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of THE TIMES, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1913. Court Circular. THEIR MAJESTIES' ARRIVAL AT COWES. H.M. Y.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT, COWES. ROADS, Ava. 2. The King this morning reopened the Royal Sussex Hospital at Chichester. Wot Majesty, acccinpanied by the Duke of His Richmond and Gordon, and attended by Major Lord Charles Fitzmaurice and Major Clive the left Goodwood House and proceeded to the Hospital, and was received by Major Chauncy (the Chairman), Mrs.

William W. A. the James, Executive Staff of the Hospital), the Duke and the Lady Gifford of Norfolk, and Mr. Arthur James. An Address was read to His Majesty by the Chairman, to which the King was graciously pleased to road a reply.

offered the Chichester, Prayer wha after which His Majesty Bishop deciared then: by the Hospital open. The Mayor of Chichester (Mr. Councillor Garland), the Corporation of Chichester, the Recorder, (Mr. C. F.

Gill, K.C.), the Town Clerk W. Loader of Cooper), and the President and honour Vice President the the Institution had the of Richmond being presented Gordon. to King by the Duke of The following also had the honour of being to His Majesty by the Chairman Mrs. presented Garland. Mrs.

Henty, and the Rev. Chan'cellor Hi. Davey. His Majesty" was. conducted over the Hosand pital previous to leaving signed the Visitors' and inspected the various Departments, Book in the Board Room.

The King and Queen, with the Princess Mary, arrivell, at Portsmouth to-day, and embarked on board His Majesty's Yacht Victoria and Albert," Commodore Norman C. Palmer, A.D. C. In Attendance upon their Majesties 1 were The Lady Ampthill, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Major the, Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, and Major Clive Wigram. The King and Queen were received on arrival at Portsmouth Dockyard Admiral the Hon.

Sir Hedworth Meux. (Commander at Portsmouth) and -Admiral H. L. Heath (Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard). Roval Salutes were fired from His Majesty's Ships in Harbour at Portsmouth on the arrival of Their Majesties.

In the afternoon the Royal Yacht left Portsmouth and took up moorings in Cowes Roads. Royal Salutes were fired from the Land Forts As the Royal Yacht left Portsmouth. A Royal Salute was also fired from His Majesty's Ship Zealandia," Captain Thomas D. L. Sheppard, R.N.

(Guardship at Cowes), on the arrival of the Royal Yacht. Admiral of the Fleet Prince Henry of Prussia visited Their Majesties, and the Marquess of Ormonde, the Leeds, and Mr. 1. H. S.

Pasley (Commodore; Vice Commodore and Secretary of the Royal Yacht Squadron) had the honour of being received by the King on board the Royal Yacht. The King and Queen, with the Princess Mary, visited Field- the Duke of Connaught and the Duchess of Connaught on board His Majesty's Yacht Alexandra." Marquise d'Hautpoul, the Marquis. de Soveral, Sir Frederick Treves, Captain Philip Hunloke, and the Master of the Housebold have arrived on board the Royal Yacht. Thomas L. Sheppard, R.N.

(H.M.S. Zesiandia Lieut. and Commander L. Vava. sour, R.N.

(H.M.S. Conflict and Lient. and Commander A. B. Watts, R.N.

(H.M.S. Spiteful had the honour of dining with Their Majesties this evening. Lieut. -Col. Sir Frederick Ponsonby and RearAdmiral Sir Colin Keppel have succeeded Major the Lord Charles Fitzmaurice and Major Clive Wigram as Equerries in Waiting to the King.

The Lady Ampthill has succeeded the Lady Desborough as Lady in Waiting to the Queen. AUGUST 3. Prince Albert arrived on board the Royal Yacht from H.M.S. Cumberland." The King and Queen, with Prince Albert and the Princess Mary, Field-Marshal the Duke of Connaught, Princess Victoria Patricia of Connaught, and Princess. Victoria of SchleswigHolstein, their Majesties' Guests, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Attendance, were present at Divine Service on board the Royal Yacht this morning.

The Norman C. Service Palmer, was R.N., conducted A.D.C. by Commodore His Majesty, accompanied by the Queen, the Prince Albert; and the Princess Mary, inspected H.M.S. Zealandia," Captain Thomas D. L.

Sheppard (Guardship at Cowes), and H.M.S. Cumberland," Captain Aubrey C. H. Smith (training ship for Naval Cadets), in Cowes Roads this morning. The King and Queen, attended by the Lady Ampthill and -Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, visited the Convalescent Home for Officers of the Navy and Army at Osborne this afternoon.

Their Majesties were received by Col. Douglas Wardrop (House Governor and Medical Superintendent). The King and Queen honoured Commander and Mrs. Cunninghame Graham with a visit pt Barton Manor. The Hereditary Grand Duke of MecklenburgStrelitz visited the Queen on board the Royal Yacht.

Vice- Admiral the Hon. Sir S. C. Colville arrived on board the Royal Yacht. Admiral of the Fleet Prince Henry of Prussia dined with their Majesties this evening, and the Duke of Leeds, the Marquess and Marchioness of Grmonde and Lady Constance Butler, the Marchioness of Londonderry, Priscilla Countess the Lord Lamington, Admiral K.

von Eisendecker and Captain Tyszka (in attendance upon Prince Henry of Prussia) had the honour of being invited. SANDRINGHAM, AvG. 3. Queen Alexandra, and the Empress Marie of Russia, accompanied by Princess Victoria, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Attendance, were present at Divine Service in Sandringham Church, this morning. The Rev.

A. R. H. Grant (Domestic Chaplain to the King) officiated and preached the sermon. The Countess Mengden, Colonel Prince Serge Dolgorouky, and Prince Chervachidze have arrived at Sandringham.

Prince John arrived at Balmoral. on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Christian, of Schleswig- Holstein, attended by Martin, has left London for the Granby Hotel, Harrogate. Dr. Page, the American Ambassador, has been spending the -end at Stratfordon -Avon, was present on Saturday night at the performance at the Shakespeare Festival Memoria! Theatre of The Merchant of Venice, in which Mr.

Benson took the part of Shylock, Saturday lest being the anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim, a representative of the Duke of Marlborough went to Windsor Castle and presented a flag, by which tonure the estate of Blenhein Park is held. The flag was afterwards placed over the bust of the Duke of Marlborough in the Guard Room. The Duke of Norfolk, who has been associated with good-bye the to Sussex the regiment Regiment for 42 at years, the close said yesterday Fof the church parade at the Territorial camp at Patcham, near Brighton. The Duke, who spent Saturday night in camp, was accompanied by Colonel Mostyn, who succeeds him as commanding officer. The Marquess and Marchioness of Linlithgow are entertaining a few friends at Hopetoun.

The Earl of Jersey after his long and serious illness has resumed his public duties in Oxford: shire, and on his reappearance as Chairman of the Bicester Bench of Magistrates received warm congratulations from his fellow- justices. The Earl of Stair has returned to Lochinch after yachting cruise among the Scottish islands. 1 The Earl and Countess of Gosford are leaving London for Vienna. The Earl and Countess of St. Germans arrived at Port Eliot on Saturday.

for Viscount Errington left London on Saturday the Continent. Viscount and Viscountess Goschen have left London for Seacox Heath, Hawkhurst, with their son, the Hon. George Goschen, who has just recovered from an operation for appendicitis. Eleanor Viscountess Gort and Colonel entertaining the following guests -at East Cowes for the regatta The Earl of Dundonald, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, and Viscountess Hill, Viscount and Viscountess. Garnook, Lady Swansea, the Hon.

H. Cavendish Butler and Miss Butler, the Hon. Catherine Liddell, Lady Sir Edward and Lady Beauchamp, Colonel and Legh of High Legh, Mr. and Mrs. Capel Cure.

Miss Etelka Surtees, Miss Benson, Miss Muriel Vereker, Miss Ivy Vereker, Major Fowler Burton, Mr. Henry Law, Mr. Beauchamp. Mr. 'Seymour Allen, and Mr.

Knott. Lord and Lady Robson have left London for Hardres Court, Canterbury. Lord Channing, Lord and Lady Newborough, Lord Claud Hamilton, Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Thomas Berridge, Mr. Waldron, Sir Charles and Lady Rivaz, and Sir Adolph and Lady Tuck are among the latest arrivals at Harrogate. Highcliffe Castle, Christchurch, has been let on a short lease to Sophia Lady Paston Cooper, and she and her son, Mr.

Ivor Ferguson, are now in residence there. It is expected that Lady Paston Cooper will entertain a party during Week. Sir Albert and Lady Meldon, who have been to Aix-les-Bains, staying at the Hotel Schweizerhof, Lucerne. Sir Edward White continues to improve slowly. The condition of Sir Alfred East was about the same yosterday.

He was still very weak. Sir Walter Menzies, M.P., was stated last night to be going on quite satisfactorily. The Bishop of Exeter has been ordered by his doctor to take a further period of rest away from the diocese. He hopes to be at home before the September ordinations. Mr.

J. Herbert Lewis, M.P., is to be presented by Flintshire Liberals with an address on the occasion of his appointment as a Privy Councillor. Mr. Alderman Hanson left London on Saturday for Karlsbad, where he expects to remain to take the treatment for three weeks, after which he will go for a short visit to Canada, returning about September 20. The Kabaka of Buganda arrived in Belfast on Saturday from England and was welcomed to the city by the Lord Mayor, Mr.

McMordie, M.P. To-day and to-morrow he will visit the leading industrial concerns and on Wednesday he will proceed to Dublin. FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES. THE REV. REGINALD MURLEY AND MISS PEARSON.

Argentine Republic. THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY AND A TRAINING SHIP. An engagement is announced between the Rev. Reginald Murley, only son of the Rev. J.

J. Murley, vicar of St. Erth, Cornwall, a and Miss Annie Pearson, elder daughter of Mr. R. O'Neill Pearson, of Tanby, Cartmel, Lancashire.

Mr. C. L. CUNINGRAME AND MISS NEILD. A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place in Buenos, Aires, between Charles Lennox Cuninghame, fourth son of Mr.

W. B. Cuninghame, Nova Scotia, and of Mrs. Cuninghame, 17, Draytongardens, S.W., and Mary Louisa, daughter of the late Mr. R.

T. Neild, of 100, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, and sister to Mr. J. R. J.

Neild, of Buenos Aires, The Duchess of Albany on Saturday afternoon paid a visit to the Kingston and district sea training brig Steadfast, which is moored in the. Thames off the Queen's Promenade at Kingston. Her Royal Highness was welcomed by the Mayor (Mr. C. H.

Burge), the hon. treasurer (Mr. Cecil Cowper), and the hon. secretary (Mr. Valentine Knapp), among those present being Sir William and Lady Vincent, Admiral and Mrs.

Robinson, Colonel and Mrs. J. Biddalph. Colonel Shaw. Colonel and Mrs.

Hepworth, Canon and Mrs. Hasloch Potter, Captain and Mrs. Hodgson, Captain and Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Shrubsole, and Mr.

and Mrs. Tansley Witt. The Duchess inspected the brig, and then saw the boys at work. Mr. Knapp stated that the cost, amounting to over £600, had been met by voluntary contributions, assisted by donations from the Corporation of London and some of the City Guilds.

The brig arrived only in February, and last week the first boy passed with honours the examination for the Navy. The boys manned ship and cheered the Duchess As she left the brig. FUNERALS. RICHARD COOPFR. The funeral of Sir Richard Cooper took place at Berkhamsted on Saturday.

The mourners included Mr. R. A. Cooper, Mr. W.

F. Cooper, Major Foot, Mr. Barker, Mr. Negus, the Mayor and Sheriff of Lichfield, the Mayor of schools, Wolverhampton, and the representatives governors of the of Berkhamsted Roval Agricultural Society and of various hunting and Shire horse societies. SIR FITZROY CLAYTON.

The funeral Sir FitzRoy Clayton will take place at Braywood Cemetery at noon on Wednesday. MR. JOSEPH WATSON. The funeral of Mr. Joseph Watson, the Paris Correspondent of Reuter's Agency, took place at the Lachaise Cemetery yesterday.

The chief mourners were Mrs. Watson, Mr. A. Watson (son), and Mr. Duncan Watson (brother).

Among those present were representatives of Reuter's Agency and of the HArAs Agency, and many of the correspondents of the foreign Press in Paris. Among Journalists' those who sent wreaths were the Foreign Association, the Anglo-American Press in Paris, the Haras Agency, and Mr. Watson's London colleagues and officials of the company. MB. JAMES HASLAM.The funeral of Mr.

James Haslam, M.P., took place at Chesterfield Cemetery yesterday. Delegates attended from all the mining marched Associations in of Great Britain, and thousands of people procession from the head office of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, which adjoins Mr. Hasiem's residence, among them being the Mayor and Corporation and magistrates of Chesterfield. Those present inciuded Mr. W.

E. Harvey, M.P., Mr. James Martin (president of the Derbyshire Mr. Miners' Kenyon (treasurer and Liberal- Labor candidate Association), Mr. W.

Sewell (vice-president), for Chesterfield), Mr. T. Ashton (secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain), Mr. Hancock, M.P., Mr. J.

W. Taylor, M.P., Mr. M.P., W. Mr. Frank Jackson M.P..

(Coal Mr. Wadsworth, Owners' Association), and Archdeacon Crosse, After the funeral Mr. W. E. Harvey, M.P., gave an address at the graveside.

MR. E. W. WILLIAMS. The funeral of Mr.

Edward Wilmot Williams, of Herringston, Dorset, took place on Saturday at Winterborne Monkton Church. The mourners included Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs.

Fetberstonhaugh, Miss Hulda Williams, Major-General Bir Albert Williams, Colonel R. Williams, M.P., and Mrs. R. Eustaco Williams, 8. Williams, Mr.

Arthur 8. Williams, the Mr. M. Scett Williams, Captain Cecil Paget, Mr. and Mrs.

Matcham, Lord Wynford, Sir Henry Peto, and Colonel conducted the by Hon. the Cecil Rev. A. H. 0.

Law. Woodbouse The and service the- Rev. E. 0. Leslie, THE MEIKLEJOHN MEMORIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. -Whilst the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Major Meiklejohn, V.C., are still fresh in the memory of your readers, should be glad if you would allow me to appeal to them through your columns to contribute to fund which it is intended to raise for the purpose of placing a mercrial plaque to his memory on of Hyde Park Barracks (opposite to the spot where the accident occurred), and to provide for the education of his three small children, whose circumstances have been so materially and so sadly altered by his death. Perhaps it is hardly necessary to emphasize the fact that Major Meiklojohn practically sacrificed his life to avoid possible injury to others. The fund will be administered by 8 committee of which I am president, and donations will be received by any branch of Messrs. Barclay and Co.

or of the London County and Westminster Banks. Yours very truly, ROBERTS. (President Meiklejohn Memorial Fund). Englemere, Ascot, July 31. OBITUARY.

the task. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1903. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. A.

LASCELLES. SIR W. LYNE. death is announced yesterday in Sydney, New South. Wales, of Sir William Lyne, who was in his 70th year.

Sir William was born at Apslawn. Great Swanport, Tasmania, and at' the age of 20 went to Queensland, travelling overland to the Gulf of Carpentaria and becoming a pioneer settler in that district. In the following year he returned to Tasmania and was Council Clerk at. Glamorgan for ten years, afterwards taking up pastoral lands near Cumberoona. Entering Parliament in.

1880, be held various Government posts after 1885. He was a member of the Convention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution, and as Premier of New South Wales it fell to his lot to superintend the arrangements for its inauguration. He was commissioned by the first Governor-General, the late Lord Linlithgow, to form the first Federal Ministry, and on his advice his Excellency sent for Sir Edmund Barton to undertake The funeral of the late Lieutenant-Colonel 1 Henry Arthur Lascelles, who died last Tuesday, took place at Woolbeding, Midhurst, on Friday. Colonel Lascelles was born on December 4, 1842, the fourth son. of the Right Hon.

William Sebright Lascelles and Lady Caroline Howard. He joined the Navy as a cadet and served in the Shannon's Naval Brigade under Peel in the Indian Mutiny. He afterwards joined the Rifle Brigade, and served in the Ashanti War of 1874. Retiring as LieutenantColonel in 1882, he was assistant private secretary to the late Duke of Devonshire, when Secretary of State for War in 1882-5. Colonel Lascelles was.

for many years a member of the West Sussex County Council, Midhurst District Council, Board of Guardians, and a magistrate. He married in 1883 Caroline, daughter of the late Hon. Charles Gore, who survives him with four sons. MR. T.

H. RUSSELL The death has. occurred at Birmingham of Mr. Thomas Hawkes Russell, formerly A member of the firm of Lee, Musgrove, and Lee, solicitors. A member of the Birmingham Law Society, he was for many years its secretary, and the president from 1897 to 1899.

In recognition of his wide botanical knowledge he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He took a special interest in the microscopical side of botany, and was the author of a work, Mosses and Liverworts." Mr. Russell was -chairman of the board of management of the Birmingham General Hospital, and was a member of the Free 'Libraries' Committee. CANON J. DOLAN.

death occurred at Scarborough yesterday afternooti of Canon James Dolan, who, since 1880, had been head of the Roman Catholic Church He was born at Cashel, county Tipperary, in 1841, and was educated at Ushaw. He served on the Scarborough School Board and was member of the Board of Guardians. He was held in high respect in Scarborough, being always ready to help in any cause for the benefit of the town. His twin brother, Canon Stephen Dolan, of Huddersfeld, died on January 5 last. MRS.

GODFREY BAKER. The death occurred- on Saturday night at her residence at Berkhamsted of Mrs. Godfrey Baker, the second daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Ratcliffe Ellis. Mrs. Baker WAS known As a novelist under the pseudonym of Beth Ellis." THE LATR SIR RICHARD POWELL.

A correspondent writes It. seems to have escaped notice generally that the late Sir Richard Powell Cooper was by profession a veterinary surgeon. He studied at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden. Town, took the diploma of M.R.C.V (London) in 1868, and subsequently was in practice at Lichfeld. He was the nephew of Mr.

William Cooper, M.R.C.V.S., who found a remedy for scab which, under the name of Cooper's Dip, has ever since been extensively used in all sheep-rearing countries, especially in South Africa, Australasia, and the Argentine. The business eventually came to Sir Richard Powell Cooper and another nephew, and is now known as William Cooper and Nephews. Sir Richard's experience as veterinary surgeon was undoubtedly of great service to him as a stock-breeder. He continued to take an interest in the profession, and a year or two ago was in a deputation, with Sir John Mac Fadyean and other gentlemen, to Mr. Runciman with a view to obtaining a more liberal State grant for veterinary education and research.

He had also promised a substantial sum towards the expenses of the International Veterinary Congress, which is to be held in London in September of next year." RECOGNITION OF GALLANTRY. King Edward VII. Medal. The. Duke of Connaught, the Grand Prior, and the Chapter-General of the Order of the Hospital of St.

John of Jerusalem in England have made the following awards for acts of gallantry in saving or attempting to save life on land at imminent personal risk A bronze medal to Thomas Thomas (miner), who on April 27, 1913, rescued three men who were injured and in dinger of losing their lives through the collapse of a portion of the pit side in the Llewellyn pit of the Britannic Merthyr Coal Company (Limited) at Gilfach Goch. A bronze medal to F. P. Cloete (miner), who on April 16. 1013, endeavoured, to rescue.

a comrade who subsequently died from injuries caused by the premature explosion of dynamite charges in the Rose Deep mine, Witwatersrand district of the Transvaal. Silver medals to Edward Feeney, deputy William R. Good Fred win, deputy Adamson, Benjamin deputy; Mansbridge, Joseph Blenkiron, machineman; dataller; Harry Rockcliffe, dataller; Albert Wall, dataller Dr. James Forster Dr. Dhun Feroze the Rev.

8. F. Hawkes, vicar of Denaby Main Basil H. Pickering, colliery manager Walter Wilkinson, deputy George Wilding, collier Joseph Rucknall, deputy George Milnes, under manager: Arthur Sykes, deputy Thomas A. Soar, surveyor; members of rescue parties who displayed conspicuons heroism in rescue operations after the explosion at the Cadeby main pit, Denaby Main Colliery, July 9, 1912.

A number of rescuers not included in the above list were subsequently gazetted for the WESTMINSTER -At the July meeting' the governing body of Westminster School, Mr. W. Edgar Horne, M.P., was elected a governor in the place of Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., who has resigned. WINDER CASTLE STATE are requested by the Lord Chamberlain to announce that the State apartments at Windsor Castle will be closed to the public at p.m. on the afternoon of Saturday, the 9th inst.

They will be reopened on Monday, the 11th under the usual regulations. ADVERTISEMENTS of Household Servants Dieengaged and requiring Places, of Gardeners, and Coachmen, Board and Residence and Apartments, Houses Wanted and to be Lel, Partnerships and In coalmenta, Commercial Appointments, Motor-cars for Sale and Wanted, and Schools will be found on 1 and 12, WHITE DRESSES. SOME IDEAS FOR AUGUST. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) No argument is needed to demonstrate the charm of white when it is chosen for a dress to be worn in summer. The dressmaker cunningly contrives models gay as a garden in June; but it is seldom that they win the admiration yielded to those which are gracefully expressed in white.

It is true that in some instances the fashion for bright hues is 80 insistent that it impels a woman to finish a white dress with some touch of flaming red, or shining yellow, or rich and brilliant blue. Or perhaps she prefers a note of colour to be introduced by fine silken embroideries, reproducing some Oriental design, but in very quiet and delicate tones. But in all these dresses the note of contrast merely serves to accentuate the charm of white, just as the ribbon or the sash introduced in a portrait by Romney and Sir Joshua Reynolds displays to advantage the deintiness of the white dress in which they loved to paint many a distinguished sitter. It is indeed in the judicious use of colour on white dress that the dressmaker in the summer of 1913 justifies his claim to. be an artist; in fact, he bases it more upon this than on the lines which have aroused so much admiration in some quarters, so much criticism in others.

On the other hand, there are models upon which colour is used very lavishly, as in the white gauzes or chiffons which are painted with bold floral designs. But this very treatment of the material debars them from a place among dresses to be considered as white. And if variety is being sought, there is no need to turn to colour when so wide a choice of materials in pure white at once provides this variety. For how vastly does the appearance of voile differ from charmeuse, from tulle, serge from taffetas, or from lace! And these are but a few of the materials which the 20th century devotion to dress has inspired the manufacturers to produce. And it is because of this variety in material that many a woman who has a fancy white finds no difficulty in providing herself with dresses to suit any and every occasion.

And now, whether she be looking forward to the week at Cowes followed by a cruise on the Normandy coast, to a season at Trouville or Dinard, or to shooting parties on the moors, she will find models many and diverse which cannot fail to be successful in the hot August days. Here is one, for example, designed in dead white voile, closely kilted from waist to hem and finished with a corsage which is made very quaintly with little round basques at the back and sides. This corsage is embroidered with a narrow border in very faint blues and yellows; and its full sleeves are drawn into a cuff of the same. The long shoulder given to this corsage, the -shaped vest, the very short under-sleeves, which are in net, and the belt and prim bow of black velvet at the waist are details of importance to the scheme of the dress. The white voile used for this model is of a peculiarly fine texture, and its effect is almost that of muslin.

The dress therefore receives due appreciation not only by its assertion of quaintness, but also by that peculiarly fresh appearance which recommends it for the long blue hours of summer. Indeed, the material is so essentially one for hot weather that it is not surprising to find that it is responsible for inany a recent model. And it is no less attractive when devoid of embroidery than when it has been finely worked in colour. As an example of this simpler treatment, let me refer to a dress which has no decoration save the little frills of the material outlining the little bolero. The sleeves.

are quite short and repeat the same idea, for they are finished with wide frills falling below the elbow. A blouse of white muslin and 8 sash of white complete the dress and the hat to accompany it is to be of white trimmed with one white wing. Nothing could be more charming for a lazy afterncon on board a yacht beneath a blue sky on 8 waveless sea. And for such an occasion was. it designed.

But, after all, an afternoon 80 perfect must be an exceptional experience for the yachtswoman who cruises in Northern waters. Therefore, though she must be prepared for fine weather, there are days when it would be wise to prefer a white serge or ratine to anything so dainty as voile. And at the moment there no lack of attractive dresses designed in both these materials; as well as in a fine hop-sacking, in a ribbed cachemire cloth, and in a cloth which is highly finished and damasked. Each one of these in turn might well be chosen. Whether the dress should be embroidered or not depends mainly on the material and upon the manner in which it is designed.

A cloth, for instance, made as a one-piece dress, is extremely smart, though it have little ornament except the narrow' edging of ermine, outlining the of the corsage and the narrow band of skunk which borders skirt. A equally, small round collar, a vest, and cuffs of Venetian point enrich the effect of the bodice, and a belt of black velvet, fastened in front with a fat bow and a tiny, paste buckle, repoets the sombre note introduced by the skunk. In the same way a ribbed cachemire cloth, which is among the recent novelties, demands little ornament, for the material is decorative in itself. But a fine serge, if intended for a smart occasion. may well be embroidered with silk, with soutache, or with rouleaux of taffetas.

On one recently designed the back of the corsage and the little basque into which it is continued are worked with white silks, but the embroidery appears nowhere else. The front is bloused and opens over a vest of ninonfastened with round pearl buttons, and it is tucked into a wide ceinture carelessly draped in the serge and in taffetas. A narrow collar of swansdown is so contrived as to give a square effect at the nock and the skirt is cleverly arranged in front with three pleats. These provide a certain amount. of fullness and a pleasing sense of drapery.

The fullness, by the way, is very skilfully carried to back and there disappears. The design of the model is SO attractive that it might well be repeated in the pretty new material" known as. Bulgare. This is very fine and soft in texture and appears to be woven of silk and wool, the silk shining forth as if in relief. These special qualities also recommend it for the tunics which distinguish large number of the new dresses the dressmakers are displaying for August.

Generally speaking, these tunics are quite short, and they are closely plosted into the. waist, so that they stand out as if wired at the edges. It is not unusual also to see them falling diagonally across the front, so that, though very short on one side, they are longer on the other. The idea was expressed on many a dress worn at Longchamps in the early spring but in London this particular type of tunic has been rarely seen throughout the season. Sometimes the tunic is not only pleated, but finished with quite deep frill at the edge.

I have seen this carried out in white taffetas and in white taffetas but it might well be repeated in silk or in chiffon striped with satin- both in dead white. The underskirts over which these pleated tunics fall are usually very narrow, and this eccentuates the effect of fullness provided by the pleats. Many a woman, however, will not forsake the straight line to which her eye has been trained for two seasons and more. So she will prefer the dresses arranged with tunics made longer and less full; and these she will find decorated with series of tassels which are arranged in front, at each side from the waist to the hem. But this type of tunic appears more often on the long dresses of tulle, mousseline, chiffon, voile, and are better suited to some full-dress occasion in the garden than on the yacht or the plage.

THE THEATRES. SOME FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS. The Glad Eye. THE VARIETY THEATRES. Messrs.

B. Iden Payne and H. Theodore will reopen the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, this evening, when the programme will consist of A Pair of Spectacles and The Lost Silk Hat, a new one-act play by Lord Dunsany. Unlike The Golden Doom and The Gods of the Mountains Lord Dunsany's new piece is modern comedy. Miss Horniman announces that during the coming season various plays will be performed at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, which have not hitherto been included in the Among them are The Apostle, by Paul Loyson, The Price of Thomas Scott, by Elizabeth Baker, The Shadow, by Eden Phillpotte, The Way the Money Goes, by Lady.

Bell, and Ibsen's Little Eyolf. Julius Casar will be produced in October. The Comedy of Errors will probably be included in the Christmas programme. Fifinella, by Barry Jackson and Basil Dean, will be seen at the Christmas At another Manchester theatre, the New, Mr. Herbert Waring.

by arrangement. with Mr. Arthur Hardy, will revive Under the Red Robe this evening. The cast will include, in addition to Mr. Waring.

who was in the original production at the Haymarket Theatre, Miss Amy Brandon Thomas, Mr. S. J. Warmington, and Mr. A.

S. Homewood. Later in the season the production may be transferred to a London theatre. Among the theatres which will continue open throughout August are the Globe, where Typhoon registers its 150th performance next Monday, and the Lyric. As successor to The Girl in the Taxi, Mr.

Faraday will produce on September 3 a new operetta by Oscar Straus, the English version of which has been prepared by Mr. Arthur Wiinperis and Mr. Frederick Fenn. Once on a Time, or Love and Laughter, is the title at present chosen. Mr.

Leonard Boyne has secured the provincial rights of General John Regan, and on tour he will play the role of Dr. Lucius O' Grady, which is filled at the Apollo by Mr. Charles Hawtrey. Owing to engagements for the production of March Hare in the provinces, the run of the play- at the Ambassadors Theatre has ended. The London run of The March Hare will be resumed early in September at a larger theatre for which Miss Mary Forbes is now negotiating.

In view of rehearsals for Mr. Charles Frohman's forthcoming production, The Legend of Leonora, at the Duke of York's Theatre early in September, the last nights of The Yellow Jacket for this season are announced. It is to be produced in Berlin by Professor Reinhardt in October, in Paris at the des Champs in November, and in Moscow by the Art Theatre in the course of next season. Mr. Jerome K.

Jerome will present at Nottingham to-day The Passing of the Third Floor Back, with his daughter, Miss Rowena Jerome, in the cast, and will also produce, as a curtain-raiser, a new oneact play by Mr. W. W. Jacobs. At Brighton, on November 3, Mr.

Jerome will produce a new four-act comedy, Robina in Search of a Husband, with Miss Rowena Jerome in the title part. Mr. Louis Meyer and Mr. Allan Agnesworth in the latter part of August will jointly present at the Garrick Theatre The Real Thing, de an adaptation from the French comedy La Prise Berg-op-Zoom, by Sacha Guitry. The leading feminine part will.

be taken by Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry. Mr. Meyer had intended producing this play at the Strand Theatre, but has had to alter his plans owing to the success of The Barrier. When The Big Game is produced at the New Theatre this month it will be preceded by an original one-act play by Mr. Frederick Fenn called In the Air, which is described as a dramatic attempt to draw public attention to the need for an adequate national fair fleet.

The autumn season at the Coronet Theatre opens to-day with Mr. Louis Meyer's chief company in Mr. R. G. Knowles is among the newcomers to the Coliseum, where the Irish Players will this week present Jackdaw, by Lady Gregory.

Step this Way, one of the most successful of recent music-ball revues, will be transferred from the Oxford to the London Pavilion this evening. This week's programme at the Palace includes the first appearance in England of Rose and Ellis, barrel jumpers, and Grace La Rue, an American musical comedy actress. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The HON. ALAN JOSEPH PENNINGTON, of Burleigh Hall, Loughborough, Leicestershire, and of Lowndessquare, S.W., who served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War and from 1855-62 in the Rifle Brigade, and who died on June 14, aged 73, son of the third and brother and heir-presumptive of the fifth Baron Muncaster, left estate of the gross value of £73,775, of which £71,263 is net personalty.

Subject to his wife's interest he left £500 to Leicester Infirmary. Mr. SYLVESTER Moses, of Greencroft-gardens, West Hampstead, N.W., and of the firm of Messes. Sylvester Moses and Sons, wholesale clothiers, of Houndsditch, who died on May 23, left estate of the gross value of £43,502, of which £42,632 is net personalty. He bequeathed £1,500 for.

Jewish and general charities. Mr. PEREGRINE MULVOGUE FEENEY, of Clippesby Hall, Fleggburgh, Norfolk, formerly. a journalist, afterwards landscape painter, exhibiting on several occasions at the Royal Academy, who died on June 24, aged 75, eldest son of the late Mr. John Frederick Feeney, founder of the Birmingham Daily Post, left estate of the gross value of £36,831, of which £29,635 is personalty.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-DAY. Holiday. The King and Queen at Coves. Mr. Asquith opens the annual Conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption, Central Hall, Westminster, 11.30 (Conversazione, 8.45 p.m.).

English-speaking Conference on Infant Mortality, Caxton Hall (two days); opening address by Mr. John Burns, 10. British Dental Association: Annual meeting, Cambridge. Insurance Act Amendment Bill: Scottish members' deputation to Mr. Lloyd George, House of Commons.

Mr. Bonar Law is the guest at the weekly Unionist dinner at the House of Commons. Sir E. Runciman Carson at at Portrush. Wimborne.

Mr. The Duke of Portland at the annual Agricultural Show at Welbeck. Funeral: Mrs. Lloyd-Verney, Llangurig, North Wales (memorial service, St. Thomas's Church, Orchardstreet, 12).

Welsh National Eisteddfod Abergavenny. Ancient Order of Foresters: High Court opens, Manchester. Yorkshire Summer School of Geography opens, Whitby. Racing The Sandown Park August (Bank Holiday) Meeting; the Birmingham August Meeting. Cricket: Surrey v.

Nottinghamshire, Oval: Kent v. Sussex. Canterbury Yorkshire v. Lancashire, Leeds Hampshire! v. Middlesex, Southampton; Warwickshire V.

Worcestershire, Birmingham Derbyshire v. Essex, Derby; Gloucestershire v. Somerset, Bristol: Leicestershire v. Northamptonshire, Leicester Lord's Two Elevens of Pu Public Schools. Yachting: Cowes Week--Royal London Yacht Club.

Rowing Reading Regatta. Polo: Rugby Tournament. Lawn Tennis: Bournemouth Open Tournament. THE THEATRES. Apollo General John Regan, 9.

Comedy Jim the Penman, 9. Criterion Oh 1. I Say, 9. Daly's: The Marriage Market, 8.15. Duke of York's: The Yellow Jacket, 8.30, Gaiety The Girl on the Film, 8.15.

Globe: Typhoon, 8.30. Haymarket Within the Law, 9. Kingsway The Great Adventure, 8.20, Lyceum Oliver Twist, 7.45. Lyric The Girl in the Tazi, 8.20. New: Officer 666, 9.

Royalty Milestones, 8.30, St. James's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 8.15. Sola Kinemacolor, 2.30 and 8, Strand: The Barrier, 8.30. Wyndham's: Diplomacy, at the Lyceum, 2.30.

PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES. HOUSE MONDAY, 4 Supply. -Scottish Estimates (Education STRATFORD SUMMER FESTIVAL. SHAKESPEARE AND THE FOLK MOVEMENT. The summer season at Stratford-upon-Avon was informally opened on Saturday with the first of the all-day classes of the School of Folk Song and Dance, and a performance of The Merchant of Venice.

From to-day onwards, till the end of the month, there should be little mischief done in Shakespeare's native town. There will, at all events, be very few idle bands to do it. The townsfolk will have their ordinary business to attend to besides the daily round of entertainments provided for their benefit, and a large number of their British and foreign visitors -six or seven hundred of them at least-will be hard at work for good deal of the time that they do not spend in the theatre and in eating and sleep. The actors will certainly have their hands full. Not even Mr.

Benson and his company, for all their extensive repertory experience, can present in four weeks 11 of ShaKespeare's plays, to say nothing of extras in the shape of Richelieu, The Depil'a Disciple, and The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, without constant rebearsals in between times. Besides appearing in the above plays by Lord Lytton, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Masefield, they will give three of the histories -Henry the Fourth, Richard the Second, and King John; six of the comedies- -The Merchant of Venice, As Fou Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Treelfth Night, and The Merry Wires of Windsor and two of the tragedies Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. They will appear that is to say, in 30 separate performances, and on seven days will occupy the stage both in the afternoon and evening.

Their only off-days, and these only AS far as the public are concerned. are the Fridays of the second and third weeks, when the Norwich and Bedford players will take the stage in The Drama of Job and Glastonbury, the authors of which are the Hon. Sibyl Amherst and the Rev. W. T.

Saward. The Dunmow Players will appear on August 27 and 29, in Synge's play The Tinker's Wedding, and the Stratford townsfolk, besides taking part to-day in a pageant procession combined with old English sports, will themselves entertain their visitors on one day in each week in Mr. Rundle Milliken's Harvest Masque. A series of village children's plays has also been organized by Lady Isabel Margesson for August 8, and there are to be weekly demonstrations in morris, sword, and country dances in the gardens of the theatre- the Second Mrs. Tanqueray would say, if fine." These, with the addition of Mr.

Benson's discussions on the plays, and several lectures on handcraft, design, heraldry, and other subjects connected with the Folk movement, complete the list of stage, platform, and greensward performances in which the public will mainly play the role of audience. But there is another side of the festival in which they take a more active part. Every day and almost all day, from 9 in the morning till lunch-time and from 5 to 6 in the evening, the school of folk dance will be in full swing. Chacun. n'est pas aise qui danse, says the proverb.

But there are no glum faces in the Stratford class-rooms, where Mr. Cecil Sharp and his assistants hold sway. As morris dance, folk song, country dance, sword dance, singing game, and jig follow each other in prescribed rotation, the chief thing that one notices about these bands of young men and maidens, carefully graded according to their different degrees of skill, is their remarkable happiness. But that is only a secondary though significant result. They are there in the first place for business.

They want to know how to sing and dance and play in order that they may teach, What they learn at Stratford in their holidays they carry with them when they go back to the schools in which most of them are teachers. They are like the House of Lords, as Mr. Lloyd George sees it. They are negotiating a revolution in this kingdom. Perhaps as effectively as the Chancellor himself, and certainly with far less fuss and none of his rancour, they are, in their own way, carrying treasures of light, air, sustenance, and hope to the door of every cottage in the land." A CITY IMPROVEMENT.

CLOTH FAIR IN DANGER. It is said to be in contemplation, at a probable expense of £200,000, to effect an important street improvement in the neighbourhood of the London Central Markets by the demolition of the ancient and historic buildings known as Cloth Fair and the widening of Long-lane to a width of 60ft. The business of the markets is so rapidly increasing that outside additions in the way of cold storage facilities and other extensions are indispensable. It is expected that the' large cost -of the improvement, towards which. the London.

County Council will be asked to contribute, will be recouped by the increased assessments of the new buildings which will be erected on the site of the old-fashioned and picturesque dwellings which have played so interesting part in the past history of the City. THEATRICAL PERSONAL NOTICES. MR. NORMAN FORBES Baron Stein in DIPLOMACY. At WYNDHAM'S THEATRE.

CECIL WARD. MR. 15, Charing Crows Mansions, W.C. LANGHORNE BURTON. MR.

(Autumn Season.) DRURY LANE. Mr. 5, ALFRED Church- terrace, Richmond, Surrey, 1461 Richmond. ALBERT E. RAYNOR.

MR. DISENGAGED. Strathmore, Spencer-road, Chiswick. W. EDWARD SAS8, MR.

AT LIBERTY. Trevena, New Malden, Surrey. MALCOLM CHERRY. MR. in THE BARRIER." STRAND THEATRE.

W.C. MR. LAURI de PRECE. Maidenhead. MR.

STANLEY On Tour COOKE. Marcel OH! I BAY!" No. 1 Co. Aug. 4.

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LOUIS GOODRICH. LYRIC THEATRE. MR. 0. P.

HEGGIE. HIPPODROME. LONDON. MR. HARCOURT AT WILLIAMS, LIBERTY.

7. Boundary-road, N.W. C. M. HALLARD.

MR. Letters addressed 20a. North Andley-street will be forwarded. MR. J.

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Burlington. New Maiden, STEPHEN WENT WORTH. MR. DISENGAGED. Address 33, -terrace, W.

MR. BEN FIELD. His Majesty's Theatre, EDWARD LEWIS. MR. Comedian, TIVOLI.

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