The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-22
CHANGES RADICAL
IN LONDON SOCIETY
Traditional Journalism of
Generations Giving Way
to Many Innovations.
TALK AGAIN FAVORED
Music, Unless Up to Profes-
sional High Standard, Is
Banned as Entertainment.
TALK AGAIN FAVORED
By PHILLIP EVERETT.

Special Cable 10 The Tribute.
LONDON, March 21.-There have
been recently some great changes in
London society life, that existence
which was in the Victorian era as i'm
mobile and stolid as the Sphinx. OF
course j only have to mention the
craze for dancing. But L refer more
particularly TO the things customariIy
done at nondancing parties.
If the first place conversation in conf
ing back into fashion. 1t was thought
that this ancient amusement had died
with the seventeenth century. but il
appears now simply to have hibernated
for a hundred years. Society people
are finding their tongues again. The
English are becoming more talkativc,
although still behind the French and the
Americans OF certain sections. Conver-
sation is now an acceptable evening en-
tertalnment.
''Nap" Game Is Popular.
A fancy for the bourgeois game Of
map has sprung up in society and
almost amounts to Juror, 1t is being
played in the most exclusive house
holds for heavy. points. Bridge and
auction are still favorites, but are not
preeminent.
There is a great vogue for parlor
games of quite an old.fashioned kind,
especially for guessing blindfold The
only thing which is not wanted is
amateur music.
Music, vocal or instrumental, is to-
day thought a detestable nuisance un-
less 1T is equal TO the best professional
art.
I find that the amateur singer and
nj 1c IS
refuses to display his talents unless he
knows his work will compare with the
best. Society has frozen out the draw
ing room ballad singer.
Princess Gains Prestige.
The precedence of Princess Arthur of
Connaught, which was definitely defined
Tor the first time at the court, has
caused some heart-burnings. Her mar
rage has made a tremendous difference
in her position in the court circles.
Hitherto it was somewhat remote and
in the background owing to the fact
that her late father, the Duke of Fife,
was not of royal blood. Now, as tho
wife of the king s cousin, she comes be.
fore all the daughters of the kings
aunts, In front, too, of all the ladies Of
the Teck family
Prince Arthur takes lively interest
In the sartorial matters Of his bride
Since her marriage she has become one
of the most chic of the royal ladies, and
the exceeding smartness of her court
dress, and the up-to-dateness of hey
coiffure were common talk.
King Tireless Worker.
1t is remarked since King George has
been back in town how much older he
is looking, though he certainly appears
in the best of health. The thin patch
on his head increases in size, and he IL
distinctly furrowed under the eyes.
The truth is the King overworks. His
activity is enormous, and he does not
take sleep enough. Things which in
previous reigns were relegated to the
care of others, King George personally
Like Edmund Burke, he considers
every moment of his time not devoted
to work ill-spent. His majesty keeps
cutting down expenses steadily, and the
last time he was at Windsor, he inter
viewed the heads of every department
with the object of finding out the actual
and the best means of rs-
ducing it.
The queen also visited parts of the
castle queen has never before set
foot in, and made some sweeping
changes in me household.