The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

tainly do not help to soften her firm outline of feature. Lady James Douglas. by the way, is the first lady owner who has ever won the famous race called
 the Oaks" The first Oaks" was
 founded in 1799 by the twelfth Earl of Derby.
 Lady Torrington is another race horse owner who has won distinction on the turf this season. Before she married Viscont Torrington. about seven or eight years ago, she was Miss Emily Somay or Dalys theatre, where she played small parts and looked very handsome in vari- ouS beautiful gowns She still retains Fer beauty and continues to wear won derful garments, many of which. by the way she has brought over from Paris since the cessation of hostilities.
 am writing shortly before Ascot is in us tull glory but 1 am told that it is gong to be the most wonderful Ascot week that has ever happened The most enormous prices are being offered for boxes and refused by owners who are anxious to see every race during the week. know of an American woman who IS living near the race course who las oliered S-7o5 for a small box for the week, IL is very doubtful, however "ehther she will be able to secure if even at th!S DhencmAral nri,e
 by the way, Queen Mary has been weac ing the most wonderful summer clothes at all public functions at which have seen her recently. Pale pink. pale blue nauVe and white have been her choice oI coiors during one week, while her sun shades have been equally lovel,, and varied. One sunshade she arried rese,5fi,, was of pale pink silk, frnged with feath- CTS shaded from deep rose to palest lieSn color. while she is also wearing wonderful feathered capes that are the envy of most women who have seen then, during this feathered season.
 met Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn at q tea party recently. She is still beloved and IeIiefnpered by the London public as
 Edna May" She was looking pale but very pretty in her deep widows mourn- ing with just string of priceless pearls 10 break the monotonv of her black gown. She told me that she is about 10 sell her English home in the country put very quickly denied the rumor that she is returning to New York city. T am making London my permanent home,e' she said, and will visit New York once or twice year just to keep in touch with old friends in the land of my birth
 was given a glimpse recently of marvellous trinket that is to be sold this month at Chrstie's, the famous and his toric auction rooms in King street St James square. It forms a part of the collection of the Earl of Homes furni- ture and works of art which are shortly to come under the hammer It is a little ring made of mother f-pearl overlaid with gold on which is set an oval-shaped enameled portrait of the Virgin Queen and her mother, Anne Boleyn As it lay in the palm of my hand it looked so small thing, and yet was so great with it's weight of romance and history
 There is something rather tragic about the sellins-up of these heirooms of an old family It is said that the demands of the death duties and the strain of taxation are too much for the present holder of this great old name to carry and so, after centuries this and other priceless things must pass away from hs ownership. A hen one realizes that the l Howe family received their first grant of l lands in 1214 from William the Lion. it may he calculated what a wrench such | a sacrifice means to their descendants in | 1919. The first Earl of Home was ambas- sador to England from Scotland in the | time of Henry VT. Another ancestor 1 fought Boutwell, and protected James I in l his youth when that monarch came to i England in 1603
 Queen Elizabeth's ring, which is per haps the most interesting eature of the i H ome collection, is a wonderful example | of the jewellers art. The mother-of l pearl hoop is overlaid with tiny bands of gold set with ruhies, and the gold 'bezel' or table" of the ring is set with six diamonds forming the initial "E." This flat table or bezel opens by means of delicate pearl spring to disclose the wonderful miniatures of the queen and her ill-fated mother. On the inner side of the ring there is tiny gold plaque enameled with phoenix (which was Queen Elizabeth's badge) rising from a crown It is thought that the portraits were probably executed by the same Italian artist who was responsible for the portrait ring which Queen Bess gave | to the unfortunate Earl of Essex. This ring the Essex one) fetched S16250 m l9l1 It is now the property of Lord | about whose millions there is so much litigation at present.
 .. LADY MARY.