The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-18
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MADAME" PURCHASED
BY CHARLES HANBURY

get. but which did not survive very
long. She is sister of NEPTUNE
Blood, whose name is tolerably fami-
liar at Baltimore. through his marri-
age 10 Mrs William Yates Pcrot.
whom he had previously helped to alb
duct her little girl across the Atlantic.
and is descended like hin, from thar
colonel Blood who IN Charles lis
reign attempted to steal the crown
and the crown Jewels from the Tower
oil London Her matrimonial differ
ences with the late Lord Colin Camp
bell, aired In the, Divorce Court, con-
stiiuted one of the most shocking
causes celebres OF the Victorian era.
The Earl Winterton, who occupies n
seat In the House OF Commons. his
peerage being an Irish one. owned and
edited the London World" for a cou.
pie OF years. but sold II again last
spring Then there was Lady Sykes
wife of Sir Tatton Sykes. and daught.
or or the late George Cavendish Ben
thick who was one OF the pillars OF
the Tory party. and 4 grandson OF the
third Duke OF Portland. Lady Sykes
was for a time the owner. publisher
and editor OF a London society Jour
nal which for It's boldness OF speech
discussion OF life In Mayfair. and for
Its general raciness, was without
parallel Naturally II was brought to
an untimely end BY a whole rain of
libel suits
remember her review OF the late
Mrs. Craigie's (John oliver Hobbes)
The Wisdom of the Wise" Lady
Sykes insisted in print that Mrs.
Craigie did not understand English
society. and least of all that section
currently known as smart. II she
had associated much with such per-
sons Mrs. Craigie would have dis
covered that an epigram is to them
thing practically unknown, that every
one Is occupied with his or her gam
bling or love affairs intrigues and am
billions" The duke and duchess OF
MIS- Craigie's conceiving are denounc-
ed by Lady sykes as absolutely
ridiculous creatures. who have no pro-
totype In real me-" and Did any one
ever hear OF gentleman being an
nounced in his own house. TO his own
wife and to her guest, by one much
less two. footmen?"
The only society paper founded and
run by man who belonged TO the ar
istocracy. and who consequently knew
what he was talking about. and could
De relied upon TO be guilty of none OF
those ridiculous soiecisms which
characterize the pages of the ordinary
London society weekly journals, that
are written either in Fleet Street or
In the cheap suburbs. such as Clap
nam, brlHtOn, Nadia Vale, etc, is
Henry Laboucheres Truth" which
has not only brought fortune to its
thirty-fve years or more and which
has not only brought fortune to it's
owner and editor, but likewise still
remains splendidly paying concern.
For Henry Labouchere. in spite OF
his political Radicalism. is a nephew
OF that Lord Taunton who. married to
Miss Barring, was ministerial coll
league of Earl Russell and of Lord
Palmerston Henry Labouchere is the
son of Lord Taunton's younger broth
er. John Labouchere, member of the
banking firm of Will
liams, Deacon & Company
The Laboucheres are an old house
OF the Huguenot nobility, which emf
grated from France to Holland at the
time of the repeal of the Edict of
Nantes, and which moved from Hol-
land to England when the first En-
peror Napoleon overran the Neither
lands.
Copyright, 1911, by the Brentwood
Company