The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 21

_— Pages 21 to 28| CALL ‘ ages 21 t0 28 S SPECTACLE HORRIFIES HER GRACE — Duchess of Man—; chester Plays Policeman. | | Prevents English Pawn- | brokersSelling King’s | Picture. e Resents Display of Royal Photos as Unredeemed Pledges. yal family een and the 1y mod brought ATTEMPTED SALON REVIVAL oF FAILS IN: LONDON Soclety Waman Weeps When She Tells How Vain Have Been All Her uous Efforts. A fla Mayfair =aid to I have made my last | of the Salon.” There | eves as she went on | e struggled and strug- | to speak of ! always drift | ers nd the doings ir | you want to be really | you should read d such medi- | éal o g time there t. however, is quite | ed out how. Appendicitis has be- | ery bofirgeois; qui ordinary ! T are having it. Liver and in-, < R the two great topics of , ment You should be able to! 8 earnedly on both and the effect | of t foods on each. Quite young gir f you they have “livers” and | wha can take in wines and what , t eject. They explain all the | ® m and go into an amount n(‘ deta y of a medical student. Old | gent scem In their element pour- | ing f sympathetic Ilisteners con- fidence r gout, their faces beam- ing enthusiasm meanwhile. In- deed. did you not know the subject dis- would take it for granted g of some deeds of daring Every seétond or third mter in London society reason or another fact naturally fur- field for dllating be able to speak with better still experience patent medicines wifl presence desired in the 2 up-to-date drawing: rooms of modern London. your | | motor cars and would not hear of en- | siderea SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1905. DOWAGER QUEEN WILL SOON VISIT AMERICA Margherita of Italy Intends to Tour the United States in Automobile. y 1 [ 11 1 JARGHERITA | THE. UEEN" \ g8 5 § MOTHE { O S ITALNY #14 | - - 1 bt ‘v AEEE | = = = ROYAL AUTOMOBI WHO WANTS TO SEE THE WEST AND EXPECTS TO VISIT N > T SPRI. FOR EXTENDED TOUR IN HER SIXTY HOR! ITALTAN~CAR. : - Specinl Cable to The Call jof the ocean’s terrors the good woman believes that the West is peopled ex- ROME, Dec. 30.—Margherita, the | clusively lawless desperadoes and Queen Mother of Italy, is really going | Scalp-hunting Indians. to make a tour of the T ted h‘ulvs.J A POWERFUL MACHINE. s not yet been decided on exactly For the trip the Queen has acquired date she will start, but it will |a new Fiat automobile of sixty horse- Iy be early next spring. She|Power from the world-famed Italian o “ao® America in a motor | ATM. That it will be equipped in the 4 the fuss and cere- | MOSt luxurious style goes without say- old the fuss 2 ting. It will accommodate six people. with which she was thoroughly | The Queen will take with her a gen- satiated during the long vears that she | tlen and lady.in waiting, her maid one with King Hum- avel incognito. She will fof Countess of Stupi- an expert Italian chauffeur, who is now taking lessons in English, which the Queen, by the way, speaks perfect- J ly. There will be a vacant seat for ng the name from her castle | 5 gooasional guest. go. which her favorite| It was in 1868 that Princess Mar- - residence. Since she took to|gherita Marie Therese Jeanne of Sa- 2Dt seen little of her, | voy, daughter'of Duke Ferdinand of 2 self to exploring | Genoa, wedded her cousin, Prince Hum- : es of Europe. And | Pert- She had been married only two t R op | Years when she was called upon to W stless Dowager QUEen |y e yp the difficult position of wife e for the novel experiences and { to the heir apparent of the kingdom freedom to be found in the New | of United Italy at a time when the uni- ty consisted chiefly in a name. s especially anxious to see some-{ NO bed of roses awaited Humbert Aty Sy The other day | When he came to the throne, and few j Tioan of her desire | Queens have had a larger share of 0 a ican’of % trouble than Matgherita. But in the e U s, she said in- | same degree that the heroism and self- 1 want ticularly to - g0 [ oblivion of King Humbert, during the I know Bret Harte's sketches | fearful cholera vear at Naples, helped and I should so like to meet some types!” Or wonders W appen if the good Queen, who| ousness itself but an aristocrat | indirectly to establish his dynasty on | the throne even more than did his gal- lantry in the fleld, so did the devotion the Queen displayed in those dark days in visiting the hospitals and tending d \er finger tips, should suddenly ap- | O i e In Nevada Bui | the suffering win her a warm place in s the spirit In which she is plan- the hearts of the Italian people, which she has ever since held. She has well earned tlie release from the cares of ate which she has enjoyed since her son became King Victor Emmanuel III. ON BEST OF TERMS. They are on the best of terms, but trip. enough the Queen Mother prejudiced against o much i= said, because she con- #0 ugly and dangerous. ng one, ' One day, however, she allowed herself | in the first days of his reign the young to be persuaded to take a spin With | King made it apparent’that in affairs her son, King Victor, but alas, the|of state his masterful will was para- brake refused to work and they nego- | mount, and even his mother would have tiated a hill ce which made {0 give way to it. She wanted the body Queen Margherita’s hair stand on end | 6f her martyred_husband:buried in Tu- and, worse still, they ran over a dog, | rin, the reason she assigned being that but with it all the royal lady felt that | there the other members of the race she had at last found a cure for her | had been buried, and that he ought to maladies — melancholy and restless- | lfe among his kin. ness. There was, as she knew, one excep- SHOCK TO HER NERVES. tion to this rule. The body of Victor first time King Humbert's life | Emmanuel, the founder of the present was attempted was in her presence, | United Italy, had been lald at rest in and the shock so affected her nerves |the Panthcon—that is to say, in Rome | that the doctors were seriously alarm- | —that beautiful prize which he had ed, although the public in general was unaware of the fact. Her nervousnes the form of extreme and acute which would not allow | Motor cars were then she was taken to Nice, | a most accomplished | an, whose duty and delight it | was to play to her for hours. Under won from the Papacy, and which the Papacy still hopes to win back. It was her desire not to offend the church | which strengthened the wish of the; Queen Mother, but her son insisted that his father should be burled in the same tomb in the same city. Queen Margherita was in her boudoir | at Monza with the Duke of Aosta, at took unknown, accompanied by £0 this treatment, which was very slow, |that time heir to the throne as Victor she quite recovered, never having &« Emmanuel III then had no son, when touch of it again until her husband |the King, pale and tired, entered the : room. v “Well. that is arranged,” he exclaim- | ed, “my father will have a fitting | burial in the Pantheon.” “Victor,” cried his mother, “I see you want to break my heart. You offend my religion as well as my affections.” am sorry, mother,” he sald gently, and then he added, sternly: “The re- ligion which is offended at a martyr being buried in his own capital, and lying beside his own father, needs rad- ical changes.” The King had his own way, everybody is now agreed it was the | best way, and there has been no con- | flicts between them since. Out of his jown civil list of $3,000,000 yearly the | King makes his mother an annual al- lowance of $400,000. She can well af- ford, therefore, to enjoy life in her own - wWay. was assassinated. Since then the old restlessness has returned, but now she | has her automobile and when flying— | even at the moderate pace she adopts— tranquil and happy. “It is only | thus,” she said lately to an intimate, “that the vision of my husband as they brought him home to me «dead leaves me. When in my dear motor car I am a normal woman.’ The arrangements for her American | tour are causing the Queen Mother | some trouble because of her desire to make every lady concerned in it happy. There is that dreadful ocean to cross | and her favorite lady-in-waiting is no longer young and has a dread of the sea. If the Queen leaves her behind her trip will be marred; if she takes the lady with her there will be wall- ing if not gnashing of teeth, as be- sides entertaining exaggerated notions is and LUITAR NOW THE THING N LONDON Daughterof White- law Reid Clever Player. ' Duchess of Roxburghe Is Famous Perform- er on Banjo. Husband Has Horrors Until Princess of Wales Ex- presses Approval. Special Cable to The Call. LONDON, Dec. 30.—The guitar is coming into considerable favor here, especlally among American girls, one of the last to take it up being Miss Reid, the daughter of the American Embassador. -She has a pleasant sing- e, particularly well suited to sh and Italian songs, Apart from its musical charms, the guitar with its great sash of gay ribbon is particularly decorative in the hands of a pretty woman and the young daughter of the Embassador makes a graceful picture with hers. Miss Padelford, another American girl who is a great favorite here, is quite an accomplished perform- er on the guitar and when she is in- vited to country house parties is always asked to bring it. It Roxburghe favo: and plays really well. She sings “coon” songs delight- fully. I hear it is to her rendering of these simple ditties that she owes her | great popularity with the Princess of Wales, who is very fond of them. The Duke at first thought it excessivsly “infr¥ dig” for his wife to perform on tite banjo, but the appreciation of the Princess of Wales induced him change promptly his views and now he is quite proud of her accomplishment. He has, however, made a bard and fast rule that she must only sing negro songs before her friends. Sh q a collection of Bahjos, three of which were presented to her on her marriage. One of these has the reputation of be- ing one of the most valuable instru- ments of its kind in existence. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES AGAIN GROWING ACUTE Countess” Lonyny Reports Theft of Jewels, but Those Who Know Her Doubt Story. BRUSSELS, Dec. 30.—Countess Lon- vay's financial difficulties are again growing acute. Recently she signed an agreement to take Bifron's famous country seat near Canterbury, but when the deposit came to be paid ir was not forthcoming and the contract lapsed. Sofme time ago a sale of her jewels was announced in Paris, the ob- ject being to induce the Emperor of Austria and King Leopold to pay her debts. The intended sale was denied Now comes news that burglars, e dently intimately acquainted with the interior of her Hungary, have succeeded in carrying the jewels off during a flying v 3 the Countess to Vienna. This lieved to be another ruse of the Coun- tess to account for the disappea of her jewelry, which doubtle pawn. relatives and has written an of her life, raking up the sec dals of the Belgian and Austrian royal families, which she is constantly threatening to publish. in is She is infuriated against all her aceount —————— Bridge Lessons For Christmas. LONDON, Dec. 80.—Truly the old or- der changeth and giveth place to the new. How think You many of smart folk prepared for the Christmas season, which antiquated people sup- posed should be espec spreading peace and goodwill on earth and laying up treasures in heaven? By taking lessons in bridge that they m: improve their play and increase their bank accounts at the expense of their friends and acquaintances. Christmas is the season,when the game is most played. Professional game are Léing overwhelmed by a tre- mendous rush#of pupils. Most of them are. women and few are novices. has been alleged that there are some people who find their greatest happiness in making others habpy, and therefore, | would rather see their than win themselves. But a course of bridge at country house partfes soon cures them of such altruistic folly. At <hilling (25 cents) points $200 or $250 may be easily lost in the course of an evening. Hence people who play bridge habitually are keener on winning than opponents win anything else, and consider money paid | for lessons to rub up their game well ! invested. —————— Monte Carlo Draws Throng. NICE, Dec. 30.—Monte Carlo is full,’' as the gaming ,tables at the Casino show. Ten roulette and three “trente et quarante’, tables are crowded throughont the day. One wonders what the rooms will be like when the season really commence: One or two men recently caused excitement by high play. One punter threw $400 on the trente et quarante table and won. Pocket- ing his winnings he placed the original stake on the table and told the chef de partie to leave it there untll it reached the maximum, and then con- tinue with the maximum until the tenth coup. Everything happened ac- cording to the player's desires. His net gain wag $17,000. L T N Trouble for Famous Musi: Hall. PARIS, Dec. 30.—The Moulin Rouge seems to have fallen on evil days, and its affairs are now discussed in the law courts. Before a Judge sitting in cham- bers the Societe de Moulin - Rouge claimed “arrears of rent from the pres- ent tenant, Chanteduc, who was granted a delay until January 10. | the banjo which the Duchess of to | She has guite ! Castle Bodrog, Olassy, | is be- | the | nlly devoted to | teachers of the ' 1t LORD RAYLEIGH MANAGES BIG DARY BUSINESS. ’Famous Scientist Lon- don’s Best Known Milkman. Humanitarian Experi-1 ment a Commer- cial Success. His Efforts Save Lives of Thousands of . | Babies. Faly R G Speeial LONDON, Dec. 30.—Though in the do- | main of science Lord Rayleigh, who has | Just-been elected president of the Royal | Society, is regarded as one of the most j distinguished physicists and mathema- +ticians in the world. In London he is | | better known as one of its most en- | | terprising and successful dairymen. | | Aristocratic Mayfair swears by his | | | | i } } i i i | i ‘able to The Call. ) | J ! ! | | | milk. So does the plebeian East End, where large quantities of it are sold to retail dealers. It is sent up every morning by a special train from the fat pasture land around Terling, h beautiful Essex home, where he has | over 1500 cows grazing. | There is no sailing under false colors about this peer's business. Each of his dairies bears the sign in 1 ters, “Lord Rayleigh.” He also sells butter and cream and -“fresh” eggs that are really fresh. Incidentally, he | makes a lot of money as a milkman— a great deal more tk has ever | made out of any of ¢ dis- coveries. But nobody him it. Tt was not to make money that he first went into busin He embarked in it from humanitarian motives, being convinced that- one of the greatest | needs of the day to insure a healthy | | rac pure milk. | | There is no doubt that he has saved | | the lives of hundreds of babies, which | | many folk would consider a greater | | achievement than the discovery of a new gas. And by making the busines pay—and pay handsomely—he has af- | forded a much more instructive object | lesson in the value of commercial hon- | esty than if he had merely run it as a | charity. i His dairy farm furnishes a practical demonstgation of the value of science applied Yo the humble cow. He has | the finest herd in Burope. The sanita- | tion is perfect and absolute cleanliness is enforced in every department. He \‘began Selling. milk In a-small way by supplying local customers and having thereby proved that pure milk paid he | began opening shops in London. Some | previous competitors assert that their success is owing in no small measure | | to the faet that they are associated | with a peerage. But that is an error Had Lord Rayleigh hoisted over them | | his plain baptismal name, John Strutt, | the same methods would have made them equally successful. Peerages | don’t count for much in trade, in the: days when the novelty of the thing has | | worn off. There are several the beer business, but their b do not sell an extra pint on count. VISITS PLACE WEEKL ve Lord Rayleigh's brother, the Hon. Edward Strutt, has had general supervision of the milk business, but once a week Lord Ray- leigh visits his main shop in Grea Russell street and overhauls the counts. He was not senior wrangler of Cambridge for nothing. With his | increasing. knowledge of the higher | | mathematics he has lost none of his proficiency in simple arithmetic. H tenants in Essex regard him cleverest man in the world. Members | of the House of Lords are not given to | excessive veneration of any mortal, but |nope of their number do they honor more highly than Lord Rayleigh, be- | | cause he proves to the world that a | | hereditary peer may be the most bril- | iant of scientists. | Thus from two widely different ex- | tremes the discoverer of argon draws i | For I recognition not invariably vouchsafed to benefactors of the race during their lifetimes. Had he lived in medieval 1 he would have been deemed a ; wizard and a man of dread power. But | he would never have been canonized by the anclent army of alchemists or seekers after the philosopher's stone. No man alive will more cheerfully em- ibark upon exhaustive research and wearying labor in pursuit of scientific | knowledge; but there is nothing of the | dreamer about him. He is essentiall practical. His country seat. Terling | Place, is a glorified scientific laberatory | |and it was there that the experiments ! vere conducted which led to the great | discovery of the new gas. argon, that | was announced to the British)Associa- | tion in 1894. No seat better illustrates | "the trend of modern progress. { once a manor and palace of the Bishops of Ely and Norwich and later one of the ' residences of Henry VIIL The present house was built by the first Baroness | Rayleigh's father-in-law, John Strutt, M. P. for Maldon, great-grandfather of | the man who has conferred such dis- | tinction on the title. } PAST CHLOROFORM AGE. { According to Dr. Osler's theor | Rayleigh should have been chloro-, formed three years ago, for he is that | ' much beyond his sixtieth birthday, but +his intellectual vigor shows no sign of | abatement. He is very happily mar- ried to a sister of the late Prime Minis- | ter, Arthur Balfour, and has three sur- viving sons. The eldest of them, Rob- | ert Strutt, has inherited some of his father's genius, for he has brought out several inventions, among them a radium clock which will go, it is said, | for two thousand years without being | wound up. 1 . The Royal Society, of which Lord ! . Rayleigh has just been elected presi- dent, succeeding Sir William Huggins, | dates back to the year 1645, when | | “divers worthy persons. inquisitive into ! natural philosophy, and other parts of | | human learning, did, by agreements, meet weekly in London on a certain day, to treat and discourse of such af- fairs.” 1In 1662, by the “grace and favor” of Charles II, they were incor- | | porated by charter as the Royal Society I It was | | i i i of London for the Promotion of Natu- i ral Knowledge. The society has long been the ark of the covenant of British science. Its presidency is a most high- | Iy prized Mwhich is just 600 gallons more than is | published. L JORD RAYIRGH WRESIDRNT oF TS ROYAL \OCIBTY ps BESIDES: BEING A HAS FAMOUS SURGEON SET - COLLIE'S LEG iMrs. Adair Takes Dog 10 Sir Fred- honor and many illustrious names appear on the roll of t who have held that office It carri with it the position of a trustee of the Brit- ish Museum, and its tenure ends to | five ye: . But a man who has already : been awarded the Nobel prize for | 3, physics—$40,000, by the way—can | é ’-7‘ <y havdly gain any additional distinction | eric, reves. from it 1 There are several pee ! gaged in the milk business. v | Special Cable to The. Call {none of them has mad | - LONDON. Dec. 30.—Mrs. Adair is stil} splcuous: succe it ‘ and her ey are so much better leigh. Some fe ars ago Lord Rose- | ¢ is Foped she may not. after all, bery opensd a dairy shop here and put | pave to submit ro ¥ ation * fer his name over the door. Had he dones cataraet. I heard, that ten years earlier society would |, friend that sh have gasped with horror and the comic | tjan Scienee with papers would have r ¢ith cartoons | IS et G of his Lordship in his robes and coro- | i< . Scoten te - net serving behind the counter of h {lun’ of Deing dog. tnv all | shop or going round with a milk can. |yondon. Recently accompan- But now there is little of ‘this mOcK |joq his mistress wh iting Sir Fred- pride remaining and the noble I . Treyes . cident | g0es in for any legitimate money-mak- | managed te Torepiv - iiilel & | ing schems is generally held up as a ot o, breakiug "§é shining example to his brethren who | j.c. ars Ada 1 mbieh: Skiress |afe content to remain mere titled | ang the great surgeon prompély offered loafers. to set the paw. This being done the The Marquis of Ripon. who ranked 4oz was taken home and very soon re- high as a statesman before old age |covered. A week or ten days age, as caused him to take a back s has a g Frederick was leaving his house big dairy farm at Studley Reoval, his| g .. morning he bund Sandy” with magnificent country seat. and sells his | y.o0iher dog much bigger than himself I produce " in Leeds. Farmers in the | gianding outside the door. Sandy's neighborhood take their best mllk and | .ompanion limped on three legs. ~The cream to. the Ripon dairy to be con- | urzeon saw immediately that it was verted into butter and cheese The | . ijjently the intention of the Scotch Marquis takes great pride in his busi- tooion tnat his friend’s -injured leg ness and advertises it extensively. for | g6y1q be cured and he = deliberately each one of his milk carts bears the | i,meq back and did what was nee inscription in large letters, “The Most | o .v Sandy looking on while the oper- Noble the Marquis of Ripon/” L 5 = ceding. and expressinl ation w pr his gratitude | ging his tail. Sir Rothschild and Lord Vernon are als extensively engaged in commercial dairying. To Lord Harrington belongs the dis- tinction of being the first peer of the realm to open a shop in London and to brave the ridicule and caricatures to which his action exposed him. Lord Rayleigh, in canine fashion by wag- ok Mrs. | told the Queen Adair's and their Maje: have signified their intentfon of making “Sandy's” acquaip- tance at an early date. But meanwhile Mrs. Adair has presented the King and King and clever “dog T6 ‘refer, back to Queen with two photegraphs of her | may be mentioned: that one of b2 is supposed to hold the world for milk-giving. In one year [ yamrns i e e mal—which 15 an Alderney- WHISTLER'S OLD HOUSE over 1600 gallons of the lact | Former Sam Franeisco Newspaper Mam averaged by cows that are regarded as: Ewtablishes Himself in One Time first-class milkers. She has been a | Home of Famous Artint. feature of nearly every agricultural eX- | [ ONDON. Dec. 30.—Martin Egan, the hibition that has been held in England | i ynocr (T Lot tu e o rrespond.- h";d"“"‘y 3‘“"“4 o“‘;‘:‘d"z'; :’[‘;1';"‘;“_’,‘;?1 ent, has been luokln;d fhnr a liondo: old “cups _ant 2 home for some time. an s at lengt) 5“""'5‘“!"' large sums haye been of- | page a very interesting choice. fered for the cow. but all of them have | ™ N = BtV S ven the house which been refused by her moble owner. It quot cecantric Amerfcan gentus, Whist- is by Lord Rayleigh's permissicn that jop made his home before he shook the the accompanying photograph of her is | gust of London from his feet. 3 The house, which iy in Steyne Walk. Chelsea, a street famed for its asso ciations with great writers and artists, has a huge and very curiously shaped studio, and-all the rooms are weirdly and sirangely arranged. The beautifut copper work on the door is one of the features of the house. Mr. Egan Pas made a wonderful col- lection of works of art in Japam, with which he will fill his Douse. —_————————— Hungry Time Coming. PARIS, Dec. 30—Professor Martel, | the French cave exvplorer, declares that in the course of a few centuries a large proportion of the inhabitants of the earth will have died of thirst unless something Is done to prevent the lower- ing of the earth’s water level by ero- sion. —