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Show MISTRESS OFSiCIBa CASTLE. lite Carnegie's Wife Is Charming: and VlTacloro Woman Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, the wife ol the great steel magnate. Is a very charming, vivacious and model woman, wom-an, but Is averse to publicity. She has a horror of the Interviewer and prefers pre-fers to be regarded merely as the mistress' mis-tress' of Skibo castle rather than as a person of public interest. A good story is told of the devotion in which her husband regards her. A pretty little custom which Mrs. Carnegie adopts at her dinner parties is to put Into a small silk bag slips of paper bearing the names of all the ladies present. Then, just before dinner is announced, she carries the bag round to all the male guests and each "dips" for his partner at table. One evtting Mr. Carnegie "drew" his wife. His boyish delight was Immense. Im-mense. Holding the slip of paper so that all the company could see the name inscribed thereon, he playfully invited the men to make bids for it and the honor of "taking down" Mrs. Carnegie. Presently he grew serious. "The offer is withdrawn," he said. "My luck is too precious." It was also at one of these pleasant little gatherings that the conversation turned upon the desirability or otherwise of an Anglo- American alliance. Mrs. Carnegie raised the question of what would be the most suitable flower as a blna-tional blna-tional emblem. Mrs. Carnegie is a elever photographer, photog-rapher, but whether she agrees with a remark her husband made on her art is not known. "A great thing, this instantaneous in-stantaneous photography," said the laird of Skibo. "One has not time to look his very worst." Mrs. Carnegie is 20 years younger than her husbaad. He did not marry until late in life asad after the death of his mother, to whoaa he was ' greatly attached. There is a daughter, a winsome little miss, n j whose name Skibo was purchased. |