Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-07-13
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Leland to Miss Jenny Chamberlain is
officially announced. Miss Chamber
lain, the American beauty, was born
in Cleveland, Ohio, about twenty-fotu
years ago. She spent her girlhood in
the fine old Chamberlain homestead
on Wilson avenue, where she was
guarded as carefully as prize Alder
ney or bride destined for the Empe-
ror of China. To friends of the fam
lily it was interesting to watch the
genesis Of the faith in the young
daughters ascending star Wallen-
stein was not more sure that his des-
tiny was guided by the stars than was
each, individual Chamberlain that the
lovely little girls future was predes-
tined 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 Maria 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 20, as, before
that time, she had the dropping look
Marguerite Old friends who recall
the exquisitely fair, fragile girl of 16,
would hardly recognize her in the SUI
perbly poised young woman who looks
more a Princess than any daughter of
the Hohenzoller, Guelpha or Haps-
burg line.
Two years ago she returned home,
as the Chamberlain estate was to be
settled and the old place sold. No
Circassian was more zealously guard.
ed than she during her three weeks
stay at one of the Cleveland hotels.
People who took rooms at the hotel
purposely to catch glimpse of their
fair countrywoman went away disap-
pointed as she never dined table
d'hote, always drove in closed car
rage, and refused herself to former
intimates with the caprice of petted
prima donna.
When she left only a Chamberlain
or a relative could tell how Miss Jen-
ny looked after long absence. They
were admitted to the shrine, and were
more convinced than ever that when
the beauty became Princess, or if
fate were tri6e unkind, Duchess,
every Chamberlain would rise with
her. Each tried to deport himself as
lifting scion of the new blood ROYAL
and only one member of the family
forgot his lofty destiny. That was
Wilson, the 2O-year-old brother of
Miss Jenny. About two years ago he
made an alliance that the Chamber
lains considered unfortunate. He
eloped with a handsome, clever girl.
the daughter of a prominet business
man of Cleveland. Wilson's father
and mother we're as much concerned
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 of the
Chamberlain pedigree-quite an every |
day, unroyal escutcheon.
~ happened this way: Miss Jenny
and her mother were visiting al
ducal country place, and the Duke
was about to offer his coronet to the
American girl, when, alasl he learned
That former Chamberlain had been
an ancestors gardner The fact of
his having been a gardner was not so
bad as having been gardner to the
Dukes own ancestors. His wife might
one day sit in bower made by the
gardner Chamberlain's handsl It was
too horrible; the Duke left the castle
and Miss Jenny did not become the
Duchess, and the story was very 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 gentleman, who was not in