my Lady, if
you could have heard Mrs. Greenhouses nurse chuck
ling she turned up her street and left me with my
little brood to wander on home!'
IN America, too snobbsm is strong in the servants
world as 1T IS in the world of society.
friend of mine living on 63d-st, the fashionable
quarter just off Fifth-ave., told amusing story
which shows how often the are even more sno
Dish than their masters and mistresses The window