Show i 1 I i I iI I j jt jJ ji Y y as 1 t Lr q 1 Nw h TZ 4 74 ti 7 w h r rw r f N Ni i 3 r c MW The e of J c ft b il ilD r i Q D h han D u 5 I l od lei el a T Y n ne a ors F argon teen a d an h n n ell a To A h ll 1 of lavaI t Gowd f y I r r of o fhe b o lIu u rl a by m Polo aub J One o ch 5 roan King Edward War as a Moral era Censor ease Comes on el elAs As a Surprise to o England i He Wont Have Anything to Do With People M Matrimonial Affairs Are Irregular and He Has Just Administered red Severe Snub to the Duke of Ban Extended to Others I I Special Correspondence ONDON Jan King Ed Edward Edward LONDON ward ascended the English throne there were lots of In London and elsewhere who T hIs gaiety and Bohemian Ism us as Prince or of Wales Vales who st n It d knowingly and said Now ow we shall shalla see a reign that will recall that of the tho merry monarch of oC blessed memory memory I md and there also a lot or of people 1 P who shook hook their thelt heads and expressed I the tho fear that all the good good Wt Queen did in raisinS raising the moral tuna tonG oJ of court life would now be undone Both were ere wrong ion lor although t Edward restored t the gaiety of oC the t he court to a great gleat degree and has gone In for royal magnificence and pageantry In a wa way that would have shocked hocked his sober economical old mother a he has hasset set UP a moral ral ralas standard oat at court just justas as strict as any maintained by the tho late lato queen and In addition to that ho h has hasset hasset set up a social standard which m lie he In Insists silts must be lived up to The boon companions or of the former PrInce of oC Wales Vales who thought that they would he be able to clap the tho new king killS on the back und and be hail fellow well met with him as the they were when he was merely the tho first subject soon found Cound out their mistake The rhe few fow who tried It were reminded speed speedily II that familiarity with the king was quite a different thing from familiarity with i L more or orless orless less Irresponsible man ot of the world who b by the tho very nature of oC his position was condemned de to a life of pleasure a seek seeking I f ing It soon become o known o that while I I the tho kinG was no less trul truly democratic than ever In his choice or of friends the themen themen men and women he wanted about him were those who had done something and who could bo be or of use me to him In hi his task of oC governing the greatest empire In the world One of oC the tho friends whom ho he dropped then was Richard Croker once boss bOis of New York It was all allright allright right for Cor the sporting Prince of Wales to meet and chat wIth on a arace arace race tack but It would not look vcr very well for the king killS of oC England to be on familiar terms with the man whose name namo stood for the personification or of a certain kind of politics At the same time however he made a friend of oC J P Morgan Moran whose skill as a Ihian cler cier taste m as an art collector and gen gell generosity as a patron of oC the church he much admires SPRINGS A BIG SURPRISE It was as a moral censor that King Edward caused most surprise for fOI no noone ono one expected that lie he would be strict In this particular It soon SOOIl became known at court however that no ono against whoso whose moral character there thore was the slightest breath of oC suspicion might cx expect to 10 ho bo received and re recently ho has oven even carried this form of oC cen censorship farther b by refusing to re receive receive either chimer party part lu In n a matrimonial quarrel no matter how Innocent one of oC them may he be beTho heThe The Tho latest persons to 10 suffer sutter from this ban are the Duke Duko and Duchess of oC Marl Marlborough borough and 1 the duke In particular has had a 11 rather unpleasant experience re recently recently It was on the occasion when King Manuel of Portugal durin during his re recent cent visit t tp England was Invested with the tho insignia ot of the garter This Is isone ono one or of the most splendid ceremonies In connection with English court life and an invitation to the tho garter banquet which always alway follows a chapter of the garter at Windsor Is about the tho most eager eagerly sought after honor In English I society Well neither tho Duke nor norlie lie tho Duchess Duche of oC Marlborough wal In invited and In the case cuse of oC time tho duke the omission was wall for foras foras as a garter Jarter knight he was Va present ent at atthe atthe the chapter and had to leave Windsor immediately Immediate I after arter while all the other knights remained to the banquet In fact I am able to state on authority that the king ser seriously loua considered whether or not he could exclude the Duke ot of Marlborough from the investiture but It was de decided decided that unless the tho duke W was 1 degraded ed cd from the knighthood of the garter h he had a right to be present PARA LEL CASE CASEIn In fact n a parallel case was ryas found In that or of time tho late Duke of oC Buckingham ham whose mode or of life so 80 offended Queen Victoria that she determined to ex exclude exclude clude him from the Investiture of Louis Philippe at Windsor Time The bluff oh duke said laid with man many that he would see sec liar her before he wo ld be done out of oC his right as a knight of oC the garter to be present and present he was but the Illeen have him at the banquet and ho he had to buy his own dinner that evening This Is not the first time that the Duke ot of Marlborough has hns suffered a similar slight Two years ago neither he nor the duchess was Invited to a great state banquet at which their rank entitled them to be present and andI I am told that the duchess personally Implored the king to allow her to an announce announce that she ha had 1 beon invited but was too ill III to attend E Edward how however however ever refused declaring that the whole object of oC his policy would be defeated It if ho hc allowed people who were under the ban to pretend that the they still en enjoyed enjoyed joyed the royal roal favor Cavor Now It must be un understood er tood clear clearly that In all this neither the king nor Queen Alexandra takes any sl sides e neither do they impute an any guilt to anyone anone They simply take the post position tion that everyone who Is received at court must be absolutely above sus suspicion suspicion and that the simplest wa way to prevent scandal In connection with the court Is to exclude everyone everone whose po position position Is In the slightest degree anomalous anomalous alous ANOTHER SUFFERER I am told that another social sufferer from the matrimonial quarrels of oC the Is Lord Alexan Alexander er brother o of the tho Marquis or of Bath Lord Alexander has Ion long been beena a friend of both the Duke and Duchess ot of Marlborough and when their quarrel quarrel rel came he espoused the cause or of the duchess This caused the duke in his anger to sa say things that were quite unjustifiable and although no one here believes them for a moment Lord Alexander finds himself in the position of oC a man who Is excluded from Crom court life because of oC unfounded gossIp In Inthis Inthis this case too loo the tho king and queen are aro careful to make It known that they dont accept a word of oC the gossip as astrue astrue true The They simply want to keep clear of everyone concerned In It Even divorce and a second marriage dont rehabilitate people In the sight I ht of oC royalty Not long IonS ago Mrs Me Mc McCreery Creery Creely of New York who secured a divorce In America from her husband Sir Philip and marrIed Richard McCreery was refused admission admission sion to the royal enclosure at Ascot Some I people eople said that this was because the king would not recognize an Amer Amel Amerlean lean Ican divorce but this Is not so He simply refuses to recognize divorce of am an kind CAUSTIC COM COMMENTS Spite Spiteful CuI people are asking no nosy what will happen next year ear Lord Churchill Is the who hUll has had charge of the Issuing of cards for the Io royal al en and now Lord Ifo has hils left him Somo o of the ladles lallies who have failed to receive cards are arc won wondering dering whether hether Lord Churchill will be beable able to give glo himself elC a card for the en enclosure enclosure closure next year ear His friends declare however that his hili wife Is on only suffer suffering In ing from Crom a temporary aberration and will he be back with him long lone that question arises People are arc wondering what sort ot of re reception reception Mrs burs John Jacob Astor will get when she tries to break Into London society All sorts of oC stories Ire are going round about what she intends to do doand doand and how she Is s planning to take socie society t ty by storm torm She has taken a big London house h u e and I am told she plans to give he great entertainments If she can got It In shape shapo before the opening open InS ing of the next london season eason I can predict however that sho will find the doors doom of the b best st set In London barred barrell against her These people take their cue from time the court and the they will wll refuse to receive a divorcee No doubt she will find lots pf CC vcr very smart who will be willing to accept her Iter on account of her honey and enjoy enjo her hospitality hOBI The They will 1 he 0 In the tho sec second second ond class how however cr and oven even a great grell English marriage would not suffice to give ghe Mrs Astor a d woman the entree at court MRS IRS WEST LOSES LOSE FAVOR Another American woman who Is out of favor faor no now with the tho rO royal set Is Mrs rs Cornwallis West Nest formerly L 1 Randolph Churchill and before that Jennie Jerome of oC New Nets York Mrs Vests Tests s n Winston Inston Churchill has Incurred the ro royal al displeasure by his JIls virulent abuse of his relatives the dukes and other members of the tho peer peerage peerage age and some time ago the tho king let It bo be known that he would be pleased to hear that Winston was boycotted Bo Boycotted Winston ww was but It Is an unheard of thinS thing to extend I a social boycott on a politician no matter how revolutionary ho ma mat be tp his ro lathes and Mrs irs West Yest would never have booms been included In n it If she hall had hadnot not rather Indiscreetly championed her herSon herson Son on oel every possible occasion I am told that she even went ent the length lenth of delivering what was de described to tome tome me as an oration at an afternoon tea at a duchess house In which she de declared e that Winston was a heaven sent statesman that lie he was exactly right In all that lie he said and that she agreed with evel every word or of It A fo few days inter Intel site she was cut lit unanimously at Newmarket and I am told that the tho king even who aha always s re regarded her heras heras as ono of his special friends has ap approved proved the bo boycott cott Its In fact act It Is said that ho he hopes that the extension of the thebo bo boycott to 10 Mrs will wll bring ston to his senses for oer everybody bod knows that the young Radical politician is devoted devote to his clever eloer mother TITLES lIrLES FOR SALE Winston however Is becoming more and more unpopular In ht society His latest exploit It Is stated Is to prom promise Is Isa a peerage to the hearer bearer of nn an Austrian title who Is well known In the Bohem BohemIan Bohemian Ian set In London but who has never been able ablo to penetrate even the tho fringe of society This man mun was time hero of ofa ofa a particularly unpleasant matrimonial suit some time lime o ago o and was compelled to resign from the Ills first mar ringe was nullified and ho marrIed the tho daughter of an English peer who was compelled to leave him bins He Is wealthY however and Is prominent as a linam cler clel of oC a rather shad shady sort It Is said that Winston has received financial favors from frons him and In return has pledged to see Hee that the Aus Austrian trian baron gets an English title lIte if IC the Radical party part comes back to power Just now the Austrian I Is standing for parliament In n n a close b by his wife home and It Is said ho he Is only doln It to anno liar her Of course the tho sale of titles for Cor patty part purposes purpose Is no ne thing and Is wink winked winked ed at al by society but It Is generally In instated stated that the purchaser must show a clean moral and social sliest sheet Even great political persona personages are not exempt from time the royal censorship It Is well that the of John Morley now mien Lord Morley of Blackburn and secretary of state for India was one of oC the mistakes o of lils carl early life lICo He has stitch b by the woman nobly nobl but society has never for forgot forgotten ot otten ten time tho gossip about her at the time of oC the marriage e and anel although Lord Mor Morley ley Is probably the ablest man In the cabinet and a man for tor whom the has time tho greatest respect he has never been beon for tor dut duty as minister In attendance on time the king Flits Is al almost most an unheard of thing for COI It Is the custom for the members of oC the tho min ministry 1 to 10 take this dut duty In turn when the they are arc not absolutely prevented b by bythe the I pressure of official work It ma mabe may maybe be interesting to note noto that when his i colleagues ate arc hus busy John Burns Durns lie tho and labor leader header generally era II Is chosen to bo be minister In attendance this Is done b by the tho kings s desire There Thero Is no matrimonial Irregularity about John Burns His marriage Is at 1 ideal one and he Is never tired of oC S SIn say saying I In ing so Mrs Burns often accompanies hum him to Windsor and Buckingham pal palace ace nce but she sho takes little part In hm time the gaieties preferring to look on en others amuse themselves Sometimes has hns a Quiet chat with the tho queen who Is much Int Interested in her plans I for tho career of young oung John and amI who I finds find n a lot of oC pleasure hm hI sin hour ot of I plain womans tall talk with this woman I nr f the two neo JOHN JOlIN SCOTT |