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| Bioharp II's reign, but restored in 1392. The fifth Earl took the Ianoastrian sido in the Ware of tho Rosen, and was bohasdod, (along with his eldest son, in 1462, but the younger son after being attainted, was restored to his family honours by Henry VII A disputed succession in 1625 led to a great lawsuit, as the result of which a poor officer was adjud-
Eed the nineteenth Earl,
The twentieth Earl (whose daughter married the first Duko of St. Albane) was the last of tho line.
He was one of those Boot to The Hague to bring back Charlos II to England. The seat of the De Vores was at Castle Hodingham, and thuir motto was "Vero nil vorius." At ono time the Lord Chamberlain- ship of England was hereditary in the family.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925.
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A very youthful front with gathored waistlino and let- in fullness in front combinos with tho Hedatenoga of straight back panol
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ST. CUTHBERT'S REMAIN'S.
WHIP-WOMEN PASSING,
Picturesque London Feature.
The whip-women of Covent Gardon, London, are going to abandon the precincts of this famous produce market for the same reason that the villago black- smith is becoming an automobile. salesman. The whip-women are among the picturesque denizens that go along with this most ploturenque markot square, and for the last 300 years an unbrokon lino of mombora of their familias Thava chooked the whips of the produce growers who frequent this market.
This concorsion of whip chook- Ing, which has supported many familien for so long a time, was granted to six ancestors of the | prosont-day whip-women in tho sixtoonth contury when Covent Garden was really
convent garden of the Monks of Wost- minister, outside which tho farmera brought thoir truck to Ball. In that contury half a
A
| dozon whip-women took charge of the whips of the farmors to koop. them from the hands of thieves, and collected ponny from the owner at the end of the day. The number of whip-woman has grown to 12 because some women loft their share of the concession to two daughters, but even though the price of chocking whips is ΠΟΥ three penco,
the whip. womon of to-day cannot make A living, they say.
The title, having bocomo extinct in 1702, was revived in. favour of Robert Harley, Queen,
The womon decided recently Auno's Minister, in 1711. Tho
to ask the authorition to grant ilattoring preamble to Harley's
thom the right to ask sixponco patont is said to have owed its
for their custodianship, but the English translation to Swift.
authorities refused. At a mouting Measures for his impeachment
they decided to lot the whip werd begun aftor the Hanoverian
thioves have the upper hand. acoession, but were not carried
Shortly the familiar figures of through, and Harley died poaca-
Thoro ie an old tradition, om-tho whip-women will disappear fully in Albomarlo-etroot in 1724.bodied by Sir Walter Scott in from Covent Gardon just as the His son, the second Earl, was a "Marmion," that the remains of horse and the street criers have patron of Popo, Swift, and other St. Cuthbert, taken from his disappeared, and in their place authors, and the organiser of a tomb in Durhan: Cathedral after will be several policemen who groat library, part of whose the suppression of the monastor-are to be assigned to look after
the woll- known "Harleian Miscellany," buried in a spot the secret of
ios under Henry VIII, wore the safety of the whips. while the manuscripts found their which was handed down by the way to the British Musoum. This monks. Abbot Cummins, O.S.B., peorage became extinct on the in the current issue of tho death of the sixth Earl in 1853.
Ampleforth Magazine (published Mr. Asquith has now assumed by Ampleforth College, York- tho titlo.
ohiro), declaras that the tradition is in the main accurato, and that | Scott, allowing for poetic licenco, stutas fact, save that the Bocrat is not confinod to only Aro visitors to the seaside in- | throo monks, it is not hold underfluenced by the name of the oath, and it is contained in a district in deciding whore written description as woll as a stay? Tho question is being dis- plan."
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caused at Bournomouth, which has a little suburb in its south- cast corner named "Pokesdown." A number of trades-peoplo, board- house koopers, and hotel pro- prietors declare that the name is ugly, both in writing and in There comes a time in ovary speech, and they say it keeps country where the skies are woman's life-usually hotween visitors away from the district really blue and the sun shines 40 and 45-when who is in need and is altogether detrimental to even in winter. The guardians of special help. Knowing how business. They took thoir case of Japanose prints have beon greatly en many of their sox to the local Chamber of Trade. doling out their treasuros to us suffer during this period women and an a rosult Sir Harbort gradually. Last your wo bad dread it, yet there need be no Walker, the general manager of Toyokani, and what the ignorant causo for four if the system is the Southorn Railway, has been person may call
thoatra fortified with good, rich, red blood appealed to by that body to have school. Now we have Hokusai to meet the change. Dr. Wil- the name of Pokesdown railway Next year may we all live tillliams Pink Pills have proved station changed to West South- thon we hope for Hiroshigo.
themselves over and over again bourno, Hokusai has benn called, to ba woman's best friend at this
Bat apparently all the Pokes: rather foolishly, the Hogarth of time. Read the evidence of Mr down people are not dissatisfied Japanese art, because his figurus G. M. de Silva, retired school with the name, for Sir Horbert aro for the most part grotosque ninator, of Ambalangoda, Ceylon, Walker has replied that he does rather than beautiful. But it is for regarding the case of his wife.
not sao his way to comply with landscapes and not for his figures Saye Mr de Silva." Whon my tho request, as opinion on the that wo love him, if we have wife roached that period known need for such a change is divided known the Japan of colour and as the change of life she became in the district. The name is mist that he know. His favourite weak and ailing. Always a supposed to originate from Puck's modols aro snow-covered gardens, vigorous healthy woman form or Pixies Down. Many fool thal are trees, are waterfalls, are orly, and the mother of six sons any change would be unwise bridges. And lot it be remember-and two daughters, this decline because there are other names in ed that a famous waterfall or in'hor health gave us cause for and aroundthe town, which are not mountain in Japan is a personal- concorn. She constantly com-oxactly pretty, andįthere might be ity, who receives the visiting plained of headaches, was listless a general demand for alteration. cards of every woll-bred pilgrim, and unable to attend to her Thore is one placo called Pug's and is as at a subject for a household dutios, became subject Hole, another Troop, and another portrait as an actor or lady-love. to fits of dizziness, suffered from Jumpers, all of which might i
insomnia and lost appetite. roasonably put forward claims. There is one character who comes into noarly overy picture "A friend of the family rocom-The latter district comes within that Hokusai drew, one altter of mondod Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the Christchurch boundary.
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