Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-15
BISHOPS Think
london IS CITY
OF THE UNG0DLY

London, Jan. 14.-The various bish.
ops OF London are in a state of great
perturbation, which made itself seri-
OILY felt in their New Years SER
IRONS, and they are looking at the fu-
ture with serious misgivings.
A change, which the bishops are I'M
able to understand, has come over
the people of London, who seem to
have altered their very nature. Night
clubs are flcurishing everywhere, our
gambling palaces and dens of vice
are as numerous as those Of almost
any continental city, though less ap-
parent, and We have gone in for Chin
csc restaurants and opium dens.
Our women, ever the most %respecta-
bio among them, wear dresses as
scanty as these worn in Paris and I'M
blishingly walk in Regent and Bond
streets with skirts slashed to their
knees and attend theatrical perfor-
mances which would have made their
mothers or grandmothers blush with
shame, while our churches stand emp
ty, and all that we have left of the
DID church service is the church par
AIDE in Hyde park.
Mysterious and secret pagan cults
are springing up everywhere, chief
among which is the cult of Satan in
West End drawing rooms, where re-
citals Of the black mass prayers to
the evil n are given in front of an
altar on which is posed a nude wom-
an.
A London paper said the other day:
I'VE are a strange people these
days. Who would have thought that
a belief in witchcraft still existed
among a learned body of clergymen
in London? Black magic will become
a new society fad now that Monsig-
more Benson has given it such an
advertisement"
Duchess influences Queen.
If Queen Mary has become a bitter
enemy Of Lloyd George, the only mem
Der 0 fthe cabinet whom she absolute
ly declined to receive when the royal
family We're at Balmoral, as minister
in attendance to the king, the chan
cellor of the exchequer may thank
the Duchess of Devonshire.
Everybody at court knows the duch-
ess, who is a close friend of Queen
Mary, filled her majesty's ears with
tales of Lloyd Georges d%epredations,
actual and intended, on the poor per
secuted dukes .aS1t was due to the in
herltance tax, which wrung from the
Duke the sum of $5OO,O 900 in cash as
soon as he adopted his late uncle's
coronet, that his grace the Duke of
Denvonshire could not afford a more
valuable wedding gift to Prince and
Princess Arthur CT Connaught than a
$40 etching in an equally cheap frame,
and y ntop of this comes Lloyd George
with a dozen fresh extortions, and
p promises of worse to come.
Considering his expenses, the duke
IS a poor man. 1t takes a small army
OF seventy-five gardeners with their
under gardeners to keep Chatsworth
Park in a fit state to receive a royal
visit at any time. Altogether that
property alone costs him about $780,
Oo0 a year to keep up. But it never
occurs tohis grace, as it certainly
would to even the dulliest of Amerf-
cans, that, as experts have p%ronounc-
ed the soil of his estates peculiarly
ut Ter the growing of sugar beets, all
he has to do to make a new fortune
IN a few years is to put 10000 Of his
broad acres under culture and build
a sugar factory. b
1t Is lar easier, of course, though
les profitable, to complain of the mi
Duties Of a radical government and
listen to the considerations of
Queen Mary.
More About G~overnesses,
Marcel Provost and the %aristocratic
ladies i'll France. who are waging a
war OF determination against English
governesses in France, whom they &C.
cuse OF spelling the children of that
country with narrow-minded and hy-
focrltlcal teachings, have found an
ally in a prominent English lady, fer
many years a resident of France, who
wrote to a London paper the other
day:
II certainly sympathize to a certain
extern: with NJ. Provost, the Princess
de fancigny-Lucjnge and Claude Fer
val. 1t is imperative that the French
CIR should be educated by a woman
OF her W race. A French uni
can understand and sympathize with
the French child; can enter into the
child's feelings and grasp it's points
of vie wfar better than a foreigner
can | have often heard an English
governess exclaim in accents of des-
pair: | cannot understand this child
n she does not understand me-
How true this is in many cases
only those who are in contact with
goyernesses appreciate, and it
should always be remembered that
those who so to France seeking posi-.
tons as governesses are not the best
type of the English girl"