Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 4

SEPT 29 1005 EVENING STANDARD AND ST JAMES'S GAZETTE 4 led theta on roast goose Such unselfishness raw as it is deserve! fitting commemoration If a lord exarti I a gift from his tenants of a gOOJS that is geese for all tenants! as Gaicoigne tells us brought bfrd Ins brd ship hospitably relieved the tenants of auv culinary troubles and spitting ever? bird throw open the royal feast to all wlio would come even (to those who had brought no tribute And after all the tenants are not open to much commiseration for in the earlier Eld ward) ao day geese were only fourpenee apiece And who would not cheerfully expend fourpenee in a goose tot the delight if a banouel oi many geese -with Burgundy and vegetables? In the reckoning the etceteras must not he lost sight of It was generosity unexampled and richly deserves as above humbly tuggested to be fittingly commemorated At the moment no more tilting commemoration occurs to the simple than that we should go on eating roasted goose at Michaelmas Thoreau in his impressive way said there were many dateless benefits conferred on mankind which have no record in our vulgar day Well roast goose is one of those benefits And after all it is immemorial so it is the law One's only lament is that it is prescribed for quarter-day it might excite tenderer emotions but for that for quarter-day is as an institution not a little terrifying Obiter Scripta King or President? Confronted with unexpected difficulties in getting a sovereign to rule over her it is perhaps not urumtural that Norway should give more than a passing thought to the prospec of having to set up a republic The wonder is that such a course was not forced upon Bulgaria and upon Greece Bulgaria sought the sovereignty of practically every royal Prince in Europe and the plight of Greece was even more remarkable By 2o())000 votes out of 241000 they elected the Duke of Edinburgh their King but the British Parliament would have none of it The Duke of Saxe-Cohurg would have accepted the crown but not as they wanted merely until his nephew the Prince of Cohurg-Cohary should come of age The Due d'Aumale and the King of Portugal the then Lord Stanley and Sir George Grey were also among the unresponsive desirables It was almost as a last thought that the present ruler was offered and accepted the throne Europe a Republic Had not a Jesuit fanatic let out the life of Henry the Fourth of France Europe would have heard centuries ago a good deal of republics According to Sully this greatest but above all the most essentially French of all the Kings of France" intended to make the whole of Europe a vast federal republic Kussia and Turkey as not exclusively European were to be excluded All else were to come in under a scheme which would have divided the Continent into fifteen independent states some of them monarchies some of them commonwealths with a permanent council of commissioners from all the states and an elective emperor as president This was the of Teck Count Albert HensdoHf Lord Westbury who last autumn subscribed for stalls and Sir Edward Hamilton Many happy returns of the day to Viscountess Coke sister to Lord Aiuialy and wife of the Earl of Leicester's eldest BOn Lady Coke is one of the best women skaters in the Country she more than holds her own with the Duchess ol Bedford the Countess of Minto and Lady Helen Vincent Lady Coke has had somewhat delicate health and is a living exponent of the triumph of the open-air cure as practised at mtain sanatoria on the Continent Miss Beryl Spencer Churchill has been staging at Paddockhurst with Sir Wectman and Lady Pearson The house party has now broken up Miss Churchill who is the ouiy unmarried daughter of Lord and Lady Edward Spencer Churchill stood as godmother to the little son and heir oi Lord and Lady Denman The party also included the Hon Douglas Deninan and Sir Weetman's eldest son a young fellow of three-and-twenty who will be immensely wealthy some day Mr Robert Hadfield who is this year the President of the Iron and Steel Institute or "The International Parliament of the Iron Trade" si Mr Bonar Law called it is one of the fortunate men who have won success in their youth Only just forty Mr Hadfield is acknowledged to be the greatest living authority on metallurgy Mr Hadfield who was Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1899-1900 married the very charming daughter of the late Colonel Wickersham of Alleghany Pennsylvania Mr and Mrs Hadfield are entertaining splendidly in Sheffield this week They have already bought a house in Hertford-street and next season Mrs Hadfield will take her place among the hostesses of Mayfair Mrs Lay cock gave birth to a daughter on Wednesday at "22 Belgrave-squaro Mother and child are doing very well It is a miracle that Mrs Layeock's terrible motor accident in Paris in the summer had no disastrous effect Social and Personal The Duke of Connaught who only returned from his lour of inspection in the Channel Islands yesterday left London last night for Balmoral The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire have left Chatsworth for Holker Hall Carnforth' Lancashire on a visit to Mr Victor and Lady Evelyn Cavendish On Alonday they go to Newmarket The Earl of Dunmore has left Ardconnel House Oban to pay visits in the northern Highlands The Countess of Dunmore remains at Oban Lord Dunmore has had a busy and adventurous life He has been a Scots Guardsman a Lord-in-Waiting and is famous as a traveller and explorer He has roughed it in most parts of the world but his greatest journeys have heen over the Pamirs and in Western Tibet His adventures form the subject of several interesting volumes A few years ago it will be remembered Lord Dunmore caused some stir by associating himself with the Christian Scientists He went to America as the guest of Mrs Eddy and wrote a serieB of articles for the English papers on the new cult He succeeded to the title sixty years ago when he was four years old The Earl of Carnarvon who has been entertaining a house-party at Highclere Castle for the inauguration of the Newbury meeting is of course a Herbert the first Earl of Carnarvon being a grandson of the fifth Earl of Pembroke The barony of Porchester was conferred on him in 1700 and the earldom of the town and county of Carnarvon thirteen years later The present Lord Carnarvon who was born in 18C scheme of a sixteenth and seventeenth century Cecil Khodes The latter dreamed of a fusion of the British and American peoples with a joint federal parliament sitting five years in Washington and five years in London The assassin's knife nipped in the bud Henry's larger project Secrets of the Savage When Lord Wolseley during the Ashanti war crossed the Prah he found a white cord stretched from tree to tree along his route It was a native fetish copied from the British telegraph wire which they believed to possess some sovereign magic virtue for us But if we mystify the savage he is not less successful in preserving his secrets from us No man can understand how it happens that with such marvellous celerity the news oi the German reverse in South-West Africa has travelled across the whole of South Africa causing restlessness among all the tribes This is one of the mysteries of savage life During the South African war except where the telegraph was in operation native news waB always days ahead of official The relief of Maf eking iB said to have been known next day in Zululand and also seven hundred miles away in the heart of Cape Colony Signals by fire and drum messages conveyed by runners or cried from hilltop to hilltop do not explain speed such as this Lady Margaret Hamilton-Russell who has been staying at Lucerne and has added to her golf laurels thereby carrying off the Swiss Ladies' Championship and the Lloyd Challenge Cup is a member of a famous golfing family Her father the Karl of Kldon though within a few weeks of his sixtieth birthday is an indefatigable player and her three brothers all rank high among amateurs Lady Margaret who won the ladies' open championship more than once before her marriage is the wife of Viscpunt Boy ne's second son and has a house in Gloucester-place as well as a charming villa at Bellagio The late Viscount Kncombe whose young widow has been lying go ill in Grosvenor-gardens but is now progressing favourably was her eldest brother PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS-No 171 SOLUTIONS succeeded his father the fourth earl in 1890 He mar The chance of throwing at least one aco in a single throw with a pair of dico is for there are 5 ways in which each dice can be thrown so as nut to givo an ace so that 25 possible throws 25 exclude aces Henco the chance of not throwing an ace is which leaves jg in favour of it THE FAMILY CHARADE A iinn with fourscore winters white Sat dozing in hit chair His Iroatoil brow wa? quite my fust Crowned with its silver hair My whole wheu playing at his feet Sly glances uowurd stole My necoml standing at his side Was father of my whole is solvod by Grandson Storied Stone The Stourbridge people who object to the raising in their park of a statue to a publican are more particular than earlier friends of the departed In a London church there exists a memorial to the maker of a cough mixture whose virtues are extolled upon tle scroll Elsewhere is a monument to an apple and that not even of the pipless variety There exists too a memorial against lying and another to commemorate a pill-maker Dublin has original ideas as to statues It possesses one of Nelson which certain geniuses proposed not long ago to alter to represent Mr Michael Davitt The arm being lacking it was said the job would be the Icbb difficult and afford a conspicuous instance of high art Books to be Published ried in 1805 the daughter of Mr Frederick Wombwell There are two children of the marriage a boy Lord Porchester born in 181)8 and a girl three years younger Highclere Castle Lord Carnarvon's stately seat near Newbury stands nearly six hundred feet above the level of the sea in the midst of a magnificent park thirteen miles in re inference The collection of pictures is a splendid one while the library which contains the table and chair which Napoleon used when he signed his abdication at Fontainebleau is also famous The autumn season opsns at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden on Thursday with Mme Melba who has just returned to town from Paris in La Boheme" There will be a brilliant assembly Koyalty is expected fo be present The season could hardly open under happier auspices Last autumn the King and Queen Princess Christian and Princess Henry of Battenberg attended many times and a command performance for the King and Queen of Portugal brought the season to a close Princess llatzfeldt who will be a good deal in town this autumn has subscribed for the season and Mrs Adair and Mrs Potter Palmer are other American subscriber Those in regular attendance will probably include the Bed of Portsmouth Earl Howe Lady Cheylesmorc the Countessde ('ivy Lady Blythswood Lady Sandhurst and Lady Cynthia Graham who are all devoted to music: There will be only three boxes on either side of the pi! tier and of these Mr Alfred do Rothschild has BeCUfed his usual one next to the stage The grand tier will house many subscribers and here will be found a big club box to which the subscribers are Prince Francis Why was London for many years a wonderful place for carrying sound? (Solution to-morrow) 9 "BREVITY 18 THE SOUL OF WIT" We all remember that splendidly terse message of success sent home to the authorities by Napier when he had conquered the armies of Peccavi (I have sinned) History had an excellent opportunity for reneating itself ho-i Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet for ho might have convoyod the news of his victory by the one burning word Cantharides The Spanish liy I In "The Story of the Tweed" which will be published about the middle of October by Messrs Nisbet Sir Herbert Maxwell has collected nearly all that is known of the history and ballads and romance of the Tweed country The work is illustrated by Mr Cameron Mr George Puston has ready a Life of It: Haydon" which will be illustrated with several specimens of Haydon's pictures Messrs Nisbet issue the book early in October Duval's well-known work Artistic Anatomy has been thoroughly revised by Professor A Melville Pater-son the Derby Professor of Anatomy in the University of Liverpool He has rewritten much of the matter and added much that is new and the illustrations have been amplified Messrs Cassell will publish the work in its new form AN EN JO MA My tir is almost cropper My second ii often a propfxtr My whole was entirely a whopper (Solution to-morrow) We fihull be glad to revet fjM unu good puzzle and problem with full notation publication in this column Envelopes should be marhenl Puzzle" To the Royal Family Hitching's Baby Cars BRITISH GOODS for BRITISH USERS BRAND'S TURTLE SOUP for INVALIDS Baby Carriages 3 to 25 guineas Baby Cars 2 to 20 guineas MAPLE CO for FENDERS KERBS COAL BOXES and COAL CABINETS DINNER SERVICES SILVER WARES CUTLERY SEE WINDOWS AND GALLERIES in TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD Tint Premior Manufacturer of High (rudo Hnly Ciwh in tlm World FAMED or SPEED and DURABILITY Specially proparotl Iroin tlm finoiit fresh WKBT INDIA TUKTLR Hk Tins 18 i-lb Tin 84 TURTLE JELLY In Uul tlm oaoh 23 BIMND CO LTD MAYTHR IMCTOHJAL LISTS POST FIIKE HHf NI BOND SIIUIT 329-U1 OXFORD SIIU I CO RUHR OI' IIORll-HTIII I f) 43 kNIGIIISBltt'JUL SW Wwn ion Boom I i AaLoi) I imi mlmm ami I Blgill itltli London HW.