The Washington herald., 1912-08-31

Wentworth woodhouse, where KIM
George and Queen Mary of England
recently stopped during THAR York
shire trip. has been famed long for III
fne hospitality. 1t 10 Of interest te
Tread what the steward jof the castle
had to say about It In 173s, when his
diary contains tho following entry:
My lord Is to have a great dinner
for all his tenants. and some other OF
his loveing gentlemen. that 10, parsons
and dokters. ana pothecarys, ana none
is to be admitted but what has tickitts
l am told they have killed IS Does
Barons and Spondones. His lordship
has got man to make him three Hun
derd duzon of wooden trenchers; he
finds him wood. and the man makes
them. and when the day Is over he Is
to have them all for his laboure. His
lordship has taken great. deal OF
pains to make a nice calculation how
they ar to sit and dine. for II is thought
there will be about Hunderd men
that day-and great piece Of folly.
say"
Blenheim Palace was built out Of the
FIRST grant ever voted by Parliament in
return for public services But the
treasury proved SO slow In doIing out
the money for the building that Sir
John Vanbrugh tried to extract money
from the Duke of Marlborough to pay
the workmen when their wages fell
into arrears. But the willy Marlbor-
-ough was not to be bled. Aware that
IL he gave an order or suggested any
alterations he might be involved in
the expense of the building. he never
was TO be circumvented nor to be sur
prised into a spontaneous emotion Of
pleasure or disapprobation.
Lady Mary Catherine Ashburton, only
child of the Earl of that name. has en-
tered the Convent of the Sacred Heart
at Roehampton, England, and is to be-
come a nun.
Lady Mary is only twenty-one years
of age. and, moreover. is greatly ad-
mired in society Two years ago she was
presented at court. She is an accom-
plished horsewoman and very popular in
the hunting field. She Is the heiress to
her fathers vast estates in Sussex,
Northampton, Breconshire. and Carina-
thenshire; very rich, and is distributing
her wealth with unstinted generosity.
Lord Ashburnham. who is a Catholic,
is said to have been a stanch supporter
of the Cariist cause in Spain. He is a
knight Grand Cross of the Sovereign
Order of Malta and of the Pontifical
Order Of Plus. He entertained Don
Jaime de Bourbon at Ashburnham Park,
in Sussex, few years ago.
BY the death OF the Dowager Countess
of Shrewsbury, the mother of the pres
ent Earl and widow of the nineteenth
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, whom
she married in 1855. the London poor
lose a stanch and sympathetic friend.
f.Ntr h. n ~ G,ra liav,
rendered to the countess their official
thanks on her completion of thirty years
service among the poor Of South London,
whom she visited constantly in their
homes or at the workhouse. In her
memoirs she asSerts that thirty years
ago any woman who came forward to
help her fellow creatures was consid-
cred self-assertive and unwomanly.
Then came, the great change. Partly.
perhaps, Dickens was the inspiring spirit;
partly Charles Kingsley; but the great
event that proved forever the necessity
of woman's work in helping the suffering
was the sending of Florence Nightingale
TO the Crimea. There We're people who
thought It almost disgraceful But the
earl. her father. believed in IL all through.
and had her brought up from the first
in an atmosphere OF broad-minded SYM
pathy. Her husband himself. when he
was young guardsman, was a pioneer
In the housing If the poor, and built some
dwellings for artisans in the Strand. As
regards the Lambeth Board Of Guardians.
the difference is that whereas women used
to have to ask to be allowed to help and
visit their poorer sisters. they are now
invited and even thanked.
King Nicholas of Montenegro. ruler of
the most recent and the smallest kingdom
in Europe, loves money too well, despite
his primitive, even patriarchal ways. His
ministers complain that he is SO
stingy that he declined going to
to the unveiling ceremonies
Of the anti Napoleonic centennial
in the Kremlin and on
the battlefield of Brodin because the
Car had not given him all the money
he had recently asked for. He gets $780,
300 a year from Russia and 100000 from
Austria. And yet his ministers never
know what he does with the money. for
he cannot be induced to render an ac-
count. He certainly does not spend II.
When his beautiful Helen married
Ttaly's King sixteen years ago Nicholas
bought a silk hat. which he wore until
this summer, bringing 1t out on his many