St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-14
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY,
Miss Chamberlain and Her Alleged Social
Triumph in Engian1

Miss Chamber!ai's and Rey. Alleged Social
Triumph in England.
London Letter to the San Francisco Argonaut
Whatever 1 may have at any time written
to the Argonaut of or about Miss Chamber
lain in England has. I claim, not only been
borne out by the facts, but has been not
nearly as severe as what has been thought
and said OF her. She has not been the belle
ana the success in England that the general
run OF American papers would have one be-
heVe. What the Chamberlain are at home
OF what Miss Chamberlain is thought of in
Cleveland l don't know and don't care. I
have only spoken of her as she appeared in
England-not to society newspapers reporters
or correspondents of American journals, but
to English people of the best society who hap
pened to see or hear her. Now l am, dare
say, stating what will surprise good many
Of your readers, but it is nevertheless true
that the existence of Miss Chamberlain has
been, and is, fact unknown to many Eng
lish people Of the upper classes. The name
of Cham berlain is rather a common one in
England, and outside the Prince of Wales
''set' Gu which it appears the young lady
was the ''bright particular starry and those
who keep au fait of what appears in the So
ciety weeklies, doubtif even to-day, should
you mention Miss Chamberlain IS name, peo-
pie would know whom you were talking
about. By those, however, who did and do
know the young lady, either personally or by
reputation, the way in which her name has
been associated with that Of the Prince of
Wales has been universally condemned, and
her parents, in permitting it, have been
greatly blamed.
You see, this is how it is in England No
young (unmarried) lady can accept the Prince
of Wales notice or favor in the faintest de-
gree, and retain her reputation. In fact no
English young ladvhas ever had her name cOu-
pied with that of the prince in any way what
soever. All the professional beauties whom he
has admired and with whom he has firted and
amused himself till they became Famous"
have been married women. Take them all
from Lady Mary Craven down to Mrs.
Langtry and Mrs. CORVALLIS West and they
all have husbands. There isn't one ''miss"
among them. Of course [ am talking Of la
dies, to which class 1 have always supposed
Miss Chamberlain to belong; and beg to
assert that it would be utterly impossible for
any EnglIsh girl VINO nolds IN England the
rank and position which Miss Cham erlain
claims to hold in America, to know the Prince
Of Wales except in the most dignifed and
distant fashion. Anything like the public
notice which he is said to have favored Miss
Chamberlain with, no English young lady
would be allowed to receive. Nor would he
offer it to one. Therefore it is that have
said, and reiterate it, that in the favorable
u - e..
the Prince of Wales she did not gain any
credit to herself in the eyes of right-thinkiug
English people. To have her come over to
England and imagine that she has achieved
grand triumph because she accepted atten-
tons from man who would willngly-in-
deed, far sooner-have bestowed them upon
dozens of English girls had he dared, seems
a trihe absurd. Indeed, it is grotesque.