The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22

ton of the list of rules and regulations
 that hedge about a court function. Per sonally, l always wonder why anyone having once been through the ordeal ever l desires to repeat the experiment. Hav- | ing gratified ones curiosity and secured 1 the distinction of claiming a regning monarch as your host, it seems to me 1 that the habit should be foresworn The month of June is A.1 usual full of
 weddings Already We have said fare
 we'll to Lady Diana Manners who has become Lady Diana Cooper. and by so
 doing has robbed the world of London | of a highly picturesque and sensational
 personality l don't think many people | realize that the husband of the Duke of | Rutlsnd's much-advertlsed daughter is
 near relative of Princess Arthur of Con
 naught, whose mother is the Princess
 Royal, Duchess of Fife.
 l Young Mir. Duff Coopers mother was | Lady Agnes Fife. sister to the late
 Duke of Fife. A romantic history att | taches to her married life. She was | very headstrong, romantic girl who
 made, early in her youth a marriage de | convenance in order to please her fam
 fly. But it did not last very long; she { ran away from her aristocratic and
 rather dull husband with young phys ician named Cooper, who had fascinated her. She was divorced and in due course
 married pr. Aoper and it is the son I or this marriage who has taken unto ! himself the heart and hand of the ir-
 responsible and remarkable daughter
 of their graces the Duke and Duchess 1 of Rutland.
 1 Another wedding that is of interest
 this month Is that of Miss Violet Kep- l pei to Maj. Denys Trefusis of the Royal Horse Guards, on June l6. Miss Keppel is immensely popular in society and she inherits the wit of her moth l fha Mro l it will be remembered was the lead | ing light of the latter part of the Ed 1 wardian reign in London. l think 1t was shortly after King Edwards dath | that Mrs. Keppel went over to the 1 United States and stayed for some
 months with friends in and about New York, while recovering from the shock I that the Kings death undoubtedly was 1 to her, Famous for her wit and her genius for social affairs, Mrs Keppel has for years had a remarkable vogue in London sociay. It is said of her that the late King regarded her with almost superstitious affection. She was sort of mascot to him; she brought him luck at bridge, at racing, and at all games of chance and sometimes he would send for her when matters of state weighed heavily on his mind and he required a sort of mental pick me-up" Miss Violet Keppel, the bride
 
 teresting lady and as l have said she seems to inherit many of her mothers admirable social qualities ran across MT E. A. Quarles in Piccadilly the other day looking tired
 but happy at the conclusion Of ms labors as secretary of the industrial commission, which the National Civic | Federation of New York sent to this l side some three months ago. The com | mission was representative Of capital, l labor and the consumer. It made a | careful survey of industrial recon l struction in Great Britain and France | in the course of which it's members |
 Have been brought into contact with | the leaders of the various forces hav- ing to do with the working out Of this | great problem. A great public welcome |
 was accorded to the commission on
 it's arrival at Holborn Hall, the recep- tion being under the auspices of the | National Alliance of Employers and | Employees. Every section of the indus
 trial life of the United Kingdom was | represented on that occasion.
 The farewell to the commission was said at a luncheon given by the Fed l eration of British Industries and pre- i, sided over by Sir Robert Hadfeld. The | report or the commission, which will be ksuec shortly, should be of great l hefv tes American capital and labor in she Fvors Ing out of the industrial reconstruction pTobl ems that exist n che United Srstss
 Mi Quarles. sy ths way, is Qet who'll ly given to the vorking e1l of prob
 lems in ecoaotmlcs. He to- me that { goodly part of his sumner VIII he
 spent in pursuit of his hohh. fn4 !.
 breeding of game. He is vice 2resssent of the American Game Protective asso- | citation, the sportsmen's national or eanization, and it was due in large | tbat conservation of wild life was installed | at Cornell university at which insti- tuition he has been special lecturer for several years past. Economies and |