The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
CUP|D'S WOUND NOT
Of LASTING NATURE
Many Engagements Broken
in England Recently
INCOME OF ENGLAND
Huge Sum Is Derived From Foreign
Mines, Gasworks, WaterwOrks
and Other Interests-The In
come Tax Helps
INCOME OF ENGLAND


London. November s.-During the last
few weeks the society columns of the
London papers have contained an ever
ircreasing number Of announcements OF
Broken marriage engagements.
Many explanations have peen put for
ward for this public admission OF dis
aareements between engaged couples. The
poet naturally explains 1t by reasoning
that spring is the time fore love-madnE
and fall for waning affections. and as
the autumn months come along the lovers
find that they are not suited to one an
other. others, however. blame the rem
mist movement which now has to stand
the brunt of SO many attacks.
Charles Garvice the novelist, advances
this reason: IT do not mean," he said
sthat all women and girls are suffragists,
or are even in sympathy with the move
luent, but It undoubtedly has led the girl
of today to take a broader view OF life
thar her mother did. The worldly mind
ed mother 80 years ago, whose daughter
was carefully guarded and secluded. had
little difficulty in persuading the girl
into a desirable marriage. Conditions
have changed since those days. and a
girl is now brave enough. If she finds
after having been engaged to man for
a few weeks that marriage would mean
future unhappiness, to break the engage
Enent.' a+.
To Reside at ROehamptOn
-Four duchesses, two of them American.
have taken UP their residence at Roe
hampton, a one-time very fasnionable
suburb OF London, and still considered
cne of the most desirable residential dis
tricts. As a result the town, or rather
the colony, which consists largely of big
comfortable Victorian houses, each sur
rounded by some Is acres or more Of
grounds, Is looking forward TO return
of it's social Importance. The duchesses
who are responsible for this expected
revival are their Graces of Marlborough
and Roxburgh, both Americans; the
Duchess of Westminster, who has left the
more stately residences of her husband
for a house In this district, and the re-
Gently widowed Milicent, Duchess OF
Sutherland.
There is no prettier place on the borders
of London than Roehampton. The near
est town is Putney, although as a mat
ter OF fact the whole district is part
of London. and at Roehampton one gets
the first glimpse of the real country. The
Roehampton club, which after Ranelagl'
and Hurlingham, is one of the fashionable
Courtry clups of England, is not far
away.
The Grand Duke Michael-Alexandro-
Witch the only brother of the Emperor OF
Russia, who aroused the displeasure Of
his roy al brother by his marriage to a
-Viennese woman not of royal parentage,
has taken up his residence In England,
thus adding another to the interesting
colony of exiles who have made this
country their home.
The grand duke has taken long lease
of Knebworth house. the ancestral seat
of Lord Lytton, near Hertford. and has
already moved in. This makes the second
Russian grand duke who because OF a
morganatic marriage has come to Eng
land to stay. The other, the Grand Duke
Michael Michaelovitch, first cousin once
removed from the Emperor, who mar
ried Countess Torby, has home at
Hampstead. His two daughters are al
nicst as English as their neighbors. and
his wife, still known as Countess Torby,
has for years taken prominent part In
the social life Of London and England
generally.
The Emperor's brother doubtless will
be just as welcome in English society.
Ills mother, the Dowager Empress Marie,
Is q sister of the Queen Mother of Eng
land, and despite the fact that his mar
riage did not please his family, it is not
likely to make any difference to his social
status In this country.
England's Foreign Income
Eng1and's s assessed income from abroad,
as set forth In the income tax statistics
of last year, reached the immense total
of $3.50. 100000, which represents capital of
nearly $4,000, 100000. These incomes are
lxq
waterworks, trainways, breweries, tea
and coffee plantations, nitrate grounds,
oil fields, land, financial, telegraph. cable.
shipping and insurance companies,
branches of banks and mercantile COM
panies. mortgages on property, loans and
deposits abroad and profits of all kinds
arising from business done abroad by
manufacturers, merchants and commits
sion agents. When it is realized how great
is the capital invested by Engishmen
abroad In these varied enterprises the i'm
mer Sc aggregate income, outside that In
cluded i'm the income tax statistics, can be
imagined.
According to the same statistics there
are IA persons in the United Kingdom
with an income of s275,0oO, which means
that there are that many persons pos
sessing a capital of about s6.0oo000 each.
But these are not the richest English
men. There are 66 with an income of
$oU0.Uu0 ana over, % Win an income OF
from $4,000 to $4,000, 81 with incomes of
ss25,0O0 to sS75,000. and Sc with incomes
from s275,000 to s325,0o0. Furthermore,
there are 4143 persons with incomes OF
$4,000 and over. which means the pos
session of capital of s1,00o.000 or more.
Consequently the total of persons in the
country who possess at least sl,0Oo,0Oo does
not fall short of ASH.
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