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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-01

ing on in some part of the palace. great
ly to the disgust OF the host of servants.
King George, who spends more and
more Of his available time in the COM
pany of his mother and sister Queen
Maud of Norway. hardly ever invites
any personal friends to Windsor, as his
own and Queen Mary's tastes are so
radically different. Queen Mary's stand
ard is high. and as one might expect
from woman of her character, she de-
mands a great deal from the people she
permits to approach her, but she favors
negative virtues.
Lloyd George Kings Cronie.
1t is probably no exaggeration to say
that the most pleasant days in King
Georges rather dreary and monotonous
existence are the days in which Lloyd
George is in attendance. The presence
OF the Chancellor Of the Exchequer
whose ideas on most subjects are most
unconventional, not to say shocking, kind,
always act upon the King as a refresh
ing breeze and a close friendship has
sprung up between these two greatly
contrasting men. 1t goes without say
ing that the presence Of LLOYD George
which she cannot prevent, is not A
source OF pleasure to the Queen, but
still she cannot deny that to a certain
extent she is subject to the irresistible
charm of the chancellor's personality.
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LADY CONSTANCE
ON THE WARPATH
Author of Sensation in New York
to Shock London with
Classic" Dances.

London. Nov 3O-Lady Constance
Stewart Richardson. who created such
a sensation during her last visit to New
York, is once more on the warpath. She
will diyest herself of as much clothing
as possible and appear shortly at the
London Hippodrome in new series of
classical dances.
When she last appeared on the stage
in London it was at the Palace Theater.
and, OF course, she drew crowds, al
though the opinion was generally ex-
pressed that she could not dance, but
that she had a graceful figure. On that
occasion she stated publicly that she
was dancing in order to raise funds for
pet charity. a boys home, but up
to the present no such announcement
has been made in connection with the
Hippodrome performances.
Her relatives, the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland. implored willful Lady
Constance not to appear in public again
but evidently the temptation and salary
were too strong.
Lady Constance is a sister of the
Countess of Cromartie, a countess in her
own right. who is given to poetry and
is well received at court. The countess
is deeply shocked, as she is perfectly
aware of the attitude which Queen Mary
will take. Her majesty has not forgot
ten the famous occasion when Lady
Constance did a Salome dance before
King Edward, and wound up by asking
the late sovereign for Sir Ernest Cas-
sells head on a charger"
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DIAMOND SMILE"
LONDON'S LATEST
Fashionable Women Wear Gems in
Teeth and Embroidered Devils
and Fleas on Stockings.
ial Cable to The Washington Heah

Special Cable TO Ths Washington Heah
London. Nov. 30-The vagaries of fash
lion know no limit among the feminine
half OF society.
No woman is suitably equipped now for
any big function unless she has contorted
her face into what Is known as the ''tri-
angular smile" This expression is con-
sidered absolutely essential when wear
ing draped gowns, Victorian fashions.
and fichus, which are the rage OF the
moment.
The triangular smile is supposed to
represent simplicity and innocence. II is
formed by lifting the center part Of the
top lip to form the apex OF the triangle.
the lower lip then representing the base.
The upper teeth are thereby revealed,
and some women are wearing tiny rose
bud diamonds in their teeth, arranged so
as to form a dazzling smile.
To facilitate speedy perfection Of the
smile some women are trying to tilt their
noses by wearing under the nostrils
, band which Is fastened to the top OF the
head. thus drawing up the nose and top
lip. To accentuate the effect, the upper
| lip is painted a deeper red in the middle
than the rest of the lips.
woman's model for next month Is to be
Mephistopheles. Her hair will be adorn
ed with the long curved feather Of the
cap of Mephisto. The feathers are made
OF the osprey or bird OF paradise, curved
at the end in the approved Santanic style,
and will measure anything up to two feet
| in length.
There is also a great demand for silk
stockings embroidered with little scarlet
devils. scarlet Dummies. skeleton faces,
and fieas and. being hand embroidered,
this hosiery easily fetches SO pair.
! As for the society dudes attempt TO re-
vive the fashion of side-whiskers, it has
required only a few weeks to show that
this style Is as dead as the dodo. The
American fashion of a clean-shaven face
is now almost the general rule. and there
is not the slightest possibility of its being
superseded by the fads Of the feeble few.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-01
.TELEPATHY FOR
ENGLISH PREMIER
Fifty Sufragettes Form Club to
Exert Mental Influence
on Asquith.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
London, Nov. 3O.-Life has one more
terror for Premier Asquith. Fifty suf-
fragettes have formed 4 guild called the
woman's Silent Cooperation for Free
dom. and pledged themselves TO concen-
trate their thoughts on the Prime Min
lister every day at noon for half an hour.
so his stubborn will may be broken down
by telepathy. 1t is suggested that Mr.
Asquith meet the attack by reviving the
statutes against witchcraft.
The number OF new suffragette socie-
ties in London is now becoming bewtl
dering. and certainly suggests extraor-
binary variance of opinion as 10 how
votes for women are 10 be won. The in
auguration OF two new societies, one
Jewish and the other the Votes for
Women Fellowship" is this week fol-
lowed by the announcement OF quite n
crop of new organizations. The Women
Teachers Franchise Union has just been
formed, while Mrs Cavendish Bentinck
is appealing to women TO Join her "Qui
Vive Corps" which Is 10 have detaCh-
ments all over the United Kingdom and
Is to consist of members OF all other
suffragetts organizations.
Next week a new suffrage club will
be opened in the st. James Street dis
trict, a short distance from the suffrage
club in Grafton Street.
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GIVES IMITATION
OF A REAL HOST
Tarn McGrew Goes to Sanatorium
After Entertaining Wedding
Party for Week

Paris, Nov. 3o-Tarn McGrew, Of the
France-American Bank, Place Vendome
and Honolulu, has demonstrated that he
is the most accomplished host in Paris
by reason of his having entertained six
most unsophistIcated people from Lyons.
McGrew recently inherited a handsome
fortune and somwhat previously a les
ser one from his wife. formerly Mrs
Scott Grant, sister-in-Iaw OF the Countess
Of Essex. Business took him TO Lyons,
where he was greatly delighted with the
accomplishments of his cab driver. The
latter, growing confidential, cOnhded to
McGrew that he was about to marry.
VERY we'll" said the American, bring
your fiancee and friends up TO Paris"
They came-the cab driver in a glazed
hat; his fiancee who was pretty cham
bermaId: a garbage collector and his
wife, who runs a hennery; a restaurant
waiter. and a young dressmaker. Mr..
McCirew hired family automobile and
all got into II. Now you are my guests.
he said, and they were. He showed them
all the sights, the music halls. he dined
and wifCd them. A week passed and the
cab driver and his fiancee were not mar
ried Finally. Mr.. MCGrew succeeded in
suspending the festivities until they went
to the Mayors Office and the happy pair
were safely married. McGrew is now in
q sanatorium recuperating.
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p.a.I Dab. to me w.shinstOu Hsr.ld.

SPECIAL Gable to The Washington Herald.
Pekin, Nov. S0-In spite of the pessi-
mlsts who predicted all sorts of rioting
and bloodshed, the celebration of the
first anniversary Of the revolution has
passed OF with perfect quietness.
The President reviewed some $1,000
troops in Pekin. Some of the regiments
were rather in trouble with the goose
step, but the majority marched splendid
ly, and. in their new European uni
forms, looked very smart
Standing on a red dais, President Yuan
Shih Kai received the salute. His feet
were planted solidly apart, and he, IN
deed, had the appearance OF a man OF
force and strength.
Afterward there was reception, to
which many foreigners were invited and
here were to be seen many evidences
OF Westernized China. Men wore all
sorts OF European garments in conjunc-
ton with Chinese silken robes
The most popular. perhaps, was black
bowler hat with colored silk jacket and
skirt. One was wearing an opera hat,
blue silk jacket, red skirt, and brown
boots Others attempted ''complete~out-
fits of Western clothes, but there were
many slips such as frock cost. evening
dress waistcoat, and brown boots.
Cheers for President.
At the end of the reception the Presi-
dent was walking among the guests,
when suddenly there was a great burst
of spontaneous cheering, which was
taken up by all the nationalities present
The British and American Hip! Hip!
HurrahT' was noticeable. and so was
the "BanzaiI" OF the japanese. Yuan
Shin Kai was delighted at this unexpect-
ed evidence CO his growing popularity.
The legations have been asked to keep
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peciaI Cable to The Washington Hs.A.

Special Cable to The wGshingtcn Hezd-
London, Nov. 2o.-Londoners have al
ways felt rather disgusted whenever told
by American visitors how far their no.
tells were behind those of the United
States in regard to comfort and elegance,
and the fact that this city now pos
sesses a couple Of first-class American
lied hotels which are managed in a fash
ion to suit Americans, and which have
copied American hotels In all details. has
not improved matters much. 1t is there
fore not surprising to hear that set
OF ambitious Londoners are thinking of
building a hotel which is to be unique,
but from which Americans are TO be
practically excluded.
London is to have a Hotel des
Princes" a hotel intended to cater only
for kings and princes Of royal blood.
Writing OF this delightful scheme. an
enthusiastic London paper, which by the
way is owned by a self-eXpatriated
American, writes:
The clientele of such hotel would
be mainly monarchical. Not absolutely
and exclusively so Of course. But every
guest in such a hotel who was not a
monarch would be either the next thing
to one. or so connected by princely or
nobility status with one that his pres
ence in a coffee-room OF kings would be
quite that OF professional associate.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-01
BREAD RIOTS MAY
AFFECTGIRLS' HOME
Mrs. Whitney Hoff's Charity 0rgani-
cation in Paris Is
Economizing.
Special Gable to The Washington Herald.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
Paris Nov 3O-A bread riot has dis
turbed the even tenor of Mrs. Whitney
Hoff's Young Woman's Christian AssOci-
alton in Paris. Mrs. Hon, who is a
daughter OF the late Commodore Whitney.
Of Detroit, and the wife Of John Jacob
Hon, Paris representative of the Stand
ard Oil Company, is noted for her phi
bankruptcies. Commodore Whitney put
a proviso in his will that Mrs. Hoff was
to expend a certain sum annually upon
philanthropic work, and her goodness Of
heart carried her beyond the stipulated
amount;
Among her favorite philanthropies are
a students hostel, in the Boulevard St
Michel, and the British and American
Young Women's Christian Association,
in Montmartre. Between the hostel, the
patron saint of which is Mrs. Hoff, and
the American Girls Club, the patron
saint Of which is Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,
there Is a friendly rivalry. Tea-drink-
ing competitions between them are most
intS esting but the hostel carried of
the Nonors last year. Mrs. Hon gave
an order that unlimited tea should be
served, and the result was that the hos
tel became the greatest tea-tippling
place in the world.
The Young Women's Christian Associ-
alton. at Mortmartre, is the same under
whose auspices Miss Anne Morgan, OF
New York, preached when she under
took to convert the inha bitants of Mont
martre, and to that end sacrificed her
artistic receptions at Versailles.
The bread riots trace their geneses
primarily to the high cost of living. and
secondarily to the new manageress.
Bread has become very dear in Paris.
In the past the girls were given all the
bread they pleased without additional
cost, but the new management serves
bread sparingly. and If more be ordered
it must be paid for. Hence the revolt
and riot.
There is danger that the riots may
spread to the hostel, and if they do,
then the students of the Latin Quarter
will organize sympathetic demonstra-
tions. Hope is entertained that when
Mrs Hof arrives from her chateau, on
the banks of the Loire, she may be able
to pour oil on the troubled waters.
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Londoners Plan Hotel
Exclusively for Royalty
Criticism by Americans of English Hostelries So
Disgusts Britons They Propose to Erect
Structure with MonarchiaI Clientele.

Members of the monarchicaI profession
would be thus assured OF perfect free
dom from the nonprofessional element
And this idea Is prevalent enough TO
have suggested a London Hotel des
Princes'-an institution. that Is to say.
which no other capital yet possesses.
Built Around Club.
The Hotel des Princes would be
built, so to speak, about q club. The
club would be composed exclusively OF
the personages already indicated, and
only members Of this club would have
right OF using the hotel. There might.
the originator OF the idea Is fam TO ad-
init, have to be a restaurant. to which
outsiders would be granted admission. at
tached to, but kept distinct from, the
hotel proper. Dividends have to be con-
sidered. and even the profits which royal
personages are accustomed 10 yield
might need enhancement from the pub
lie which such a restaurant would be
certain to attract. Inside his hotel. how
ever, the monarch would foregather only
with his own kind. Both the club and
the hotel would necessarily be nonpoli-
teal Monarchs retired. fOrcibiy or
otherwise, from business, might hob-nob
in amity with their successor. and here
would be an institution that might serve
other useful purposes besides those OF
entertainment
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MATRIMONIAL BONDS MAY
MORE CLOSELY CEMENT
STATES OF BALKAN UNION
,cisI Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Bucharest, Nov. 3O.-The hand of the
lovely girl who may be empress Of the
Balkan empire is pledged. The engage
ment of Princess Elizabein, eldest daugh-
ter of Prince Ferdinand, heir apparent
of ROumania, to Crown Prince Boris of
Bulgaria is announced officially.
Prince Boris has distinguished himself
in the forefront of the battling against
the Turks. II the cherished purpose, the
ambition for which the allies are strug-
Cling, be accomplished, Princess Eliza
beth will. in due time, be seated as
czarina on, the throne Of the united
Balkan empire.
Princess Elizabeth has a bright dispo-
sition. is always in the open air. and is
devoted to athletic sports. Her father is
nephew and heir apparent of King
Charles of Roumania. Princess Eliza
beth's mother, Princess Marie, is the
daughter of Prince Alfred. Duke of Edin-
burgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and of
his wife, Grand Duchess Marie, of Rus
STA. The charming princess, who has
promised her hand and heart, is the
great-granddaughter o. Queen Victoria.
So the defendant of the sovereign
Empress Of India, as DisraelI, Lord
Beaconsfield, made her, may be herself
an empress.
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Chinese Anniversary
Celebration a Success
Rioting and Disorder, Predicted by Pessimists,
Fails to Materiaize-Signs of West
ern Ideas All About.

their soldiers of the streets during the
celebration, in case the excitement
should give rise to any anti-foreign feel
ing.
There are about $500 foreign soldiers
and sailors in Pel1in, and the legation
quarter is so fortified that a repetition of
the trouble in 1900 is practically impos-
sible.
A strong loopholed wall has been built
completely inclosing the legations, with
iron gates, which can be closed across
the roads.
Outside this is a clear space OF ground
all around. upon which nothing may be
built. Thus an attack by a mob could
be easily repulsed, unless they were
armed with big guns.
Many Queues Worn.
China has suggested to the powers that
the legation guards are no longer neees-
sary.
By no means have all the queues dis
appeared. At a rough estimate, only
10 or Is per cent have cut the pigtaiI.
In the south il is different; feeling in
the matter is much stronger there, and
practically all are cropped. There have
been many cases of soldiers seizing a
man and removing his queue by gentle
application of a bayonet.
In the Chinese city the celebrations are
taking many forms. There are platforms
from which patriotic speeches are being
made, and a free theater in which wom-
en- as well as men are acting. This is
sign of the times. Formerly women
never appeared on the stage.
In addition to the more usual enter.
tainments there is one show which is
attracting much attention. 1t Is a mu-
scum OF Heroes of the Revolution" In
It are blood-stained garments and other
belongings of dead revolutionaries.
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SHIP AND CREW
LOST In ARCTIC
Wealthy Walrus Hunter and Com
panions Drown When Boat
Strikes Submerged Reef.
C.bls to The vashinEtOn Henld.

SPECIAL Cable to The Washington Herald.
London, Nov. 30.-OffiCial information
has reached Dundes that the whaling
ketch Seduisaute had been lost in the
arctic regions, and that he owner, o.
Forsyth Grant, OF Ecclesgrelg, Kincar-
d1neshire, and fourteen members OF the
crew have been drowned.
The party were wslrus hunting. and
during a gale the seduisante struck a
rock and Toundered. The Eskimo men,
bers Of the crew had previously left the
vessel.
The following account of the disaster.
which occurred OF Nottingham Island.
at the entrance to Hudson Strait, is sent
through the commissioners OF the Hud-
son Bay Company:
In gale on September a, 1911. Mr..
Grant, in the Scottish whaler Seduisante,
ran for Nottingham Island. and to his
surprise the ship struck rock when
quite near the shore. The boats were
lowered and no time was lost in trying
70 tighten the ship.
Later the natives were commanded to
go ashore for the night. The captain
and crew remained on board, thinking
that the ship would float of the rock
during the night. At midnight a storm
be gan to rage furiously, and the ship
began to leak. The natives went on
board and entreated Mr.. Grant and his
crew TO leave the vessel, but they re-
fused and Mr.. Grant said they would
stand by the ship till the morning.
Two Bodies Found.
There was one boat on board the ship
which the Eskimos believed was lower
ed during the night and was soon broken
- pieces. The natives tried to reach
the ship at daybreak. but the storm was
TOO great. In the morning they saw
the crew making signals for help, but
no help could be given.
Later the wind was followed by a
thick snowstorm, and both ship and crew
disappeared from sight. After the storm
was over the natives began to look for
the bodies, but only two could be found
the captain and the enginer-and these
were buried at Nottingham Island, where
the natives remained for the winter.
Fifteen lives have thus been LOST"
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HAD STEADY EMPLOYMENT.
Laborer Dies After wOrking for
Family sevenfy-eiEht Years.

ramily seNeuhy~ehkht
Special cabls to Ths Warrington Hsnh
London. Nov. IA laborer, Daniel
3umbrell. who died at Redhill at the
age Of eighty-seyen worked for the same
family for seventy-elght years.
He entered the service Of James TroW-
er in the reign OF william ", and was
In the employ of Mr. Trower's grand
sons a few months ago, when falling
health compelled him to cease work
For fifty years he never had vaca-
ton, except a half day when he was
married. He had twelve children, and
leaves about I20 descendants.
GrumbelI was an interesting character.
He was illiterate. but he had wonder
full memory, and could describe with
minute detail events that happened sew
enty years ago.
He remembered. when a boy, attending
the local festivities In honor Of Queen
Victoria's coronation. He was one OF
the old folk to whom a dinner was
given at the time Of King Georges
coronation.
In 1906 King Edward sent a message to
Gumbren's employers expressing the
opinion that it was very credible, both
to Gumbreli and themselves. that the
man should have remained SO long in one
service.
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ANOTHER WEST CONCERT.
London Society Leader to Play In
Public as Income Getter.

London. Nov. 3O-Mrs. George Corn
wallis West had such enormous success
with her new idea for concerts that she
decided to repeat the experiment next
week.
Mrs. West. beautifully gowned. appears
on the platform and plays the harp
sichord. After some solos several young
dancers enter and perform a number Of
ancient dances. The next concert takes
place at Polian Hall, and the music for
the dancers will be arranged by Miss
Nellie Chaplin. Mrs. West is the most
musical American in London, and is a
really accomplished pianiste. who does
not object to using her talent in order to
increase her none-too-larEe income.
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TAKES UP POET.
Mrs. G. u. Newton Helps RoumRnIan
to Fame.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
Paris, Nov. 3O.-The fame, il not the
fortune, OF a young Roumanian poet
named Wassy Stockovitch. is now being
made by Mrs. George B. Newton. Mrs.
Newton, the widow of a Philadelphia
coal baron" is known as a leader in
Paris of the revival of youthful cos
tunes and as playing the role of Queen
Mary Antoinette in her youth. This role
she makes most realistic, not merely by
dressing did the Queen in her youth,
when the latter played at being a dairy
maid at Versailles, but also by sitting
on throne.
Mrs. Newton has now branched out
at a patroness of poetry. In this capa-
city she threw open her spacious salon
in the Avenue Kleber to the young Rou-
manian, who recites IN Alexandrine
verse, poems of his native land. She
is even said to be studying the Rou-
manian language so as to appreciate
better the beauties of the poetic produc-
tons of Stockovitch. She finds that the
Roumanian, which is almost Latin, lends
itself to the most stately verse.
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OPERATES ON HIMSELF.
English Physician Performs Re.
mnrIxabIe Feat-FeeIs No Pain,

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
London, Nov. 30.-One of the most re-
markable instances recorded of a medi-
cal man operating upon himself is re-
lated in the British Medical Journal.
DR.. Regnault was suffering from an
Inguinal hernia, and decided to perform
the radical operation for rupture on him.
self. He injected half a centigram OF
morphine into his left thigh, presuma-
hiy to deaden his left leg. He next used
lis hypodermlc syringe just over the
seat of the trouble, that is, the inguinal
region, and passed under the skin a
warm solution Of cocaine hydrochlorate.
He then performed the operation. Twice
lie found it necessary 10 give himself
further injections of cocaine. but from
beginning to end he felt no pain