Show L LL L Z t r S r- r rT T T r f iy r v s slid W lid Cus Lady Greville Warwick's Warwick serving erving daughter a refresh refreshing ng Lady drink dank Mercy to tor r The Countess Latest P proof roof That She Practices Frank Hodges one of the first of the labor to accept the ho hospitality i of Easton l Lodge the Socialism She Preaches s and Eagerly p Awaits the Opportunity to Share All Her Land Thousands Thousand of Acres ol of Land With kith f e j jY Y r England's Struggling Masses ti nWee t s q Y Rf nhe x l lt 1 t Z 4 W a a a k ch Fx F 1 i y r 4 1 tM e 3 t i f t Caw 1 4 Jp v fe x Fur 1 5 w roM FAa r s a t 1 i 6 t n ia Y M v y z a sr s ih f N t s Vt d a f M F r 0 flye k fU c wig 3 fat t as Y A a t I IF i TF F YOU visit England this summer I and go motoring through the charm charm- charming 1 ing county of Essex you will Bill hardly fail to see Easton Lodge the country es- es estate es estate tate take of the rich Countess of Warwick This is one of the show places of this I 1 particular countr countryside side The old manor house dating from the tho time of Queen Elizabeth is rich In historic associations I and tho grounds surrounding it are of extraordinary beauty I And Arid just now as you may be lucky enough to see eee with your own eyes Easton Easton ton ton lodge is famous for tor still another and quite different reason r If it is a pleasant afternoon when you visit this estate and you pause y long enough to look into the grounds you ou will win very probably see sea on on one of cf y 4 the spacious lawns Lady Warwick her her- herself herself her herself self and end her pretty daughter Lady Mercy Greville Greville serving tea to a large group of men Other men arc are playing tennis and still others are scattered over the grounds themselves in- in various ways Evidently it is a large and almost ex- ex exclusively exclusively ex exclusively male party that the wealthy I Countess and her daughter are arC enter enter- entertaining II But if It you are aro a keen heel observer what I will w l impress and puzzle you rou more than the number of the guests will be their dress and appearance They look not at atall atall atall all like Ilka the dukes princes counts and wealthy society men you would expect to see accepting the hospitality of as distinguished a p personage as Lady War Var Warwick wick Instead of the luxurious silks and flannels wealth and fashion think necessary necessary I sary for a country house lawn party you OU see only plain sack sUits many suits many of them well worn and none very well cut I them well fitting Several guests are arc is In plebeian shirt sleeves and with those same sleeves held up with pink elastic bands The men themselves look as little like anything even remotely connected with uth the nobility or fashionable society as their clothes Here Hero and there you see a cheek check that has not seen a razor as lately as It should Among the hands that are lire ac- ac accepting ac accepting tea from the hostesses are many brawny calloused ones which lookas look as If sledgehammers they were ere more used to wielding sledge U hammers or handling steel girders than balancing dainty cups of tea and plates of ladyfingers l If It as you note these and other in incongruous congruous things you exclaim in m amaze amaze- amazement amazement amazement ment Why they look more moro like work work- workIng working working ing men than like richand rich and fashionable society men will bo be you showing mg your good sense For this is exactly what they are are- are men who ho formerly worked at various trades and who are n mw nw w the leaders of Ingland's labor cause Hi Lady Warwick is a Socialist anda and a ai tery cry ery earnest one She is not just a par ar- ar ar lor bor parlor arlor one hing hing brotherhood or equal distribution of wealth without effort any ef- ef ef fort to put these principles into tice practice As a first step In proving her sincerity as a Socialist the Countess has actually presented this beautiful beautiful ancestral home o hers to the Labor party in order that the leaders of tho great movement may 4 find a week-end week refuge to rest utter after the tremendous strain of directing the grim struggle gle going on constantly in the thC cause of English workingmen It is believed that Lady Warwick like eventually to give up the thC w whole hole of her vast ast ast properties to be dl- dl di 1 o I vided for the benefit of the tho working j v W classes Up to the present she has been the ther t t tv unable to divest doest herself hersel of the rich hold holdings The Countess of War Warwick 7 r Lady Mercy on an her way to the tennis courts with Arthur Hender- Hender con Hender-con ings inge amounting to some lome acres of wick a sad and d b be e low I Io o w t tey J 1 r son and Frank Hodges two of the labor leaders w who o recently went to toland toland land which go with the f family title o ow- ow the tiro his his his- f Easton Lodge for rest and recreation ing mg to o a number 01 complications in me nc and luxl r st c English land late la F I urious no manor lanor T Until these entailments are disposed house where r of Lady Warwick has to be content with she invites giving Easton Lodge over for the con con- glands gland's la I and week end gatherings of the bor leaders to Labor party In this sho is following t h e i ir r a the example of Lord Leo Lee of Fareham rw pass ay y F r w eek en eek-en en ds d s who recently gave his country residence and vacations for the use of the Prime Min Minister ester ister of the day rT A And so at the of the thes s izy H Labor party the tired nerve nerve- nerves wracked nerve s wracked leaders to whom thousands of anxious work work-K work work- ing people in the dismal slums of London and T y 1 they x y yN y s little manufacturing towns N e w wf f throughout the c v tv country are looking i i iy y yf of 4 N for the solution of Nr r r t f tr q t the laboring mans man's s r f vi vif l fc problems are now Ea k t resting themselves and finding Freres tion They come straight k a t A A ys e eaY aY o 7 from the working working working-men's I l mens men's meetings often still in their theire t i e t l j tip working clothes and is 3 a x r too preoccupied with witha a r i xa their cause to pay attention to any of the formalities that would seem to be M So ti necessary in EO so noun a setting In are full of f 1 ht t scorn for the styles and customs of an a tev F doA outworn system of s special p e I privilege even when accepting the hospitalities of ofa ofa ofa a home that for c centuries has sheltered only the richand rich and noble born And that is why every week-end week so motley a gathering can be bo seen on the wide terraces of Easton Lodge SIpPing tea or cooling drinks while they talk over plans for winning new triumphs for labor One of the most remarkable things about Lady Warwick's gift ift to the tho Labor Lavor party is the gracious bestowal of her own talents as a hostess upon all those who l s seek k relaxation or entertainment at Easton Lodge The general impression that Easton raston Lodge was turned over oser to the Labor party is not quite so BO accurate it would seem as that Lady Warwick and her family have invited the labor leaders to accept the estates estate's hospitality whenever they please I Every Iery ery possible care is la taken of the tho tired champions of the millions when hen they arrive at Easton Lodge in m search of strength to renew the tho fight Their entertainment b a clever hostess will willit It is 3 thought do much to restore their health and courage They are after all lust Just like those other captains of industry who must roust every so often drop everything and turn for a day or two to late breakfasts and golf Lady Mercy Greville Lady WarWick's old year old daughter has under under- undertaken undertaken taken to assist her mother as hostess In the picture on this page in which she IS seen starting off oft to play tennis with Frank Hodges and Arthur Henderson two of Inglan England's s 's best kno known knon kno n labor leaders tE H is plainly to be seen that she is lenient about shirt sleeves although al al- al although It though she die has been brought up among thom them tho the most m o 0 s t aristocratic youths yes youths in m England x Lad Lady y Warwick inow A now so BO devoted to labors labor's cause accepted ne ac- ac accepted ii the tho role of fw s 4 w agG r London society lead lead- cr er when she sho was ids r first mar married ri rie e d to FrancIs R Richard i c h a r V t Charles Guy Gre Ore Ore- Oreville by t ville yule Lord Brooke who ho succeeded to the tho Earldom r Earldom of War War- WarWick Warwick fw wick in 1893 1803 She continued to be a leading spirit in ultra fashionable ultra circles for tor nearly twenty years and then she suddenly became the whole thing Like many another member of the upper classes she revolted against the shallow eXI existence Lence of the social butterfly and turned from the wealthy and lash ash fashionable world she bhe s he had always known to study the lives of less fortunate groups At At- first she sha was contented with the usual philanthropic work which is al- al always always ways al ways quite the thing in sO society lety if one OM happens to be a serious senous minded The fut further ther she went in planning for forthe forthe forthe the welfare of her own tenants or needy families in London tho the more Interested she ahe became in the idea of equal distri distribution of wealth Lady Warwick's lck's fashionable friends smIled indulgently as os they heard one after the other the various enterprises ln 7 rw I II lis I t tf a t H f v l sis I 1 J t E m I 1 t tm Aw t 1 4 lt It W J x s r n Iii N f f ot t ft W r rf f k J ri x 0 A t t f r ii f r Y D cw k ky kY kf y f q q Krac J r Old Warwick Castle which the Cou thought too proud a ahome home for an earnest socialist to have end d leased to an American millionaire of the beautiful but eccentric Lady of Easton Caston Lodge Founding colleges and building homes for tho the tenants on her estate they thought merely interesting When she turned to gardening and dairY work as an outlet for her energy they remarked that Frances was always all rather oUd you know The rhe hat shop In Bond Street and aDd the starting of a magazine maga maga- magazine magazine zine rather worried them but when they heard that she was as trailing her silken gowns through the slums of London J hobnobbing with the grimy sons of labor and uncouth leaders who had threatened her own o class with destruction they were really horrified y s i sIn In the earl early part of her work with uth the tho Labor party y when she found the kindred spirits that had been lacking lacking 4 t tin in the drawing rooms in London Lon- Lon don on she s e could cou l be seen l quito often at work work workingmen's ingmen's meetings Shor Sho r it made mado a striking appearance ap- ap l in the midst w t c rs of the most sordid t 11 4 poverty always radi radi- radiantly antly beautiful and as superbly gowned as If she were on her way to pay a visit at Buckl Buckingham Palace At these strange meetings the work work- workingmen workingmen ingmen in their soiled clothes would crowd around their elegant and ultra ultra- ultrafashionable ultra fashionable fashionable sister asking her advice and evidently fascinated by her beauty as well as impressed by her sincerity Now that she has paved the way for forthe forthe forthe the great leveling she believes must come among all the classes in England by being one of the First wealthy women to put the doctrines of socialism Into actual practice there can be no doubt of her absolute sincerity It was to impress those members of 01 her 0 own n class who still hesitated to help helpin helpin In the great social upheavals although they felt their I to the stricken stricken poverty classes that Lady War War- Warick Warick wick War ick took this radical step of handing over her har own country estate country estate as IS a tion home for forthe the tho labor lead lead- leaders leaders ers If she sho succeeds in disposing dis- dis disposing dis disposing posing of thoI the tho w remainder I of 01 r s dot i her estates for forthe fore forI e i the benefit of v e eA A l li i f war stricken v va a r England h her c r o t SI SIt f genei ma may ik be sIgnal for t 1 a more gifts of the same kind ku tf horn flom fl om the tho privilege y lege classes tr When Lady t Warwick could not dispose of her land Tand very much with with- without v out running amuck of the English Ing law she decided to get around the tho problem by rent rent- renting renting ing historic Warwick Castle and giVing the money it brought in from a wealthy American tenant to th the cause of labor and socialism This famous old castle is arother of England's show spots It Iti as was as partly built by the Romans under Caesar and tho the ancient tower where hero Caesar is supposed to have stayed dur- dur durIng during dur during IngI ing n I campaign is still standing Although Lady War Warwick Warick ick believes that thata a revolution of the tha masses must come sooner or later she has always been blen opposed to violence e in any form By handing over otter the use of Easton Lodge to the labor leaders she hopes to help ac- ac ac accomplish the changes she considers in- in ineVitable inevitable in inevitable evitable quietly and bloodlessly There is perhaps still another reason for Lady Warwick's unusual gift Sho 0 has to account for owning acres of Britain's fate lands and also for half as many belongings to her husband Practically speaking she is undoubtedly still one of the landed gentry in spite of all her championship of socialism The gift of Easton Enston Lodge is Lady Warwick's first answer to the labor members mem mem- members members bers who have frankly asked her why sl e did Id not practice what she preached ii and divest herself of her own wealth More than once she sho has explained why she cannot do this under the tha English Inglish law The gift of the Lodge is the tho best she can do so far The family into which tho the Countess of 01 Warwick married is one of the proud proud- proudest proudest est oldest and most distinguished in all England about about the last in which one would expect to find an attire active supporter of the causes of labor and socialism The the family name of the earls earls of Warwick Wat were prominent in Warwickshire for or year years Of Wat Warwick Castle Guys Guy's Tower feet high way Bag a built in 1314 1394 and Caesars Cresar's To To er feet high is still more ancient The earls of Warwick have be been bean n la fa fa- fa t in history The gigantic helmet furnace like pot and mighty fork of tho legendary Guy remain in m the castle eastle to this day Another Guy Do De Beauchamp the haired haired black of Arden came to the title in 1298 1238 Richard Nevil the famous Kingmaker assumed the title in right of his wife Anne I George Duke of Clar Clarence ence once was created Earl of Warwick by his brother Edward IV He Ho was thC tho Clarence that was drowned in a II butt of Malmsey wine The rhe castle was long in the possession of the Greville family having been granted to Sir Fulke Greville Lord Brooke by Janus James I when it was m in rums ruins It was restored by Lord Brooke at a cost of mole moio than The title of Earl of or Warwick was be- be bestowed be bestowed stowed sto on Francis eighth Lord Brooke b by George II in m 1746 Isis Ills son George who succeeded to the title in 1773 1 was liS lai 11 ish in his e expenditure p on the castle It has been described as the most magn magnificent of the ancient feudal man man- manSIOns mansions of the nobility still used as a II resi resi- residence residence residence dence It contains a fine collection of pictures armor and other replica The Great Hall lIall and the family apart apartments ments mens were destroyed by fir fire in 1871 but have been restored In the last |