Evening star., 1918-06-09

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Lady Maud Wilbraham lives I'm
Lower Sloane street, which leads OUT
OF the fashionable square of thAt
name No one will need to assurafhe
present scribe that Lady MauaFis a
lover Of dogs. for I expected, for a
-FOUR impulsive CANNES, including.
few minutes, to be devoured by the
by the way, a dachshund, which in
kabited the room into which 1 was
shown while my card was being car
ried to Lady Maud in her "cffice," as
she calls it. And there I-found a
NTH dog. No need either to inquire
OF my hostess If she is one of those
VINO advocate the wholesale destruc-
tion Of the millions of CANNES in
these islands on the ground of the
food that would thus be saved.
more parcels with gifts for the
said Lady Maud. would You like to
see what Is in them?'
The little wooden box which she
passed over held queer collection Of
truck. There was a little silver watch.
the broken sections of a silver frame.
the silver badge of a rowing club. and
some odd gold and silver links and
studs.
That is fair specimen of the odd
assortment Of things we get" COM
mented Lady Maud. but there's no
end to the curiosities that arrive. We
have masses and masses Of old teeth
sets or false ones, I mean-and of the
oId-fashioned hair bracelets. Neither
the teeth nor the hair is any good. Of
course. but the gold and platinum
that come with the teeth are useful,
ana so are the gold lockets that are
attached to the hair bracelets. The
coins that come in represent almost
every country In the world, and there
Is a quantity. too. Of the Maundy
money that is given away in west
minister Abbey on Good Fridays.
we also get crowds of the old
fashioned warming pam lockets and
other varieties of the hideous early
heavy gold chains, monstrous brooches
and other horrors like that Some of
these were donated by a princess. and
l should never have imagined that she
could have possessed such awful
things. But. to compensate us, there
have been some really beautiful ex-
amples of old Georgian plate. which
nave fetched handsome prices when
resold. Yes. the things have come
from al over the world; only the
some jewelry sent US from Buenos
Aires. Not much has come from the
United States. however. I fancy that
little can be known about the fund
there.
Everything that comes in is valued
Tor us by the manager Of a jewelry
store" Lady Maud went on. Gall the
5ewelry that is suitable to be offered
for sale is disposed of as fast as nos
sible; the rest is melted down. Our
expenses? Well. I think you will
agree that they are quite low. In the
nrst year they amounted to III ner
cent of our takings. since then thew
have been less. You see, three of us
really run the thing"
Here is one of the most interesting
donations. Lady Maud went on. feeling
looking desk. Its a handkerchief that
belonged to the great Duke of Welling-
ton, and there Is rather an odd LITTLE
story attached to it. A lady namell
Parker. who was keen admirer of the
duke, but had never met him, went to
Wellesley House one day on business.
and as she was going up the stairs met
the duke coming down. As he passed
her she noticed his handkerchief fall ont
Of his pocket and stopped and picked IL
up. She secretly coveted it greatly, put.
overcoming temptation, she ran after the
Duke and restored it to him. She said
afterWard, however, that he must have
seen from her eyes what was in her
mind, Tor ne at once said that as the
handkerchief was quite a fresh one he
would De greatly honored il she would
accept it. And this is the Handkerchief
Lady Maud held 1t up for ma to ssa
It is a small handkerchief of fine chm
brio "You see," she remarked ";t has
in the corner the dukes coronet and =,
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