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VLvawvv‘v":w nr_fiv M CHAPTER III . Let it not for an instant be supâ€" . posed that the guests of' Surrenden are people looked in the least celdâ€" ly or shyly on by socrety. Not they. They go to drawmgâ€"rooms, which means nothing; they are 1nâ€" vited to state balls and state conâ€" certs, which means much. They I are among the most eminent leadâ€" ers of that world of fashion which has of late revolutionized taste, temper, and society in England. Mrs. Wentworth Curzon sails a lit-, tle near the wind, perhaps, because| she is careless, and now and then] Lady Dawlish has’ been “talked about” because she has a vast numâ€" ber of debts and a lord who occaâ€" sionally makes scenes, but with these exceptions all these ladies are as safe on their pedestals as if they were marble statues of chasâ€" tity. That their tastes are studied?l and their men asked to meet them everywhere is only a matter of de- licate attention, like the, bouquets I vineed that England is on the brink which the housekeeper sets” out in their bedrooms and the new novels which are laid on their writing tables. “I like my house to be pleasant,” { says Dorothy Usk, and she does not look any further than that; as for people’s affairs, she is not supposed to know anything about them. She knows well enough that Iona would not come to her unless she had askâ€"L ed the Marquis de Caillac, and she is fully aware that Lawrence Hamâ€" ilton would never bestow the cachâ€" et of his illustrious presence on Surrenden unless Mrs. Wentworth Curzon brought thither her four- gons, her maids, her collie dog, her famous emeralds, and her no 1 famous fans. band would be so illâ€"bred as to sug- gest that she did know it; and ifisays- any of her people should evcrby any mischance forget their tact and stumble into the newspapers, or be- come notorious by any other accr- dent, she will drop them and noâ€" body will be more surprised at the discovery of their naught-mess than herself. Yet she is a kind Woman, a virtuous woman, a very warm friend, and not more insincere in her friendships than any one else; Or, A TRUTH NEVER OLD. $++++++++++i+++++++++¢+++++++++++++++++ +++++' .he would be very much astonished ass a sensation of considerable satis- Of com'se. she knows faction. Their neatness, smallness, that, but she is not supposed to:and Efjlf‘complacency irritate him know it. Nobody except her hns- CKCGSSIVEly- girls get taller andâ€"taller, stronger and stronger, and are as the very palm of the desert for vigor and force, while the English young man gets smaller and smaller, slighter ° ‘ and slighter, and has the nerves of an old maid and the habits of a ’ valetudinarian. It is uncommonly increasing the ladies will not only get the franchise, but they will car- ry the male voter to the polling place on their shoulders.” “As the French women did their husbands out of some town that surrendered in some war,” said Boom, who was addicted to histori- cal illustration and never lost oc- casion to display it. “They won’t carry their hus- bands,” murmurs Blanford. “They’ll drive them and carry somebody else.” “Will they have any husbands at all when they can do as they like ‘l” and very much annoyed if she made any kind of objections to inviting Dulcia Waverley. 'Happily, there is no act of parliament to compel any of us to be consistent, or where would anybody be. Sir Hugo and several other gildâ€" e'd youths there present are all ex- act patterns of one another, the typical young Englishman of the last years of this curious century; the mashers pure and simple ; close- shaven, closeâ€"cropped, faultlessly clcthe-d, small of person, small of features, stiff, pale, insignificant, polite, supercillious, indifferent; oc- casionally amusing, but never by any chance original ; much concern- ,ed, as to health, climate and their lown nerves; often talking of their iphysi‘cians. and flitting southward i‘before cold weather, like. swallows, theugh they have nothing whatever .definite the, matter with them. ‘ These young men are all conâ€" says Boom. “Probably not,” says Blanford. “My dear boy, what an earthly paradise awaits you when you shall be of mature age, and shall have seen us all descend, one by one, in- to the tomb, with all our social‘pre- judices and antiquated ways.” “I dare say he’ll be a navvy in New Guinea by\ that time, and all his acres here will be being let out by the state at a rack-rent which the people will call free lam ,” the father, with a groan. “Very possible, too,” Blanford. The boy’s eyes go thoughtfully toward the landscape beyond the windows, the beautiful lawns, the smiling gardens, the rolling woods. A look of resolution comes over his fair, frank face. “They shan’t take our lands without a fight for it,” he says, with a flush on his cheeks. _ says replied “of ruin, and they talk of it in the same tone' with which they say that their cigarette is out, or the wind ‘is in the east. The throne, the church, the lords. and the thirty- ninc articles are all going down pellâ€"mell next week, and it is very shocking; nevertheless, there is no reason why they. should not be stu- dious of their digestions and very anxious about the parting of their hair. And then they wonder that Mr. ,George has replaced Sir Roger de lCovarley, and-that Joseph Cham- berlain’s voice is heard instead of ‘ Edmund Burke’s. l Their host could kick them with one,” "and I’m afraid it is in Mr. Glad- stone‘s ‘dim and distant future’ ~â€" that is to say, very near at hand, indeed.” "Well, I shall be ready,” says the lad. Both‘his father and Blanford are silent, vaguely touched by the look of the gallant and gracious boy, as he stands there, with the sun in his brave, blue eyes, and thinking of the troubled time which will await his manhood in this green, old Eng- land, cursed by the spume of Wordy demagogues and hounded on to en “Youzd do these p00,. boys inns- vc-nOmed hatreds and causeless dis- ,tgve,” says BlaufomL ‘ “When they contents, that the professional poli- ' Thebloods of George :IV.’s time at least we menâ€"so he .1 and if the disparity goes on I get out in a desert, or” are left to roast and die under the equator, they put off all their affectations t-Tcian may fatten on her woes. What will Boom live to see? ' It .will be a sorry day for the with their starched cambric, and'icmmtl‘y When her WOOded Parks and are not altogether their greatâ€"grandfathers. Britons are still bad ones to beat when the trial comes.” “They must leave their constitu- sho is only a hostess of the last 1115â€" tions at the clubs, then, and their ter of the nineteenth century, a‘ncrvous systems in their hat-box- woman who knows her London and' es,” growls Usk. “If you are like follows it in all its amazing and those namby-pamby fellows when illimitable condonations as in its;you are 20, Boom, I’ll put a bullet eccentric and exceptional sevei‘ities.ltlii'r311gh your. head myself,” he The guests are numerous, they; Says to his heir one morning, when might even be said to be miscel-gthat good-looking and highâ€"spirited laneous were it not that they all' boy has comeback from Suffolk. belong to the same set. There is: .Boom laughs. He 1s a careless, Dick Wootton, who believes him-lhlgll-Spll'lted, €Xt1'avagant lad, and self destined to play in the last he does not at present lean toward years of the nineteenth century the the Ina-Shel: WEE; Gordon IS In 1115 part of Charles Greville in the, head, that 18 his idea of a man. The earlier. There is Lord Vanstone,’country had one hero. in this cenâ€" an agreeable, eccentric, unsatisfac- fury, gandbctraycd him, and honâ€" tory valetudinarian, who ought to 01‘s his betrayer; but the heal-ts of l l unworthy Of'stately houses are numbered with the things that are no more. Blanford puts his arm over the boy’s shoulder, and walks away with him a little way under the deep boughs of the yew. CHAPTER. IV. Meanwhile, let the country be going to the dogs as it may, Surâ€" renden is full of very gay people, and all its more or less well-match- ed doves are cooing at Surrend-cn, while the legitimate partners of their existences are diverting them- selves in other scenes, Highland moors, German baths, French Chateaux, channel yachting, or at other English country houses. It is George Usk’s opinion that the whole thing is immoral; he is by have done great things With hisithn boys beat truer than that of no means a moral person himself. life, but has always been too indo- the House of Commons and the new His Wife, on the contrary, thinks lent and had too bad health to car- , electorate. They remember Gor- that it is the only way to have your ry out his friends’ very large ex-ldcn, with a noble, headlong, Quix- house liked, and that nobody ' is pectations of him. ‘ . young Duke of Whitby, good-naturâ€"i That one lonely figure standing out ed and foolish, with a simple, pleaâ€" against the yellow light of the dos- sant face and a very shy manner. crt may, perhaps, be as a Pharos “If I had that ass’ opportunities, to the youth of his nation, and save I’d make the world spin,” says;them from the shipwreck which is VVriothesley Ormond, who is a very night. . poor and very witty member of par- “Curious type, the young fel- liament, and also, which he values luvs,” says Blanfor-d, musingly. “I more, the most popular member of don’t think they will keep England the Marlborough. There is Lord What our fathers and grandfathers Iona, very handsome, vcry silent,lmade it. . l ‘ - . . - , There 15 the 0th W151} to go and do likew1se. supposed to know anything, and that nothing of that sort matters; she is a woman who on her own acâ€" count has never-done anything that she would 1in the least mind having printed in the Morning Post toâ€"mor- row. , . “Strange contra-diction!” mus-es Blanford. “Here is George, who’s certainly no better than he should be, hallooing out for Dame Propri- I don’t think thev will cty, and here’s my lady who’s alâ€" .l r I , matist, very much sought after and spoiled by women. There is Hugo Mountâ€" jcy; a pretty young fellow in the guards with a big fortune and vague idea that he ought to “do some~ thing”; he is not sure what. There is Lawrence Hamilton, who, as far as is possible in an age when men are clothed, but do not dress, gives tno law to St. James street in matâ€" ter:- of male toilet. There is Sir 'Adolphus Beaumanoir, an cx-diplo- admirably preserved, charmingly loquacious, and an un- conscionablo flirt, though he is 70, Each of those happy or" unhappy he'- ings has the lady inv1t~cd to meet ‘ him in whom his affections are sup- posed to be centered, for the time being, in those tacit butpotent re- lations which form so large a por- tion of men’s and women‘s lives in these days. It is this condonance on the part- of his wife which George I I even if Chamberlain and company 1 ways run Straight as a crow fliES, Will let them, which they certainly making an Agapefmone of her house won’t. ” to please her friends. To the pure “Tell you what it is," says Usk, all things are .pure, I suppose, but “if. all comes of having second horses hunting, and loaders behind you out shooting.” “You compound cause and ef- fect. The race 'wouldn’t have come to second horses and men to load if it hadn’t degenerated. Second horses and men to load indicate in England just what pastics of night- tingales’ tongues and garlands 'of roses indicated with the Romaneâ€" cffeminacy and self-indulgence. The I-Iuns and the Goths were knocking at their doors and Demos and De- bacle arc knocking at ours. Hisâ€" tory repeats itself, which is lament- able, for its amazing tendency to tell the same tale again and again makes it a bore.” if purity can stand Mrs. Wentworth Curzon and Lindy Dawlish I think I shall select my wife from among les joli-es impuneS.” However, he takes care audibly to hold up his hoste'sg’ opinions and condemn her lord’s. "“The peor little WOIiI}.n means well and only likes to be popular,” he reflects, “and we are none [of us so sure that we sha’n’t want indul- gence some day.” ‘~ (To be continued.) M A .â€" “I went to stop on a step that was not there,” a man with a much bruised face explained at the Highâ€" ga-te Police Court. “and in falling “I should like to know, by them}; face struck the step that was ~Uslr so eatirely denounces, although way,” he continues, “why English there.” l N MERRY OLD ENGLAND Nation-1 D NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. â€"_ Occurrences in the Land 'i‘llat Reigns Supreme in the Com- mercial World. King George has become patron of the Royal Club. “I have no mother ,or father,” pleaded a man of fifty at Totten- ham court. All the prizes at a baby show held recently at Tonbridge, were won by little girls. _ Avcopy of the rare 1640 edition Caledonian Curling New Head In 30 Minute Exchanee that aching. throbbing, nufforlng. muddled head for a clear. cool, comfortable one by taldng a ‘ NA-DR‘U-CO ‘ Headache Wafer 25¢. a box at your dngists' or by mail from 2 N8 and Chemical Co. of Canada. United. Mon ll ere-La .n- FOOD OF THE WORLD. Potatoes, Rice, Wheat and Rye the Chief Agricultural Staples. Now that Russia has‘entercd on a career of ownership farming with Ithe ownership incentive to increase her agricultural output her agro- noms, as the scientific exponents of land cultivation style themselves, have compiled a table of what fruits . of soil are the principal foods of humanity. Bread grain, potatoes and rice form the staple sustenance of man- kind. Two years ago, the date of the statistics, the leading countries or the world produced 129,000,000 tons of potatoes, 74,000,000tons of wheat, 39,000,000 tons of rye and 8,000,000 tons of rice. Wheat is the chief basis of the of Shakespeare’s poems has been national nourishment of English- sold in London for £106. men, French, Spaniards, south ‘The peal of 13 bells for Liver- Italiansâ€"in north Italy maize takes pool’s new cathedral, to be cast at precedenceâ€"end Hungarians, and Loughborough, will cost £7,000. The War bodies of motor cyclists to improve communicationbetween the army corps while- in the field. “It was my husband’s place to thrash me.” said a woman at Hull Police Court. The couple were fined for being disorderly. 'For selling cocoa which was prin- cipally composed of sand, a canvasâ€" ser named Alfred Prince has been sent to prison at Wakefield. The Cunard Line gets an annual “And the fight will be a fierce {subsidy of $340,000 from the Brit- says Blanford, with a sigh; ish Government for carrying mails bet-ween Liverpool and New York. The Blonde, an unarmed cruiser of the Boardice type, has been launched at Pembroke dockyard pug the keel plate of a sister vessel or . When Capt. Scott was leaving England last week to join the Brit- ish South Polar Expedition, Sir Er- nest Shackleton led in three rous- ing cheers for the explorer. - Mr. Frank Lascelles who has ha charge of several‘important pageâ€" ants in England has left for South Africa where he will organize the South African pageant. . _ . {it holds complete supremacy in Office is organizing Ncrth America and Australia. . In German speaking central Eu. rope wheat has a‘large iconsump_ tic-n, but not to the extent that it is used in the lands named; the principal food is‘rye bread, not be- cause of the poverty of the people, but because its taste is better liked. In Russia, rye bread has a decided lead. Germany is the land of potatoes and rye. In 1908 She raised 46,- 000,000 tons of potatoes, more than a third of the world’s crop and more than any other single counâ€" try even Russia, whose crop in her Europcan territory was 29,000,000 tons. Austria and France had each a 14.000,000 ton potato harvest. The inhabitants of Celtic countries, in north France and Ireland, and also Belgium and Holland are great poâ€"‘ fate eaters. On the other hand in England, Italy, Spain and Ameriâ€" ca, and in Asia and Australia, the potato is a subordinate article of diet. . - Rice is overwhelmingly ahead of any other food in Asia. In Europe it is scarcely raised. ' Germany used in 1907 not quite 300,000 tons. Thé new twenty-six-knot ocna-n- iMillct was once the daily food of MAUMV-s j: p- v i ,..' ,.'_ gomg (leStI‘Oyel' Harpy, 0f ', lihflithc masses in Europe, but has gra- Bcagle Classy built bY_Me‘SSI'S- if; 3- {dually been dropped and is eaten I White at .-Cowes, is practicilly ‘now mostly by the Slave beyond the ready to be handed over to the uniâ€"9 . , eastern frontiers of Europe and by val authorities. ~ 'the negroes in Africa. Londoners who ride in taxicab No. 6848 usually give. Frederick Hitch, the chauffeur, a penny or. 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