Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1902, Page 31

English Women Who Will Entertain MRS. CEORGE KEPPEL HE brilliancy and success of the present coronaticn season in Lon don rests wholly on the shoulders of the fashicnable English hostess, The king may provide the glitter and grand shows, but it is “up to" the feminine leaders of society to second his efforts and satisfy the many hundreds of thousands of foreigners with the sort of hospitality that lingers warmly n the meme of strangers As long ag» as last autumn some of the women, who have already assumed leading positions as ntertainers, began to set their huge Park Lane and South Kensington houses in order for this spring's campaign The grand city mansion belonging to the duke of Westminster was, for example, done over from top to bottom for the ex- ceedingly handsome young duchess, whose marriage made such a social stir a year ago, and who promises to become the most powerful hostess in English soclety. This lady is the second daughter of Mr: Wil- liam Cornwallis-West, who was a famous beauty in the day when Mrs. Langtry first appeared. The duche elder sis- ter is the beautiful Princess of Pless and is one of the great ladies and leading beauties of Emperor William's court. All things considered, however, Miss Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West made a more bril- liant alliance than her sister, when she married the richest of the English dukes. His grace of Westminster met with sharp family opposition when he announced his lesire to marr iss Cornwallis-West. He s even now only 23 years ot age, his wife's unior by five years, and his stern, simple old grandfather, whom he succeeded, was bitterly opposed, not only to such an early marriage, but also to an alliance with a family whose achivements and ambitions have been no more strenuous nor ntellectual than those of a flock of butterflies. The young duke has, nevertheless, followed the inclinations of his heart, and though his wife may not be a marchioness of Salisbury for brains, she is a beauty of the first-class, a lady of wit, ready tact, great enterprise and blessed with the looks and the gifts that will give her the leadership among “-vhvv. queenly h(th(('fi\(‘s n{klhis regal season. The Americans now in London take an Infinite pride and interecst in one of the smart hostesses who hails from the United States, and who does the land of her birth every credit. This is Lady Grey-Egerton, who, as Mi May Carolyn Cuyler, married ilip Grey-Egerton in 1803 Lady gerten's beauty of feature and color- ng is beyond criticism and she has all the crisp wit and sweet friendliness of man ner typical of the well born American s0 to speak LADY ANNESLEY. woman. Usually she lives at her hus- band's country seat, Oulton Park, neur old Chester, but last winter she rented and set in order a splendid old house in Berkley Square that is said to be quite incurably haunted, and for the coronation n she is going to entertain her Amerl- can friends especially. Very often this fair lady has been seen of late driving in Hyde Park, accompanied by her remarkably beautiful twin eons, whose romantic are Philip de Malpas and Rowland de Bel- boys were born their mother's features ana personality that blonde and enterprising social favorite GREY-EGERTON MRS. CECIL. POWNEY sent out to South Africa a year ago, and though her only daughter wly Marjorie, is just about to make her debut at one of the court receptions, Lady Warwick is aa fresh as a girl and maintains her youth as marvelcusly as does Queen Alex- andra. 8o hospiiable is this countess and so pleasing her manner that it is said she wina first the acquaintance and then the friendship of every person worth knowing Princess from Punjab Studying in America HE Princess Duleep Singh, with her great Siberian hound and her equally Great Dane, forms per- haps the most intercsting of the foreign perscnages in America today. The princess’ history, if so it may be called, is unique; her purpose in this country is unusual She herself is alto- gether charming As a daughter of the old king of the Punjab, she belongs to the highest cast mong the versed in such genealogy her personality proclaims her exalted birth, while from her soft, large eyes sometimes flash senti ments akin to those of her famous grand mother, one of the greates 1gainst whom England ever held a re training hand The almoest perfect type of features, often identified with these people, belongs also to this princess and eems somehow to be accentuated by the opper color of her skin and her exquisitely ng taper-pointed fingers At the time of the suppression of her father's power he and his family were taken to live in England India then be came a forbidden land to them. Thus it is Indian royalties. To those insurrectionists that tk princess has never seen her native country, she later having been born in Eng- land. Some time ago her parents died, but ¢till she, her two brothers and two sis- ters are each supplied with unusually large incomes by the English crown and given a residence at Hampton court. There, during the long, delightful summers, the princess and her sisters remain together; but when the winter comes she can not stand the damp, foggy atmosphere of Eng- land, so she gives ful' rein to her keen desire for travel and adventure Some- times her younger sister, who, however, 1s intoncely fond of society, goes with her; or again, as this year, she ventured alone to America. Twice she has been around the world, but never stopping on Indian goil, in accordance with the supervision of the English officials. At present the prin- cess is making her second visit to America ind this time she has come with a purpose It has been for a long time her earnest wish to study medicine, that eventually she might practice it for the relief of the poor. In this noble ambition, however, she is hampered by the traditions of her people, which prevent her from regarding it as proper to study in any of the co-education immodesty receiving medical instruction England or instruction, four years' course of study At the medical college in Chicago able to give her instructon Philadelphia, the college, instruction Philadelphia the prince:s found, when investigating this subject woman on medical world of America instruction uncer these circum:tan « 10 will be abl to obtain a degree Without this, of course, she would not be allowed to prac tice It is only recently that the princess has returned to Chicago from a trip on which she pald flying visit to Toronto, Buffalo New York and Philadelphia. Her inten tion was then to find out just what were the possibilities of achieving her medical studies under the If-imposed condittons Through most of these citic she passed incognito, her beautiful face and the un usualness of her questions attracting, how ever, attention to her wherever she ap peared. Interest also was centered in the grcat dogs which shared her cabs, her ratl way carriages and even accompanied her to the hotels Since her return to Chicago it has been learned that in New York the princess met under social ecircumetances, a number of eminent physicians, who have determine( to smooth out all poseible difficulties which might stand in the way of a degree. Sh they argue, is animated by too intenge a desire to learn, is altogether too muech In earnest not to have the advantage of every ible woman teacher in the country, DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER who visits England She even persuaded the unsociable Cecil Rhod to visit her it Warwick ceastle the eritical Muarie Corelli adores her and Lady Warwick bon that she never ww the American whom he could not win to complete friendship in half an hour Lady Warwick Is no re gpector of money or blue blood as a claim to her liking and hospitality, and her tiny London drawing room is filled with people whose clever minds, interesting achieve ments or charming personality have recom mended them to her favor Lady Annesley is an Irish beauty whose dinner invitations are regarded in London society as though they were prizes She is the young wife of the aged REarl of Annesley, one of the few rich Irish peers, and socially she is most ambitious and successful She is one of the few close friends of Queen Alexandra, and, unlike Lady Winborne and the marchioness of Londonderry, the other two most famous dinner hostesses, she never gives what a called “great spreads.” Her guests are rarely more than twelve in number and her menus are short, but very wonderful Two of the most potent and popular ladies in London society whose entertain- ments are as carefully chronicled as the hospitalities dispensed by royalty itself arc lncking both in titles and in great city homes Mrs. George Keppel and Mrs. Ceeil Powney are possessors of small houses, crammed, however, with objects of art, and they are both the friends of roy alty. The king himself stood gedfather to Mrs. Keppel's little boy, and under the new and exclusive regime Mrs. Powney is in vited to court quite as though she was a duchess M Powney, as is now th fashion for specializing among hostesses gives the most perfect little musical enter tainments in London She is herself an accomplished violinist, and Jan Kubelit Jean de Reszke, ete., come to dine o; breakfast and play and sing afterwar quite in a friendly way Mrs. Keppel's specialty is for lions ot the first magnitude She knows more famous folk and more royal men and women than any other woman in England She does not assume to be witty, partic ularly wise, nor beautiful, but her gra of manner is sald to be so irresistible that crowned heads unbend in her presence, and her popularity is so great that even "in critical gossiping, envious iety she has few, if any, enemies e ———————————— In every town and village may be had, Made that makes your Stendard ]1()FSC> g'.’l(‘, ] dfi“ XTURES 2 GAs& ELECTRIC W PHONE. 503 OMAHA.