The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-30
ROOM IS PRESERVED {. AS HIS WIFE LEFT II Lord Curzon Reveres Mem ory of American Wife SOCIETY SAVES MONEY Duchess of Marlborough Refuses to Be a Nurse-Is Too Sympathetic,
 She Says-Secret of Lady
 Essex's Figure
SOCIETY SAVES MONEY
ny LADY MARY

London. May 2-(Special. )-Lord Curzoa is at his house in Carlton House Ter race and Lady Mary is with her father a great deal She is very brilliant and intellectual and, like her mother, the late Mary Letter, takes the greatest pos sible interest In Lord Curzon's political doings and is always in the House of Lords to hear him when he speaks. l am
 told by mutual friends that the late Lady
 Curzons boudoir Is kept in exactly the
 same condition as when she was alive. It
 is a charming room in the back of the
 house, large and elegant, in Adams style,
 with furniture and carpets to match. The
 writing table and work basket are just
 as she left them before her fatal illness and a great bunch of Malmaison carna- tions Is always on the writing table, for they were her favorite flowers The blot ting pad is left open and in it is an , unfinished letter she was writing to her
 mother, the late Mrs. Levi Letter, whom she, in common with her sisters, just adored. Sometime ago it was said to Lord CurZon that 1t morbid to insist
 upon his wife's memory being kept ever green like this, but he replied he thought 1t was the other way about and that in- stead of making him sad 1t inspired him.
 Society Saving Money
 1 To some of our oldest and most aris- l tocratic families the war is. in a way. blessing giving them as. it does a splen- did chance of recovering themselves and l paying off their debts. It will be re- garded as the height of bad taste to do
 any entertaining this season unless 1t ! be something in connection with the phil
 lanthropic war funds. Women calculate on saving thousands of dollars on dress and house parties. Immediate monetary
 trouble has been met by many woman
 by pawning her jewels, for she won't re- quire to wear them until the clouds roll l by and peace is proclaimed. Every wom-
 an who hasn't her pearls in the bank 1 has them at the pawnbroker's s. for nobody l with any sense of the fitness of things
 wears superhuous decorations. Even the ] Queen does not put on ear rings and
 none of us can quite imagine her majesty
 without these becoming additions
 1 When Lady Victoria Primrose and hel | husband came back to town after thell
 four and half days honeymoon tho 1 first thing the bride did was to driv, l down to Coutts' bank and place all he wedding gifts of jewels there. Nobod, | wastes time on honeymoons these day:
 and Lord Rosebery's second son who l after the manner of his illustrious father is never for long interested in anythins | unleSS puTely lIlelleCludl UT pOiitiSdi Pui suits, was glad to get into harness again | He and his bride were in the Row tn fifth morning after their wedding, thougl few recognized them-not even reporter
 of society papers.
 Will Not Be a Nurse
 II The Duchess of Marlborough i
 about the one society woman of the mo ment who would not be a nurse on an, consideration whatsoever. Although s eminently strong minded in other re spects she faints at the sight of blood and she makes no secret of the fact tha she could not look on at an operation if the salvation of her soul depended upoI t-in fact to have to enter sick room is agony to her. "It simply is, that I fee
 too much" said the duchess when speak ing on the subject of nursing. "If wer less sympathetic I could, no doubt, do a others do. She has been working yer, unostentatiously and I hear she send out every week to the front s25 worth o
 cigarettes and $1o0 worth of delicacies fo the soldiers.
 I think she is the best friend wome; have, bar none. Her burning desire a present Is to urge that all women shal receive honors and distinctions as mel do and to break down alls barriers in tha respect that debar them from such priyj leges The other week her grace wa begged to address a great gathering Whlcl is shortly to be held in connection witt soldiers unmarried wives" but she de clined, for her grace is orthodox and vii not identify herself with this kind o thing. though she is always ready to b kind.
 Turkish Bath for Figure
 It is not to her frugal ways of living o energetic physical exercises that Lad, Essex owes her Extraordinarily sleiv. figure which is the envy of most othe matrons. It is to the Turkish bath thi desirable condition Is to be attribute and it of her ladyships owl daughters who let out the setEet. Lad Essex has had for years a perfect mani for Turkish baths and quite against he doctors orders has insisted on talSin them. When she has travelled and ther was any possibility of being unable enjoy one she has taken a portable Turk ish bath about with her, only a far nor | elaborate and practical one than the usua thing of the kind, hers being especial l designed and made for her.
 Winston Churchill is another great ad vocate of the Turkish bath and would n | more think of foregoing his than of abar \ doning his morning ride in the Row wit | Mrs Winston. who Is his great weaH | ness and whom he regards as the mos | wonderful and the most beautiful woma II tc o1 fin