St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-05
CLEVELAND'S BEAUTY.
Preserved for Noble, and He
Family Expect to Rise Wit

Preserved for a Noble, and Her
Family Expect to Rise With
Her.
Cincinnati Enquirer
The engagement of Captain Naylor
Leyland to Miss Jennie Chamberlain is
officially announced. Miss Jennie
Chamberlain, the American beauty,
was born in Cleveland, o., about
twentyfour years ago. She spent her
girlhood in the fine old Chamberlain
homestead, on Wilson avenue, where
she was guarded as carefully as prize
Attorney, or bride destined for the
emperor of China. To friends of the
family it was interesting to watch the
genesis of the faith in the young daugh-
ter's ascending star. Wallenstein was
not more sure that his dest my was
guided by the stars, than was each in
dividual Chamberlain that the lovely
little girls future was predestined to
greatness.
And this all because of her marvel
Gus beauty, as her dover is much less
than 100000. She is of the order of
the Marie Antoinette galaxy of beauties,
and it would take Burkian eloquence to
describe her goddesS-like gait and the
lofty carriage of her head. This latter
she acquired at Partisan finishing
school, where she went before she was
twenty, as before that time she had the
dropping, shy look of a Marguerite.
Old friends who recall the eXquisitely
fair, fragile girl of fifteen would hardly
recognize her in the superbly poised
young woman who looks more prin-
cess than any daughter of the Hohen-
zollern, Guelph and Hapsburg lines.
Two years ago she returned to Cleve-
land. as the Chamberlain estate was to
be settled and the old place sold. No
CircaSSian was ever more ZealOusly
guarded than she during her three
weeks stay at one of the Cleveland ho-
tells. People who took rooms at the no
tel purpOSely to catch glimpse of their
pointed, as she never dined table d'hote,
always drove in closed carriage, and
refused herself to former intimates
with the caprice of petted prima
donna.
When she left only Chamberlain or
relative of a Chamberlain could tell
how Miss Jennie looked after her long
absence. They were all admitted to
the shrine, and were more convinced
than ever that when the beauty became
a princess, or. if fate were a tritle
unkind, duchess, every Chamber
lain would rise with he1. Each
tried to deport himself as fitting
scion of the new blood royal and only
one member of the family forgot his
lofty destiny. That was Wilson Cham
berlain. the twenty-year-old brother of
Miss Jennie. About two, years ago he
made an alliance that the Chamberlains
considered particularly unfortunate.
JJo olonod with handsome oloror ,r;,I
the daughter of a prominent business
man of Cleveland. Chamberlain's
father and mother were as much con-
cerned over it as Queen Victoria over
the mesalliance of Alexander of Batten-
berg Young Wilson was at once
shipped over to his mother in London
and every means taken to make him
forget the girl he had married.
One other blow to the Chamberlain
ambition was the disclosure in England
of the Chamberlain pedigree-Quite an
everyday, unroyal escutcheon.
1t happened this way: Miss Jennie
and her mother had been visiting at a
ducal country place, and the duke was
about to offer his coronet to the Ameri-
can girl, when, alas! he learned that a
former Chamberlain had been an ances-
tors gardener. The fact of his having
D661l SdTQtlloT was llOt 50 Odu DIS having
been gardener to the dukes own an
cestor. His wife might one day sit in
a bower made by the gardener Cham
berlain's hands! 1t was too horrible.
The duke left the castle, and Miss Jen-
nie Chamberlain did not become the
duchess, and the story was soon known.
1t appeared very slightly yelled in an
American magazine, and conspired,
more than anything else, to make the
beauty content to wed an untitled gen
tleman, who was not in the prince
of Wales's set"
Many people thiuk Miss Chamberlain
has rival in her younger sister, Daisy,
who will be presented the next London
season. Sheis certainly as lovely as far
as flesh and blood beauty is concerned,
but she lacks that haute air that makes
Miss Jennie quite the most exquisite
young person of her day.