Eureka Reporter | 1904-12-30 | Page 3 | Duchess Likes "Coon" Songs

duchess likes coon songs when she was consuelo vanderbilt the duchess of marlborough had bad a sweet voice not remarkable for its timbre but pleasing and she used to shock her musical instructors a lit tie by displaying a decided liking for the quaint melodies of the old planta plants tion darkles now even as a stately and dignified duchess she loves to sing these old ballads and the more modern coon songs for the enter talu ment of her friends and she has made the melodies so popular they have become all the rage in the fam flies ot of the nobility the duchess of westminster has taken them up and so has princess henry of pless