The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-12-05
Caters to Friends
That Were Fathers
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
London, November 29-King George
II not Queen Mary, is making an
especial point of being friendly with |
the late King Edwards friends. At
number of house parties, where
the names Of guests are first sub
mitted to his majesty, it has been /
noticed that in many of those who
figured prominently in court circles |
in the last reign are again to be
found At the shooting party given |
by Viscount Iveagh at Elveden for |
the king, for instance, Count Albert |
Mensdorff and the Marquis de Sow |
eral, who were two of King Edwards
closest friends, were among the |
guests. They have the reputation of
being two of the most entertaining |
men in society, and of course are
notable for perfectly fitting and up
to-date clothes. Sir Derek and Lady
Keppel, Sir Ernest Cassell and Leo
pold de Rothschild, the last two King
Edwards financial advisers, and al
close friends of the last court, also
were present The members of the
Guinness family, of which Lord
Iveagh is the head, are in favor with
: the present sovereign as they were
with the last.
I Norman BroOkes, the great Aus
tralian tennis player, who has not
appeared in frstclass tennis since
his defeat by James G.. Parke in the
last Davis cup competition in Aus
tralia, has decided to return and 49,"
play in the tournaments on the
Riviera this winter. If all goes well
with him he will make another at
, tempt to win the All-English cham
! pionship next year. This of course
means that Australia. with - -
of Mr.. Brookes, who is still consid-
cred one of the best, if not - best
| individual player in the world, is
going to make strong bid to take
{ the Davis cup away from America
I next year and give it another trip
! to the Antipodes. = the n'v'c"-
| Mr. Brookes will again have an op-
portunity of meeting his old com
petitor, Anthony f. Wilding. When
last here Mr.. BrOokes was considered
! the best player of the two. but Mr..
/ Wilding has improved SO much that
the struggle should be a very keen
one.
/ The Right Honorable James Bryce,
when he left the British embassy at
Washington, announced that he was
retiring from public life That may
have been true, but like many an;
other retired British statesman, he is
finding that he is buster in his re-
tirement than he was as an ambassa.
/ dor. Since his return from his
around-the-world trip Mr.. Bryce has
had not many days to himself. He
!. did for few weeks go into retire
ment at his modest country home,
"Hindleap". Forest Row, Sussex, but
this retirement was almost entirely
taken up in writing, for Mr.. Bryce
. is certain to give the public some
. thing about the countries he visited
| after leaving America, and perhaps
, book about America. His real
less be, as one writer has aptly put
, it, ito express the needs of the
: community upon the broader sides
of life" Since his return home Mr..
Bryce has delivered a number of
addresses on great variety of sub
jects. AS popular as he was in
: America as a speaker, he is likely
, to become quite as popular in his
own country. The former ambassa
: dor to America is not alone in this
, practice of devoting his talents to
l the enlightenment and services of his
country, after his retirement from
: active work Another of these is
Sir Edward Fry, who few days
: ago attained the age of eighty-six
1t is twenty-one years since Sir Ed
ward resigned his seat as lord jus
tice of the court OF appeal, and in
that time he has served in many use
! full capacities, not the least of which
has been as one Of England's rep
e resentatives in the peace conferences
at The Hague.
A number of suffragists, members
!. of the various political parties, have
made an arrangement which, if it car
:" be successfully carried out, will en-
sure a majority for women's suffrage
5 in the next parliament. They have
concentrated in the hope Of arrang
ing the organization of suffragists
!. electors in the constituencies befor,
: the general election. The idea is tina
= these electors should put "suffrag,
. first;" in other words, that the.
should inform the candidates tina
. their votes will be given in the In
= terest of women's suffrage. Lore
L Lytton and Pethick Lawrence ar
both in favor of the plan.
+ + i
While the duke OF Westministe
\ and his influential committee Of titlet
+ and distinguished men have beef
o raising something less than $50,00
4 for their halfmillion fund to trail
Il British athletes for the next Olympic
!. games at Berlin, the trade unionist
n of the country have, without an.
. great effort raised over quartz