The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-12

has been getting into trouble about his
automobile This IL the ninth time with
in a year that the Hon. Herbert has been
convicted of reckless driving. and now
he has had his license suspended for six
months.
Young Eaton, who is about "a years
OF age, and subaltern in the Grenadier
Guards, is in that pleasant and irrespon-
sble set of youths known in Oxford and
in London as 1.-THE Princes lot" He is
very popular and full of go and like
the Prince of Wales, a daring and rather
reckless motorist. This last exploit that
seems to have put a stop upon his ener-
gies for a few months at any rate, ap-
pears to have been a little matter OF
running his Rolls Royce along a country
road at 80 miles an hour, and coming
into contact with the off side front wheel
of motor lorry. Both vehicles were
badly damaged, but by a miracle no one
was hurt. The motor lorry driver said
he was only going at 20 miles an hour,
and that he was sounding his electric
hooter before he arrived at the corner
at which the collision took place. Mr.
Eaton, he said, as soon as he picked
himself out of the debris of his car, pro-
ceeded to insult him (the lorry driver by
telling him he was unfit to drive per-
ambulator. This seemed to affect the
soldiers sense of right and wrong much
am told that no sooner was young Eaton
convicted than he sent kilograms to
all his friends and cable to his royal
highness in Canada, announcing with no
little pride that he had done it again,
and he was now hung up" for the rest
of the season.
PECULIAR HOSPITALITY
Another rather amusing case in which
a peer was involved was that of Lord
Cunliffe. who had two men arrested for
doing damage to his plum trees in his
orchard at Epson. His lordship said that
the men were beating the tree and steal
ing the fruit, and that they had no BUSH
ness to be in the orchard. anyhow. The
prisoners, on the other hand declared
that they had been invited by Lord Cum
life to his residence on a certain day.
AS it rained on that occasion. however.
they postponed their visit for week
when they thought that an invitation TO
his house included the freedom Of his
orc hard. and they considered themselves
very hardly used by an accusation OF
stealing pirms being made against Them
They realized, however. now that they
had spent night in the cells that
they were Dresuming on his hos2tall.y.
ard thew hoped his lordship wouli LET
them off.
ACTRESS A RECLUSE
heard the other day for tSe first tine
in several years something concerning
Mrs. Brown Potter, the famous Anar'cs
sctress and bea Jty. who has made Eng
1snd her home for more than a decade.
TIE last time I saw Mrs. Pot.cr she was
living in a lovely old-fashioned h.usc
called Eye Olde Bridge House at
Staines, and at that time she was TAX
ing a deep interest in all matters con-
corning Buddha and the religious be-
iiefs Of that sect. She wore strange ORR
entail draperies and was seldom seen out
side the boundary of her own house and
grounds. At the beginning of the war,
however. her mother. who had lived with
her for IL or IA years, died. and Mrs.
Potter who was most devotedly attached
to this wonderful and interesting old
lady found she could no longer live in
the I ONE which was so closely associated
with Mrs Urqubart and her home life.
She therefore found an interesting and
very beautiful house in the Island Ct
Guernsey. which she has enriched with
her rare talent for furnishing and equip
prg residence.
She has now made her home perma-
nently on this charming channel island |
end says that she will never leave it.
Her house is near to that in which Vic |
tor Hugo lived and died. and she has a |
garden that is said to be one of the love-
lest in the whole island. She@has taken |
to playing the violin recently. and I am |
told is quite creditable performer Her |
hair is now silvery white, and she says
the last thing she ever wants to do is
to enter theatre or live in a city again.
Her only recreation is visiting the one
hotel on the island. where an admir-
able orchestra of Spanish musicians dis
courses the very latest music by De-
busy, Stravinsky and other modern COM
posers. She says she has no regrets
or lonsfngs concerning the world.
II seems a strange ending to life
that was so full of amazing romance and
adventure. Cora Brown Potter was at
one time the most beautiful as we'll as
the most talked of woman of her dav-
She has always been a law unto herself
and has pursued her own line of life To
think of her now in the autumn OF her
davs living almost a solitary life in the
midst Of an island quite cut off from
the everyday world of fashion and ex-
citement seems almost an anomaly But.
like everything she does. it is picturesque
and Just a little sensational.
Copyright, 1872