The Washington herald., 1913-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Copyright, 1913. By A. D. jacobson,

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Copyright. 1915. By A. D. Jacobson,
Capt. the Hon. Frederick Guest and
his wife, Amy. the daughter of Henry
Phipps. the Pittsbug steel magnate. were
eminent at a dinner In honor Of the
Prime Minister and Mrs AsQuith at
Afford House, London. the other night.
Covers were laid for forty. The dinner
was followed by q brilliant entertain
meft.
Afford House is the beautiful stone
mansion In Park Lane which the late
Mr.. Alfred Belt had erected for himself
only two years before his death.
The whole of the ground floor IL given
up to reception rooms. Marble paved
halls lead to a winter garden. where
every conceivable kind of tropical fern
fiourishes, and where the rockery walls
are perpetuslly irrigated by trickling
fountains. A staircase concealed in the
rocks leads to the upper story. the rooms
Of which look on to the magnificent
garden. Capt. Guest bought the house
two years ago. and has adapted 1t to
his requirements, while Mgs. Guest has
filled the magnificent mansion with many
art treasurera-
Wearing a most magnificent robe of
tons of mauve embroidery. Mrs. Guest
was charming hostess. A wide dia-
mond and emerald tiara crowned her
dark hair. and large diamond stars and
clusters sparkled on her corsage- The
Prime Minister stood with Mrs. Guest
to welcome the guests at the reception.
The assemblage numbered about 800 and
included the members of the Cabinet.
Liberal peers. the American Ambassa-
cess Lichnowsky, the Russian Ambassa-
dor. and Countess BenckendorfY, Senior
Merry del Val (the new Spanish Ambas-
sador) and Ministers from other Lesa-
tons.
Capt Guest is the third son Of the FIRST
Baron Wimborne. He Is thirty-e;ght
years Of age, and served In the First
Life Guards. and participated in the
White Nile campaign In 1900. He was
Private secretary to Winston Churchill,
and ran three times for Parliament. but
was defeated. His mother was Lady
Cornelia Henrietta Maria Church
Ill. daughter of the seventh Duke OF
Marlborough.
Miss May Yohe. the former Lady
Francis Hope, and well known In this
pades with the son of the late Mayor
Strong, Of New York, has returned to
England after an absence Of many years.
She appears at the London Opera House
where she sings the selfsame old song
that made her famous. Honey, Ma
Honey
Miss Yohe. the ex-sister-in-hw Of the
ultra-feudal Duke OF Newcastle. who hs s
been critically i'll, declares that her re-
cuperation is due solely TO the imitation
Hope blue diamond. the ''unlucky'' orig1-
nal Of which now Is in the, possession
of Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean, of WASH
fngton, who inherited the many millions
of her late father. the mining king
Thomas Walsh. Miss Yohe says that she
encountered the most miserable luck"
when. as Lady Francis Hope. she wore
the real thing" She would not part
with her imitation stone 'for the world"
as she attributes the change in her for
tunes. her returned health. and the
money she fell heir to, to the possession
of that counterfeit Hope diamond. Miss
Yohe is still handsome and has lost little
OF her youthful expressions
King Georges review of the House.
hold Cavalry recently was the first
which has taken place since Queen Vic
toria reviewed the crack troop in 1880.
The Household Cavalry consists OF the
first and second Life Guards and the
Horse Guards. 1t is their duty to
guard the royal residences and attend
upon the king when he appears N pub
lie. On state occasions, the pictur-
esque Yeomen Of the Guard also are
employed as a royal bodyguard. They
consist Of more than one hundred ON
GERS and men, and wear the quaint uni
form of the Tudor period, the same
corps first was established by Henry
VII.
Countess Mabel Frances Gore Airlie
has undertaken the duties of Mistress
Of the Robes to the Queen for the re-
of the season, in the place OF
the Duchess of Devonshire, who Is TAX |
ing the waters at Bad Gastein. Lady |
Airlie is the daughter of the late nth |
Earl of Arran. and granddaughter |
Of Lady Jocelyn, who was q lady Of
a daughter Of Lady Palmerston by her /,
first marriage with the fifth Earl Cow
per. Lady Airlie is a sister of Lady |
Salisbury and Of Lady Esther Smith. |
Her husband was killed during the |
South African war. in the action at |
Diamond Hill. Pretoria, in June, 1900. |
He was succeeded by his son. Lyulph |
Gore wolseley, as ninth Earl Of Airlie. |
who came of age this year. The title |
was created in 1889. the estate COM
prising $1,000 acres.
M. Tourney, the veteran chief of the |
Paris police. has been placed on the |
retired list, as the result of a discus |
sion in the Chamber OF Deputies, when |
the government was approached with
having prohibited manifestation or
ganized by young Republicans in menu
Dry Of Joan Of Arc, the Maid of Or