New-York tribune., 1922-04-11

Who, do you think gave Lady Angela
Forbes her first pony? 1t was Sir
Daniel Cooper, 8 you will learn, with
other things, from Lady Angela s
memories and Base Details" which is
another photographed sprg just
added to the blooming stock of history.
Lady Angela had only a donkey to ride
in those childhood days, and on one
memorable occasion he ran away with
her. She had no saddle, but she didn t
fall off, so Sir Daniel, who was there at
the time, said that she deserved a pony
for sticking on so we'll. Zulu was the
pony's name. and his arrival meant
that Lady Angela could ride over with
the others to luncheon at Normanton.
This was where the Avelands lived, a
most typical, jolly English family,
afterward the Earl and Countess Of
Ancaster She could ride also to Ape
thorpe, beautiful old Elizabethan
house, belonging to Lord and Lady
Westm orland. Lord Westmorland was
one of the most attractive figures of
forty years ago and Lady Westmorland
possessed an equal degree of charm.
Lady Angela thinks it was Whytc Mel
the window to see her!" They lived
only in a corner of the house, but the
lack of grandeur was far more impress
sve than an ostentatious display in a
locS ropiol oto Tho al6oct
daughter, Oracle, afterward the
Countess of Loundsborough, was grown
up and popular; the other, Daisy Gady
Margaret Spicer), was in the school
room, and the same age AS Sybil, who
eventually married the only son, Lord
Burghersh. One day at a Marl-
borough House garden party Lady
Angela broke the elastic which fast
cned her shoe-which was, Of course,
two sizes too big, so as to allow for
her foot growing. This threatened to
spoil her afternoon and she was in
tears till the Princess Of Wales came
to console her and sent the little clip
per to be mended.
What memories But perhaps you
prefer to hear about some Of the "baser
details" that are enshrincd as precious
keepsakes in Lady Angela's pages. Her
right to an autobiography comes from
the facts that she is the daughter Of
the fourth Earl of Rosslyn; the sister
of the Countess Of Westmorland and
the Duchess of Sutherland; and thc
half-sister of the Countess of Warwick
That she was one of the first of the
"New Women" as they were called q
dozen years ago, running farm and a
shop, writing novels forbidden By the
censor, breeding dogs and trimming
her own hats. She had some slight ex
perence in divorce from "Jim" Forbes,
whom she married because he owned
hunter she coveted, and she raised
the canteens of the British expedition
ary forces. She was returned by the
army to England, quite unjustly it
seems, because she said damn" in
front of a chaplain and was caught
washing her hair in the kitchen of her
hospice near Boulogne. AS she drove
her big Daimler over the neighboring
roads, the affrighted poilus, scurrying
out of her way, would exclaim as they
jumped the fences, La dame aucc la
cigarette!
One has forgotten what, if anything,
Mrs. Asquith said in her volume about
Lady Angela, but Lady Angela is most
amable in her references to her Sis
ter historian. 1t is when treating Of
one another that the women autobi-
ographcrs are at their best. ~ am sure
that Margot was never immoral in the
accepted sense of the wcrd," says Lady