Evening star., 1924-01-11
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FoNTENoY.

BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENoY.
People in this country have no con-
ception, of the disturbance which has
been caused in English life by the
widespread prevalence of the foot
and mouth disease. Indeed IT is ap-
parent1y today matter of much
greater concern to the public than
the political and ministerial crisis
and the advent to power of the labor
administration. with all it's revolu-
|'tionary program In the domestic and
foreign policies of the natfon---poli-
cies which call for the recognition of
the Russian bo1shevist tunta at Mos
COW. the eating of humble pie in At
ghanistan, the restoration of the most
amicable relations with Germany, OF
course at the expense of France, and
of the obliteration of all remembrance
Fof the frightfulness with which the
Germans carried on the great war
which they had provoked, and of
their ruthless destruction of civilian
life and of private property In fla
grant defiance of the provisions and
precepts of international law.
q capital levy and of the nationaliza-
ton of land by the breaking up of
large estates and the naturalization
also of public utilities, leave the Eng
lish people cold when compared to
the alI-absorbing problem OF the foot
and mouth disease.
/ 1t Is not alone that the localities in
which outbreaks of the malady have
occurred~sometimes entire coun-
ties-have been subjected to the most
drastic quarantine, and that all the
cattle and live stock in the regions
affected have been ruthlessly slaugh-
tered by the hundreds of thousands
and their carcasses burned, but also
1T has led the government. to forbid
all hunting. This decree has affected
many hundreds of packs which are
now confine ed to their kennels 1t has
thrown thousands upon thousands Of
grooms and servants. stable boys, etc.
out of employment-indeed, all that
their living in direct employment in
connection with this particular form
Of English sport, the trouble being
that horses. like sheep and pigs,
though themselves more or less i'm
mune to the. malady, carry about and
spread the germs thereof by. the dirt
which they pick up with their feet.
. That is the reason of the wholesale
slaughter of live stock In the con-
taminated districts. That is why the
Aunting, which for hundreds Of years
British people, has had to be sus-
pended, and that Is why there Is such
q famine-like shortage in the sup
ply of milk and eggs and native Eng
fish mutton and beet Just at present
\ 4
/. Lady Twysden's,d iffsrences in. the
London divorce court with her hus-.
band, Sir Roger Twysden, a retired
commander of the royal navy, serve
to call attention once; more to a fam
lily that has. furnished much con-
fusion and romance to the English
baronetage. There are two baronet-
cies of the same ancient family, the
one created by James I in 1910,
whose members spell their name with
a ~" as 'Twysden," of which Sir
Roger. the present respondent in the
divorce court, is the chief. The other
baronetcY was conferred by King
Charlie II, in. 1855, and its hold
ers spell their name with an a. as
s"Twisden," and has as chief Sir John
Of the well known legal firm of Twis-
den & Co., in London. He is a; man
of close upon seventy, has q place
known as Bradbourne, near Maid
stone, in Kent, and as he is unmar-
ried and there appear to be no heirs,
It looks very much as If his baronetcy
were destined to become once more
: It was already pronounced extinct
In 1871, and until fourteen years ago
was recorded as being no longer in
existenoe This impression was
proved: to be erroneous by a most re-
markable law. suit which took place
in 1903, when the baronetcy was sue
cessfuliy ciairned by the late Rev.
Sir John Twisden one of the most dis
tinguished mathematfcians OF the
University or Cambridge and Tor
many yeGrv professor of mGthematfcs
1t--the StaH College of the British