The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1904, Page 17

Pages 17102 L i | SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1904. : ONE OF ENGLAND'S PROUD DUCHESSES WHO LOVES OBSCURITY RATHER THAN THE GLAMOUR OF SOCIETY i - s & S e Literary Critics | Praise Mrs. ? Tennant. —_—— Beautiful Lady ! Minto Is Now on a Tour. —The Duc™-3s of few great dwell in splendid s Mary Tribe rable Archdeacon d for some years | much-admired rhere her fa and held e Viceroy. 4 Russell— nd has proved the g DICHESS J‘ BEPFORL am X e ke e =2 os often Herbrand into “Hatband,” and — for happ s x Y some unknown reason — his friends r been t e often call him “Rousseau.” | k Much has been written on the sub- I pear ject of the Duche fo ess for sport s and he able record as a pheas- k g eyes nt shot, but few are are of the . d depth and extent of her zoological ac- a . 2 library of books | - r nd is a member of 1 the Zoological Society. The Duchess is B 1 of horses, rides well and is a i! n. And, -in spite of | | - outdoor life | | d edentary pursuits; sh | ! h g deal, photographs and first-rate e G typist 5 e i T SRR e Lm0 Y Ll R R AN E s 5, - 4 BRSPS O s B Y S T i Rooopn TEw sdepey B 20 > = ‘ = o nrr e SO e Mrs. Edward 1 t, sister of [ - e e George Wyndham, Ch ecretary for | THREE RICH AND HANDSOME WOMEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM WHO LIVE QUIETLY AND TRAVEL AND WRITE FOR DIVERSION. . i Ireland, is known to lovers of art . % % -IL- able s as having been the prettiest .of “the o T . three beautiful sisters whose group The Queen will cordially welcome the Crown Prince of Germany ever at as the royal couple from Italy, league is small, and has shown no in- terest manifested by their Majest s at ¢ G portrait by Mr. Sargent was the.sensa- Lady Minto, who is the daughter of was considered. It was one of the whom every one was bent on seeing. dication of accomplishing any more the little children of the Pri gner operas are performed, I tion not only of a season but of a the friend and attendant of her Maj- Crown Prince’s younger brothers who For the tired-looking woman was than its predecessors. Princess of Wales. In society e he dim recess decade. esty’s early life, the late Mrs. Charles had leanings toward the Princess. Mme. La Comtesse de Montignoso, When a government goes to the have been some notabl ntertain- Br > on ¥ > George Wyndham, to whom fate has Grey, and the sister of the friend and Alexander of Teck ought to be con- Who, as the Princess Louise of Tus- trouble of bringing up its ditizens’ ments, and fancy dress balls have been thing of her been so kind in many ways, is much Jady in waiting of her Majesty now, sidered among the luckiest of men. ciny and Crown!Princess of Saxony, children in a municipal hospital it the fashion of the year. Dinners are k during the i in his three sisters, and he and Lady Antrim. Besides getting a cultivated, popular startled the world last December by seems too bad that any one should be now set after 8 o'clock 1 ad of 3:30, wor re. Tennant—who is married, by the Just as Lady Antrim is the hand- and most lovable bride, he will marry deserting her husband and fleeing to dissatisfied. but the benevolent prac- concerts begin at 10, and balls about s .is mever seen at the to Sir Charles Tennant's eldest Somest of the ladies in waiting, 80 a considerable fortune, which will Zurich to meet M. Giron, her lover. tice has brought about a curious state half an hour er. g e London season, but son and heir—have many artistic and !ady Minto is the best-looking of the not come amiss in the house of Teck. The former Crown Princess and her of affairs in Amsterdam, Holland —— e tend costume fete at v sympathies in common. wives of the Colonlal Governors, and It is sald that the bride-elect’s ulti- child were on their way from Paris to Several months ago a father sent his CORONER ADVISE g rink and assumed the cc her distinguished brother, Mrs. her daughter, Lady Eileen, takes after mate fortune will reach $500,000, a Fyde, in the Isle of Wight, where they infant son to the hospital to be reared POISONING OF MEN f anor of Eng- Tennant is fond of writing as-well as her. large part of which is due to Queen expect to spend the winter near the by incubator. When he subsequently - S on she entertained of reading, and her unpretentious, SRR Victoria's generous provision for the home of an American, whose wife is visited the institution to see his child Woman Administers Potion Because zave a bountiful supper thoughtful little volume, entitied “Vil- PRETTY PRINCESS ALICE Duchess of Albany and her children. an intimate friend of the former the authorities produced a female the Official Was Her ¢ ends and relations Dress lage Notes,” was received with great WILL WED MAN SHE LOVES While the title of Teck does not stand Princess. child, assuring the citizen it was his Lover. s 1o to this lady, t at favor, both by the purely Iliterary for quite so much money as many Although mole, sable and ermine, own. The sturdy Dutchman at onc VIENNA, Jan. 2. — A sensational on special occasions she critics and by those who saw in the Alexander of Teck, a Favorite in So- others, the Prince, who has just turned which havé been popular so lohg in invoked the aid of the law and in poisoning case has occurred at Beres- lignitied attire and the slender volume an attempt to deal with ciety, Is the Fiance of King 29, is popular in'society. As an officer England, seem in no danger of losing spite of the hospital’s defense that the mait. in Hungary wels are, of course, fa- the difficult problem of English village Edward’s Niece. in the Seventh Hussars he made an favor entifely this season, garments of citizen brought them a girl, the court Owing to suspicion having fallen o life LONDON, Jan. 2.—Even if trust- excellent South African record and is monkey fur are now considered the decided that the authorities had pro- upon a widow named Plszczak, the HER 1LIFE AT HOME. Mrs. Edward Tennant is a good deal ., thy authority did not assure us 2 thorough, unaffected soldier. A smart thing, -especially for driving. duced the wrong one and ordered the body of hep husband was disinterred © Dichess of Bedford is never Younger than her brilllant sister-in- - . % (ot oo of Pri EE story characteristic. of his simplicity The new fur was introduced a short real son to be surrendered. A pro- and he was found to have died from shen at Wodburn Abbey, 1aW. Mrs. Asquith. but their little chil- ‘B2 - o ncess Alice ;. °401q of the days when his regiment time ago by a French dealer, and the longed search failed to find the miss- the effects of poison. According to 4 ety of her husbang, 0renh are contemporaries, and when in of Albany, niece to King Edward, and . \ag stationed at Hampton Court, near demand for coats, capes and muffs of ing male infant, and within a short Ceroner Hanusch's certificate, the man 2 L2 R i Sband. town the two ladies are much together, Prince Alexander of Teck, brother of London. For some reason the stable the long hair already is great. time the highest court of Holland will died from heart disease. of Bedford nimals. The Duke yjrg, Tennant sometimes helping Mrs. the Princess of Wales, is a genuine force suddenly became reduced and, Although - the latest anti-corset try the irate father's claim for dam- When arrested, the widow confessed £ ¢ @ domeslic character, Asquith to do the political honors of love match, yet when one stops to rather than see the horses neglected. crusade has not yet reached Hondon, 2ges sustained by the loss of his son. at. the Coroner, who was her lover, . uch of the cleverness and some her house. consider the circumstances it is evi- the Prince took a hand in the groom- its promoters are carrying the cause g PR R BT N sold her the poison and advised her of the eccentricity of the Bedford LADY MINTO TRAVELING. dent that no social or financial am- ing and feeding. working as hard as into Birmingham, where they hope to Children Again Fashionable. 1o got 1t In Nex' hushands wine She family. The traditions of the Russells Lady Minto, wife of the. Governor bitions enter into the engagement, so the humblest stable boy. find champions among both sexes. LONDON, Jan. 2. — There is a re- stated that many other widows had nst school. and the Duke was General of Canada, and her daughters far as the pretty Princess is concerned. Probably not a half dozen of the “And why not among the men?” the vival of interest in Sunday, when Lon- done the same. ! at home, but afterward are at present traveling if the Far Since her debut rumor has engaged multitude who hurried past a nurse- members inquire. “It is for the capti- dop is not nearly so deserted as for- Five other women were arrested enadier Guards. He has East. They intend to come on to Eng- the Princess to almost every eligible maid carrying a young child and ac- vation of man that women usually merly at weeks' ends. Then social and confessed that they had bought are face, high forehead and land for a short visit before returning of rank in Europe. Many of these re- companied by a tired-looking woman Jace, and if the stern sex is known to hours have been advanced, and lastly poison, to remove their husbands, blue eyes of his race and rejoices in a to Canada. Lord Minto’s official duties ports received no official attention, but realizc” that these passengers alight- frown on the custom the result ought —what is. after all, of more import- from the Coroner, whe had" then couple of nicknames. When in India prevented his accompanying them on a recent statement of interest denies ing at Victoria station in London to be abolition of the practice.” So ance——children have become fashion- blackmailed them. The Coromer has the natives converted the name of their interesting tour. that a union between the Princess and might be as well worth having a look far, however, the membership of the able again, owing mainly to the in- confessed his guilt. -