The Washington herald., 1912-06-24
SIDELIGHTS IN LIFE OF FAMOUS
MEMBERSsOF ENGLAND'S NOBILITY

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eules." And he finished we'll: AT the
stand. Caravan was decidedly the best:
but Just at the post Edwards, on Phos-
phOrus. lifts the gallant little horse, and,
with an extraordinary effort, contTives
to shove him in by half a length" All
well IN the picture! But not Disraelfs!
As Sir II. W. Lucy pointed out. and f.
lustrated with deadly parallels in Six
ty Years In the Wilderness" the novelist
had lifted" the description almost word
for word from the Sporting Magazine"
The Derby has had no more ardent
devotee than Lord PalmerstOn. For half
century, year after year, the popular
statesman gallOped on to the Downs on
Derby Day. Nothing would induce him
TO travel by train, and it was only on
his last journey, in 1855. that, much 10
his disgust, ne was compelled to exchange
the saddle for a coach.
As he saw the French horse, Gladia-
teur. forge ahead, he whispered to
friend: IF the foreigner wins, I shall
not live through the year" Count La
oranges horse won. and less than four
months later Lord Palmerston was dead.
The Duchess OF Sutherland Is the latest
disciple Of the simple life" Presiding
at the conference Of the Association OF
Teachers Of Domestic Subjects at the
to the unrest in the Industrial world. She
said that this was a most difficult age
| in which to live !. Everybody seemed TO
be wanting something he has not got
one a cottage, another a castle.
The duchess recalled the wonderful
lie Of the sixteenth century. when
girl knew Latin and Greek, could make
potions. weave. spin, and embrOider in
fashion that had never been eQualled.
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gave her notions Of health and beauty
that only IN quite recent times had been
inquired into.
In the later part OF the Victorian era
| thsre had been strange talk about do
mestic science. They passed through a
/ time Of educational fOolishness in those
! days, and there had been a legacy OF
| III-fed, M-deveIoped families and disap-
| pointed spinsters and others left to tell
Of those times Of Incompetence and ig-
nOranCe.
Her grace suggested that instead Of
experimenting the present lessons with
excursions from French to mathematics
and mathematics to French, lessons in
| domestic service might be substituted.
and might prove a valuable cure for the
| restlessness Of the age.
Lord wolseley, who recently celebrated
/ o
has met with many curious experiences
during his long career, but none more
comical than a little passage of arms
with Cetewayo. after the Zulu chief had
been sent into exile. Cetewayo had
wives by the hundred. but Lord WOlseley
set most OF them At liberty, permitting
! the chief to take with him only three.
Again and again Cetewayo pleaded for
| more, but in vain. When Lord Wolse-
| ley's departure for England was an
| nOunCed the chief sent a last despair
| ing message to him. asking that II the
general would allow him no more wives
he would at least permit him TO eT-
change those he had for three others.
Somebody has proposed that the fine
EQUESTRIAN statue of Charles the First
should be removed In order to make
more room at Charing Cross. II Is a
| sad fact and does not speak very we'll
| for the British patriots that their royal
monuments have suffered much in this
way. The fine old ehigy Of James H.
| after more than two centuries at White
hall. was carried on in 1902 to Hampton
/ Court and later brought back to the
! city to adorn the tfadesmen's entrance
at the Admiralty. Charles II was dis
missed from the central place OF dignity
/ to an obscure corner in the royal eN-
change. Another statue Of the merry
monarch was sent OF with almost Philis-
| tine zeal from Soho Square to Harrow
and a third statue OF the same King
was torn down in the demolition OF the
Blue Coat School and ObIiterated in the
| debris. Worse than that. the man who
| rescued Queen EliZabeth's monument
| from the ruins Of old Ludgate and had
! It placed at st. Dunstan's Fleet Street.
was called a fool for his pains CSic
| transit gloria mundi) FLANEUR.