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THE MYSTERIOUS TRUNK
CRIMES THAT HAVE HORRI-
FIED 'TIIE WORLD.
Long List of Tragedies—In-Almost
Every Case the Murderer
Was Arrested.
To commit a murder is compare-
tively easy. The difficulty comes in
when the crime has to be conceal-
ed. Where the identification of the
victim must lead to the discovery
of the assassin, the difficulty is in-
/roreased. At first sight, the hiding
of a body in a box would seem to
be an easy and ready mode of dis-
posal, providing always that the
box and its contents can be kept
sufficiently long to render identific-
ation impossible. As a matter of
fact, however, in every case—with
ane exception -where a box has
been employed, discovery has fol-
lowed, says London Answers.
'AFFAIR OF THE BANK PORTER.
Although England set the exam-
ple in regard to box crimes, it is
to the Continent one must go for
the majority of cases. In Paris, in
the year 1832, a bank porter nam-
ed Ramus was poisoned by his
friend Regey. Tne head was plac-
ed in a box, and thrown in the
Seine, to be fished up almost int:-
• mediately afterwards by a party of
boatmen
'f> In 1850, a well-known dealer in
art bronzes, named Poirier Des-
fontaines, an old baehelor, was
murd,ex•ed by his servant, one Vion.
'' Desfontaines' assassin sent the evi-
1 dance of his crime in a trunk to
1• Chateauroux, "to.be left till call-
ed for," There was no trace of Vi -
on to be found, and he was only
captured by an ingenious use of the
public journals, devised by the
celebrated detective Canler., Cant
ler had a paragraph inserted to the
effect that all search for the crimin-
� �„eel-would be useless, seeing that he
had managed to escape into Spain.
Believing that the police had ab -
y': e,ndoned pursuit, Vion imprudently
_,- showed himself in Paris, and was
apprehended.
A few years later, Victor Dom -
by imitated Vion's exploit, for he
also despatched his victim in a
. • Strunk, "to be left till called for.”
This time the burden was sent to
Lyons, and when the body was
found suspicion fell upon Domby's
Mend Calloux, who had bought
the wooden case, and bad trundled
it to the railway station, not know-
ing what it contained. Domby's
guilt was brought home to him.
A CALLOUS COUPLE.
A terrible example of callousness
Is that of a young man named Vit -
e -.akseancl a girl named Marie Beyer,
who killed the former's mother,
and remained seated on the box
containing their victim the whole
of the day.
The murder of Gouffe by Jean
Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard
was one of the most deliberately
'diabolical conceptions that can be
'sited. But, in spite of their Blabt
urate precautions, the guilt of the
assassins was established.
America can claim two notable
;instances of box crimes. In 1841 a
nnan named Samuel Adams was
ppniurdered by John 0. Colt, a book-
keeper and teacher of ornamental
'writing, in an office in the Broad-
way, The remains were placed in a
Y p
„alma And nd xi
as s
l ed on board sbipped a a vessel
bforOrleans,. 'boundNew O eons x
. Bit Nem -
'psis followed, as with other crimes
of the same kind. The vessel was
unexpectedly delayed for a week,
and the nature of the hideous con-
y • ' lents of the packing -case was rel•
vetxled,
Tho other instance is that of
Alice Augusta Bowlsby, a charming
and beautiful young woman, in
'whose death a doctor was implicat-
i `r sd. - There was
A GOOD DEAL OF MYSTERY.
in the ailalr, A„woman, aecornpan-
ted bya big trunk,alighted from a
b at the termins o terminus Hudson
Iver Railway, and asked to have
be trunk sent on to Chic • o,Vhe-
a When
Chicago,
1ihe found that there was no train
hat night sho iiistantl,y lied, lea's -
rig
ng the trunk behind her. The mur'-
er was speedily discovered, and
be doctor question apprehended
rehended ., q
l through pieces of the victim's gala
I *dents nalit'lted with tier initials be -
1;
ing discovered by the authorities
in his house,.
America can also boast of a ter-
rible use to which a trunk was put
by the stupendous villain Holmes,
who murdered wholesale. He util-
ized a trunk 'not merely to conceal
the bodies of his victims, but actu-
ally to take their lives. They were
first drugged, then placed in the
trunk, attached to a tube connected
with an ordinary gas -pipe, and thus
poisoned.
The box crime in England was re-
vived in 1872 by the Rev. John
Selby Watson, who, in a fit of pas-
sion, murdered his wife, and pur-
chased a trunk to conceal tho deed.
He subsequently attempted to com-
mit .suicide, and confessed what he
had done. He was judged insane,
and he ended his days at Broad-
moor,
HARLEY STREET MYSTERY,
The Harley Street mystery of
1879, where the dead body of a wo-
man was found in the cellar of one
of the mansions in this well'known
thoroughfare, was never solved;
but the case hardly comes within
the category of a box crime, as the
receptacle employed was a cask. On
the other hand, the case of Arthur
Devereux, the chemist, who mur-
dered his wife and two children, is
quite a typical example. Devereux
introduced a new feature to get rid
of the obvious risks of discovery.
He filled the trunk with cement,
and, in addition, took the most
elaborate precautions. Underneath
the box lid was another covering
of wooden sections, neatly fitted to-
gether, and with cross -bars screw-
ed. the whole being glued, sized,
and varnished. Notwithstanding all
these precautions, Dere'eut's
guilt was brought home to him.
The crime of Edgar Edwards was
particularly crafty and atrocious.
He entered into negotiations with
a Mr. Darby to purchase the lst
ter'•s grocery, business in Camber-
well, murdered him, his wife and
child, removed their bodies in two
wooden boxes and a tin trunk to
Leytonstone, where they were bur-
ied in the garden of a house which
Edwards had just taken. At this
house he attempted to murder a
man named Garland under similar
circumstances, and the matter com-
ing into the hands of the police,
they searched the house, and found
business cards bearing Darby's
name. This led to the conviction of
the miscreant.
RE3IEDIES FOR SEA. -SICKNESS
English Princess Royal Had to
Endure Some Odd Ones.
Perhaps the most curious rem-
edy for seasickness ever prescribed
was that arranged by Sir Theodore
Mayern for the English Princess
Royal when she crossed to Belgium
in 1042. Cinnamon, coriander,
anise, ambergris, musk and sugar
were to be made up into long tubes
for her to munch on the voyage; a
plaster of balsam of Peru, guns
mastic and laudanum was to be ap-
plied to the pit of the stomach and,
in addition, she was to inhale the
comforting vapors arising from a
hash of toast, orange and citron
peel, roses, lavender and cloves,
mingled with wine, oiunamon water
and elderflower vinegar.
There was a time when it was
believed possible to prevent sea-
sickness by means of specially con-
structed vessels, The Calais -Dover,
a twin ship, was used on the chan-
nel s
exvico for many years.
Great
things „were g e e expeetecl from this,
but she proved a slow boat, and her
passengers were by no means im-
mune from seasickness,
Another attempt in this direction
was the Castala, in which the sa-
loon was suspended like a hammock
with a view to minimizing the
Pitching and rolling. This turned
out an utter failure. If tho roll-
ing was less than in ordinary.ves-
sels the pitching was quite as bad,
and, moreover, the swinging me-
chanism occasionally stuck.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Love never listed to fear.
r.
You do not gain strength by pos-
ing for sympathy.
When a sin suits us it usually be-
comes insignificant,
Happiness and holiness take
turns at being cause and effect.
Thy -will be done” calls for ca_
oncrafiou as well as resignation.
FORMS OF HOSPITALITY
DIFFERENT WAYS OF ENTER-
TAINING GUE can.
In all Italian Palace—Sofa Seat in.
Oc5'n 5ny-�'lhirllish
(Reception.
A celebrated. Pxenoh lady a,t
home in every city in Europe re-
cently wrote a very clever book in
which she oritised the various
forms of hospitaliity as practised
by society all over the continent,
In no country; in the world, she
finally summed up, is the difficult
art of • entertaining so thoroughly
understood and so well carried
through, says, a writer in the Lon-
don Chronicle, as in our own
"right little, tight little island."
Personally I think the Americans
surpass us in the art. They lay
their time, their motors and their
intellects at the feet of any wan-
dering globe trotter who happens
to possess a letter of introduo-
tion, We English, on the other
hand only take to our bosoms those
people whom we have met and tried
and not found wanting; we are nos
good at promiscuous good fellow-
ship, whatever one French admirer
may say to the contrary.
It is amazing what a dial of dale
ference the sea makes between us
and our European brethren. That
briny boundary has indeed made
us a race apart in manners, cus-
toms and ideals. Our lavish has-
pitality when we are really stirred
up to show ourselves at our best
leaves our foreign friends gaping
at our extravagance'.
AN EVENING IN ITALY,
I remember being invited years
ago to pass the evening with an It-
alian Contess and her two daugh-
ters. I expected dinner, as did the
other members of my party, but
no dinner appeared. Apparently
our hostess had dined earlier in the
day, At about half -past nine the
folded doors of the gilded salon.
were thrown open and two magnif-
icent flunkies appeared. One bore
a tray on which was an apparently
golden goblet and three, small cups
of priceless china. The other car-
led a salver on which reposed cakes
of all descriptions. Solemnly, in
almost regal state, they advanced
to the Contessa, while our fainting
spirits slowly revived.
Bowing stiffly, these stuffed ef-
figies of men poured out some
thick, nauseous looking chocolate
and handed it and the cakes exclu-
sively to our hostess and her two
daughters, ignoring our starving
presence altogether. Then the
doors closed upon them, and we,
hungry and half fainting, saw them
no more. As soon as we decently
could Are quitted this scene of open
handed revelry and hastened to sol-
ace and sustain our drooping bod-
ies at the nearest restaurant where
solid and satisfying food could be
bought.
That, example was certainly not
quite what the English nation
would describe as generous hospit-
ality. As a matter of fact Italians
as a rule are not given to much
social intercourse in the way of
small or friendly dinners. One big
squash a year where all the world,
or at least the world of their social
clique, are invited to listen to
choice music and to discuss the lat-
est international scandal, is about
their limit. Their "at home" days
are held in the public gardens like
in the Pinico at Rome, where "car-
riage calls" are made and the af-
fairs of the nation discussed. Thus
the Italians keep themselves "au
courant" of all that is going on,
and no extra expense is incurred in
the way of cakes and cream, &c.
IN GERMANY
one is invited to Kaffee Klatsahes,
where coffee and the most marvel-
lous cream cakes of all sorts are
handed round, cakes that melt
creamily in one's mouth. They are
indeed ambrosial. But being hor-
ribly absent minded and seldom the
person of greatest consequence in
the room, l have over and over
again caused a terrible flutter in
the dovecotes by marching right
away to the sofa anal calmly seat-
ing self
and making self quite
comfortable,I
only to be removed
either tactfully or otherwise,' as
h
everyone who has travelled in Ger-
many at all knows that the sofa
seat, like the seat facing the horses
in a carriage, is reserved for the
chief guest, or at least for that wo
man who has earned her country's
approbation. by the fiery trial of
matrimony
One can imagine the almost blas-
phemous presumption of an unim-
portant spinster who dares to nes-
tle down cosily into such a seat. I
have given up visiting in Germany,
e,xperienees of this kind have com-
pletely destroyed my nerve.
While
I was staying
in
Demes-
ne
the marriage of the daughter
of a Turk of the upper glasses took
place. An urgent invitation was
sent across thewilyto our hotel to
come and join in the fun, We were
warned that, a direct refusal would
htrrt the feelings of ori hospitable
host and bastrs& so en the second
day of 117,' feast we Born est cur' tra-
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vel spoiled best' and crossed the
road to the
SCENE QF THE FRAY.
We passed through • two 'rooms
filled with chattering crowds and
across a courtyard in which the
"tomtoms" or some analagous in-
strument of torture. wailed and
hummed all day long. We, ware
finally escorted .into a room thick
with tobacco smoke and filled with
women most gorgeously dressed
lying around in the • room `- On
couches. We bowed vaguely, hav-
ing no idea who our hostess might
be, and as we did not .possess a
word of Turkish, and our hostess,
blazing with diamonds, did. not pos-
sess a word of English, matters
came to a standstill 'while an in-
terpreter was fetched.
The Turkish ladies in the mean-
time gathered around us and exam-
amined our faces carefully, the way.
we did our hair and our clothes,.
apparently from their gestures and
the way Ley jabbered among them -
.selves they did not reckon mach on
any of them.
+finally a young girl arrived who
had been to a school where English
was taught. She asked ifs -various
questions, which she interpreted,
along with the answers, to an ad-
miring audience, and all the time
the most awful coffee, piled up with
sugar, the most nauseous looking
sweetmeats and cigarettes, were
being passed around and pressed
upon us, and, horror of horrors, we
were expected to eat our fill. The
cigarettes were excellent, but in-
termixed with those sweetmeats
and that awful coffee the result
was disastrous. I was ill for days
after that example of ,
TURKISH HOSPITALITY.
When the curiosity about us be-
gan to wane and flicker out our
interpreter asked us if we would
like to see the bride- She had re-
tired, worn out by the noise and the
excitement, to bed in the harem,
and there we found her, a mere
child, fast asleep in. a room over-
looking the courtyard where the
tomtom players kept up their most
infernal din. Behind her pillow re-
posed a red cushion with a, fez up,-
on it to show that she was the ex-
clusive property of a Turk. '
One other example -I experienced
of hospitality in the seats of the
mighty. I was travelling through
the Levant: and had an introduction
to a high born Greek, I arrived at
his house dead beat, and implored
permission to go straight to bed.
After some demur my request was
acceded to, and I was shown in
great state to my room. The apart-
ment was large and well furnished,
showing signs of wealth and good
taste, but the sheets of the bed,
alas, had certainly been used be-
fore,
The next morning, when raven-
ous, I entered the room where I
hoped to find breakfast, no sign of
it had yet appeared. I thought of
my Italian experience and my heart
sank. I had nine hours on a cross -
saddle before me, and I felt as hol-
low as a drum.
For an hour I sat and made pol-
ite conversation with my host and
hostess, and was just growing des-
perate and about to ask for some-
thing to eat to still my alarming
hunger when the door opened and
a most welcome domestic appeared
bearing
A HUGE STEAMING BOWL.
By the side of the bow] a tiny pot
was placed and then a huge dish of
uncooked eggs a pearedr a plate
with a colossal pat of butter upon
,and to my horror, no bread, but
is plate of sweet fancy biscuits, my
pet abomination.
At the invitation of my host, I
sat down, and discovered that the
enormous bowl was filled with hot
milk. A cup was filled from it and
my host politely asked ma if I took
coffee with my milk and on my ans-
wering in the affirmative, about
two eggspoonfuls were poured cau-
tiously into my cup, then the fancy
biscuits were solemnly handed to
me, but here my .good breeding
gave way at some unexpected thin
plase.
I recoiled shudderingly frorn the
proffered feast and demanded
bread loudly, and bread was
brought. The eggs I left severely
alone, as I had not the faintest idea
what I was supposed to do with
thein. My host and hostess did not
mature on thein either,
Breakfast over, I'bade my hostess
adieux:then I and -.her husband
mounted and rode away into the
wilds with our escort.
At lunch time the most delicious
croquettes were produced and some
ambrosial wine, on which . we all
feasted sumptuously. Afternoon
tea I had to do without alas! such
decadent luxuries not being en-
couraged in those portions of the
globein which I found myself,
We mounted once more and rode
of till dusk, when we descended at
an inn of unprepossessing appear-
ance.
I shall remember that inn all my
life. I . was famished yet once
again, and all that they could pro-
duce that appeared to ire fit to eat
was some clotted cream and a bowl
of hot wine 1
HISTORIC RESIDENCE.
Where Three Premiers Lived in
London,
The London (England) County
Council have issued another pamph-
let concerning houses of historical
interest, the most famous now dealt
with being No. 10 St. James'
Square, where three Prime Minis-
ters have lived, namely, William
Pitt, Earl of Chatham e . Edward
Geoffrey -Stanley, Earl of Derby=
and lA . E. Gladstone. Pitt lived
at No. 10 from 1769 to 1762, when
he gave it up for, reasons indicated
in' the following statement:—
"On the accession of George III.,
Pitt's position soon became unten-
able. On the rejection of his ad-
vice to the King Pitt and his col-
league, Temple, sent in their resig-
nations and the most brilliant Ad-
ministration of English history was
ended. Thereupon he gave up his
house in St. James' Square, and
resolved to live altogether at
Hayes."
The house was occupied by Lord
Derby from 1837 to 1854. When he
took up this residence he was sup-
porting Sir Robert Peel, and it was
not until 1841 that his party came
into power. A glimpse of the eti-
quette of these long -gone days is
quoted:—
"It
uoted:"It must have been at 10 that
`the pleasant party,' described by
Lord Malmesbury as taking place
on April 14, 1842, was held. 'Mr.
Everett, without waiting to be in-
troduced, asked me how much beer
money 1 gave ' my servants, and
seemed to think it was too mach.
He was dressed in a green coat, not
a common .color o for .a dinner in
London.'""
According to Lord Malmesbury,
Lord Derby was in the habit of sit-
ting all day in a back room. . In
1890, Mr. Gladstone rented No. 10,
but his term of occupation lasted
only a few months, corresponding'
with the Parliamentary session. of
1890 (February to Augnst). A tablet.
on the house now indicates: "Here
lived three Prime Ministers."—
London Standard.
F -a
TABLES OP AIIAB FOU\D.
Prof.. Reisner Makes Important
Discovery in Palestine.
A discovery of vast importance for
Biblical history is reported from
Berlin by the London Daily Tele-
graph.
It 'appears . that Professor Reis-
ner, who has been carrying out the
excavations for an -American so-
ciety on the ,site of the Israelitish
capital, in Samaria, has unearthed
a hundred clay tablets covered
with inscriptions which ai•e believ-
ed to form a portion of the archives
of King Ahab, a co
ntem ora,Y
of
the Prophet Elijaa,
''These inscriptions, which merely
in quantity constitute the most re-
markable archaeological find that
has been made in Palestine, are
not cut -.into the tables, but are
written in old Herabic characters
with the intensely black ink found
oft .the ,Egyptian papyri between
one thousand and two thousand
years before Christ,
One of them is a letter to. Ahab
from the King of Assyria, who, Dr.
Yahuda believes, was either As-
surbanipal or his son, Saim.anessei•
II. Another table contains 'a de-
tailed inventory of the furniture in
the royal palace, but further n
ar-
ticulars of the find have not yet
beiomo known.
Nevorthelessl it is evidently des-
tined to provide Convincing con-
firmation. of certain phases- of Old
Testament history which `some of
the modern critics have been inthe
habit, of treating • as altogether:
tr,vfhinna,
EVOLUTION OF WORLDS
THE ADVAIN CE OF THE NEBU-
LAR THEORY.
President's Address Before Royal
Astronomical Society of
Canada.
"In the growth of science it is
a striking fact that -the thought and
strivings ef different ages have been
very markedly affected," said Pro-
fessor Alfred T. DeLury. "Thus,
the assumption that the earth is the
centre of the universe, held reinthe n
on astronomical 'activity through-
out a long period, rooted in an an-
tique past and shading significantly
into the age we call modern. So, in
the newer ages of science, heralded
by Leonardo da Vinci and Bacon,
the distinctive mark is the demand
that' knowledge of the world of na-
ture must be made to rest on ob-
servation and experiment. True,
observation . and t iperiment were
not new as methods; the great leg-
acy of Greek 'astronomy standing a
monument to the true spirit of en-
quiry, but now they are formulat-
ed and insisted upon as the final
basis.,
THE NEBULAR THEORY.
Passing over the earlier attempts
to explain the Cosmos, the lecturer
dealt with the nebular theory of
La Place and its modifications to
the present day. The advance in
Physics at the present day has de-
veloped many difficulties in the way
of the nebular theory, and for this
reason several attempts' have re-
cently been made to displace it. The
"Planetismal" theory advanced by
Moulton and Chamberlain, suppos-
es the solar system to have devel-
oped from a spiral nebula, the re-
sultant of the near approach or col-
lision of two dark bodies in space,
the impact or gravitational action
on each other teasing them to piec-
es and distributing their parts into
a whirl or spiral of cosmic dust,
and this its turn being drawn to-
gether by gravitational action, in-
to stars and planetary systems..
Professor Keeler had photograph-
ed a large number of nebula, and
he has found the spiral to be the
predominating form, and this has
been urged as favoring the "spiral"
theory. Some astronomers have
taken a kindly interest in this
thoery, but the' difficulties in its
way appear as great if n't g+•oat-
er than in the ncbuiar theory it
seeks to displace. The fact that
spiral nebulae are scarce where the
stars are thickest and mas ed to,
gether, and most abundant whole
the stars are few, is the reverse of
the condition required to ensure
frequent collisions. Another theory
propounded by Dr. See, an emin-
ent American astronomer, within
the last year or two, called the
"capture" theory, whereby the
planets and moons are thought to
be captured masses picked up in
space, rather than condensations of
a. -parent nebula, deserves atten-
tion.
MAY GO T00 FAR.
In the various hypotheses that!
have been advanced, there must,
one will admit, be some measure of
truth, but they may seek to be too
conclusive. Not many years ago it
was generally assumed • that the
gaseous spectrum was a condition
of high temperatere whilst
g
a now R'O
know thatS s a eous elemeni•
under
an electric strain, without high
temperature, will give the charac-
teristic result of the glowing ele-
ment. In the opinion of the great
leaders of astronomical rcaseareh,.
at the present day, no theory liar
been brought forth that will ef-
fectively, supersede the "nebular"
theory.
However these things be, enough
has been, said to show that in the
pounding labor house of space, vast.
worlds are in making along the!
lines of an all -embracing evolution, 1
the main features- of which we'
grasp, but the final details we may'
never know, As Bir Edwin Arnold
under the eastern philosophy of
mystery, asks:
"Shall any gazer see' with mortal
eyes, i
Or any searcher know by mortal .
mind! I
Veil after veil will lift, but there
must be
FIG'S GORE IN CEREMONY'
EXPERIEN OE OP TRAVELLER'
IN PAPUAN WILDS.
]'educt the NativosVory Friendly-.'
WOmonQin Off' Their
Fingers.
It was Dr. Lorentz, of holland,
who made the now famous journey
to the interior of Papua some
months ago. Of one phase of that
adventure he writes: ",Suddenly we
came across a secluded valley of
some 5,000 feet deep, running east
and west, which, to our amazement,
we found to be thickly populated,
Since leaving the river there had
not been a sign of human life, but
now, to our surprise, we found na-
tive villages along the whole lenge]
of the valley, Our first eneonntes
with these unknown natives occur-
red early one morning. We were
walking in single' file through the
twilight, shades of the great forest
when we heard mysterious calls,
which we at ence attributed to_ hu-
man beings. e
OFFERED SWEET POTATOES.
"tiuddenly a small' band of sav-
ages, all armed with bows and ar-
rows and stone axes, ran out from
the jungle. ' and, - to our surprise,
approached us . with hands out-
stretched, offering us sweet pota-
toes as a sign of friendship. Of.
course, none of us had the leas+,
'knowledge of their language or the
remotest idea of what they at-
tempted to say to us, but they made
signs which made it clear that they.
wanted us 10 accompany them to
1 their village. On our arrival in.
their village the people performed
'a curious ceremony by which the].
'made us blood brothers. They.
sacrificed a pig and smeared eack
of us on the forehead with the crea-
ture's blood. This proved a some-
what awkward attention in the case•
of our Mohammedan soldiers, but
at my earnest request they finally,
agreed to submit, provided that we.
allowed them immediately after-
ward to undergo ceremonial wash-
ing.
PIGS LY HALF HOUSE.
"These ase people lived in little huts„
all of which were raised about ten
feet from the ground, access being.
obtained by a notched pole. These.
little huts we found to be divided
into two, one-half being used fon
domestic animals—mostly pigs, who
presumably also climbed the rough:
ladder—and the other half by the
people themselves. These natives
are not dwarfs at all, and are cer-
'tainly not the same race as those
encountered by Capt. Rawlings to.
the westward.
"We noticed that some. of the
women had the middle finger of the,
left hand cut off. We had no,
means of discovering the meaning.
of this, although it was clear that
the mutilation was made during
youth and not in their quite early
days, all the children having their
liands intact. Many of them,, too,
had the upper portion of one of
their ears removed."
QUEEN ADDS TO HER COURT. -
Countess of Minto Becomes a Lady -
in -Waiting.
Queen Mary has just added to the
list of her ladies -in -wasting they
Countess of Minto, just home from.
India; also Lady Ampthill, sister
of the Earl of Beauchamp, Minister
of Public Works in the Asquith
Cabinet, and whose husband, Lord.
Ampthill, was Governor of Madras
and acting Viceroy of India. The
third is Lady Desborough, better
known perhaps, by her former -
name of Mrs. Witham Henry Gran-
fell and as mistress of 'Taplow
Court, near Maidenboacl, on the
Thames. Her husband was known
twenty years ago as one of the finest-
athletes
nestathletes in England.
Queen Mary also has appointed
four ,raids of honor. The first one..
is the Hon. Venetia Baring, daugh-
ter of Lord ,Ashburton by his first•
wife, the present Lady Ashburton
being the forifier New York actress,
Frances Donnelly. Then there is
the
Hon. Sybil Broderick
daugh-
ter
auh -
g
ter of Lord o d $•liddl
ate
u by his first,
Tat•
marriage. The third maid of hon -
who by virtue of her appoint -
anent will enjoy the prefix of "Hon --
arable" to her name for the re-
mainder of her life, is a daughter
of the Hon. Mrs. George Villiers:
and niece of Lord Clarendon; while
the fouatll is Miss Mabel Gye,
whose husband was for many years,
British Consul at Brest and whose•.----..
father was Gen. Loral Bridport.
"Yes," said firs, Higson to thw'
lady caller, "our little four-year-
old Freckly is a great comfort and
help
to ilxc
n Why,
h Oakes
a
care
ef his baby sister as well as any
nurse, Ile's in the next mom now
playing with her. Freddy 1"
"Yc;f,h, int,'' ''Ate you taking caro
of little Oster 7" "k'eth, ma,"
What urn you doun '?" "Oh, roe
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