The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

II July 1o.--ApptSthi.Y one may quote the Bard and
 declare that age, apparently, l&E&AkJ cannot wither nor custom sIaIe the infinite variety of England's most interesting and perhaps most faT nous nobleman. Does one need to name him? He is the fifth Earl of bonsdale one of the mightiest as well as one of the richest nobles in Great Britain, the intimate friend of the German Elm peror and the frequent host of English royalty, but best known the world over, perhaps, as very admirable Crichton of sport of all kinds, of which he is one of the most generous of patrons and upon which, probably, he is one of the greatest authorities living.
 It is however, as one of the live. Hest of veterans that the earl who has been in the United States too many times to need any formal introduction to American readers, most appeals to one's imagination today In spite of his b7 years this wonderful old aristocrat, who as hereditary admiral of Cumber- land and Westmoreland and lord war den of the west marches, Is virtually king of the northwest corner of Eng land, who has been master of the Ia mous Cottesmore and Quorn hunts who is one of the most prominent members of the Royal Yacht club the Jockey club, the Four-in- Hand club, and who is vertically the life and soul of the National Sporting club--the national temple of the fistic art-is today as lively as the proverbial cricket Rare is the first night, the fancy dress ball, the sporting event or the society or Bo- hemian stunt of any kind, by day or by night from which he is missing, and it takes a lively spark indeed to cut gayer figure than this veteran peer
 Of late "Hughie.' as the earl is known to his especially intimate friends-Hugh Cecil Lowther is what he was christened--has been, if pos sible, more in the limelight than ever As one of the greatest lovers and own CTS Of noresflesh in the world he was as usual, one of the prominent figures at the recent show at olympia, and one day there, when certain spirited steed proved refractory his lordship, in spite of being attired in a frock coat and silk hat, insisted on mounting the mettlesome animal and soon had it un der control, though for a minute or two { 1t looked as if he certainly must be thrown, frock coat and all. The news papers were filled with pictures of Lord Lonsdale, too as one of the gay eet of the big Bohemia crowd at the
 
 chocolate boxes, with a rod and line, from a box which he shared with styl- fish Ethel Levey, the American star of the London Hippodrome, and lot of other footlight folk, and since then we have heard of hi mat the opera, at the first performance of Signor Martinetti's weird futurist noise-mak ing machines at the Coliseum, at Ascot and goodness knows how many other places. How he. does it at his age is a riddle, the answer of which probably Is to be found in the healthy, open air life of fox hunting. yachting, driv- ing. racing and travelling which he all ways has led and which has taken him all the way round the globe more times than once
 Quite lot of superlatives have to be used in connection with Lord Lons- dale, who with his stock figure ruddy face, firm mouth and old-fashioned 'sideburns" is as perfect a type of John Bull as ,/ ro,, Ssrld w wish to ,,1,e meet hcle as regulf continued: ''liashapbsFh latn sported d