Evening star., 1923-08-18
Canadian Girl Wins Richest Prize
La Scottish Matrimonial Market

try seat is known As Mcllerstein. near
kelsoc, in RoXburgshirc, d grand old
place. full of interesting relies anG
art treasures, including some mag
nificent paintings by Van Dyke and
by other old masters Moreover
chase cups won by tho late earl who. A.
gentleman rider, was known durin-
the first forty Years Of his adult Hf"
under the name of Mr.. George" OIL
every race course. and especially on
every steeplechase track, in Scotland
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Russia, which organized a popular
festival at Moscow at about Easter
time for the purpose Of ridiculinE
Christianity and all other religions.
during the course Of which horrible
and monstrous etfigies purporting to
represent Allah ana his prophet Mo
hamet. Buddha, the Founder Of
Christianity and even the Almighty
were subjected to every kind Of in
suit and indignity SO as to DESTROY
any vestige OF reverence which tho
younger generation of Russia might
have retained for things formerly held
as sacred. has just caused 70 he I'm
veiled. with considerable amount o
official ceremony, Il statue to Judas
Iscariot a Sviashsk.
This cult of Judas Iscariot IS no
without precedent in Russia. For IL
the latter days of the reign of Alex
ander III. his attention and that o
the Holy Synod at Petrograd, which
was a department of state, was drawn
TO a fanatic sect which revcred Judas
Iscariot as the most sanity of all tn
apostles, and as the only one who's,
, example should be followed. and
worthy of prayers for his intercession.
since. alone among the disciples, h.
had repentcd of his sins and hanged
In Mexico they take differcn,
view There the Saturday in HOLY
week is given over to the vllliileatiof
of the betrayer. grotesquc images and
guys representing him are sold. are
maltreated in the most shocking and
revolving fashion With great ostent;t
ton by the purchasers and are finally
destroyed by the most atros!ouo
means that a particularly cruel Mex
lean low-caSte mind could devise.
Lord Lcverhume. who represents TIM
soap industry in the upper house of par
lament and who is a familiar figure or
this side of the Atlantic, has just pur
chased Moore Park, of Hertfordshir,
with the object of adapting it for use
as a clubhouse available for trans
atlantic visitors and run on somewhat
the same lines as the Westchester Rll'-
more Club of New York. An American
woman. the former Florence Paddletord.
daughter of Edward NJ. Paddielord o.
Washington and of Baltimore now ~"
wife of Lord Ebury. is responsible
for this conversion of one of the most
beautiful and historic of English coun-
try seats into what is virtually cara
vanserai Lady Ebury. like most Amer
can women who have married foreigner
endowed with country seats and landed
! posSessions is aVerse TO country hOuSr
| life which doeS not offer the same Dc
gree of entertainment. excitement and
gayety as in the metropolis or on the
] Riviera Biarritz, and SO when her hus-
, band succeeded to the family honor a.
| third Lord Ebury she persuaded him -
place upon the market for sale his celc-
brated country seat known as Moore
| Park in Hertfordshire.
Originally the place belonged to the
abbey of st. Adams. After the battle
of Bosworth, Henry VII granted it 10
| John de We're. Earl of oxford, who. con-
science stricken at being III possession
| of church lands, restored il, on his
] came the residence for time of Cardi
nal Wolsey. who entertained Henry
VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon.
| The Blue Beard monarch liked il 50
| much that when he decreed the contiS-
| cation of the monasterieS and church
property he bestowed it upon his favor
| ite, John Russell, first Earl Of Bedford.