St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
GORGEOUS MRS. MACKAY.
The Bonanza Queen Entertains En-
glands Heir Right Royalty.
Splendid Decorations of Her Artistic
London Palace.

Lucy H. Hooper in New York World.
PARIS, July Monday last Mrs. j. W.
Mackay gave at her palatial residence in
London dinner patty, followed by a
soiree musicale in honor of the Prince of
Wales The house occupied by our fair
countrywoman is the town residence of
Lord Sudley, and is one of the best dapted
for entertaining in London. The reception
rooms are of colossal dimensions. Of these
there are four-the library and dining-room
on the ground floor and the grand drawing
room and ballroom on the floor above. The
last named splendid apartment, which in
size and proportions and decorations would
do honor to Versailles, is paneled with
oil paintings executed in Italy eX-
pressly for this room. gal
lery for musicians extends across
one end, and row of large windows at
one side, opening to the floor, gives ac-
cess to a spacious balcony. Monday night
the whole house seemed transformed into
a vast conservatory. The staircase was
lined with tropical plants, and at every
curve were placed great masses of white
flowers, chiefly lilies and hydrangeas.
The upper flight was transformed into a
bower of verdure, long and tender
branches of exotic trees being SO placed
that ON looking up the eye met vault
of overarching boughs sparkling with
lights. In the drawing-room each Win
dow was filled with groups of palms and
Towering plants. The mantelpiece was a
bank of ferns, studded with rare
orchids, and the fireplace was
one vast bouquet of crimson roses
white hydrangeas, and large white lilies.
The ballroom, transformed for the evening
into miniature theater. was eXquiSltely
and profusely adorned with flowers. At
either side of the mantlepiece was placed a
spiral column, some eight feet high, formed
of tea-roses, white hyacinthS, and pale pink
orchids. The fireplace was filled with
masses of ferris, white lilies, and crimson
meadowsweet. The balcony was shut in
from the street by mirrors and draperies,
and in each of the recesses thus produced at
the windows was placed column formed
of great superposed blocks of ice, sur
rounded with palms and light featherY
ferns. Behind each of these columns was a
ruby-tinted lamp that shone through the
crystal blocks of ice with soft and rCSeate
glow. The railing of the music gallery dis
appeared under fringe of many-tinted
fuchsias and long sprays of ivy. The
temporary stage was burdered with
white flowers, rising out Of a fringe
Of ferns. Mrs. Mackay received her guests
in toilet of white satin. embroidered with
silver thread and seed pearls. the skirt
front being covered with draperies in NOUS
seine de sole. The guests at the dinner
were the Prince and Princess di Galatea-
Colenna, the Duke and Duchess of Man
chester, Maria, marchioness of Ailesbury.
the Earl and Countess of Gosford, the
Count and Countess of TyszkiewicZ, Lord
and Lady Charles Beresford. Lady Mande-
vile, Lord and Lady Sturt Miss Stonor,
Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Christopher Sykes,
Col. Clarke, Col. Brabazon and c. de Mu-
rieta. About 100 persons were invited in
the evening.
q The performers of the occasion were the
Russian choir singers, some twenty in
number; M. Coquelin and Nine. Blanche
Rejane of the Vaudeville, and Mr..
Edward Oudin, the American bari
Tone The whole affair passed off
brilliantly, Mrs. Mackay being hostess
| beyond compare. The Princess CaIonna,
who, with her husband. came from Paris on
a visit to her mother a few days before, is
| in brilliant health and is looking charming
| her delicate brunette beauty never having
shown to greater advantage. She would
have been the beauty of the evening had it
not been for her mother, who is one of the
fairest of onr many fair female representa-
tives in European society. Mrs. Mackay
| has a petite and perfectly-proportion
| figure. her neck and shoulders being what
| the Germans call 'Statue-lovely" in mold
and whiteness. Her features are fine and
| delicately cut, her hair dark and Sillzen, with
anatural ripple in its glossy masses. Her eyes
are most lovely, being OF dark, transparent
blue, too pure in color to look black even
under the shadow of their thick, dark
| lashes. Her hands and feet are of the true
American type, being remarkably small
and well proportioned. She is one of the
most accomplished American ladies in Eu-
rope speaking French and Spanish with as
much ease and fluency as she does English,
while as vocalist she is considered by
Nine Marchesi. her teacher, as one of the
best of her amateur pupils. She is re-
nowned for the elegance and taste displayed
in her toilets and her entertainments, and
is, moreover, and best of all. devoted wife
and mother and daughter, the kindest of
| friends and the most charitable and benev-
client of women. She is an honor to her
sex and to our country-people abroad.
The on dts have been flying thick and
| fast respecting the rupture of the engage
| gagement between Miss Adele Grant and
Earl Cairns. The facts, so far as I can
| gather them from the rumors of the day, are
simply as follows: The young gentleman
! deceased father wisely tied up the fortune
he left him so that the principal could not
| be spent, leaving the management of the
estate in the hands of Lady Cairns. The
earl has an income of $50, 900 year, and
he has spent, for some time past. at the rate
of 500. 900 per annun. There has been no
| bound to his extravaganza. The ball that
| he gave last year at Cannes, for instance,
cost $4,000. The german favors were
countless and superb. One of the prettiest
and least expensive of the sets was COM
| posed of silver oars on each Of which
the name of his yacht, which had just been
rechriStened in honor of his betrOthed. The
boat. all i'll white camelias, in which he fig
nred at the Battle of Flowers, was gotten
up at the cost of some SIS, 900. His gifts
to his future bride in the way of precious
stones were numerous and superb. A dia-
mond tiara, a watch with the back formed
OF single cats eye surrounded with brill
| iantS a bracelet in alternate cats eyes and
diamonds. and rings, brooches and earrings
| in diamonds rubieS and SapphreS, formed
| part of his offerings. Rumor declares that
these costly ornaments had much to do with
the final catastrophe. The jeweler who
| furnished them them, weary of applying
! vainly for payment to Lord Cairns, adj
dressed his demands and his bill to Miss
| Grants family, with what result the world
| now knows.