Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1902, Page 27

Beauties Who Surround England’s Queen CN VIOLE VIVIAN, MAID OF UEEN ALEXANDRA s very like n Ann in that she takes the sin- cerest pleasure in flow ers and pretty women Since her husband has assumed supremely royal state and influ en she has slowly, gently, but firmly been retiring, from all the post: of honor about her person and household the good but frumpy elderly ladies who minis- tered to the pleasure of the late gracious queen By the time the coronation takes place the English court will be justly famous for a galaxy of lovely girls and youthful matrons 11l worthy the brush of Sir Peter Lely and the admiration of that notable judge of feminine beauty gay Charles 11 About the court this preference of the queen’s for good looks and good tempers and good hearts is well known and nobody was in the lea urprised when two of the mest picturesque twin beauties in Great Britain were chosen as her first maids of honor. These sweet girls are the Honorable Dorls and the Honorable Violet Vivian Though they are twin sisters, they are not counterparts one of the other ind the Honorable Viole is esteemed rather the fairest of the tw If the Honorable Doris is just a trifle less perfect than her tall, slend chestnut-haired violet-eyed Rosset mouthed sister, she is keenly witty and quite as popular with the queen, who is not so severe a stickler for royal etiquette as was her predecessor, and likes to hear of the jokes and pranks of her shrewd maid of honor The Honorable Doris is one of the few persons who can read aloud to the satisfaction of her mistress, who is hard o' hearin’, but does not wish to be reminded of her weakness INATOR HOAR'S brother, who isa distinguished jurist, s pretty a wit as the venerable statesman himself. There was a funeral v short time ago in the town where he lives of a man who, while very rich, had been mean and miserly, relates the New York World Are you going to the funeral?” a man 1isked Mr. Hoar No he replied but I am in favor of it.” Out in my district said Representative Landis of Indiana, quoted by the Washing- vho finally succumbed to illness and had t» take to his bed Much again will th village preacher came to soe him and, as usual, indulged in a prayer by the si'k man's bedside And, O Lord prayed th minister, ‘give unto our sick friend a new heart.’ Hold on there, parson!' interruped the patient It isn't my hear troublin ne I wish you'd ask the to give me a new liver! Aml r Hora Porter still tells a 1 h 1scd to before he went o 1 broad in a diplomatic capacity 1 ¢ B « Herald At a dinner in New York he other night he regaled h hosts with a description of how the Amer HONOR TO THE QUEEN LADY CONSTANCE BUTLER, DAUGHTER OF THE MARQUIS OF ORMONDE HON. DORI IVIAN R COUNTESS OF CROMARTIE HON. ETHEL GERARD Next after the Vivian girls, as these water; a clever water colorist; a maker of courageous young lady 1ild fear to ride sweet maids are familiarly spoken of in the most delicate varietic of fine Irish and yet, despite the fa that £he comes o London drawing rooms, the queen is fondest lace; a linguist and a charming companion. a long line of hard riding maternal as well of the Ladies Butler, the daughters of the She yachts with her father physics and ad 18 paternal ancestor he is in no sense a marquis of Ormonde, and are counted th vises and jests with the Irish peasaniry on horsey girl. Off her horse she is as frou two handsome women in Irish society her father's estate, and is delightfully un frou as a Parisian marqui and she ha Last year Lady Beatrice Butler, the oldest spoiled by admiration and wealth She is long been 1 prime favorite with th sister, married for love the gallant General to take her turn as a court lady during the queen who admires her high spirit Pole-Carew, and her sister, Lady Constance, coronaticn, in association with one of the and her gentle voice ind big appraling is invited to serve at court. Lady Constanc prettiest women and boldest fox hunters in gray ey is an all around modern girl; almost fault the United Kingdom, the Honorahle Ethel If women below the rank of duche were less in feature and coloring a finished Gerard permitted to bear the canopy over the horsewoman an expert in and on th The horse has vet to be found that this queen in Westminster Abbey it i afe to Gleanings from the Story Tellers’ Pack icans in Paris celebrate the Fourth of July General Grant looked him in the eye for ¢f Mr. Daniel had a brother, to whom he when they set about it At the last an moment You are right, colonel he used to give some of his free transporta niversary of the immortal declaration said. Then turning to an officer nearby tion Mr. Daniels found this out and th somebody proposed that the American flag Grant said Take this gentleman to the next time his friend wrote for pa he be run on top of the Eiffel tower. This rear and treat him kindly replied: “Sorry to refuse you, but I've was considered a rather rash proposition Senator Pettus has never forgotten that been told you've been giving them away to at first, but the enthusiastic Yankee who iaterview with General Grant an outsider made it wouldn't be discouraged. He mad The other story illustrates the same no A few days later Mr. Daniels happencd the ne sary arra ments with the Eiffel bility of feeling in General Robert E. Les o be in the village and called on the ed tower management and the Stars and the commander of the confederate fored tor. *“You see how it i he cxplained Stripe floated from the top of the tower It was at the clcse of the battle of Get I am willing o do almost anything for all day It reminded me,” said Ambas- tysburg As General Lee rode from the you I can, but I hear that you give aw sador Porter, “of the small boy when they field he came upon a g union soldier, the passes to your brother. Now, I don’t said to him on the Fourth of July to stop a mere boy, lying on the gra wounded. know your brother, but 1T know he has 1 wiping his nose He said It is the The boy, though painfully hurt and unable claims on the road Fourth of July and it is my nose and I to rise, had a spirit not to be quenched My poor brothe exclaimed the edi am going to wipe it off the face of th As he recognized the confederate uniform indignantly he last time 1 carth Le raised himself upon his elbow Hurrah brother a hear carrying him to th Y for the union! he cried defiantly, though cemetery Two interesting war-time torie were ith feeble voice Me. Daniel ologetic and regret told the other day by Senator Bacon of General Lee got dowp from his hor ful. I didn't ) hat your brother wa Georgia, relates the Washington Po One vent over to the boy and laid his hand ten lead he 1id 1 I am very sorry ' of them concerned Senator Pettus of Ala- geply on his head. “I hope, my son,” 1 nd you trans on at onee bama, who, as everybody knows, was & g,id, “that you are not much hurt and He did so and brother took a tri] gallant officer in the confederate army that vou will soon be well N York on it fow week later M In one of the battles hefore shurg Sen . Daniels me friend from th 1 ator Pettu then a colonel, was captured George H. Daniel general pa nger 1o town and 1 ed that he ind carried a L prisoner efore General nt for the New York Central railroad, to hear of tl | 1 of Tom brother Grant is not ¢ ily tak in, but there is a stor Wh Tor her isn't dead Colonel 1 Grant when the prisoner floating abou 1g railroad men of ho } other | t before 1 W brought before him, “‘what are th he editor of a country newspaper on driving 1| rse He n iroops out in front of m P the better of him in the matter of iaker, you ki General replied Pettus ‘I mu 1¢ I ¥ . cline to answer that question This editor, who wa + personal friend They cer 1 know more abe I MAID OF HONOR TO THE QUEEN prodi that the count of Cromartic would have been ong of the four chosen to thi high oflice \ it wa the quecn deliberately passed over the claim of miany superior clderly ladies who believed in their divine right to assist at corona tions and picked out her four canopy bearers, because they were young, pretty and eminently like- uble Their graces of Sutherl nd, Mariborough, Montrose and Port land are to support the queen reatly to the disgust of the duch of Dievonshire et \mong the assisting women only will e cen the pretty piguant counts of Cromar i who i 1 counte and heire quite in her own right She is first cousin of the duke of Sutherland and through her father inheri he carldom of Cromartie which he inherited from his mother, who wa 50 counte of Cromartie in her own right Lady Cromartic with il her wealth and good look and high lineag: chose to marry Major Blunt, ana he and she live at Castle Leod or it Tarbard House on Cro- marti Kirth I all things, even to her hraw accent shi i Scoteh ind peak Gaelic as fluently as her Highland tenantry Her ister i the turd Lady Cons'an Mackenzic who ride wstr d imd swims like a South Sea islandoer nd travels as ndustriously as Sinbad the Sailor, and cares not the =nap of her finger he at court Lady Cromartie is gentle and domestic and v truly warm friend of the queen, who, though old enough to be her mother, is not o the e overshadowed by the fresh young heautic he pleases to gather about her ti in Ind i than in an other tate in the unio ‘ol Harry Hall to v New York r rter Ever man is a politicia \n experience 1 had when 1 wil tum he sta n 1896 for McKinley how I | | tal wre kept 13 (ireencastle to get a sand wich and n L prosperous looking man at the luncl nter Hi ¢ things politicall I asked Oh, th rate he said We've " m | re | I I asked h m for rs and ¢ brought r I ounty | 1 1 Thi Il whip ‘er Are you ire of it I asked (80 n' he id, with the utmost con Why, stranger, thr republican have moved into the ccun ind ther in't v famil in th our with «a ek re inoin it W can't e hile Car nan Wara k of Ohio wa | of the u of eeial h hich ion he held ! ir [} ] 1 ne An 1 her nd the witn i P I o1 v he q on 1 he 1 I The ng n \ he older will 1