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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,"' PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1ZZ).
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Hon.- "Bobbie" Spencer, -the New " WTi L .
.- By ;eiii-mim.1! "1 . fe.. r;
.. .J. fHt a singular en elgnUlcant-fact - j '
- . that th only parson In England w 'V . A II 1.-" ,
' : I vhM houniigii i ttrwM by tbi rv II T CTT
ioban of government 1 tha king. v "va II ' - l M
" V There could b no mor trlklng proof - .. -JJAi II 'Jtm2 f '.'1
that itr t the- prima minister and not JTA II fV ' I'll
n -ovreign.who is tne real ruler of -A f : II X' '" I
tha British empire than that It la the II ' j ; ' I I
...----former whoinake the appointments to er J II l' " - . f I
- rettaally. - of eourae.uth eppolntmenta
TetttwUy-tha-erownr-appoliMo tha prima
nioiaitr. hut It la tha prima minister
who make' the eeleeUons. and the awg
' merely confirm n la choice,
..... Aa the reult of th elevation of 8lr
Henry Campbell-Bannerman. tne eon oi
"a Scotch, draper, to the position of the
T" first, minuter "of the "crown, several
aristocratic member of the royal
liousebold, all personal frlende of the
' klntv have bean Backed, and varloue
" athar more or leae exalted peraonajree
h bMn alven thelf Jobe. Tha new
rrrfcatca 'f'WBrr.tHlT'ltartee re-elr trfbor
- ala. The kin le euppoeea v
- polltleal opinion of hla own and la de
barred the prlvlleea enjoyed by aU hla
aubjecte' of expreeilnc any, but the won-
darful British ionaUtutlon. e?hlchtai
never been reduced to writing-, requires
that when a change of administration"
Lakes Dlace thoae member of hla
Bouaehold who - are brought - Into , the
loavst rrlr'-" him should be-
onrto "the donitnant arty.
' , The post of lord chamberlain, from
which the Earl of Clarendon he been
naoed. ha been eonlerroa upon tne
The "Honorable Bobby, as he waa long
ago affectionately ,. nicknamed fol
averybody like him ha for yeare en
loved tha reputation of being tha beet-
dressed member of the bonae-of com
mons. Ha la . particularly famoua for
titr oollare. A etory is tow or an eiec
tloneerlna meeting at which he waa
rr euddenly interrupted by a voice lnqulr-
. inx. -Do tell us how you get into tnem
- collars?" The answer. "I shall not lose
a slnale vote by your being rude!
. aroused a roar of laughter, and when
' "Bobby" was driven off a grimy hand
- era thrust into the, carriage, an apology
waa munnui'ed and'l promiagiveirto
vote for "the blooming toff wot could
stand being chaffed." What he will do
: when It becomes necessary to array
himself In the raiment of hla stately
office, which doea not permit a collar to
: , be worn, the Imagination shudders to
contemplate. But tha salary of 110,000
' a year will console, him for that de
privation. That he may properly sus-
: tain the tremendous dignity of the po
sition ha haa been created a peer and
. given- east imnng mt ht.reairayrregurf
lators of the upper house. He Is re
sponsible for tha smooth running of
it
. . royal Bleeping- apartments -where the
. flrat lord ef the bedchamber hold eway.
. Hu Manr Flonkiee.
The payroll of the lord chamberlain's
department amounts to S29&.00O a year.
He has tinder htm a host of distin
guished officials end titled flunkeys,
- Including a rloe-chamberlaln who gete
14,(10 a year, a master of ceremonies,
a marshal of the ceremonies and a dep
r uty marshal of the ceremonies, lords In
"waiting, grooms In waiting, extra
grooms In waiting, grooms Of the great
. chamber, a lot of gentlemen ushers,
page of the back stair, page of the
- presence and state pages. The vlce
chamberlaln. comptroller, treasurer and
lords In waiting are all political ap-
polntment anittnrluiVfl amnng h I
PQue vi oixice waicn ine new prime
mlnlnter dlstributea The lords In wait-
Ing are all peera There are seven pt
them, one for every day In the -week, so
- - that except on extraordinary occasions,
. when they all have to be on show, they
lay aft alx days for every day that they
.,' have to dance attendance on the king.
Considering that fact, the pay, tl.&io a
, , year. Isn't bad, but out of It they have
- to purchase their own gorgeous outflta
... .. The poet laureate la In the lord cbam-
- breln's department, but, althoagb; Al
. t red Austin was chosen aa the chief
poet In thla country by a conservative
administration. It 1 probable that the
J prime minister will allow him to retain
j the honor, for the salary that goes with
jv w miy iiii nowever, air.
i 1 " Austin were to nroduea another line ke.l,n,,J
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up. for pity.' " or If be ventured utin
Upon such a rhyme . aa "Cecil" and
' "wrestle" It le doubtful whether Blr
. Henry's patience would be equal to the
train, for he 1 devoted to the muse.
' When: the lord chamberlain la doing
official etunti he carries a-white staff
and a gold key, which never Jocks or
unlock anything, attached to hi per
son by a blue ribbon. There I one
greater than the lord cnamberlain--the
lord great chamberlain Jlla ofrtae- (a
aa hereditary one and therefore lie
.cannot be displaced when there Is
change of administration. He is the
roost exalted sort of swell and le re
garded as far to - Important to be
trotted out except oa the greatest oc
raalons. He baa the palace 'of West
minster -under his control' arid among
liis privilege I tbat of selecting the
peer who make a lot of other peer
- envious by carrying the sword of state
when the sovereign goes to parliament.
He haa precloaa little to do really and
few responaibllltloa, but It I quit in
aecordano with the British seal
remuneration where exalted flunkeys
era concerned that hla pay I more thin
double tht of th hard-worked lord
...smberUin., .mounting.,. ,.,, .
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Duke of Portland, Who Hu
Below stairs, among the kitchen pota
and pans, the lord steward hold sway
ovef the',' . king's " .household. - Lord
Hewksbury has been given fhafjob by
the new premier, dtuplaclng that stanch
Conservative- nobleman, the Earl of
Pembroke. The pay la the same as tbat
or-the Lord Chamberlain,' iie.eou -
year.. Associated with the lord steward
IsJir-the-'manBitejnent" trf-the- department
la the treasurer of the household and
the controller of the household who are
paid $4.iZ a year each; But they are
political appointee end for that reason
Viscount Valencia and . Lord . Hamilton
have been turned out to make room for
8lr Edward Strachey and the master of
Ellbank. The. atock of lord is not
nearly so large In the Liberal aa la the
Conservative . party and eoaaaquently
less august folk have to be chosen te
fill the minor court billet. .
Board of Green Cloth. . . v
controller and two or three permanent
household officials comprise that mys
terious institution known aa the board
if green cloth, one ef the moat ..vsner
ble -pTope-ef -the- Brltlea ooaaUtutloa,
In the course of It lone career dating
front before Henry j, it has defied the
onslaught of many . reformers who
would have swept It out of existence.
But the reformers have aucceeded in
abolishing a lot of high-salaried sine
cures that formerly enjoyed Its protec
tion, so that now Its payroll, which was
once over 1500.000 a year, is only $146,
000, of which 166,000 represents the
fcmODhrpMd 'domestic servants.' ITJP
rive Its name from the fact that It
member, when they condescend to make
a pretense of earning tn.elr salaries, alt
around -a table . covered wlth green
doth. ' ' ..
By way of living up to its name h
board has a green seal. It haa a king
dom of Its own extending 200 yarde In
every direction from Buckingham pal
ace. Within 4hla little - kingdom the
Verge as It. la knownrnund the -green
to1
(ithf "board nee power to pun-
ish all who break the peace, and It ha
-the
king servants from arrest. ... No serv
ant of his majesty can be arrested for
debt without a warrant signed at the
green table.-. And no tradesman can dis
play that highly prised document which
proclaims him a purveyor of loltypopa,
egg, baron, or anything else, to his
majesty unless It bears the green seal
and signature of the lord steward. ' The
king's cooks and the king' "gentleman
of the cellar" are In the lord steward'a
department, but fortunately for the sat
isfaction of his majesty's epicurean
tastes their berths are not included
among the spoil of office.
There la a curious division of labor
between the lord chamberlain' and the
lord ateward'e department when the
king ha his annual spring houae-clean-lng.
It Is the lord chamberlain who
le-rponelble for tha beatlnr and shak
ing cf hi majesty' carpets, while the
lord steward I responsible for the
proper cleaning of the royal chlmneya
When It Is stated that there are no
less than 1.500 of them it might be In
ferred that th lord steward- readily
haa a stiff bit of work to tackle occa
vlonally. But aa a matter of fact he
never concern himself with the chim
neys or anything else suggestive of la
bor With which his department la nom
inally saddled. It is a permanent of
ficial, the master of the household, who
bosses all the work that haa to be done
and get 15.790 a year for It. The lord
steward - simply-drop round on state
occasions In a gorgeous uniform, pock-.
eta -hla tlO.OW a-yeer and rejoices that
some -roft snaps are still reserved for
. Another sinecure, th beat mvim r
the loV le that of master of the horse,
which has been bestowed on tha F.arl
of Sefton. who takes over tha Job from
me uuko or rortiand. The latter, how
ever. 1 too rich to mis th fil.too a
year which la the salary of th office.
Nominally the master of tha horaa innka
after tr royel "mews," aa livery stable
re oanea nere. and the varloue equl
PHge or hta majesty, but It la doubtful
If Jieavr crosses tha -threshold Of the
king's stables; anyhow, hla pay would
never be docked If he didn't. . He te only
required to turn up on atate occasions.
At the big functions requiring the king's
presence his majesty Is under the
chre of the lord chamberlain until he
Ah Wece door. From that mo
"enr hhr sacred person T i in the care
or the master of-the horee antll the
Place of ceremonial te reached, when the
oari marshal become responsible for
mm. t .
Muter of Buckhounda.
ori' Th- w.... .
other dead L.l w,... 5?H. . U
berel Vn?L b,'" Mh "um:
office, T ? itu?"- d ""a
be held in, appear irh'. toT
Merega . imiur salaries are also paid
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Retired aa Muter of the Horie.
to the captain of the gentleraen-at-arms
and the captsln of the yeomen of the
guard the two bodies which are sup
posedto do what Scotland Yard really
does guard the person of the king et
big royal shows. The captains ' are
shifted In accordance with their politic
when there la a change Of administra
tion, but It la only members of the
faTocrMr6carTrn the poets.
- Bora queer billet exist, outside the
royal household, which . are Included
emong the spoil of off lea Of the the
position held by the Junior lords of the
treasury afford the best Illustrations of
the absurdities that are sanctioned by
the British system of party government.
There are three Junior lords, and they
may- or may not be real lords, -though
prndattaTTy--admtnltratlon-i-they' are
usually son of peer. They are paid
15.000 a year each, for work that they
don't do, and nothing for the work that
they do do. Apart from their Initiatory
function ell that they have to do with
When appointed . they betake them
selves to a certain room In the build
ing where the business of th treasury
1 carried on and aeat themselvea at a
table- there; Suddenly aa official.
stately and Impreeetv In demenorrt
opens in noor nut advances no Tanner
than the threshold. "Will your lord
ship," he eolemnly asks, "allow your
secretary to enter?" At this they all
bow and In walk th financial secretary
of tha treasury. The official who spok
before, now says: "Will your lordships
allow your secretary to take a eeat at
tne tabler" Again-ther augxaTeliln:
clfne their head and th financial secre
tary take hi eat With that the
three lord of th treasury van lab. and
are seen in th place no more. "Vet
mention of them 1 constantly made In
all official documents, as for example,
"I am directed to Inform you that my
lords do not see their way." etc, ' The
financial secretary who comports him
self so humbly Is really somebody at
the treasury and doe work ther for
hla salary of 110.000 a year. HaJa th
right hand man of the chancellor of the
exchequer In the admlnlatratlon of hi
department.
-The work which the Junior lord do
for which they get no pay constat In
aeslstlng th chief whip to muater the
followers of the government when Im
portant divisions take plane and see
ing to it that they vote straight.' In
various other ways, too, they are ex
pected to help their party In parlia
ment and at election.
Th transfer of the government from
one political party to the other Involve
no such clean sweep of office-holders
ea takes place when there le a change
In the federal government In Amerloa,
Still, with th outgoing of on admlnla
tratlon and th Incoming -of another,
there ere (I office which change hands,
their aggregate salaries amounting to
the aubatantlal eum of I7IJ.J06. There
fore the substitution of Sir Henry
CampbelLBannerman for Arthur -Bal
four, ae premier, means tbat 61 men,
of greater or less distinction, have had
that eum added to their annual income
and another 2 have lost It. :
Hew scheme of Baggags Thieve.
From th Rallwar end Enrtneertnf Ue
- " . view.
A man and woman were recently ar
retted In Chicago for having practiced
a clever system of baggage thieving on
railway. The method puraued Involved
the checking of a valueless trunk or
grip.'
Later they would go. to the baggage
man and. giving him a nice tip, request
access to the trunk in order. to get out
a garment While one was oatenalbly
rummaging In tha trunk tha accomplice
would opportunely- exchange ther-eheott-
Ing of the dummy trunk with tbat of
soma neighboring trunk which gave
promise of valuable contents.
Oa reaching their destination an Im
mediate presentation of th original
check would secure delivery to ; the
thieves of th trunk of value In place
of th dummy trunk originally checked.
What One aTegr Mas Sons.
tnrtntr hhrentv1tt-to Oklahoma
Booker T. Washington spoke very high
ly or what th negroes or the terri
tories had accomplished. If all of them
were Ilka O. W. Spralgn. a negro brick
layer In Quthrle, his praise would be
more than Justified. Spraigna, whe I
now SB years old, has acquired a, tract
embracing about 14 lots which he
bought when they wera cheap, and they
have Improved In- value, . Ha has 14
children, all of whom have received a
common echool education. Three of
them are graduate of tha negro univer
sity of Langs ton and are now teaching
school, while thre more are students
In the university.
On sea is Jn th army and anothsr
Is a prosperous farmer In Oklahoma.
The old man eay that aU of the
younger children shall go on and re
ceive a college training so aa Ao glv
then th right sort of start In Ufa. , -
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By Mabel Ell wood. r - ' :r
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EVENTT-tTVB years old laat birth
day, ' Theodore Lesubetlaky. the
most famoua pianoforte professor
In 'Hie .-world. ..and master of
Paderekskt and some of the other of
the greatest of pianists, . is working
harder fry:diiy JhinmaM'efJjal.
leagues 20 year younger. With eyea
dimmed - and - his - wonderful - touch un
impaired the professor teachea . and
studies "and PUvs and compose with
unabated vigor. In hla xba-rmlng-vllla tn
the 'VottaaetfiaXrlct-nf-JU
"ordinary times most of his day la taken
up with pupils. -but Just now he 1
working - In another, direction.;- He I
going to Lalpela to play some piece
for a frert1 of mechenlcai -ptano-'On-the
lines of the pianola, only, ae Is reported,
much more wonderful. It Is fitted with
cylinders somewhat on the principle of
the phonograph,- which are said to re
produce In a most wonderful manner the
exact --performance of the- original
pi yer. : .'.Leachetliky , haa bean engaged
to- play-seine of hi -own compositions
and also soma or the great classic work
tor reproduction by the cylinders, and
he la practicing aa hard every day for
title object as th moat ambitious yodng
tuaem couia ao.
In tplte of-lessons and practice the
professor contrives to find time for
composing and bis Just now completed
a number of works which ere In the
hands of the publisher and .will appear
very shortly. There is a -volume of
schersl. another, of nocturnes and
thlrd-of 14 preludes.- All of these 'are.
of course, for the pianoforte.
'aw yera .younger I
there I no doubt that : Lechetlsky
would go to the United States. Heveral
months ago "he received a very flatter
ing offer through Mr. Dam roach to Join
th staff of -the Carnegie Musical-' em-
servatory in New York. The remunera
tion euggested would be very high,
something like I J 4.000, - it I saldr but
the professor refused to entertain it.
I should much have liked to have gone
to New York' he aald to me, "but I am
now ; too- old to make such an entire
change In my manner of life aa such a
move would involve. Ten years ago i
might have "accepted the offer. Now !
must b content-to-watch the develop
menta of the institute from here. It
WrerWrWf-Snol
of very. great value to mualc and art In
Aiaerloa.-
Then h expressed hla.rearet that he
had never been able to go to America
even for a holiday, but h could only
get away from Vienna In the atimmer
when It would b altogether too hot for
him to think of' visiting the United
Btatea. , j r . -"A '--
Americans - and . .everything con
nected with -their 'country Leochetlsky
feels the' greatest intefet..-j A -large
proportion of hi pupils com from
there and many ef them, hav don him
great credit..- Although - he - has 'f re-
aunntly.f.umplalnad thai. Hies sea seme
what stiff - and .-mechanical In their
playing when' thsy first com over, he
give them- th greatest pralao f or their
eagerness -and capacity for . study.
Study" not "work." for the latter word
ha abhors, declaring that It should not
be used or-even ' mentioned In-xconnec-tlon
with music. ' "There Is no work la
art." he says, "but- study." "And . so
when-Bn eager, -bright young American
come for his lesson and tell th pro
fessor he hu "worked . hard" for five
hours, he 1 frequently surprised ' and
disappointed not - to 'receive ' a ' warmer
commendation. .
There I : another - Anglo-Saxon point
of view in which Leoehatlaky also abso- I
lutely refuse to share, vta: - Time is
money." "No, it is -not," he says, "not
In art. , It la a mistake to suppose that
tha time occupied la- smoking a' ciga
rette, or in looking out of th window
for nnnlnute,-! all lost-
It T noth
ing of the kind If the "student has mean
while- been thinking : of -r his art and
studies. Quit often th few mlnutee
so apent are much more valuable than
BRITISH PEED WHO- IS FARMED
...:,.n-.-4:l-.-VI-;;-;"- 7-. Earl Cs.rrington. ,' '' '. ' ;
HEN a British pear is placed
at the head of a govcra-
nt department it is not
usually considered at aU
essential that he should know anything
of th bulne with which he deals
and generally he doesn't. But in ap
pointing Earl Carrlngton . minister of
agriculture, the new premier. Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman haa chosen' a man
who is particularly well qualified for
the post. - The earl'e knowledge of mat
ter agricultural le ' derived not only
from-tha ownerehlp of 2J. 000 acres In
this country, which he manage -with
conspicuous success, but from his ex
perience .of colonial life, for he was
gqvernor of New South . Wales from
1MI to 1100. It is getting on 40 years
slnos he came Into possession of his
property and during all tbat period he
haa had only II chainge of tenantry,
eliminating those -occasioned by death.
Eerl Carrlngton la one of the pioneers
In that movement for the parceling out
of email allotments among agricultural
laborers which holds out the best hope
Of reviving ' England's decaying agri
culture He has demonstrated that the
system can be successfully worked on
his own estate, and elsewhere haa done
yeoman aervloe In retaining country
folk on the soil and helping them to
become land owners. There is hlstorlo
precedent for his appointment, for his
grandfather : was minister for ' agricui-,
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a whole 'hour's drudgery ever the key
board." ' . .
For the old master has a horror of
useless drudgery. . H admits, of course,
that hours of practice are requisite for
technique, but be think that many stu
dent spend altogether too much time at
the piano.
Heeiim'taHj "ttelimitwriM'tne pWrfMor"
with several of his old pupil who hav
nrted-Start er'an
gaged InJ-muela-end teaching. .Every
now i and again one of them sends a
pupil of his - own over to, Vienna-for
further "instruction.--and . Leschetiaky
says he - le . sometime amased at the
wonderful manner In which - thev have
been taught. He follows, too,' th work
of American composers with the closest
attention end thinks very highly of It,
a - testimony .all the more valuable be-
SECRte-OlQUEENLEXANDRASEAUT
From th Wew Tot World."
INCS the time when as th beauti
ful young bride of the Prince et
Wales. . Queen Alexandra landed
in England, so . captivating all
hearts by her loveliness that the popU
laee removing th horsee-frora 'Uie reyal
carriage drew her In triumph through
the streets, aha has been beloved by her
subjects and admired by th world.
Upon - theeourt records of Great
Britain stands the following entry: "H.
R. M. yrtncee Alexandra Caroline Marls
Charlotte Louis Julia (Queen Alexan
dra), born 1 December.! 4 4." By this
it will be seen that England's -queen
celebrated her (1st birthday upon the
Bret of -last December.
A grandmother a woman ' who hu
known many sorrows she stands before
the world not ofily as ono of Its notably
beautiful women, but absolutely without
pear in any time for flawless beauty of
ture in the early part of the nineteenth
century.- before he office la peed Into
that oblivion from which It waa readied
a fow year aco.
Lord Carrlngton belong to th older
section or the Liberal party, lie la (3,
but has notably preserved his virility,
clear grasp of buslnsss affairs and
striking originality. He 1 an Intimate
friend of the king and attended-him
whon ae Prince of Wale h visited
India 30 years ago. He shares with
the . Earl of Lancaster- the-dignity-' Of
hereditary " lord great chamberlain of
England. Ae agricultural minister he
gett 110,000 a year; He has a magolfl
cent opportunity -to really earn hie pay,
for the department badly neede over
hauling. Recently a man called there
after a protracted rainy spell to Inquire
what effect the wet weather had on
the growing cropaAfter Interviewing
a couple of official he was told that
thre waa no one connected with the
department who possessed any Informa
tion on the subject On of the offi
ciala waa kind enough t suggest that
h might find out what ha wanted by
Interviewing the editor of som agricul
tural paper. "He would eurely be able
to tell you," he added. "He would have
to know, you know, to bold hi Job."
Perhape under Lord Carrlngton' regime
It may become necessary for a board of
agriculture official to know something
la order te hold hi Job,
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cans he ' Is not Inclined t favorable
opluluiis Over-moffeTireomposera, '
Tou Americans," he said, "seek and
try and flna something: tha eeoesslonlst
school also seek and try, but they find
nothing there ; is th differeno. r I
And very much that ie encouraging and
promising in . the - muale - world in
America much more. I muet confess,
than I do la many part of Europe. -Too
many Tnuslclana and corn posers her are
like some of thoae modern artists who
her oomplexkm. One texture pi skin and
entlr absence ef wrinkle.
Th statement so- frequently made
that - to achieve this result the queen
la a marvel of clever enameling Is not
true. -. During a very recent stay In
London th writr of th present article
nad thlgreatroodrn'ortunat-:nJoytlaIng a cwi-f electric bath haa
frequent, and near sight of hf royal
majesty. And from a member of the
royal houeehold gained the Information
herein et forth. , - ', -. i -.
"What Is true I that sh stands today
ah example of th most perfect success
attending r that delicate 6peraHonrre
moval of tha facial epidermis. That this
should in her majesty' case have prove
unqualifiedly successful is not to- be
wondered at when there Is taken Into
account the skill and number of the medi
cal staff of the royal household.
In such profound concealment are the
minor secrets of the queen's complexion
preserved that to no attendant, however
faithful and triad - by year of - rvioe,
are they entrusted. Th en woman of
th whole British empire to whom thee
secret hsv been Imparted 1 In order
that she shall be properly equipped In
the art of their dally administration is
no less s, personage than the honorable
Charlotte KnollyS. During th latter
year of the late queen' lifetime this
present woman of the bedchamber served
her aa private secretary. At the corona
tion in January, 1001. ehe waa given th
prefix of honorable to her name and
promoted to her present high poeltlon.
This was due to her close and almost
lifelong friendship to tha preaant queen.
In order that aha ahalr be near as
friend, counsellor and confidante, Queen
Alexandra haa bestowed tha rare honor
of assigning to her apartments InBuck
Ingham palace.
The uniqueness of her position lies In
the faot that she alone of all the prying
world knows In detail the exact secret
of Queen Alexandra's wonderful com
plexion. She alone dally attends the
queen in thla -respect. Th queen' dra-
er attires her majesty, but to th Hon
orable Charlotte Knollya only I In
trusted th secrets of th complexion
of England's royal grandmother.
Th Honorable Charlotte Knolly has
learned her difficult lesson to perfection.
So absolutely essential has she become
to the queen that when for several daye
last season this favorite woman of the ,
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S ORCHIDS
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RS. ROOSEVELT'S liking for
thoae strange and beautiful
floral curiosities, the Orchids,
Is well known, and a few of
bef f riends hav pleased her greatly by
presenting her with plants of those in
teresting flowers. A email number of
Mrs. Roosevelt's gift of orchids have
come from officers "of ths army In the
Philippines, where the,, eondlUone are
peculiarly favorable to their develop
ment.- Some of the most beautiful have
been eent from . the Philippines, ,bnt
there are also specimens or notable spe
cies from . other parts . of ths world.
Colonel Bromwell, U. S. A, chief of
publics buildings and grounds, has also
endeavored to gratify the tuts of the
president's wife In thle particular
through the agency of his friends In
ths army located in the Philippine
Islands.
Mr. Oeorge II. . Brown, " th gardener
of the pifblto grounds, hu set aside a
hothouse at the propagating gardsns on
the Monument grounds,. In-which-the
gradually Increasing number of orchids
are placed. ... A trip through -this green
house Is Ilk a visit to some alluring
glade in the tropica.
In the propagating garden th pecu
liar conditions necessary for th growth
of th orchid have been provided, the
air being kept' surfeit with motstur and
th temperature at th necessary degree
of warmth. The orchid needs too earth
or mineral food for -its nourishment,
nor does It derive any nutriment from
the wood or moss upon which It Is
usually found growing. The plant mere
ly select such places as a support be
cause they are usually damp, and the
delicate root of th frower can almost
always depend upon the eupply of mols
tur found there. The etructure of the
roots of the orchid Is such that it Is
able to derive all the constituents neces
sary for Its growth and development
from air and moisture alone. Perhaps
the delloacy and rarity ef Its food le
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pefatJome skip, an ft bones aa eay,'
Here la a woman.' So with aome of
our- modern com posers. ' partloularl y In
th French Impresalonlst school, they
writ eomething and call it music But
It is nothing of tha kind. .
' And the professor struok a few banal "
notes on on of tha two grand pianos
In hie teaching-room and ahrugged hi '
shoulder -contemptuously " a h - ex
preeeed himself regarding th Frenoh -Impressionists"
and their works. -
bedchamber was ea 111 as-to be unable
to attend te bar dally duties ef fees
massage It was given out that her
majesty was suffering from a' slight at
tack of chlckenpox and so appeared
neither In public nor private.-
Th practice or Queen Alexandra, j
parallel -In that of regally - fair Mary
Queen of Soots, who regularly indulged .
In milk bathe whereby to retain beau
ty and texture of her skin. : This, fact
today- amply-testified ' bjrhe" famoua
bath tower of Holyrood palace, was oo-
caatonally varied by Invigorating baths"
In white wine a practice which today
finds .scho la-the -spang batk ofr-Bloo---hot,-.
'-' ' -t-i;..
Th lines and furrows of the skin axJ
primarily the products of Its elasticity.
When, therefore, the ekln of the face
through long-continued illness or old
age becomes orer-elastio and so forms
into wrinkles, it Is necessary. In order
to remove these and make the opera-
tlon lastingly effectual, to remove the
cuticle of tha face. - This dona, A srs""
tematlc and expert ' toasag ia "impera-. '
tlv. Of all harmful thing in thla re
spect unskilled facial massag is th
worst, as by yiat mean mora effects- I
ally than any other wrinkles are deep
ened, and tha face ts made to sag.
Of all skin, foods olive oil is th .
simplest, and so those eminent authori
ties, England's court physicians, declare
the beet. Car should always be ob
served to first wash th face in soft
water, for the face was understood by
no one" "better than the famous Ninon
ds l'Kncloa. .who favorit complexion
beautlfter waa dew, which each morn
ing was gatherod-foT her to use In this
manner. The use of pur olive oil wall -massaged
into tha ekln fe like beauty -baths,
a world-old practice. And cer
tainly its continued us haa been ably
demonstrated as unequaled in preserv
ing the fine condition bf Queen Alexan- '
dra's face.
As - cold and moisture tend - to In
duce edematous conditions of the skin,
these climatic conditions Incident to
England hav had to be reckoned with
In treatment of the quonn'a complexion.
Utmost car I therefor observed In
the heating of the queen's apartments
In Buckingham palace, where, unlike
the majority of British household, a -certain
even temperature prevails. '--
responsible for . th almost ethereal i
beauty of tha blossoms.
Among the varieties which have been
gathered for Mrs. Roosevelt's collection "
thus fsr are eeveralivarletlea-ef-tha
CattTeya and of the Phaleenopsls, of.
which the Cattleya Trianae and Phal
tenopsl Schlllerlana are now in bloom.
The former Is a native of South Amer
Ica, the genus being named after Sir
William Cattley of England, one of the
most ardent collectors of rare plant e '
of his day. The last named orchid is-
peculiar to the Philippine Islands and la tt
one of those received from eome of 4nr
army-officers. It- la- aomottmes -called -
Schiller's mot t orohtdr the name of the
genus phalaehnpsls meaning resem-,
blance to a moth, and the apeclee having
been discovered By Schiller. . ,
The Cattleya ia one of tha most no '
table orchtda becaus cf 'the great els'' -attained
by Ita flowers and the beauty
of their colore. The apeclee trianae has
petala of a light bluish color, and the In- -'
terlor of the blossom le a rich purple, 1-
The blossom of the ' Phalaenopsls
Schlllerlana Is of a clear pink,- th -color"
deepening a trifle In the center. The
roots of this species are remarkable In
being flat, like Una etrlpe of ribbon, nnd
they . heve a rough' appearance. The
leaves of this plant are also very pretty, '
being quite long and broad, marbled or
mottled with light green- on a - dark -green
ground. ' -
Well TttUllaff Frompted by Spiritualist.
" From the Philadelphia Record.
The deepest well drilled for tnany
years -In northern Pennsylvania, now
under way In the Gaines field, was pro
moted solely by. a Spiritualist of EJ
mira, who claimed that in a dream eh
saw a rich And of the fluid at a depth
Of 4.000 feet. '
Her faith was so fcreet that capital
ists were Induced to'jmt up 110,000 for
the work. .
Some people are so cautious that tha
even look before they creep.