Show I H I B 1 a 0 0 K S II II u I IIi c Ii COUNTRY HOME OF MRS HUMPH HUMPHRY 1 Y WARD II j I I Un One of or the most niost beautiful old es estates es- es tales tates l In England Is Stocks lit the homo home of tat a novelist no equally beloved ell In ho En England Eng Eng- land lanai and ancl America Mis s. lis li's Humphry Ward It IL lies IlS on tart thin the line border between het be he- be- be t tween and Hertford shire and anti though within eaR easy distance fret I London ondon IH Is situated audi amid somo orthe of or the fittest country scenery In all land The Tho keen delight which thich Mrs l is is' shown In lit all Ward takes in nature of her IWI books but buit perhaps most t notably nota ucla hi lily bly In her latest Career in which hitch her descriptions of the tue beautiful beau Westmoreland I UI scenery arc colored with an artists appreciation There is Is' much In Stocks and amI th the lie neighborhood to interest one who hk Mrs Ward ard i is a a. student of or British literature anti and history The estate Isone isone is isone one of or the lie oldest In England so England so o old In fact that lint it Is mentioned in 01 the Dom Book ook Th The house was vas once seventeenth sc century con con- Ih Iii Hie residence of or the tury I Ur poet Waller aller and anti in I UK hr garden stands n a a. huge tree In whir ii h is us h hewn wn n a J rough niche still called UK ii PON Poet I where ll until recently It was vas the u e torn tom tt to duck village scolds and tty potty offenders Thi-c Thi Is it also ulso a church tilled with quaint memorials of the he old nil c county families The Tue manor hOU house l' l Itself Itsel r t Is a square square- built structure In Lu beautiful de- de spite spile Its us age with wide and Hl spacious rooms opening out ont of the entrance hall Man Many fine pictures and quaint old furniture mal make e up an Interior full of or refined and stately charm Surrounding Sur Sur- ur- ur rounding the tho house are u well kept lawns edged In the tho English fashion m with ith brilliant blo blossoms om in somewhat formal arrangement and dotted ov O lr r Re- Re with b beautiful trees treos and statuary c- c r 4 j. j h h k Ui p. p 1 1 f tf I x 1 r gg A Front View jew Slut Sho will tl hue Garden Garden- I tween pOn thin the gardens n and the thc park lark Is a cui tui hitis lous sunken fence which gives Ihl to La the tho house the appearance of nt bi terraced In the thu park pall which i is sparsely covered with fine limber timber a hole nine golf olf course Is laid out Mr MJ Wards Ward's own study is i- a n room con bulking out over an exquisite lk expanse opan nf r here Horo th thu major n of f f h lie her 1 last four foul books books- F Ji S 'S tr I r aiice from the hit nl Seat Later Sir Walter aller Scott used to It be he a frequent visitor at the thu nian- nian alan alan- slon anti and Is said to have ha tal taken n his I title o of Ivanhoe I from ft-cm om the tue nel neighborIng neighbor neighbor- Ing lug village of or Ivinghoe I Aldbury vii vii- lage which adjoins Stocks Stock i is U I a n quaint world old place with a village green which still a a. whipping post ane anti wooden stocks anti and a a. pond I Eleanor Lad Lady Roses Rose's Daugh Daughter tm The Marriage oC Ashe Ashie and I Ii Career have Career have boon been ton ten She is a n. methodical worl worker cr genI generally gen gen- emily eraH spending the morning hours In iii I writing while her afternoons ate are given gl over o to social III diversions and to the rious ilous philanthropies lles In which she slie IP Is actively oh Interested |