The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-28
TITLED NURSES TAKE WORK SERIOUSLY Only Minimum Amount of
 "Grandstand" Playing
 AN AMUSING STORY Lady Diana Manners Volunteered for
IN AMUSING STORY
Lady Diana Manners Volunteered for Nursing, But Was Refused Because She Wanted Her Maid to Come
 In and Help Her Dress

the enthusiasm for war nursing work
 shows no signs of abating. On the con trary everybody's doing it, and doing 1t pretty well, too On the other side of the Atlantic as well as here, there is prob ably an idea in some quarters that so-
 ciety beauties and others are just play ing at nursing, with one eye. if not both, on the limelght and the pictorial press but such an impression is almost wholly unjust Here and there, of course, there | may be a case of pure "grandstand play" | but these are the exception rather than the rule. The hospital authorities them selves, for one thing, won't stand for it. day or two ago the writer was talk ing to an American woman, who lives at Milton Mowbray, the great center of
 the smart hunting district, on this very subject, and she confirmed from personal knowledge what has been said above. 1n- cidentally she told me an amusing story that is going the rounds about Lady Diana Manners the beautiful and witty youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland who is frequently described as the ceverest girl in so- ciety." Soon after the outbreak of the
 war, according to this tale, Lady Diana presented herself at ore of the biggest London hospitals and offered her services as volunteer nurse. The matron of the hospital declined them, however, on learn ing that Lady Diana wanted to have her ] maid in, every morning, to help her to dress.
 That was very amusing of course, remarked the American woman, but it doesn't mean in the least that Lady Diana didn't take nursing seriously. You must remember that. to girl brought up as she has been, waited on hand and foot her maid is as necessary to her as her toothbrush Since then, as I happen to know, she has done splendid work and so has her elder sister, the former Lady Marjorie Manners, who is now Marchion- ess of Anglesey, and whose young nus band, the marquis, is now at the Darua- nelles, and, at last accounts, was carry ing grain sacks, or something like that As for Lady Diana, she has been laid up with a broken leg which she broke in two places while tuning either into or out of her motor car on the way to her
 nursing work, at a hospital near Bel
 voir castle, the Rutland place.
 Gone Abroad to Nurse
 No end of society women have gone
 abroad to nurse, to France to Russla' 10
 Servia, to all the allied countries, Tn
 fact The latest to decide to do this, d
 Paget, the wife of Sir Richard Paget, tbe famous British barrister and admin istrator. She is going to Russia soon, to open negotiations for estaplshlhg hospital there with a British stan, unoer the Russian Red Cross. In this there wlil be eight doctors, eight sisters ana A- nurses and that the hospital will be re- ceiyed gratefully by the Russlah soNeih- ment there is no doubt.
 Lady Muriel. as a daughter oi the Twelfth Earl of Winchilsea, IS melhper
 of a famous family Its head IS not only
 Earl of Winchilsea, but of Noting ham'
 too. the family name being F1nch-H Hattoh.
 The nobles of the house nave fenuereo
 many services to the throne, one Of them'
 the first baronet, having helped to sup
 press Thomas Wyatt's rebellion against
 Queen Mary Another, the second, ad- hered to Charles I and his eldest son
 fell in the great battle or SouthWolo hay against the Dutch. The sixth earl was secretary of state and lord president of the council, serving under, Wlllam III. Anne and George l. Lady Murlei' who Is handsome, talented ana alWays beautifully gowned, married in 1897. Her husband. who was called to the bar in 1893. has been head of many important committees and commissions, including the patent law committee Of l9oo, the Grimsby fishing dispute of the same year, and to the court of arbitration which dealt with the whole question of London water supply The couple live at Wolver- hampton and have three daughters.
 Lady Padget's Helpers
 Associated with Lady Muriel in her
 hospital enterprise will be two other so-
 cial celebrities, Lady Sybil Grey, and Ian Malcolm M F., the latter of whom married the only daughter of the former Mrs Langtry now Lady de Bathe. Lady Sybil Grey is the only unmarried daugh- ter of Earl Grey who became so well known and popular in the United States during his seven years term as governor general and commander-in-chief of Can ada Lady Sybil who Is a girl of un- usual cultivation and much charm, has also a level head, and should be almost as good an organizer as her famous | father. who was administrator of Rho- desia for a year and a director of the British South Africa company for six With the earl, Lady Sybil already has | seen much adventurous life. When he was governor general of Canada, she ac- companied him on a trip to the Canadian
 Arctic gold fields, and near Dawson City she begged out a claim and duly regis l tered it. Her first banning out produced i S25 worth of gold. and when leaving she
 arranged to have the Sybil, as she named ] her claim, worked by deputy. She also
 has travelled extensively in South Africa with her parents
 i Ian Malcolm, who will be the principal
 man of the party, has sat for Croydon | in the House of Commons for the past 1 five years, in the conservative interest. 1 His middle name is Zachery, and he is a Canadian by birth, having first seen the 1 light in Quebec. Educated at Eton and oxford, he entered the diplomatic service
 and was attached in succession to the
 British embassies in Berlin. Paris and St. i Langtry in 1902 and they have three sons He has travelled in most parts of | the British empire. and. as result, has written and published several books
 ] Lady Grosvenor, whose son. the Duke {, of Westminster, now at the front Is the greatest of London's ground land ords, is | another society grande dame who has set 1 up a private hospital, and though practi- {, cability is not supposed to be her forte l she manages it very well. As rule she | goes to her country place. Saighton 1 Grange, in the autumn. There she has
 one garden sown with the favorite flowers
 of the saints and another. Dutch gar | den, planted with llies in which she 1 spends many hours reading and embroid-
 ering. But this year the soldiers claim l her
 l Lady Grosvenor has been twice wid- 1 owed, the last of her husbands having l been the Right Hon. George Wyndham 1 who was renowned, among other things as the handsomest man in the House of ! Commons. The war has brought her an- I other sorrow, the death of her son, Lieut. l Percy Wyndham. who was in the Cold 1 streams. He fell at the front last au- |