The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-26
LONDON SOCIETY
By THE LADY MARY MANwARING


berry leaves. II ever there has been
a love match between an American
millionairess and British peer II was
the marriage of Miss May Ogden Goelet
and the Duke of Roxburghe. They have !
remained devoted 10 each other. The |
Dukedom is over ". o hundred years old I
and the barony three hundred.
THE heroine of seventeen is a ro-
nance of the past" says Miss Constance !
L. Maynard, dean OF England's women |
educators IN the higher walks of ped
agogy. After a tenure of office lasting |
thirty-one years, Miss Maynard is retir- |
ing at the end of the coming summer
term from the direction of Westheld |
college Of the University of London
Her educational experience covers the
whole period since the movement for
the higher education of women began. /
We'll | remember she told me. my
first days at Girton, when the higher |
education of girls was considered a
great joke.
eve were called blue stockings The !
Idea of a clever girl being able to talk :
of anything but book knowledge or of +
her being Il Jolly girl was not enter
tained for one moment. That prejudice !
passed with the years
but the life Of the average girls of
forty years ago was a vacuous affair
tunlty of mental Improvement. Her life
was unoubtedly duh in many respects
Marriage, of course was her ultimate
aim in life. often there came a time
when through unseen circumstances,
the girls home was broken up, and
she had suddenly 10 face the realities
of life. Innumerable cases of high
birth suffering direst poverty were the
result
"The advent of the higher education
changed all this. Instead of education
, ending at eighteen many girls at this
age are only beginning to ft themselves
for spending a really useful life. And
do not consider that this should inter-
fere with girls chance of marriage.
The heroine of seventeen is romance
OF the past.
IF girl marrics the fact that she
has mastered many subjects the very
names of which were unknown to ne
girls of forty years ago is an asset, for
she has a more serious outlook on life
and her responsibilities.
Mrs Asquith has somewhat peculiar
views upon the upbringing or children,
and If, as Is probable, Miss Elizabeth
Asquith makes her formal debut this
coming season she will be no stranger
to the world for size has accompanied
her mother to all sorts of places and all
kinds of functions ever since she could
toddle. She has been seen at dress re-
hearsals in the theatre and at drawing
room meetings; she has listened TO the
platitudes and PHILOSOPHERS of the bril-
liant company her mother affects, and
absorbed wisdom of the oldest and
worldliest type. She Is not pretty, but
has a rather remark able face. and hair
almost as difficult to keep within
bounds as that of her smaller brother,
who has also seen much more of the
xYfff mo tor -
his age.
The Queen has issued a mandate that
| all trains to be worn at the future
courts, the first of which takes place in
February, are to be shorter by half
| yard than in the past. This will be re-
garded as boon by most ladies, who
| found 1t extremely difficult even after
| a lot of practice, to courtesy with grace
before the presence when they had
| some yards of dress material hanging
on to them
During the present year only two
peers come of age. the Earl of Lsburne
on February 8 and Lord Carberry on
| May 20. Several oldest sons and
heirs of peers, however, attain their
ma jorities, the most important of these
| being Lord Althorpe, Lord SpencerS
eldest son, who is 21 on May 23; Vincent
/
son on July II; and Niscount Olive,
Lord Powis' elder son, on December 2.
other peers heirs who come of age
during 1913 are the Hon. John Man
ners, Lord Manners elder son, on Jan
uary 6; the Hon. Robert Vernon, Lord
| Lyveden's son on February j the Hon.
| Hugh Cough, Niscount Coughs only
son on February %, and the Hon. Rich
ard Norton, only son of Lord Crantley.
| on April 2. On the 18th of that month
| the Earl of Wharncliffes elder son,
Viscount Carlton. will be 21; on the
| 26th the Hon Otway Plunkett Lord
| Louth's only son, Is that age; and 50
| is Lord Calthorpes only son, the Hon.
Frederick Somerset Calthorpe on May
l2T.
| Lord Auck1and's elder son, william
| Elden, attains his majority ON June -.
| On July Viscount Marshan the Earl
| of Romney's only son, comes of age,
as does the following day Lord Dunno,
the Earl of Moray's eldest son. On
| July IL the ION. William Westenra.
| Lord Rossmore's elder son comes OF
age; on October 10 the Hon William
Watson Armstrong, Lord Armstrong;
only son; on October IL Viscount San
don, the Earl of Harrowbys only son.
the Earl of Rosslyns heir Lord Lough-
borough, on November Is and Lord Car
lies. the Earl of Galloway's elder son.
on November 21.
Despit the recent raid of a fashiona-
BILE gaming house, the authorities are
well aware that baccaret for high
stakes Is being played in other sup
posedly private houses. Only last week
their attention was directed to the case
of the young son of wealthy manufac-
turer having lost $4,000 at one sitting.
1t is expected that the house in ques-
ton, nhich is run by an ex-officer. and
Ia. = .el.a febf 1at-
VIII be raided at an opportune moment.
IT Is stated that as a result of play
ing night after night the title role In
Saint Sebastian, the opera drama by
Signor D'AnnuZio. the pretty young
dancer, Ida Rubenstein, has become
deeply religious.