MAINLY ABOUT PERSONS

Evening Star, Issue 11676, 7 February 1902, Page 2

MAINLY ABOUT PERSONS

The Lady Mayoress of London, Lady Dimsdale, is a good-looking, frank-man-nered. fondly gentlewoman, who will certamly be the greatest help to Sir Joseph Dimsdale in the arduous year of office which lies before him. Lady Dimadals knoWs Bomething of organisation, for she is actively concerned in several charitable and political schemes. She is on the Executive Committee of the Ladies’ Grand Council of the Primrose League, and treasurer of the Jiayswater Habitation. The Women's Memorial to the late Queen, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Ladies’ Guild of the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society are various ixistjuitiona in which she holds important positions, working energetically for each enure. , ,e I ' n: ' M^erß who have attended on the King, perliaps the-onewith whom he is most pleased to associate ig Lord James of Hereford. He was persona grata with King Edward when he was still Prince of Wales, and no doubt the King will follow his mother’s example and keep & special rota of Ministers whom he prefers to see. Nobody, looking at Lord James’s strong, clean-cut face, upright figure, and bright, alert eyes, would imagine he was almost seventy-three; but he is. He has had a wonderfully successful life. After a splendid career at the Bar and in the House of Commons, where he made o reputation ns a first-rate debater, be became SolicitorGen era! under Mr Gladstone in 1873. He declined the Woolsack in 1886, and became K scaucntly attorney-general to the Prince <f t'.’r.lcs in the Duchy Cornwall.- His cheery uianiKr-- cod nufoilinsr good 'humor make .Vm it inn*. hj soric! request, and, in mla of . political splits, there are hvr pub’.ioi •'' who have fewer enemies. Among?,? ihe d’,- '■fogulshed lawyers and parl'..".T;.;i;.ari:,us who »'.ve cJ under him in the Law r Courts is the Eight Hou. H. H. Asquith, M.P. Herr Wolf, leader «f the German Nationalists in Austrian polities, whose retirement is announced, was a turbulent and noisy character. After a university education he became editor of a weekly paper in Bohemia, and began to propagate what he called “the ideals of the German people.” In 1897 he entered the Reichsrath, and opened his parliamentary career by calling the Prime Minister a rascal. He was challenged for his insolence, and so attained celebrity by fighting a duel, just as now he has signalised the dose of bis political fortunes with another duel. In the interval of these two combats be fought, three or four other duels with deputies whom he attacked in the House. A few months after bis tight with ihe Premier he was turned out of the Reichsrath by six policemen. Now his retirement has come about through a love affair, which led to a duel with Professor Seidl, the lady involved being Seidl’s wife, the daughter of one of Wolfs most faithful supporters. Herr Wolf is himsetf married. The duel ended after the first exchange of shots, neither combatants being injured. Meetings of the party were subsequently held to consider his position, and he was forced to give up the leadership, to retire from both the Austrian Reichsrath and the Bohemian Diet, and to promise that he would not stand again for either House.