Baby Worship.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1911, Page 4

Baby Worship.

OHRTSTENTXG OF PEER'S HEr To judge by the spare most of our contemporaries have devoted to the subject, says an English cxch.ii,ty:. the christening at Wentworth "WoJv house, near Sheffield, recently, of Viscount Milton, Earl Fitzwil]iam'<; son and heir, was supposed to be the most important event, not only of the day, but of the week. Whatever troubles may :be in store for the peerage, it is only fair to admit that it lias representatives who are gallantly struggling, despite every discouragement, to live up to the traditions of their order. The dying flame of feudal custom was fanned into temporary blaze at Wentworth Woodhouso 7000 guests wove gathered to pay homage to the Fitzwilliain baby. Slum-dwelling mothers dividing bread and dripping amongst their squalling infant's at the Sunday dinner tables will learn with conflicting emotions of the sumptuous fare provided to celebrate the formal introduction of the pride of the Fitzwilliams to the admirers of aristocratic ideals. The catering arrangements were on such an elaborate scale that the head of the firm who carried them out, must have felt, accustomed as lie is to providing for the requirements of the spectators at a Cup Tie Final, that this was an occasion which put all his previous Achievements into the shade. We are told that the provisions included :— 17,000 sandwiches. 30,000 buns. 20,000 meat patties. 2,000 gallons of beer. Four to five tons of bread and cake. And in case that was not enough to get on with, "a fine blue-grey bullock, bred on the home farm, and weighing sixty stones," w_ns roasted whole before the g/aze of the guests.