The herald., 1895-11-11
He WILL face THE MUSIC
Lord ShOIto Douglas and the
Mother -in-LaW
A CASE OF SOUR GRAPES
Mrs. Adds Is "Nutty," Says the Young
Englishman
lie Does Not Believe That She Intends to
Take the Reported Trip to
Los Angeles


and is simply talking through her hat. )
and Lord sholto Douglas stroked hi
chin nervously and gazed reflectively int,
space. In the year or two that he ha
been resident of America Sohlto Doug
las has managed to pick up more o.
less American phrases not encountered
in the drawing rooms of the ton, AID thiI
the young noblsman uses when compelled
to most excellent advantage. He had
read the San Francisco telegram tinted
in yesterdays Herald. in which his
mother-in law took occasion to send to
him challenge by wire, and the trouble
in store Tor him did not apparently worry
Douglas in the least.
A Herald reporter saw the young Eng.
lsh-Scotchman at the theater where his
wife is big feature of the performance
last evening. His wife, who is the cause
of the present family contention, was
dressing in an adjoining room, while t
young nobleman and the reporter dis
cussed the situation in the adjoining
passageway. Lord Douglas was some
what lUath to talk about the matter. He
is determined young man and inclined
to stand by the consequences of any step
which he may have taken.
Mrs. Adds has certainly no real com.
plant against anything l have done"
said he last evening. II sent her let
ter few days ago which informed her
in effect that STE must hereafter keep
her hands off my affairs. My intentions
were of the best III the matter to all tine
parties concerned. There is no household
big enough for two families. l have
heard older married men than myself
say, and | believe that to be most incon-
trovertible truth. Mrs. Douglas (he al
ways refers to his wife in that term be-
ing now my wife, is more than willing
that we should be permitted to live to-
gether in peace without any interference
from her mother or any one else. My
wife is in thorough accord with my
views in this matter, and that being the
case, both OF us are perfectly willing to
abide by the consequences.
Lord Douglas laughs OF the threats
made by his motner-in-law that she In
tends in few days to leave Oakland for
Los Angeles for the purpose OF infiicting
personal ohastisement upon himself and
incidentally using maternal slipper upon
the refractory Lady Douglas.
= THAT is nonsense and rot" said he
last night. THE old lady is nutty and
is simply talking through her hat"
Douglas himself inrimates very strong
ly, while several of his friends make the
statement openly, that the whole of the
present family differences arose out OF the
fact that Mrs. Adds wanted to continue
in active harness as the mother to both
Lord and Lady Douglas. She has ever
since the marriage OF her daughter based
her parental claims upon the fact that she
reared and educated Lady Sholto Doug.
las, and the latter, just ar the time
when she was beginning to do her share
towards replenishing the family ex-
chequer. allied herself to the noble house
of Queensbury, and thereby spoilt for the
mother-in-law a2pretty good thing. Mrs.
Adds has never given Sup in her own
mind the control of her daughter, who,
she reasons, is bright theatrical attrac.
tion only because her manipulations
made her alliance with Sholto douglas a
possibility. The latter remarked last
night:
''Should Mrs. Adds really come to Los
Angeles. both myself and wife will take
pleasant one. We will invIts her to our
home and will ask her to remain for a
time. AS guest she will be welcome.
but as ons of our family we can find no
place for her.
Lord Douglas takes his wife to the
tkeater every evening. and after the per-
formance the two ride home together up
on the last Pico Heights car. He has
cut off from his English Scotch title for
good as long as he is in the United
States. AS for Lady Douglas. she is
known everywhere excepting upon the
theater posters anc programs as plain
Mrs. Douglas.
Chief of Police Glass, when seen last
night, said that Lord Sholto Douglas had
as yet not requested of him police pro-
lection against his mother-in-law, and
from what he had heard of the young
fellow he did not think that his services
in the forthcoming encounter would be
necessary.
III Mrs. Adds makes public row
down here" remarked the chief III a
serio comic tone of voice. why we have
a most beautiful patrol wagon and the
handsomest two men on the force in
charge of It," And the chiefs eyes
twinkled bit as he soliIoquized rather
abstractedly: "The east side station has
not housed prisoner of real quality
since it was made female house Of de-
tention, through the efforts OF The Her
a!d.n