The Washington herald., 1913-10-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tiers" at Albert Hail, London. on Decem-
ber 3, under the management of the
Duchess Of Somerset and Lady MurieI
Paget, will attract many of the leading
members Of the American colony The
grand procession, 1t has been decided. Is
to be a compromise between modern
painters and groups by Yelasquez. Van
Dyke, Holbein, Reynolds. Rembrandt.
Gainsborough. Romney. Natter. and
others These professions are in charge
of leading society women, each having
been allotted her special part In the tab
leaux. but the actual head and brains OF
the huge undertaking Is again Sherwood
Foster, who has established his reputa-
tion as an "entrepreneur" Of pageants
ever since the coronation parade.
Ex-Empress Eugenie has broken with
her established custom to witness the
Cowes regatto on board Of her yacht. the
Thistle, before cruising in the Mediter-
ranean these beautiful autumn days.
which are perfection itself on these
waters. She had done neither. but has
remained quietly at Farnborough HILL
This quite naturally gave rise to the
rumor that the old lady's health was fall
ing, but this Is denied. She certainly this
far has enjoyed phenomenally good
health, despite her eighty-eight years OF
age Fact is that she has been seei,
walking day after day during the en-
tire summer in the beautiful woods which
surrounds her estate, and which Is a
remarkably restfuI place considering that
il is within earshot Of the great British
military camp at Aldershot. This rest
full home life among the pine forests
may account for the fact that there is
quite a colony OF exiles domiciled within
the shelter of the magnificent trees
In the midst OF the seCuestered
grounds OF marlborough there are the
tombs OF Eugenie's husband, the deposed
French Emperor Napoleon III. and OF
her only son. the Prince Imperial, who
died a soldiers death in the wilds OF
Africa while serving in the British army.
Both these bodies had been inferred at
Chislehorst, the ex-Empress' former resi-
dence in England, which she occupied up
to 1855.
Farnhurst and its museum contain
many priceless relics, including the car
riages used by the Emperor and En-
press at their marriage, ana at the open
ing of Napoleon HIS first parliament.
Everywhere are objects to remind one
OF the, past history OF this once powerful
family The BenediGtines. who look ar
ter the spiritual needs of the household
and guard the tombs, have a church and
priory. and are now building an abbey.
A welI-known Paris cafe has for its
porter the son of a king. He is ouibero
Behonzin. the son Of the King Of Gle Gle.
a French dependency on the Slave coast.
and brother OF that dusky monarch OF
Dahomey. who gave France r grept deal
of trouble. Prince Behonzin, who now
opens the cafe door to the customers, is
thirty-seven years of age and has had
distinguished military career. He has
taken part in twenty-eight campaigns.
was seriously wounded in three battles.
thirteen times In dispatches,
and gained the military medal and eleven
decorations.
He went to Paris to demand a pension.
His request was not granted. Then he
demanded employment Again he met
with rebuff. The government would not
even place him in charge of one of the
State tobacco shops, on the ground that
he was not a Frenchman. In order TO
live the Prince worked successfully as a
chauffeur and a motion picture artist
Finally he donned a livery. pinned the
medals and decorations he had earned
as a French soldier on his breast and
now he Is swinging the cafe door for the
entering or departing patrons. Another
instance Of the ingratitude and forgetful-
ness of republics,
Most people. IL ever they were to give
the matter thought, would imagine that
royal servants are born and bred on
the fringe Of the purple. No such thing.
Many OF them. nowadays, are engaged
precisely as others servants. at employ
ment Offices, or rather usually at one
and the same office.
There is. of Sloane Square, in a quiet
NEsNu
there is such an Office. II never adver-
tises at all. yet II has a great connec-
tion, and domestic servants flock up and
down its staircase in a manner which
might make would-be mistresses envi-
Gus. Here are engaged servants for
Buckingham Palace and Windsor. for
royal dukes and duchesses. not to speak
of the wearers of ordinary strawberry
leaves. The Office was started and Is
kept by two ladies. well connected, but
formerly not rich. They have four sec
retaries and their methods would be con-
sidered peculiar by more up-to-date
Offices. An letters are hand-written,, and
the click OF the typewriter is unknown.
Wages in royal houses naturally high-a
footman who once came from a minor
European royal household to a non-royal
one, electrified the modest housemistress
But then the man spoke four languages,
and Accomplishment more valuable to
royalty, in a footman, than to the gen
eraI run OF establishments
1 am not at all surprised at Count
Hayashi's disclosures about the Anglo
Japanese Treaty. The Chinese are to be
trusted, but the Japanese are quite ready
to run with the hare and hunt with
the hounds" 1t is not plain in what
way the alliance has added to the sum
total Of human happiness. It was fol-
lowed by war. and Korea would have
been better treated by Russia-which is
saying a good deal-than' she has been
by the prosecuting and torturesome Jap
anese. Britain's association with Japan.
like her antipathy to Germany, illustrates
the irresponsibility of the British For
eign Office. The revelation that Germany
might have joined the alliance is piquant
in view of later events. Why Germany
should have been England's friend ten
years ago and her enemy today is one
of those mysteries that is best left to
the "mandarins'' of Downing Street.
'I. S. r." In Seattle: In reply to your
recent inquiry, chief petty officer IN
the British navy is known by his cap
badge, a gold or silver anchor (the for
mer denoting a nonexecutive, the latter
an executive), with a crown over 1t.
Cross anchors and a crown, a single an
chor with a crown, and a single anchor
denote first and second class petty off,
GERS and leading seamen. respectively.
The above four ratings rank with stan
sergeant, sergeant-corporal, and lance
corporal of the army. Ships corporals,
some carpenter ratings, ships cooks.
clerks. stewards staff. &c, are dressed
similar to the chief petty officers. but are