The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-31

now the property Of MT. and Mrs. Sturdy who are quite .'new" to London society, but nave made something of a mark
 during the Victory season. Lord March,
 who is the Duke of Richmond and Cor dons eldest son, entertained a big party
 at Morecombe, which is within motoring distance of Goodwood. Lord and Lady
 March have only one unmarried daugh- 1 ter, Lady Doris Gordon-Lennow. She di- vided her time between Morecombe and her grandfathers house party at Good woodN house. Lady Doris is a friend of
 Princess Mary, and although she is very seldom seen at 'big crushes' in town,
 She is great favorite at Buckingham palace. Lady Doris has married sis
 ter, Lady Amy Coats Cher husband is Sir James~Stuart CoatsA.
 l was interested to hear the other day
 that the Aswardby Hall estate was
 about to be sold, for I was reminded
 that this charming Lincolnshire place
 was once upon time the home of Lord
 Tennyson. It was there that the poet Laureate wrote his immortal poem about
 '9rhe Brook" The famous trout stream
 goes on &Drever," as it did in the Tenny-
 son days, while There and there a lusty trout, and here and there a grayling"
 makes this little rivulet a place of de-
 light for fishermen Although it's grounds
 are beautiful Aswardby Hall is rather
 an uninteresting, medium size, modern
 mansion only, it's association with "The
 Brook" making it of any special impor-
 tance. On the contrary, another house
 associated with memories of Lord Ten nyson-Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire, is place of great interest. It has recently ben sold to rich manufacturer It is a late. Jacobean house standing in about 300 acres of land, and in it once upon a time lived Maud" heroine of another aIa11r ta6 Tar,r, iar n
 still. remains the beautiful garden of roses and lilies into which Maud's lover
 implored her to come, and the whole
 place is full of romantic suggestions of that most passionate of Victorian love lyrics.
 While on the subject of buying and sell ing, I am reminded of great sale of the Earl of Winchester's furniture, which took place at Airport. St. Mary's near Andover, the other day. The articles sold were, most of them. of great historic and antiquarian interest, and the prices they fetched were unusually large. Among other things there was four fold screen of Spanish leather, which went for something over a thousand dol lars, while little mirror of the Will liam and Mary period fetched an equal figure, and a Louis Quatorze table with three drawers sold for s15oo, and knee hole table of the same period brought similar sum. A figure, 12 inches high or Chelsea China called the "Flower-Seller and Lamb" realized $S00o, and set of four Chelsea figures-"The Seasons was knocked down at s120o. Nowadays, people have a craze for sales of this kind in England. and as many of our oldest families are greatly impoverished owing to the depreciation of land values and the immense sums demanded Tor tax atjon they are selling herlooms which bring immense prices. Most of the buy CTS are dealers who dispose of their pur- chases at a big profit on your side or the water, or else members of the nou- veaux riches, who wish to acquire his toric articles that they can hand down to future generations.
 Among the interesting people I have met in town recently is Sir Ernest Shack elton, who recently returned from Rus sia, after having put in good many months with the Murmansk expedition ary force Sir Ernest has been through sufficiently adventurous times one would have thought, to make him more or less inlpervious to most hardships. but his tales of the suffering of the British troops in that terrible and God-forsaken country are sufficient to make even some of his stories of his polar expeditions seem tame by comparison. He told me that although the mems bodies are ex- tremely protected rom the coiu oy o admirable equipment, internally matters were scarcely so we'll arranged. The food that these poor fellows get in the cold weather that is even now commencing is anything but adequate. It IS most difficult for them to procure sufficient fatty substances to make their food os value in warming their blood. Sir Ernest is returning almost immediately to this 'No Mans Land and although he is al ways of a most cheery and optimistic disrosition. he does not look forward with any apparent zest to winter months snent at this dumping off place."