Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-20
TO TAKE PLACE IN JULY
Brilliant Pageant and Exhibition
Will Be Principal Features.
EARL RECEIVES A BAD JOLT
Seeking to Raise Money on Jewels,
he Finds Wife Got
Ahead of Him.

| LONDON, April 20.-The old city Of Ok
ford is already astir with elaborate prep
arations for the celebrations to take place
in July in commemoration OF the attain
ment of one thousand years Of recorded
history.
The celebration will be opened by a
| service in the cathedral, attended by the
municipal authorities, to be followed by
| a luncheon in the town hall. Later in the
day a procession will proceed through
the picturesque windings of the High
F., to New College gardens. where an ora
ton will be delivered, and thence, IL the
college authorities will permit, to
Worcester College gardens. to witness a
representation of certain episodes in Ok
ford's history. The pageant will be per-
formed three times.
| The episodes selected are as follows:
| ST. Frideswide and Agar.
| Ethefleda handing the city keys to her
| brother. King Edward the Elder.
Robert d'Oilli's marriage and the found
| ing OF the castle.
| Granting Of the charter by Henry II.
| Simon de Montford and the "provisionS
| OF Oxford
| The mayor Of Oxford at the coronation
| feast of Edward w.
| The trial of Archbishop Cranmer.
Authors to Contribute.
| The book Of the various scenes will be
undertaken by such distinguished authors
as Sir A. CUTLER Couch. Laurence Binyon
| and Laurence Housman, while the pro-
logue will be written by the president of
Magdalen College, who is also the pro-
fessor Of poetry.
/ In addition to the pageant, an exhibit
ton is to be held illustrative of the deeds
and manners of the citizens of Oxford.
This exhibition will remain open for sew
| eral weeks, and should prove OF the
greatest interest 1t is to cover long
era-from the neolithic age to the mid
die Of the nineteenth century-and the
exhibits will be OF diversified character,
including portraits, caricatures. views OF
the city at different periods maps, manu-
scripts. silver plate, etc.
| Within the next few weeks, the city
hopes to issue invitations to many dis
! tinguished guests.
| widow Of one Of the directors Of the tin
plate trust. now temporarily residing IN
England, has received something OF a
shock. She read that the Prince OF Wales
College. Oxford. and saw a chance Tor
possible social advancement. She there
fore gravely wrote letter to the secre-
tary'' Of the college, asking what his fees
were per term and II ANYTHING extra ra
twelve, to have room next to his royal
highness. Evidently she took the place
| for some sort of a private institution.
and the reply that her son was much too
young to be entered there. and that 1t
! was usual for an undergraduate to ma
| circulate before he went uD, caused her
| considerable astonishment. Report has 1t
| that she promptly bought dictionary In
| order to look up the word "matriculate. :
Surprise for the Earl.
There is a story circulating in the
clubs and drawing rooms at the moment
certain earl, finding himself desperately
short of money little while ago, be-
thought himself Of the family jewels
some of which were Of considerable
value. Upon some pretext or other he
got them from his countess and set out
to one of the best known firms Of jewel
ers in town, and gave instructions FOL
| them to be copied exactly in the best ar
1 tificial stones it was possible to obtain
insisting that the imitation should be sc
| exact that her ladyship would not detec,
| the substitution. The manager listened
| deferentially and when his lordship haC
finished almost took his breath away by
| informing him that the countess had Civ
| en- precisely similar instructions over two
l >
in his hands at the moment were the re
suits Of their workmanship, and that the
genuine articles reposed in their safes
/ at that moment as security for a sub
1 stantial sum they had advanced hel
ladyship upon them.
| During the recent coal strike great
many discoveries were made by London
newspaper men who left London to study
conditions sin the strike districts, and te
| whom any country more than fifty miles
| from ST. Pauls is terra nova. One went
to Wales and was shocked at the condi
! ton of the poor who are living in some
of the lovely valleys Of that principality
! If the misery had been caused by the
| strike and was thus only temporary
| nothing would have been said about it
| but 1t is permanent.
! In the beautiful valleys of Wales, neal
the town of Merthyr, which even the col
lieries and the tips cannot entirely dis
figure, poverty overcrowded into unin
an offense to whatever passes.
Dowlais. for instance. makes one ply.
sically i'll. 1t is not a town. but dis.
gushing and infectious disease. One
leaves Dowlais astonished. not so much
by what he has seen, but by the fac
that a civilized community, careful of its
future and its growing life. should not a
once cut it out, for 1t poisons the soca
organism to which 1t Is attached.
Finds Conditions Shocking.
The Welsh rebel is not argued into :
frame Of mind by Karl Marx: the base
Of his creed is not an economic theory
but an ethical one. He is a rebel fol
the same reason that some people are