Show THE WIDOW OF TODAY HAS A GAY TIM the widow of today lia certainly conspicuously good time in appearance she is a perpetual evergreen her complexion and hair arc a sa alway triumphs is never known to exhibit the slightest tendency to embonpoint embon point ahe the tact and experience of matured woman of the world and at the same time a quite gaiety of manner the widow is not only a tree lance but genera lly ilsc sed of alpio means that she cun trot off to egypt it she is threatened with a cold in lier head or can put in a few days at monte carlo if availed by the blues she bereck in elaborate creations and cover herself with measures thiet would be considered bad form for the debutante and eliat would be out of question for the haggled mother of expensive daughters the widow of today has indeed ceased to describe herself as the dowager lady so and a li undred years ago she was generally alluded to brutally as old and so and now labels herself mary lady de the existence of her son wife who is the lady dc smith cannot be blinked smart society lost one of its most brilliant widows when lady churchill became sirs george corn wallis west alidy margaret orr ewing the duchess of hox burghes daughter husband died early in the late war is a young widow who i seen everywhere and ahn last year did the bial round indefatigably iv caring the most up to date toilettes toi lettes very beautiful and popular didow of several years standing is ladday lor who waa miss borlain of ohio lady naylor key land 0 a fair haired blue eyed woman always exquisitely and cry much to the fore socially she is very rich and her eldest son now a big schoolboy he is by alie bye a gedeon of the kings h one of alio coming partis her younger eon george has two royal god fathers the prince of vales and the duko of cambridge A envied dowager is de Wald cil whose social star i still in the lady dc walden i credited wilh planning some very splendid entertainments tain ments at lier sons smart bouw houw in belgrave square next summer young lord de walden has two hundred abid pounds a year and i quite devoted to ilia mother whose married life was so overshadowed andy howard dc walden who was thirty years younger than her husband was a woman in her youth and professional beauty of the eighties the reception held at reaford formerly known a afton house by lady de walden and her son last sea son wa one of its sensations taft hauae has been most beautifully done lift throughout and an artistic artia tic scheme of preen coloring lias been effectively car lad out in the entrance hall anddrew ns room blanche jadv waa one of the queens lias long been a popular widow in lier own particular set cultured coterie more or less holding itself aloof from ultra jadv a member of the villiers and n of lord clarendon and lady derby like the reit of alio family sho nas a favorite at court from her juvenile days and she was bedchamber woman to queen victoria for fifteen years athe dowager empress of mother of thirteen children and grandmother grand mother and great er of many well known men and women is widow who in baite of her advanced a lias not relaxed her interest in society and the movements of the day i the dowager lady londonderry is a strong minded energetic lady who rarely seen in london in a very import nut personage in alio vicinity of her awu welsh home so widow in society lias lud a more romantic history than the lady who became first the wife of the rich mr biam mersley of new york then of alie late duke of marlborough and who finally made tt romantic love match with popular bill Bc resford 1 since the demise of the latter his widow has lived quid j ly in the country devoting u to the of her little son douches of manchester alio has seen so much sorrow in her life has the charm wit and vivacity of the typical grando dame of theold the old days when salons were the mode end the woman who could talk brilliantly waft always the center of an admiring circle of friends alie dalmeny festivities have lieen pronounced a complete success certainly there could have been a moro fortunate combination of circumstance 1 than those surrounding alie coming of of a man from whom lih country his family hod society hopp great dalmeny is ideally situated for titis sort of function edinburg is quito near enough to be used as a center tor balls and dinners it is large enough to add distinction at dalmeny and small enough to be proud of an exi the six or beveri niilo between lord house and the edin 1 burgh music hall might appear lo 10 have acell annihilated on alie night of the ath the din gy old building in george street had been as by a fairy wand into a repetition of dalmeny itself even Barn bougle castle the ancient stronghold on the firth which lord has recently fitted up ns a bachelor perch for his boye seemed to have been wafred wafted to the city for there were the grav turrets alie terraces and winding walks even the old sundial or its replica clevor lv imitated ae to deceive the meo nister himself stood by the acu elioud gate panoramic views as if from thi poncie stretched awne from the kock to cramond fiand and along alie biff horo to ho mighty forth bridge and queen margarets hope on the opposite side were views of the hills where tin oldest lands of tho primrose lie with in the foreground and the he awak of the Loth inns showing with ita bancon fire beyond par outside real acon firc burning not onla on but on Wor klaw mallona and hill itself alic moon did in the least interfere the vivid flares bixl ahe snows nf the and alie dark firth waters alike reflected the bonfires lit in lionor ol 01 the heir of the rejoicings rejo icings only ix gan with that ball anthe etli there was a dinner for the tenants and another ball on the ath receptions and presentations on ath dinners and dances for tho workpeople gifts and feasts for the poor anil special care taken that tho inmates of alie poor hoiby havo cause to call down blessings on tho young heirs head U dalmeny house the party consisted of the dow hess of roxburghe and lady isobel innes ker the marquis and mar cli iones of the earl of carrington Carri neton and lady ruby carrington lord rothschild lady lady cecil ia crowe minnea mr and mra vincent yorke mr rii ipps and mr powell the invitations included everybody who is anybody in the lothian und there were very few refusals lord wemyss brought a large party from gosford house and tooted a reel a lightly as though he were eighteen instead of eighty the duko of bucche uch canie to do honor to his old friends boy alie duchess in cloth of gold dress with of grey wore her famous tiara in all the splendors of ita new setting lord linlithgow Lin lithgow aboe has been frail lately insisted on putting in an appearance hia lovely wife so popular as a chaperon bringing a large party from llope tonn old lord stair found the inter weather too trying to allow of hi leaving lo 10 chinch but sent lord delrymple Dil rymple to represent him lady tall figur ewas easily seen as she moved through tho rooms which by the way were draped in lord racing colors primrose and pink although were many other conspicuously tall women pies lady constance blackburn was the only representative of the alamis glamis family lord and lady strathmore being yn the ISi viera lady sibyl primrose seemed to feel alio weight of this the culminating effort of her rule as mistress of her fathers house her ducet face was very cerious ee rious although no one glancing at her could doubt her pride in her brother and her exceeding happiness in her own engagement her brother 11 in replying to one off hie loasta proposed at the dinner on the jtb said lidy sibyl was tho biot scotch at bicart of all the family and that she loved dal many ten times better than any other on earth oddly very little true scotta blood in lord llo berye veins the with alie Mow braye nearly two hundred years ago and that time have had no further scottish bics tics their wives have been chosen from wards Rou veries Stan hopes and rothschild means that young lord dalmeny is but one a scoff dut if lady sibyla sibyls scottish predilections are not exactly immediate they are very strong and true and remembering that it is pleasant to know that she is fated to a scotchman lord rothschild takes the greatest interest in his favorite cousins children and not one of the Prim rosee chowe the faintest wish to tie which connect bliem with the famous frankfort banking house which was aid to hold a master key to haaf the safes of europe the death in 1890 of lady rosebery Roe ebery was a severe blow tobar husband who leaned on her clear judgment more utterly than he realized very different was she in appia ranee in manner and in sympathies from alie coun tenses ami who preceded her to but mcw a them left a nobler of nah kindness of justi fi and devotion than hannah alio of ahr old frankfort banker after liosi wife hannah named and whose virtues he licad in such ghigli cst pein the letter clial lord 1 in january 1882 2 on alip of alic of biord Dali neny is today in writing to ay that he t not bo present at in scotland his lordship aid 1 I feel that ila alic friendships real foundation is alic memory of my who for more than liala a fulfilled u and alie duties of a landlord if I 1 dared to tonn n wish for my baby it would be that bo might live to arpad in the footsteps of im sr 11 wishes of alu a sort arc easily formed but fulfillment ia in higher fiands than ours stilt it lift liv to years of actual discretion end realizes bis he will understand that his wall depends largely on the cordiality of lin neighbors whether they may bo tenants or not |