The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 17

— ‘Pages 17 - SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1903, Countess’ Clever Scheme Bears Results. Girls Graduate to Study Rural Life. Cattle, Pigs and Chickens the Subjects. N, Nov 28.—When a rich and y womean, the took it into her found an =nglish gentle- ) a good But the t girl farm- rs that they 1 A to Z English wick years ago to er Miss good- al men, tion as , one of asked nt Mr. duates, ever would have thought I ave stood two ladies as my head two years? 1 S0 two Yyears ago, Warwick and sheep an they knew their e 1000-acre farm is trict of Llanfyllin, the big “‘gentle- the British isles to try the Countess of War- ng enterprise. The success his experiment shows signs of hav- g set the fashion. Most of the young n g tes from the school w teaches hoeing, pig-feeding, other homely arts, are s, although none as yet financially as the two is now attracting atten- IS PROFITABLE. WORK kiron and Miss Hewvkins ss Ble Englapd is more than it mprican readers—and have, 1l the dairy products n of their own ané a use, also all their own, 18 on the top of 2 hill that comwes near to being & mountain. (The ascent to the place s precipitate and ia is often owbound. girls, not within several n y in all weathers, milk rcise the herd if butter and cheese in see that Yet these hardy vears of thirty, make their model Americar dairy, 1 'who look after Mr. Duriale’s look & themr properly, gs by the dozen, feed them by ders from the dairy, on to rabbit-brueding, which 2 Dugdale is keen on, on emergency help with the herds of es and with the haying, and w awestruck resideats of ss Blenkiron, plus the labor of di- recting nearly every branch of industry with the farm, ac’ng as nstructor of “educated farming” and so forth, makes no less sixty pounds of buttar a day. Miss Hawkins makes and sometimes drives around the country to deliver & dozen hefty che of the Cheshire brand. The two together in the course of e year handle about 40,000 gallons of k fresh from their sixty cows. The two girls, like all students ad- mitted to the Lady Warwick Hostel for the study of the lighter branches of agriculture, are delicately reared.and well educated ladies. Tet the things they do on Mr. Dugdaie’s farm are as nothing in proportion to the things th Jearned to do at Lady Warwicky Hostel. They had dally practice in the ulture of the garden proper, with its sociated branches, such as fruit farm- the growing of mushrooms and to- t fiowers and vegetables; In rearing, beekeeping, dairy rk, including the actual feeding of s and pigs; cider and jam making. h young women learned to mow, io uses for the culture of flowers e principles of landscape garden- ss Blenkiron took particularly in zoology and was as- th Miss Hawkins in many dissecting operations. Both studied chemistry, botany and bacterizlogy along with their zoology. And, Wwise women that hostel graduates must be, they learned bookkeeping. LANDLORD IS ECCENTRIC. 0d4dly enough, the man who has been lugky enough to have all this agricul- tural wisdom placed at his disposal makes no pretensions of being a model farmer. He is an eccentric gentleman who is interested in everything from curfo collecting to pig raising. He is now Mayor of Lianfyllin for the fifth time, is chairman of .“Petty Sessions Court,” mapaging director of the Lianfyllin Gas Company, and the Tem- ected FARMING _ WOMEN WHO PREFER TO BEINDEPE Pages * 171020 . 4 HE FAD FOR YOUNG ENGLISH NDENT * Sl THEE GIRL TERAZLRS oW THEIR PHILY .MV/YI- . L e T T TN Two Fair Tenants Manage a Thousand-Acre Estate for a . perance Hotel, 2 school trustee, mem- ber of the School Board, a governor of the National School, editor of the “Lianfyllin Rural Deanery Magazine,” county Alderman, member of the coun- cils of the Royal Agricultural Socfety, Polo Pony 3Soclety, Bangor College, Aberystwith College, and chairman of Lady Warwick’'s Agricultural Assocla- tion for Women. Therefore, Mr. Dug- dale says he is too busy a man to go in for really model farming. He nirely urges Mjss Blenkiron #nd Miss Haw- kins to make “the Dugdale farm” as model as they can, and is-reported to be uncommonly well pleased with the results. Owing to the success of thé& eriginal “hostel,” as it was called, the scheme has expanded until it is now about to include beautiful Studley Castle in ‘Warwickshire, where accommodations are being provided for sixty girl gradu- ates, whose agricultural operations will spread over 340 acres. Since the open- ing of the hostel at Reading some 225 students have taken a course of at least two years, and many of them now have good positions. Mrs. Pinero, Wife of the man who is now generally conceded to be far and away the greatest of English play- wrights, who wiil probably be one of the patronesses of the new international literary club for women soon to be established in Lon- don, rarely appears even in so mildly official a capacity as this. Mrs. Pinero belongs to the English aristocracy; is, in fact, one of its quiet lights' She was formerly a Mrs. Hamilton, her first husband having been a member of the family of the Duke of Abercorn. An- Wales Gentleman. B ———————— e gus Hamilton, the Times war corre- spondent, is Mrs. Pinero’s son. She is said to have had literary ambitions in her youth and earlier womanhood, but has abandoned them in the'brilliant light of Mr. Pinero’s genius for writing plays. Miss Louise Ormsby of Omaha, who is a very talented young singer, has started on an English tour of special concerts with the well-known ‘cello player Foldesy, and Rudolf Zwintcher, the planist,. While en route from Lon- don to Newmarket some of the para- phernalia of the company got lost and it was not until the arrival at the hall Where the concert was to be given that it was discov2red that the programmes of the concert were among the missing baggage. This necessitated some one going on to the platform and announc- ing »erbally each item of the pro- gramme that was to be performed, and to the intense amusement of the very smart audience that had been drawn to Newmarket to hear Miss Ormsby the director announced that fiss Louise Ormsby will sing ‘Until To-Morrow.’ " —————— NEW YORK MAY SAY “HELLO” TO LONDON Inventor Declares Telephone Com- murgcation May Be Established Within a Year. LONDON, Nov. 28,—Prophecy is a dangerous thing, but with a full reali- zation of its pitfalls the correspondent of the Inter Ocean ventures the follow- ing prediction: Within three months, probably before New Year, direct tele- graphic communication without inter- mediate repeating stations will be es- tablished for the first time between New York and London, and telegrams will be exchanged at a speed of more than four times the previous:capacity of any cable. He says he is tempted to go a step farther and express the strong expecta- tion that within a year it will be as feasible to converse by telephone be- tween New York and London as it is across Manhattan. Perhaps it is as well to confess that it is easy to prophesy when you know. The feat of rapid com- munication between London and New York, as a matter of fact, has been greatly surpassed recently in actual practice. The problem of cheap, rapid long-distance communication has been solved, and the credit for this signal triumph of modern sclence belongs to England. ‘When the permission of the inventors is obtained more than this general an- nouncement will be made. ————— Cardinal Sues for Libel. ROME, Nov. 28.—Cardinal Serafino Vanutelll, who was prominent.y men- tioned as a likely successor to Leo XIII at the time of the conclave and who, in his diplomatic career, spent several years as nuncio at Brussels, has brought suit for libel and defamation of character against the radical Bel- gian paper the Express of Liege. He asks for damages amounting to 10,000 francs. ‘. —————— Titles of Spain’s King. MADRID, Nov. 28.—It is scarcely as- TIIRER + YOUNG WOMEN OF ENGLAND WHO, PREFERRING TO BE INDE- PENDENT, EARN THEIR LIVELIHOOD BY FARMING ON A SCI- ENTIFIC SCALE. tonishing that the King of Spain is not a very robust potentate. Here are the titles under which he staggers: His Most Catholic Majesty, Kiug of Spain, Castile, Leon, Aragon, the two Sicilys, Jerusalem, Navarre, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Gallicia, Majorca, Minorca, Seville, Cardena, Cordova, Co- ruza, Muran. Jaen, Algarva, Algezera, Gibraltar, Canary Islands, Oriental and Occidental Indies, India and the Oceanic Continent; Archduke of Aus- tria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabalt, Mi- lan; Count of Hamburg, Flanders, Ty- rol and Barcelona; Seigneur of Biscay and Molinar. Duchess Has Tilt With Union Laborers. e g Carnegie Loves His American Citi- zenship. Making Dolls New Venture for Women. — et LONDON, Nov. 28.—Serious differ- ences have recently arisen between the Duchess of Marlborough and some of the workmen employed on her splendid London mansion which is now nearing completion. Some time ago she or dered marble from Irish quarries to re place Italian stuff which she did not approve. The Connemara product was duly delivered in its rough state and Italian workmen were set to work to polish it. Her Grace came one day to see how the polished marble looked and she was so disappointed with its appearance that she wired to Conne- mara asking the American syndicate, which is working the quarries, to take it away. When an expert from the quarries arrived he discovered that the marble had been ‘“‘que d™ in the pol- ishing and he asked the Duches allow him to put one of his own me at work at a piece of the marble. Her Grace was astonished at the result It was pointed out to her that the Italian workmen who were all compe tent craftsmen neglected to do their work properly because the product of their own country had been rejected. She gave orders to clear the Itallans off the premises immediately. The contractors argued that they were under a contract to have work finished by a certain date, and if the polishers were discharged the French and Ital- ian carvers would be likely to st “I don't care,” sald the Duchess, “if the house is not finished for five years these men must not be employed here.” And the men had to go. CARNEGIE STILL AMERICAN. Before Andrew Carnegie accepted the invitatians of the cities of Limerick and Waterford, I am told that he made careful inquiries as to whether the conferring of their freedom upon him would in any way interfere with his statis as an' Ameyican citizen. He h24 long Interviews in the House of Commons with John Redmond, who represents the city of Waterford in Parliarzent, but it was not until he cousulted his lawyers that he agreed to accept the pre Yered honor. “I want no honors or titles or any- thing of the kind,” he remarked to John Dillon, who is a close personal friend of his. ““All T want is that what I am doing in the way of free libraries shali be productive of some good to the present and succeeding generations of Englishmen and Irishmen. I know that the ‘freedom’ of the cities of Waterford and Limerick ~ntitles me to rank as a citizen of both, but you must never bother me with voting papers or any- thing of that kind, because I never in- tend to take any part in serious politics outside the United States.”. Both Mr. Dillon and Mr. Redmond gave him a written assurance to that effect. YANKEE MONEY IN DOLLS In various parts of Ireland there are at the present moment many under- takings which never would have been entered upon but for American money. The latest is a doll factory situated at a place called Stewartstown, in the county of Tyrone, close to the banks of Lough Neagh—the largest lake in Great Britain and Ireland. The estab- lishment of this factory is due directly to the enterprise of a Mrs. Frances Rid- deli, who, when a simple peasant girl, emigrated to America thirty years ago. She made money by investment in real estate in the neighborhood of Chicago and has now returned to do something toward alleviating the distress of her native country. With the assistance of another American—the Hon. F. T. Wall of Cincinnati—she has founded what is known as the Co-operative Home In- dustry Soclety and the manufacture of dalls is the first {tem in the programme. Already a good start has been made, and as many as sixty girls are finding constant employment. The capital re- quired was not much—something like $5000—because all the materials re- quired can be found in the immediate locality. Irish products alone both in the models and the dressing are to be used. It is not intended to produce the stage Irish man or woman, but to give an accurate representation of the na- tive in a faithful manner. Mrs. Rid- dell is at present confining her efforts to cultivating trade in the British Isles, but she has hopes that in time she will be able to do a big trade ‘with the United States. The furnishing of dolls” houses will occupy her attention later on. —_— Palaces at Belgrade for Sale. BELGRADE, Nov. 28.—Two palaces of the late King Alexander, one at Nish and the other at Kragujevatz, were re- cently offered for sale by former Queen Natalie, the sole heir of the late King. The Servian Government declined to buy the palaces because the price asked was $500,000. The former Queen’s agent has gone to Paris to negotiate a sale with a syndicate there,