The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09

Ito the hospital the nice sum of S9O,OO0, the takings at her stall and entertainments. | Promptly upon the outbreak of the pres | ent war she was busy again, in co-opera- ton, once more, with Lady Randolph | Churchill and a new co-worker In the person of the Duchess of Marlborough, and the speedy result was the American Womens War hospital at Paignton, In Devonshire, for the. benefit. of which the Forthcoming matinee at Drury Lane. at which practically every big theatrical star of the first magnitude, among them Mrs. Langtry and the erstwhile 'Edna May will appear and twinkle. Lady Padget terrible elevator" accident, wh1cn re- suited in so many months of suffering, will be remembered by every one. Complete recovery seemed hopeless, but the brave, indomitable American woman persevered, and eventually had German medical man to thank for literally putting her on her feet"
 All three of Lady Paget's sons are in the army. Her only daughter, who inner it's her good looks. and quite evidently her energy and love of we'll doing, married her cousin, Sir Ralph Spencer Paget. in 1907. Her full name is Louisa Margaret Leila Wemyss Paget. Her husband, who is the son of a famous diplomatist, SIT Augustus Berkeley Paget, entered the diplcmatic service in 1888, and has served in many capitals, Washington among the rest, where he was stationed during the year 1892 He was British minister to Servia from 1910 to 1913, and in the latter year became under secretary or state TOT foreign affairs
 Lady Ralph Paget's experiences In Bel grade during her three years there left a delightful impression of the Servians in her mind, and no sooner did she real ze the suffering that war had brought upon them that she determined to do all that lay in her power to alleviate them She narrowly escaped death, but she has done her duty and had street named after her. and there are not many nv ing women if, indeed, there Is one, out side of royalty. who can boast a similar distinction.
 Asquith Growing More Popular Apropos of the fact that the prime min 1 ister with a few close friends, has jus | been celebrating the fact that he hal held the highest administrative post il Great Britain for seven years, few peopl in London can recall the day when h. | returned to London after kissing tn Kings hand on his appointment. Amon the small party that waited his arriva from Biarrtz wither he had been sum moned by the late King Edward, was hi proud and happy wife. As her husban , station, Mrs. Asquith could not restrai herself. Rushing up the platform, Jos' , ling the surprised people on the way, sh
 flung her arms about the neck of her en
 barrassed husband and kissed him el | fusively several times. It was only the 9 that the new prime minister was recoe ! nized by small number of hls felio' r travellers and was heartily cheered a
 he climbed into waiting taxi after hi : excited wife.
 It looks very much as if the Asquith
 had taken life lease on 10 Downin street After seven years the premier
 much stronger in the public esteem tha
 he was in the early days of office. successful war would probably ensure
 long term of office for the present liberi
 government. Indeed, it is declared b
 tories on all hands that they have no d. sire to relieve their opponents of tf
 problems of internal administration ths
 are bound to follow the present struggl
 Mrs. Asquith seems to have taken all tn
 nito consideration, for sometime ago ST
 let on long lease the house in Cavei
 dish square which the Asquiths had con
 to consider as home.
 European Society in London London is crowded with high societ representing all the countries of allie Europe It is the one capital of wa
  ably safe from the ebb and flood of il titanic struggle. While their husband cross swords, iguratively, and possib literally, speaking, with the Germans, tl titled women of Russia, France, Belgiu and the lesser allies, wait in London f' tidings.
 Among these women is Baroness Pier Graevenitz, who has just given birth to daughter. The baron. who Is a Russia and an officer in the Horse Guards, fighting somewhere in northern Polan
 helping to parry the thrust of the Ge
 man against Warsaw, and has not y
 heard the news of the addition to h
 family.
 The baroness, who is an Englishwoma
 one of the comparatively few eXampl
 of Englishwomen who have married in
 the Russian aristocracy, is in the hat
 of spending each summer in her nati'
 country. She Is intensely fond of hor
 racing and, before the war, took an i
 innate interest In the magnificent racii
 stable of her husband, situated near Lod
 In their first sweep across Poland to u
 line of the Vistula, the Germans ca
 tured the scores of fine animals in u