The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
ENGLISH SOCIETY BARS CHICKEN PETS Dogs Are Admitted But Not
 Fighting Cocks REFORMING DANGERS Old Fashioned Dancers at Mrs. Vests "Shakespeare's England" May
 Replace Turkey Trot and
 Bunny Hug

I D|NCptA | Arlington, Lady Craven's son, now fast shooting up into fine, tall boy. has 1 just returned to Eton a sad, disconsolate youth, the reason being that despite all | his entreaties, the hard-hearted Eton au- thorities will not allow him to bring with | him his prize poultry, his latest rage" Some of the boys are allowed to have | their dogs with them, but cocks and hens were considered little too much, so Lord Arlington had to take a reluctant farewell of his feathered friends.
 It was his mother who inspired him with the idea of keeping prize poultry, an idea which has spread beyond the range of the Craven family, and has be- come quite the rage with many smart people. One day at q village show the countess saw two specimens of the old English fighting strain. now extremely hard to find anywhere, and was so struck by their beauty that. though she had to pay ridiculous price for them, she bought them on the spot. Since then she has had brought over from America some valuable American Wyandottes, and now the poultry yard at Coombe Abbey is a model of it's kind, and a great attraction
 
 Now the event of Lord Uffington's life, to which he looks forward more than anything else, is the poultry show which Lord and Lady Craven intend to run at Coombe Abbey every year. On this oc- casion he will act steward and de- vote himself with the greatest enthu- siasm to his duties during the day
 Lord Deerhurst. who is a connection of the Cravens, and who followed his kins- mans example by marrying an Ameri- can wife, was bitten by the same craze not long ago and is now the owner of the finest Dorkings in the country, and other interesting poultry fanciers are Lady Chesterfield, Lady Derby, who has some of the most costly birds in the world, and Lord Rosebery, who goes in for "Minorcas.' An old poultry fancier. who lives at Epson, near "Durwans" Lord Rosebery's place, was once heard to say of the ex-premier:
 Them Minorcas of his lordship will make his name famous in the world some day, I'm sure.'
 The entry of Lord Ivor Spencer Chur- chill, the second son of the Duchess of Marlborough into Eton. where he has gone this term as one of the new boys, points to the cheerful fact that the phy- sical delicacy, which hung about him for so long and caused his mother such anx- ety, has almost entirely disappeared. Of course, he will be carefully looked after for some time, and the duchess has stip- ulated that she is to be telegraphed cabled or Marconied for wherever she Is, if he should have a Dummy ache" but he is now strong enough to be able to learn and play with the other boys, an improvement which his mother hardly hoped for some years back.
 Lord Ivor has spent so much time with his mother that the duchess felt the part ing with him dreadfully, and she will visit him frequently during the first half as they call the terms at the public schools here. The prospect of driving up one day to see her son and meeting her husband bent on the same face with calmness, so they have ar- ranged to visit him on different days.
 Another interesting new boy at Eton this term is Lord Romilly. probably the most pathetic figure in the British peer age. for he has not a single immediate relative in the world. His father, per haps you will remember, died after an operation when the boy was only years old: his mother never recovered from the loss of her husband, to whom she was passonately devoted and died six months after. broken hearted Little Lord Rom lily has no aunt or uncle on his fathers side, and only one uncle on his mothers, Sir Philip Grey Egerton. whose wife, once May Cuyler, daughter of Major Guy Ter of the U. S. A. army divorced him and is now Mrs. Richard McCreery. Lord Romilly acted as one of King Georges pages at the coronation last year.