Show 4 I MERRY AS ASIN IN ENGLAND Round of House Parties Such as Unknown for Years I O Mi OLD CUSTOMS lIre lr Mit HILI S o unlace of Er Iia o I eiN London Dee Thero will be a amerry amerry merry Christmas In bough in III consequence London Is already one ot of the tho dullest spots In time the United rue world has hail deserted the and sought In the country place There will be such luch a round roud of oC house hOUM parties u his au l been een unknown for Cor several years The They will be accompanied hy by the tO me rival Ial of oC the queer old customs which a century ago 10 made the season the for unrestrained merry mak makIng lag Ing Imon among rich and poor alike It would seem that who are able to celebrate realize the for tor distracting publIc attention from the events In South Africa At t Osborne the queen will wll be surrounded ed by the Duke and Duche oC at York the Prince ot of and several leveral of oC her grand grandchIldren children At the Prince ot of Wales will entertain the I Duke uko and Duchess ot of I Fits AntI and their children ti Ith royal Xmas trees Mi Ah Ahbe Mihey be hey palace II Hatfield house houle All the homes of It England aristocracy are tilIng up scores of pre prepared to make mak the most of Yuletide Italic amateur theatrical and entertainments without end have been arranged among which Is I the old EnglIsh custom ot of ota ofa a dance In tenant servants hall hail O OLD CUSTOM At time the Duke and Duches of Devon shIres Earl amid Countess Spencers the Marquis lI luls an and or of Lon Londonderry Londonderry 5 and other place rl of nf the no Christina eve en he be by time the strallie spectacles ot of butlers dancing with princes an and footmen with while maids chambermaids antI cooki will hang on onto onto to the arms of oC cabinet and other male mRle of illustrious lines Time The ancient practice of london own ownen en enjoying the servants quadrille had almost lapsed except In the c case Ule of a afew few Cew families The revival l I perhaps no Ito little due to the increasing necessity sity for Cor pamperIng time the lI The onlooker says the householders no now ha have e to study the comfort or of their as n as their own and quotes ono one country house e where ro n a set let letot ot of rooms room Is specially allotted to thom them Cor or recreation II a bill room music room TOOm library rr and billIard room In which a 0 marker Is for the sor rants ants sole use UN NICHOLLS In striking contrast t to title this II the treatment Accorded to Bernard Nit 10 fi 0 I li J J boils holls time the American goiter who defeat et d the crack Peter leter Paxton Thursday Ihu a Nicholls who is III lit of I English hirth returned here after having pal M UlAn many years ars in III America rime fhe Totting lieI itee Golf Golt club him to lunch In the work workshop hop though time dub club were Iad to face the December storm to witness hl his play NIcholls Nicholl ehl said had I hen been before In America and tile the lavish kindness be bestow bestowed stow stowed on Varden all and other l I mIght not miot hat resented this treatment hut but you ou la may b be a urt I 1 will never er remain In l England bug lonc anti If It were not for Cor m tiMid Urald St Sat Saturday who I Is a I friend I would not on another 1 English I lInk Ik You It depend on It Varden wil wIll not remain here long for I know knowlie h lie wn be unable to thIs sort lort of thing after the l he hal has rl me eel v In iii time the t Sta tel ilme curious thIng about It al all II I that America Amerla wil wIll soon loon outstrip Eng England land not ani only In wolf playing lul but In time the manufacture of 01 golf or ae are getting the best In l ther which under belier Is I sure Mure to outstrip the homp talent talent NO ChANCE on ls IA Olce Mrs Ir 1 Florence lorenc Al unhappy In her prison colt l In spite ot of the lone reo re reports ports her chances chane of Irl are no than last lut yeA year Secretary flay lu ha to Mr Ir Chote several leeral III letters which will short shortly ly Ir 0 be to the new hOlo hommie seers Ire cry tary Mr Rithie BUrhle In wih with tIme the custom of each new occupant of that ofik Rut the A As Associated Press learns there II I no poul ble chance ot of anything being tione so 0 long f as Lord SalIsbury l is lord chancellor chanclor Were the cabinet to in discuss time tho isa 3 It one once before I it could only refer It to the crOn crowns chie chief adviser Lr Lord who apparent apparently ly Iy made marle the he laY case the IMIA basis of oC ofa oCa a feud wih with the lisle late Lord Chile Jus Justice ice tice Orn Russell of af and ant I It jut 8 as now ft its he be before fore When a new chan cha clar II is appointed MI Mrs wi will hue have A good 01 chance hance of freedom The Duchess ot of who II a reported port to b he especially Interested In II Maybrick tells the lie A Pres that aim he only I sees the lie celebrated prison prisoner lOr er In the COUr course of oC her regular visits to Ayl ur prison not In Inthe the lie of her ele ease and d not to lo express an any opinion of at her cul guilt or Innocence WOIN FOR POR TIl TIlE American II is likely to tobe tobe be lon oon elevated to lime pel peer peerage age ae ac I Lord Salisbury Intend to nil nh the Right lon lion Arhur Arthur HUh services to hil bits party b by puttIng him In the boul hones ot of lor lords Ir the widow of lr 1 Arthur Post of oC New York whO tI tIter au auter ter Mrs 11 Adair Is 18 1 also wel well known Inon In london society Others for tor 1 a pr peerage In elude Mr Ir H Henry nr Cosmo COlmo Orme Bonier chairman of at the Southeastern ra railroad I I arni Mr Ir James Jamel Lowthier M p Ini Salisbury hi 1 already created nearly ninety peers I If Ih the present rate I I kept up the upper hou wi will sn soon b be In mona mon numerical superIority over the om corn CANADIAN W V I It Hobl hobbs hed head ot of time the recently nty formed Canadian furniture combine now In London has hal decided that the Canadian have no fN need of time the anC Race or of 01 the cooperation of oC English j A fact Be Canadas iS li that funds fund art are eul easily there theN time new law coining Into force Jan 1 In tl the Kingdom Im fn an aI a neat prohibitory on new cr ear pra About bout tOI forty pantomImes will be b pro produced 11 in nd and around London durin 1 the being 11 the floE production no lewer than nine torsion being presented aU all th time theaters a are already doing a holiday business Production of Alice Ie In at the Vaudeville Wed wih with 01 as Alle Alice ali and Wk hicks II as the Mad ad Hat w ie nOI from the crl emit kJ IrA tir I r I ni Mrs 1 r Da to tol l mI The r f Wal aies tie the tr rIman Thursday |