| Show The Most Exclusive of El English Hostesses Three London Society Domes Damos to Whoso Drawing 1 Not Wealth Influence Nor NOI Even Evon tho Friendship of or Can Gain Ono One thc tho Hesitate to Cut of or King and Joon Special April In Lon London LONDON lion don may bo bu mixed but thero ther tire tiresome some houses of or the thc l C Crue racy rue Into which tho man of mil llon no mutter matter what he might be bl able to buy and command has never yet gained the entree A plutocrat of oC questionable origin may succeed In se securing curing an on Invitation to 10 be received by dukes and duchesses even to dine with them He lIe may meet tho tha king perhaps be one of or King Edwards VIls VIlli most In Intimate friends and yet el have not the ie molest of this moat select circle of English I society lIode There arc oro hostesses 0 exclusive that they th would not consider for a n moment acknowledging a 1 bow from score of King l constant friends or from many of or those who are Intimately by b Queen Qu WHO AUK Am AmOno Ono of the most t particular of these haughty IH IR Lady an on another other othel Is the Duches of n II third although her position makes It quite Impossible for her to 10 bo no exclusive as OK she sho would privately wish IH Is the bister tho Marchioness of lAId Ix Is 18 a II tho famous of or Cleveland of ot Abbey ono one of nt tho most historic places In Great Greot nhe Is III Bister to tho 1 lIrI of Her having died coming Into the earldom was Willi raised by royal to 10 the position of the tho daughter of or an un earl Her mother died only about two years ago Oin and tho lit or III told lohl that when wh William Waldorf Astor went to Rattle Abbey he noticing ing In the worn wo n deeply by b tho tread of throughout so O many rles suggested that they might bo re replaced placed by II new ones one Yes Ye I the tho duchess that IH II tho worst of oC those U U old Normans they thc began be nn wearing out the to so long ago n o Battlo Abbey by b the way 11 wn afterwards old to Au Webster and an he has hils now given Ilen givena a n lease of It for years to M 11 MP P the American whoso daughter was lOs married tho other day to Mr of New Ne York and 1111 whose other daughter Is the Countess of ur more COrD COLD AND HAUGHTY In accordance with what whal nhe believes to be due to her Ilir aristocratic lineage Lady IM III extremely cold col haughty Most does she Iho s Sll t ther her fate tuc against the widening of socie ty h against the italic against tho wealthy Jew element clement that thul makes HH 1111 WilY way almost She Is opposed to that which does docs not t of use tn 10 moot nil sorts of wealthy nobodies because they th friends of King and are taken up enthusiastically by nil the th kings followers and circle of Intimates At Atno Atno no time could Lady ho he In Induced Induced to 10 receive Torn orn Dick and Harry II 11 rr and much likely would olio Rho be bp to acknowledge the of Tom Dick or Harry Lady Iud exclusive nets In every ler phase of her lire life At their church nt the have hIo n a gallery pew a u sort orl of loval box no 1111 that they ilo do not mingle with thc other worshipers hero thero ore but few fo among the tho most un unblemished blemished of the racy who ever eer url honored by byan h han an Invitation to enter charmed charmell cli cle nt home homp It Is 18 not liCIt by II the th way that this may mo hae had some something thing to do with the very 1 bad 11 matches which have been beel made by b n However no family fall however It Il may ron be b seems stell to lack Its own skeleton In the tha cupboard tho contemplation of which might bo hI ex cx expected to tn en said hauteur and Lady 1 was known to be the Ihl Illegitimate son of ot thc th Karl of ot WHAT omI MAN IN This carl was I S a great man linn In tho das of ot the when the tho Hegent of ot J mode made n IL place and built hullt tho tha pavilion there Lord who was one of lit his boon Villi ri II hard lighter a 1 hard drinker l lu a u great gambler although lilt hough he hull hud he was all never married To 10 his lion ion he hc adopted tho Ibm gave the tho name of W and M II P 1 who Is nv I W to I lAdY ady I Is III one olle of his grand grandsons sons Hons To Lady law la Lord 1 who to leave him his and title left nil 1111 his hl estates all 1111 his money the tho be hI London huu e No 0 I Chesterfield dens now lles JOIl which Is built on 00 till thc gUIlI ns of or House Houle where lived tho famous Lord Lorel Chesterfield of or the tho let letters Tho rho stately Duchess of ot who may 1111 be he described lIe as os second only to Lod In la 11 best known outside of or society liS miss tress of the to Queen Alexandra a post ost which she also held r tho lato Queen Victoria lly no 10 could thin gentlewoman bo ho Induced 11 to 10 mingle with what Rhe would an nil the thc riffraff of oC smart disdains even eVon to live Iho either thel In III or but maken her hel homo hOllo In exclusive grandeur nt Montague House Whitehall where the windows look Inoh on onto onto to the embankment and the river Thames the duchess Is III quite Cullo ditto and progressive In other ways WOI for fOl she him haa organized a dairy lair to Bell fresh cream eral to London customers A LAUGH FAMILY It Is hinted that In her ex her grace makes a n virtue of ot necessity her family being so O largo that when oil all III It have at t a 1 ball or N AA there Is for only a few 01 H The Tho Duchess of Is III of course a IL daughter of ut the tho Dowager Duchess of who was horn born In 1812 allt who In nil all probability tins hns more descendants living than other woman In the world During the thc war wor In III South Africa this remarkable old lady who lives lIell at nt fontes eon teA Castle hUll had no nu lean than 32 mule descendants d at lit thc front The brilliant marriage of the th teis tOIS of tho Iho first Duke Dulie Duchess of or Abercorn are often ottell commented lItell upon In III I society for tor one married the Karl of ur I another tho Duke of Hut h another the Karl of another the of or Lansdowne and another the of The of nr ver got ot u II from her hu who after oCter lion that she was afterwards to tu be he welcomed 11 at nt court This exception has since been mudo for everyone who go a through tho divorce as the Injured ed 11 party ONLY BJur S1 Though on account of her husbands he Is now no for I Lady Is III hardly able to cut down dOII her visiting list as us she might wish i ho he hoIs heIs Is quite nil 1111 exclusive hostess and de lIe debars bars nil but hope whoso blood Is I bluest or whose who diplomatic positions Ions demand lur acknowledgment Her 11 town bonne IK Is a 1 stately mansion standing In Ho lis own mounds surround wl cd by hy n 1 high wull and ond bounded on one by II square on an another another other by b the of or Devonshire house houe from rom which It II Is III divided by h one of ot tho Iho quaintest of ot the tI surviving of old London n passage with a Q of stone steps at nt one end run running ning from street to Hay Hill lilli Hilland and known l as passage Tin In these days darK folks are pushing unions to get thell till thc cully of maintaining nn An as II IB III practised by h these exceptional hostesses ot oC London Is I r IH I H t t tt tI t I l lI I J j i ji JJ J i I Ij IJ j J fI f I r fr r rr r ri i Oi jl 1 t H t H H II Il H H i TIm Ilni OF 01 The Wife of tho British Foreign Secretary ward vaul became Duke o of M and HO u daughter of Iho IH hI tho of oC thu Ihu Duchess p of ot I all AGAINST Hut there thero with the comment nl aI wa AH H a n It being an 1111 old that ono at ot least of the tho mar mari i will turn out unhappily and tho double wedding of lit tho Marchioness of or dono and tho of heH u I roso In point Whilst Lady downoR wedding proved to 1 HI the tha stepping to tl s that of her Al ter Lady led lod to toH 14 H years rs of such fluch that t tIt It Induced Queen n lo withdraw one of the tho most rigid rules of ot her lIer reign 1883 no ono one who hall over been through the he divorce court either cither ns nil plaintiff or defendant wan over allowed to go 10 to again hut but when the thc of divorced her husband III so BO moved to tu pity was wall Queen on Oil looming what tho woman endured BO so that In her en so the tho beyond comprehension There Is III great In defeating the of an 1111 tho following Inci Incident dent shows A who WIS giving 1 ing a huge was assailed nun lied by bya a 11 man on behalf of ot a 1 woman who wan wall most anxious to tu obtain n 1 of Hut the duchess an nil that was hilt but that ho really Cully could not 1101 On hearing this tho ambitious one sent for her explained that If IC hc did not ie 10 an 1111 It Il would mean HO I vial dal ruin to her It Is not that I want to gc sho explained I am lUll too ton III lo to lomove tomo move mo I could not nol go 10 If It I wanted to I hut bill If only you ou can gut Iet nn Invitation tor mo 1110 1 I shall be he The man went the tho second fI cond line to the tho duchess and explained the th circumstances PO that till the duchess on the Ihn a thol U It lIIK to l Ill a 1 mere Invitation and not notto to tn lie accepted sent card curll On tho eventful evening how over at nt tho mo moment ment when the man thanking his hostess for having been heen NO III kind nN to grant his hili request they both hoth turned round lound to tu meet the tho receiver of Ihu In III Invitation faco to face KING IS TACTFUL AH All King occasionally ll re requests quests that his ho te cor tain of If hm hIli mutters would be ho bevery very cry of or did he hi nn one of those tholo dames for forIn nn In Invitation did not nol wish to grant But the thc IH III WI tactful mill loon not seek Reel to what ho he may probably ably secretly One lIch nich may have been till fur when no liB of nf Wales ho he going to Austria to vl Mt Count rent In Inthe the Iho list of It the tho friends who ho would bo with him figured Oie mime of nr Huron Baroll h the count not be hI being ing IIII a n wrote rol bade that he hll 1111 greatly hut but ho would be he away IIII from Croll home and 1111 unable lo to receive the tho of ot Wales Willes There am other othOl friend of tit thu Iho King kin who nut only 01 oro not I by It tho hut but who are expelled rom bowing with of position 1111 n III I tho o who are 11 not by h loss le s high In tank link till current O Or for r r tho In III this sub subject J t being that 1111 Is III deaf nhe Rho not hear hel all that might be told and KO fin KOIn finIn In perfect l Ignorance welcome tho Iho o whom ho would not to HO MO LOUD |
