The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Englishwor1an's Plea For
 Retention Of Maiden Name
Nv LADY MARY

1 Mentioning Lord Rosslyn and poor
 Anna Robinson reminds me of Ostend
 and of the days before the war when that famous Belgian resort was the
 haunt of the most famous and fash lionable people in the world that lived
 to amuse itself. Now that Ostend Is once more restored to it's King and Queen l recall with intense reminiscent | interest my last visit there In about 1912. This wonderful sea-girt city l struck me then as one of the most
 curious and oddly contrasted places l had ever seen.
 1 Along the Digue, or the ocean front, where now German barbed wire en- itanglements, gun emplacements and other paraphernalia of war are so lplentifully strewn, stretched an array of hotels that seemed strung together l like jeweled beads and they were all full to overflowing at the time of which I am speaking with fat German men and women. I remember thinking at the time that I had never before felt so thin and inconspicuous. Those Ger men fraus and fraulens bulged and
 pushed their way through crowded promenades and sat in smiling fleshi- ness over huge meals in the beautiful dining rooms. I must confess the sight of them even at that remote period, when Germany was at peace with the world spoiled the whole place for me. Roulette was not allowed at the tables then but baccarat was being extensive fly played in the "Cercle Privee," and the little horses" were running merrily in the Kursaal but the tables were spoiled to my mind by those awful contentious Germans who argued over losses and
 gains and who aroused or rejoiced in
 manner that is peculiarly trying to anyone who has the temperament of a true sport" Then as now, the Ger ! mans proved themselves bad losers, even over little things, and I often look back upon those sunshiny days in Os- tend when the Teuton plague was even then beginning to make itself felt.
 l Some people were talking the other day about the distressing fact that so many direct heirs to titles in England
 have been killed during the war that nearly all the heirs to great families 1 and estates are now little children. and 1 that, therefore, the dearth of bachelor "eligibles'' is very great. Of course, the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son l of your own American Duchess of Marl- | borough, is well in the running both I as regards age and position. Recently | there has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth among matchmaking mammas owing to the report that he 1 Lord Blandford) had given his heart q
 pretty little musical comedy lady called
 Miss Winifred Barnes, but I am as- sured that there is no truth in this rumor, and that, therefore, the competi- 1 tfon among mothers, both in England and the United States, need not abate | for sometime.
 | Should, however. they desire to divert their thoughts from Lord Blandford and his vast inheritance, l. would like to l bring to their notice another bachelor who has so far been spared to us. This 1 is Viscount Lascelles, the heir to the Earl of Harewood Lord Lascelles is 36 years of age, a captain in the guards, diplomat and the inheritor of two or three millions of money as the result of the death of his uncle, the second Marquis of Clanricarde. The story of how he became possessed of this vast | fortune is quite little romance in Itself The late Marquis of Clanricarde was one of the most eccentric noblemen in Great Britain. Everyone knew that he was millionaire, but he looked like a ragpicker. He was also bachelor and. therefor, there was always a good deal of speculation as to who would inherit the old gentleman's fortune. There were rumors that his millions would go to.charity or would be divided among half dozen nephews and nieces.
 No one was prepared, however, for Lord Clanricarde leaving his vast for tune to his great nephew, young Lord Lascelles. whose grandmother had been
 the sister of the eccentric marquis. It
 is said that Lord Lascelles had never
 even seen the old gentleman and he
 never expected even to be "remem-