FAMOUSHOMES
, OF NOBLES ARE
ONTHEMARKET
LONDON, "Sept. 24 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—The sale of the
Duke of Devonshire’s town house to a j
real estate syndicate for $3,000,000 is .
the latest of the seats of the old no- j
bility to pass into the hands of out- j
aiders. The purchaser of the London j
house of the governor general of Can
ada is an American syndicate, and it
is reported that a hotel will be erected
on the site. .
Devonshire house was erected
nearly two centries ago, in 1738, at a
cost of about $1,000,000. It is one of
the most important and historic of the
old London mansions, with gloomy ex
teriors and splendid interiors which
Thackeray and the other Victorian
novelists made the stage settings of
their most impressive passages of Lon
don life. It stands with characteristic
British disregard for display, its back
to London’s chief thoroughfare, Picca
dilly, ' its porches facing a spacious
garden worth some dollars per square
inch. Lansdowne house, the town
place -of the Marquis of Lansdowne,
which commands an even larger gar
den, is the nearest neighbor, and that
is reported to be in the market also.
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the Marquis of Lansdowne both own
three or four country estates as well.
They are at the front® of the great
landed proprietors of the kingdom, and
the duke’s palace named Chatsworth,
in Derbyshire, is one of the most mag
nificent private establishments in the
world, surpassed by nothing in Britain
except Windsor castle.
Chesterfieled house, owned by gen
erations of Lords Chesterfield, and
long considered the finest of the old
London residences, has been sold re
cently. This had been rented for
some years by the Duke of Roxburgh,
who married Miss May Goelet, the
daughter of Ogden Goelet of New
York. Here the government enter
tained Colonel House when he came
to London as special commissioner
after the United States entered the
war. The Duke of Rutland has just
parted v/ith his town house, which ior
a time was tenanted by the American
merchant, Gordon Selfridge. _ Lord
Ebury’s great country estate in Sur
rey, near London, has been purchased
by a newly-created peer, Lord Lever
hulme, the soap magnate.
The newspapers ascribe various rea
sons for these sales. The chief one
is that super-income taxes and the
general increase in the cost of living
make impossible the upkeep of such
buildings and the necessary retinue
of servants; another that the motor
car makes it possible for people to
live in the country and still enjoy all
the advantages of town life. Another
writer credits the Duke of Devonshire
with a belief that the constant sight of
such costly private possessions by the
bus-riding masses who daily pass the
iron gates of Devonhire house tends
to promote Bolshevism.
"England Changing Hands” is the
heading under which a weekly paper
groups long pages of notices of estates
for sale. Amberley castle, one of the
properties of the late Duke of Norfolk,
is in the latest list, also Ruthin castle,
long in the possession of the Corn
wallis-West family; the'Rothes estate,
linked with the ancient earldom of
that name; and Burton Pynsent, once
inhabited by William Pitt. Mathern
palace, Ashby St. Legers, Crag-y-Nos,
Castle Toward, Grafham Grange, Rush
brook hall, Windleshatn park, Whatton
manor, Bar well court, Abby-Cwm-Hir
these are typical offerings on the real
estate market. They are described,
some of them, as Jacobean, Tudor,
Queen Anne, Georgian; pictured with
moats, turrets, gargoyles, paneled oak
walls and carved stair rails; and many
have appertaining to them lakes, deer
parks, Italian and Georgian gardens,
“hunting with four packs,” and even
“feuing land.”
In such reading matter the knowing
find between the lines not a few stories
of family tragedies.
Apart from sales of whole proper
ties, many great estates are being cur
tailed by placing a few thousand acres
on the markets here and there. The
aggregate of these land transfers has
amounted to millions of acres this
year. The redistribution of the land
ftoto smaller holdings, which has been
the principal reform of the past cen
tury in Ireland, is generally considered
all for the good of the larger island.
Dr. L. Von Zesch has returned.
Use your Yama Yamas Friday night,
October 31, at Eagle hall.
BRITISH WOMEN
HELPSUPPRESS
PROFITEERING
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Women are to
have an important part in enforcing
the anti-profiteering act under in
structiond for its enforcement issued
by Sir Auckland Geddes, president of
the Board of Trade.
Local authorities in England, Scot
land and Wales are instructed to ap
point local committees, two members
of which must be women, to investi
gate all complaints arising from the
sale at retail of the articles to which
the anti-profiteering act may be ap
plied, from time to time, by the Board
of Trade.
Complaints must be heard in public
except in particular cases, and books
or documents must be treated as con
fidential if the owner desires.
The committee may either dismiss
the complaint or, if satisfied the profit
Is unjust, require the seller to repay
the amoount paid in excess. The com
mittee also may cause the arraign
ment of the proofiteer in court, where
he will be liable on conviction to a
fine of not more than $1,000 or im
prisonment not » exceeding three
months, or both.
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
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j iiiiiiuiiiiuininiiiiiiyiii! rj^ HE unprecedented amount
$: CONCERNING 1 e t • 1 1 • •
:§ OUR I ot family washing coming
| patrons into our laundry recently,
| iiiiiiniiuiiif being unusual for this time of
year, naturally excited our curi
osity as to where it all came
from, so we investigated.
In going down the names of
more than six hundred of our
regular customers, we found
that the most progressive and
up-to-date women are among
our patrons. We do not mean
that only the well-to-do women
are our customers, but we mean
the women who live in well
kept homes, who know how to
maintain them economically,
| F::::il;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii and at the same time, how to re
| SEND ,T lieve themselves of tasks involv
■.linn ing drudgery or tending to dis
turb the equilibrium of the fam
ily home life.
We found them to be women
who have time to take an inter
est in things outside of their
homes without neglecting them,
and who employ themselves at
home in ways that are more
profitable and pleasing.
Brainy women who think out
their household problems, who
look to the future—as business
men do in their important busi
| iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ness affairs women who have
| modern done and could do a home wash
! ^a0unNeDsRY ing as good as any housewife,
1 phoneT and women with plenty of
| iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii strength and energy, too.
» But above all, women who
have reasoned out that in the |
long run washing done at home
or by inexperienced persons un
* der unsanitary conditions, find
that the losses are more than the
gains—in money, time, comfort,
health and the attention to their
families which is the right of
every family to expect and the
joy of every right - thinking
woman to give.
You can appreciate the feel
ing of pride and satisfaction that
was ours in making such a dis
covery, yet we found, too, that
there were still a few names
that should be there, but are not.
The only excuse we could make j
for them is that they have not
yet learned the advantages to
be derived in the long run by
sending the washing to an es
tablishment of over fifteen
years’ experience, that washes
and handies clothes by the most
modern, scientific and sanitary
methods — handled mostly by
strong, clean and healthy em
ployes, who are an asset to the
community—also that it is bet
ter to pay a few cents more for
the satisfaction that would be
theirs, the money they would
save by longer wear of clothes.
Begin now. Let us show that
we can do for you what we are
doing for hundreds of others.
Bundle up your laundry and call
Phone 66.
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