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Show Woman'sWorld Somi of Queen Mary'e Social Movtt Suggett She Lack Tact. iiucnrss ok Hamilton. A good innnj people are wondering whether Queen Mary Is going to merit tho sobriquet of Mary tho Tactless. Since she came to the throne and realized re-alized that her pet aversions, the American dollar princesses, wero quite capable of taking offense nnd packing off with their money to somo more hospitable capitals, court circles have made every effort to contradict the I persistent rumor that the queen Is autl-Aiiieiicaii. The belief, however. has by no means been shaken by the ,itpioltitiucuts made In the readjustment readjust-ment of the I'oiirt and the distribution of social pti.es lu tho shape of corn-I corn-I nation appointments. For instance, (Jucen Alexandra hud as one of her coronation canopy benr-ers benr-ers the young and charming lluchess of Mnrlliorough. formerly Miss Con-suclo Con-suclo Vnnderbllt of New York. Kven the duke's relntlous uphold her in Iter (differences with her husband. The I charities of the duchess nro such as 'should commend her to a queen up-preclutho up-preclutho of good works, yet Queen Mary seemingly put n slight on Americans Amer-icans by omitting tho Marlborough namo from the list of her four canopy j bearers and reappointing the three other duehcses who bad officiated at i Queen Alexandra's coronation. In I place of the Duchess of Marlborough I the queen nnmed the Duchess of Ham- : llton. a'seleotlon Hint has caused Kng- , llsb society to gawp with surprise, for . one of the other ennopj- bearers Is , . also the Duchess "of Montrose, nnd the i. ancient feud of Hamilton and Mont I i .rose has been renewed. It came I' about In this way: Tho late Duke of ' Hamilton had only one child, u (laugh i ! ter. I.ady Mary Doiigtas-IIamllton, to whom he was devoted. The heir to ' ! the title, the present duke, was u ills taut kinsman. It was possible for the duke fo allennto much of the Ham- ' llton wealth from the estnte, nnd when he died he willed eierjihlng bo could , 1 to his daughter. , One of the Ilnmlltniis' richest pes- ' sessions wns the Island of Arrau. j ; whete they reigned ns sovereigns, i i Houses and lands, securities, art trcas- ; litres, everything not entailed wns will- ; icd to I-aily Mary by her father, so that ; 'when the present, the thirteenth, duke moved Into Hamilton palace Its walls ! were almost bare. The duke was tin- ' able to appear In society or even kc p up appearances until he married Miss ! Nina Poore. an English heiress. ! Neither the duke nor the duchess j ! lime eier forglwn this alienation of ', I the estate, and when l.nily Mary Hani- ' , llton married the Marquis of (iraliam. , heir of the Duke of Montrose, the tin-j tin-j dent feud seemed to be about to bo J 'leilved. Kugllsli society Is large, nnd i I hitherto the two proud Scottish iltlch-esse- hae been able to move like stars, each lu her separate orbit,, but I I their Joint appointment ns canopy bear- . I ers to the queen Is drawing them to gether and In a manner that cniiunt I fall to provoke questions of precedcui e. , I In which neither Is likely to yield. The Hamilton? are the direct de sceiuhtuts of the Douglas famous In ' the days of Hrnce. while the Montl'oses descend from that Montrose who fell a victim to the treachery of the "false Argyll." The Argyll of today happens to be the queen's tiucle-lu-lnw. husbiiud of the king's aunt. Princess Ixmlse. The house of Hamilton holds Itself ill no way Inferior to roj-ulty. having often of-ten Interiunriled with It nnd being lineal descendants of the bouse of Stunrt. |