The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-28
PRINCESS PAT" IS
 LONELY IN CANADA Invites Her Friends In Eng
 land to Visit Her GENERAL Is SNUBBED Lady Bateman Takes Down Soldier Who Was too Officious-England Turning to United States for
 Latest Modes in Dress

London, February 6.-tSpecial1-At q
 party at which l was present the other
 afternoon a very interesting and human
 document was being fassed round among
 q few intimate friends of the hostess It
 was from Princess Patricia of Connaught
 Inviting the hostess to Canada in March
 The letter went on to say that her royal
 highness was dying for a sight of
 Arthur's boy" He is a sturdy little chap
 truly and It seems to be the intention
 of his mother to make him hardy, fo.. when she is living at Mount street you may meet him taking an airing in the park even when it is raining hard, crow ing away to himself as if he felt t was good to be alive.
 Were it not for existing circumstances Princess Pat intended coming over here this season to see her friends, who lave her very much but all her plans naturally are knocked on the head. hear she has invited several old onums to join her in Canada, among otbers be- ing Mrs. ''Montie" Eliot and Lady Kan- 5olpl Churchill, who intends to pick up local color there for a new play. Judging by the tone of Princess Pats letter. spe seems happy enough and she gave quite satisfactory accounts of her mother, the Duchess of Connaughts. heaitn. Somebody present when Princess Pats letter was being read, said that the Duchess had embraced Christian Science, but this is not authentic.
 General Is Snubbed
 For sometime mast tbare has bpen old and quite distinguished though ex- ceedingly aggressive, general visiting the various smart hostels at lunch and sup- Der time and putting people in order. For instance, on New Years night he WAS at the Carlton and when any man Tn uniform donned one Of the silly head dresses contained in the crackers ne bounced up to the table and insisted that II he taken off. You. must not make a laughing stock of yourself while weanins the countrys uniform, etc., la said Well, certain people thought there was something in this and he Wns alMaNs obeyed. Now that there is no chance I setting the army straight in the resiau- 1ants he has turned to featuring smart Nomen-whether he knows them Or not about their attire The other day when Lady Bateman was having lunch at fashionable restaurant with a party ue friends he came along and having given her the military salute in the most gal lant. manner, proceeded to lecture her about her hat iii which were several punches of magnificent osprey. She was auite equal to the occasion and turning to him said:
 If British people allow you, because of your age and your uniform, to in- terfere in their business, you must not expect any such consideration from an American woman and you certainly won't get it from me-" He apologized and re- tired mutely.
 Look to America
 When I went in the other morning to see how business was progressing al one of the philanthnopic centers where comforts are being dispatched to the sol 1 diers and sailors. l couldn't help noticing that the only woman present wearing her hat at the new angle was Lady Gilbert Parker Made of the inevitable black | velvet, placed high on her head show | ing plenty of her hair, you can't imagine | how chic the effect was among all the | other chapeaux damned down over the ears hiding all the vestige of Natures | crowning glory But 1t is very remark ! able how smart American women are all the time setting fashions here of late | We don't quite like admitting it. but | we are taking most of our styles these times from New York. To my knowledge | the buyers of three very exclusive West | End houses went over to New York short | 1y after Christmas to see what was being done over there in connection with la | mode and they came back laden with | ideas Much of this is of course due 10 the fact that Paris is more or less | silent on the great theme. Piles of Amer fcan fashion papers are to be found at | all the smart dressmal<ers who say they | prefer them to many of the Paris sheets As for our own journals of this kind the less said about them the better Dowdy in the extreme they are accepted only in the provinces and remote parts of | suburbia
 Many tears are being shed oyer the | engagement of Captain Butler, son of the prospective Marquis of Ormonde. and | Lady Arthur Butler who was Ellen Sta ger, daughter of Gen Anson Stager of + the United States army. The Buffers Il move a great deal in the smart Anglo II American set and nearly every other aris- focraffc American heiress who came over lately fixed her cap for the gallant young soldier. His mother would have liked him to marry girl from her country and once or twice he was on the verge of doing so His fance, Lord de Ramsey's daughter. Sybil. is a pleasant type of English girl and decidedly clever, indeed, H she takes more after the Marlboroughs II to which house her mother belongs. than any of her sisters Like sother young men Captain Butler was in no violent hurry to marry until his turn came to go to the front and then and there he offered himself to the fastidious Honor II able Sybi. who has refused many a suit ar hear she has studied palmistry so Il closely that she is far more skilled in it l Ihan many professional her one ob- feet being to be in position 10 tell | the character of the man she intended l to marry. One of the first things she l lsed to do when introduced to a possible | suitor was 10 ask to examine his hand II Captain Buffers, evidently, was the only | Jne that passed the test.
 Flat Heels Worry Girls