The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-07-13
AN AMERICAN woMAN,s ROMANCE

How Mis- jerome Bocam. Lady churehiii.
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a few years ego Miss Jennie jerome,
the second daughter Of Mr.. Leonard w.
Jerome, met Lord Randolph Churchill al
q dinner in Paris. Attracted by her
beauty and the brillIancysOf her converse
ton, he soon confined his attentions to her.
Those who sat near them stopped talking
and listened 10 them with undisguised i'd
miration. Miss Jerome was noted for her
conversational powers, but they had neyer
seen4ed To her friends as brilliant as on
this occasion. Lord Randolph, however,
proved match for her. Her satire was
met with sparkling iepartee and her wit
and humor for once found q fair exchange.
When the ladies had withdrawn Lord
Randolph turned To friend and said,
enthusiastically:
"Thats the brightest woman / ever
met, and added, with the seriousness Of
fatalist, land mean To marry her"
singularly enough, while he was saying
this Miss Jerome was making an almost
identical remark concerning him to one oil
her sisters. Perhaps that evening she
played her iavorite Chopin nUcturne more
ienderly and wooingly than ever. Atall
events, lord Randolph was not slow in
discovering that he had made as deep an
Impression on her as she. had on him.
IWilhina fortnight Of their irst meeting
they were engaged and very soon alter
ward married. By this union Lord Ran.
doIph secured wife whose aspiring aud
ambitious temperament has spurred him
on in hispolitical career and whose income
| Is sufficient TO form awelcome addition TO
lis small annuity. Mr.. Jerome conveyed
to his daughter before her marriage the
valuable property upon which the Uni.
yersity Club OF this city stands. Lord
Randolph Is q younger son of the late
Duke OF Marlborough. Between his elder
brother, the present Duke, and himself
there has long existed feeling oil hatred,
10 which rather than TO his enthusiasm
for the Liberal cause The Dukes opposi-
ton to Lord Randolph ia credited.
That this opposition has inspired Lady
Randolph Churchill TO take part in her
husbands canvass, as related in our cable
dispatches, has not surprised her host Of
friends here, who know her TO be as plueky
as she Is accomplished, aud who remem'
Der that, while she can play Chopin
diyinely, she Is also an increpid follower
OF the hounds, and usually in at the
death. Indeed, her friends openly pro.
claim that a large share OF her husband't
political success should be credited 10 her
that his rise into prominence dates from
the time when she began TO coach him,
and that his brilliant guerilla tactics ale
inspired by heSf.. 1t Is possible that her
friends exaggsrater the part she plays In
her husbands political affairs, and that bis
unpopularity here leads her Ameri-
can friends to underestimate bis
ability. Though he is nominally
Conservative, he ia in come re-
apects more Democratic In his ideas
titan the average Liberal. His views on
tho Irish question show strong traces Of
American. influence, and his political
methods often have dash OF American
pluck in them. His wife, during their 30
journ in Ireland, won the hearts OF the
people, and It isno doubt to her that the
modification in Lord Randolph OF the
traditional Conservative views on the
Irish question is due. He. is thoroughly
progressive, another American character
istic. In these opinions and methods his
wiie's influence may be traced. She is his
mentor, and should Lord Randolph ever
become premier, her friends say she
would virtually rule England II is al
most certain that she will some day be
Duchess OF Marlborough, for the present
Dukes son, the Marquis Of Blandlord, is
a sickly lad, and thereis little doubt that
some day the Dukes title and possessions
will go to Lord Randolph.