LAND AND WATER 
October 2, 1915 
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The King and Queen since they returned to Buckinghain 
Palace have had their time" fully occupied, most after- 
noons being devoted to visits to one or more military 
hospitals. Prince Henry is back at Eton ; he is now m 
liis sixteenth year, and Prince George, who wiU be thirteen 
in December, is at St. Peter's Court School, Broadstairs. 
The Duke of Norfolk is anxious to thank all who have shown 
so kind an interest in his recent illness. He is deeply 
touched at the number of inquiries received, and the 
great number of prayers offered for him. He begs all 
who have befriended him to accept his warmest and 
heartfelt thanks. 
The Duchess of Somerset will be glad to take charge of any 
parcels intended for wounded in the hospitals at Malta 
and at the Dardanelles. Small pillows, socks, sheets, 
blankets, and bandages are urgently required, and if 
sent to 35 Grosvenor Square, would be forwarded without 
any further trouble to those who contribute them. 
A new Hope was born into the world last week, when Lady 
Linlithgow gave birth to a daughter. Lord and Lady 
LinUthgow's family is now a happily mixed quartette — 
two boys and two girls ; the boys are twdns and were 
three years old last April. The Hopes have always 
been noted for their large families, which gave point to 
the old story about the Scottish minister, who in the course 
of a sermon preached before the Lord Hopetoun of his 
day, chanced to ejaculate in dolorous tones : " The 
world is full of blasted hopes." 
Lord Sidmouth's marriage with the only daughter of Sir 
Donald Johnstone, Chief Judge at Lahore, takes place 
at Simla on Saturday. It is seldom that peers of the 
realm are married outside these islands. The Duke of 
Bedford's marriage with Miss Tribe, daughter of the 
Archdeacon of Lahore, occurred five years before he 
succeeded his brother in the dukedom. Lord Sidmouth 
is the fifth to hold the Viscounty bestowed in 1805 on 
Henry Addington, who after having been Speaker of the 
House of Commons, became Prime Minister— a very 
unusual sequence of events. 
Lord Hardinge of Penshurst would have bidden farewell to 
India just '^bout now, were it not that his lustrum of 
office had been extended. He has suffered much since he 
lias been in the East, and private S5rmpathy has helped 
to check public criticism, for all his acts have not been 
uniformly wise. This summer Simla has been in a hubbub 
over the Viceroy's German bandmaster, whom Lord 
Hardinge has insisted in retaining. It is held to be a 
mockery for a German (he has just been naturalised) to 
conduct " God save the King " and other national airs 
that are almost in the nature of prayers. One result 
has been that Viceregal entertainments have been 
tabooed by all except officials whose invitations are 
virtually of the nature of commands. 
This question of private sentiment towards those of German 
birth or upbringing will have to be faced bravely in every 
country sooner or later. It has been the custom not 
only in Britain but in Europe generally to accept the 
German resident at his face value, and so long as he 
personally behaved himself to treat him as an honourable 
man according to our notions. We are all paying 
cruelly for it. Now the question arises whether we 
shall continue to show tolerance in civil life to those 
who hold German principles and conduct their Ufe 
according to them, merely because they are individually 
pleasant, industrious, or pathetic. This is a war between 
principles and ideals ; it will have to be carried into civil 
life, else tolerance degenerates into cowardice. 
Lady (Ian) Hamilton is the eldest daughter of Sir John Muir, 
a Calcutta merchant very well known throughout India. 
It was in the East that Lady Hamilton first met the 
distinguished soldier (then on the Staff of Lord Roberts) 
who afterwards became her husband. Her father was 
largely interested in tea plantations. To-day the British 
Fmn re owes a heavy debt of gratitude to those Britons 
t^ whose enterprise is due the conversion of poisonous 
Oriental jungles into prosperous tea-gardens Tea can 
be placed in London at 6d. a pound and leave the 
grower a fair margin of profit ; it now pays a tax of a 
shilling a pound. Surely there can be no other product 
of general consumption that could bear a 200 per cent, 
duty without being crushed out of the world s markets. 
The Birdwoods are a very well-known Anglo-Indian family, 
but until the General gathered laurels on Anzac s blood- 
stained rocks, the best-known member of the family, 
so far as the general public is concerned, was the veteran 
Sir George Birdwood, who possesses.besides encyclopaedic 
knowledge and an intense love of his fellow-men, the 
pen of a ready writer. Lady Birdwood, the General s 
wife is a daughter of Sir Benjamin Bromhead and a 
niece of the hero of Rorke's Drift. She bears the 
unusual Christian name of GonviUe, which testifies to 
her descent from Edmond de GonviUe who, in 1348, 
founded GonviUe and Caius College, Cambridge. 
Colonel C. G. Bruce, commanding i/6th Gurkhas, whose name 
was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's last despatch, 
is the half brother of Lord Aberdare. His military 
career has been spent chiefly in India and he has seen 
a good deal of active service in Burma and along the North 
West Frontier, including the Tirah campaigns. Colonel 
Bruce's mother was a great niece of Charles James 
Fox, and his father, the first Lord Aberdare, was born 
just two months before Waterloo. 
Father Bernard Vaughan who has been staying with Lord 
and Lady Edmund Talbot at Derwent Hall, is, I am 
glad to hear, very much better. 
The Spirit of France has been the subject of a fine article 
from the pen of a fine writer. It has been commented 
on by everyone who has had the privilege lately of seeing 
how France faces war. And not least amongst the ranks 
of France's admirers is the little group of dressmakers 
who, following their custom, have just returned with 
models from Paris. According to one of these, who apart 
from being a clever dressmaker is a cultured and charming 
woman of the world, the feeling of France is clearly 
expressed in the clothes worn there. The really well- 
gowned Frenchwoman is wearing as beautiful clothes as 
ever she did, but they are of a quietness and restraint 
which is nothing short of remarkable. The people who 
matter patronise nothing flaunting or even striking, and 
an air of delightful dignity is the result. 
In town Rumpelmayer's tea-rooms in St. James's Street are 
a bit of Paris. Among the crowd there of an afternoon 
are always several French people. And you are sure to 
see a hat or a dress that impresses. M. Rumpelmayer 
is with his regiment in France, but Mme. Rumpelmayer 
stands at the head of the stairs and receives the 400 to 
500 guests that assemble of an evening. All the service 
is by women, and it is admirable ; there is a women's 
orchestra that plays uncommonly well. At Rumpel- 
mayer's one comes to understand in a way hardly possible 
anywhere else in London the wonderful verve and courage 
with which French women carry on the family business 
while their men are fighting at the front. 
Nearly everybody returning from Paris with models has in- 
cluded some restaurant frocks in their selection ; this is 
absolutely necessary nowadays when the restaurant 
habit is stronger than ever. These Paris models 
somewhat cleverly convey the impression of a decollete 
dress, and yet in reality they are hardly decollete at all. 
The opening at the neck is frequently filled in with 
diaphanous folds of net or tulle. At the back the gown 
reaches the base of the neck, and more often tlian not 
there is a stiff wired collar of lace or tuUe framing the 
back of the head. 
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