Personalities,

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 429, 4 August 1904, Page 6

Personalities,

A BUSY PHILINTHROPISX. 3BJ3KEW people have done more to proMwt. mote ****■ indnßtrieß * n * n i* ad| y Aberdeen, who, when in residence many years ago at the Viceregal Lodgeygave a garden party at which all those invited were asked to wear as far as possible costumes made from material of Irish manufacture. Lidy Aberdeen has many interests, and is noted for her philanthropy and decided views on the betterment of the working class. She is literary, too, speaks well on the public platform, and is president of several women's associations, yet she is, above all, a lover of domestic life, and has a touch'of kind homeliness whioh appeals to those with whom she comes in ooataot. PRINCESS LOUISE. The PriHcesa Louise of SohleswigHolefcein, who has come back permanently to her native land, is one of those royal ladies who has unfortunately found marriage a failure. The younger daughter of that most philanthropies! and energetic sister of the king,, Princess Christian, Princess Louise was married whilst still in her teens. The union was not blessed with children, and the independent, very English ideas of the young Prinoess were, not always rightly understood in her German home, and so at length it was decided; that Princess Louise shonld come back to London and live her own life in her native land. Tall, slender, with a graceful figure and well-out features, the second daughter of Princess Christian is particularly good-looking, and, like her royal mother, she greatly oh joys charitable work, and has given her patronage, her presence, and her service to many benevolent function? since she settled in her pretty London home with her especial friend as iady-in waiting, Prinoess Louise is very artistic, and h&a made quite a' specialty of painting oa enamel, some excellent examples of her work havisg been exhibited this year at the Amateur Art Exhibition held at Battersea House. The Princess ia the close companion of her only sister Prinoess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIBE'S SEVEN RESIDENCES.

To form some idea of the diplacemont of social force that took place when the Dake left the Cabinet, it is only necessary to glance at the many mansions of this many-acred noble. Devonshire House, in Piccadilly, unlike other palaces that front the green Park, retires from the bustling world of business and of pleasure, and stands aloof behind its high brick walls, but condescends to be visible through the iroawork of Its lofty gate. Chatsworth, his lordly pleasure-house, aad Hardwicke Hall, are both in Derbyshire, a county which has had a Dake of Devonshire for its Lord Lieutenant ever since the 17th century* In Westmorland, from Holker Hall he can look out toward Barrow, that Vulcan's Forge which his father called into being on the West Coast, In loikshire the' Duke's seat is Bolton Abbey, On the South Coast, at Compton Place, he is in the presence of Eastbourne, which his founded, as a fashionable watering-place, and over which he preBided as Mayor m 1897,. He has no seat in Scotland, but in Ireland no man has a lovelier home than that which the Dnko possesses at Lismore Castle, in the County of Waterford. If he divided his year impartially among his seven residences he could not epend eight weeks in any of them.

DOING GOOD BY STEALTH.

The King is most generous, and 'his private canities are innumerable, general! y fcoing done in euch a manner that tha recipients are frequently unaware of the identity of their benefactor. One story is told of an officer in a well-known regiment in which King Edward is greatly interested. He fell into serious money troubles, and, alter having to leave the Army, became almost destitute. King Edward happened to hasr of the sad case, and eeon the poor man, who was reduced to a very low ebb, received a letter from a firm of solicitors requesting him to call. Ha diil so, and wag handed, to his intense joy and amazement, a considerable sum of money from a friend who .desired to remain anonjmoua, and to the day of his death, which occurred not long after, he never knew who the friend in need was,