The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09

AMERICAN PEERS
MUST GIVE Up SEAT
OF CHOLMONDELEYS
Lord Rocksavage After
Marrying Heiress Able
TO Maintain II
SOCIETY is OFF
FOR THE RIVIERA
Duke OF Lemster May Come to the
u. S.-Winston Churchill Designs
His Wife's Hats-How As
-s' tors Kept Secret
BY LADY MARY.

London, November S,-(Speciai)-C
Lady Strafford, looks quite sad and de-
jected these days. Her grief is caused
by the fact that she has to give up
Houghton hail shortly. for Lord and Lady
Rocksavage want II as soon as ever they
can move in. Lady Strafford's lease
won'- be up for some time, but the young
pais have made such overtures that 1t
is quite on the cards that 1t will be hand
ed over to them after the manner Mr..
and Mrs. Coventry gave up Stoner Park
to Lord and Lady Camoys. The Chol-
mondeleys have not resided at Houghton
hall for ages. as they found 1t far too
expensive to keep up. The cost of Its
maintenance Is said to run into bigger
figures than that of almost any Other
house In England. Now that Lord Rock
savage has married Sybil Sassoon, one OF
the greatest of English heiresses, things
are simp1ified. Notwithstanding Rock"
capacity for enjoying himself he always
had an eye to the main chance, and
though this was a love match in its way
1t was a case of going where the money
was. r#.
Lady Strafford is one Of the few women
who now stick to the title derived from
regard Houghton Hall as her own and
has spent piles of money on It. King
Edward made point of shooting there
every year and the present King fol-
lowed the precedent. Some years ago
she had miniature skating rink built
and Mrs. George keppelix had nasty
accident there. cutting her forehead. A
specialist was. summoned and a special
train ordered to bring him along from
London. SO frightened was the company
that the beauty of one of the most pop
ular women in England might be marked.
Churchill Designs Wife's Hats
Busy as Winston Churchill has been
making naval suggestions to Germany,
and holding out an olive branch to u
ster. he has still been able to find time
to go with his wife to buy her hats IT
is one of his idiosyncrasies to think that
he knows more about smart millinery
than anybody else In the old days, he
lsed to make his mother wear hats to
his fancy; indeed, the story goes that one
year he sent her Christmas present of
whole box of chapeaux, which she
promptly returned to the shop for col
lection to her own liking. But Mrs. Win
'ton, who believes implicitly that he Is
the greatest man of this age or any other,
would wear sackcloth and ashes if he
wished. He has always had n hand in
her wardrobe since they were engaged
and he selected the bridesmaids head
scar. What very unexcitng hats they
we're, yet they stick in the memory with
their big pink camellias and bows Of
black MORE ribbon.
The first lord draws nearly as we'll as
he speaks and writes and he often says,
'aughingly. that were he not politician
We could be a fashion artist When an
'dea strikes him for hat for his wife
he jots it down Immediately. Fortunate
ly. she Is a lovely woman and can wear
anything. He cannot bear Mrs. Churchill
to appear in the least conspicuous. Being
an original and exceptionally clever
woman she has tastes of her own, but
he never asserts them In everything
else she can twist him round her little
finger He is wont to say that every
worry disappears when he puts his foot
inside his own hall door. Now that his
mother has again become Lady RAN
lolph" he is made further happy for It is
well known to his intimates that her sec
ond marriage was bitter pill for him to
swallow.