Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-15
LUCKY YANKEE GIRLS.
Daughters of Uncle Sam Presiding
at the Heads of Ancient
Households.

George N. Curzon's London address for
the season This beautiful young ma
iron, who as Miss Letter of Chicago and
| Washington, was the toast of two con-
tinents, has chosen a splendid estab-
lishment in the most fashionable part
of London. 1t is one of a row of mag
nifcent houses facing the Horse Guards
Parade, and divided by the Duke of
York's column at the bottom of Waterloo
place. The neighbors are Americans,
some of them, who have decided that Lon.
don is the best place in all the world for
them to spend their American dollars.
Mrs. John Mackay makes her home at
| No. 6, and the Duchess of Marlborough,
now Lady William Beresford, has mag
nlfcently appointed establishment at No.
3 on the same terrace. Buckingham and
st. James palaces and Marlborough
| house are not stones throw away, and
| all Of the leading clubs are within easy
reach. 1t is an ideal residence, for Garlic
| ton house terrace is part of London
| always associated with magniicence and
luxury. There is talk already of a SPLEEN
did country seat which Mr.. Letter, the
proud father, will be very glad to pay for
with some of the $15,OOO,OUO or $2O,O0O,-
600 he has made with his immense dry
goods store in Chicago. There are plenty
of magnificent country seats for sale,
thanks to the very liberal way in which
the heirs spend their, money in advance
and pile up debts which amount to their
entire fortunes.
Mrs. John w. Mackay is close neigh
Dor of Mrs. Curzons. For a great many
years Mrs. Mackay lived in Paris, where
her royal entertainments are we'll re-
membered by those fortunate enough to
partake of her boundless hospitality.
When she went to London she rented a
house in Buckingham gate, but finally,
| 10 no iOh nf q Of IiSh
| friends, she made No. Carleton House
| Terrace her home.
All that exquisite taste and unlimited
money combined could attain of luxury
and beauty has been bestowed upon this
| palatial home, which is considered the
most beautiful house in London. Her
two sons divide their time between Lon
/ don and New York and San Francisco.
But the great house does not lack for
occupants. There is no limit to the en-
pertaining and Princess Colonna, Mrs.
Mackays only daughter, often comes
with her lfttleaones, Andrea, Blanca and
the baby Colonna. to make the stately
house gay with children's voices and
| laughter.
Countess of Craven's Great Home.
The largest castle in bonny England
belongs to the little Countess of Craven,
who was Cornelia Bradley Martin, and
who has just passed her eighteenth birth
day, though she has been lady of high
| degree for more than year. just think
Of such dimpled bit of girlhood assum-
ing the housewifely cares of place like
Coombe abbey. where there are fifty
guest bedrooms with canopied top
touches, and polished oak rafters dark
| with age Not to speak of halls, draw
ing, morning, dining and living rooms.
The Countess of Essex, who was Miss
Adele Grant, daughter OF the late
Beach Grant of New York, owns one of
the grandest country seats in all of Eng
land She had no fortune but her beau
tiful face when she became the second
wife of the rich earl Her favorite resi-
| dence is Glastonbury, in HertfOrdShlfe,
with its beautiful deer parks and twenty
miles and more of walks and drives. The
| Earls of Essex are descended from Sir
William Capell, lord mayor of London in
1903. Mrs. Bradley Martin, who is
close friend of the countess, recently
brought over some charming pictures of
this fair American, some taken in the
deer park, surrounded by the picturesque
animals, and one very fetching photo
graph of the countess on her bicycle.
Lady Beresford's Home.
The american Duchess" as the Dow
ager Duchess of Marlborough was COM
monty known in England and America,
can no longer lay claim to- the title which
she loved so well and bore so proudly.
Upon her marriage with Sir William
Beresford, the Queen insisted upon her
forfeiting the higher title and she was
presented at court as Lady William
Beresford.
Lady Beresford is established in Eng
land at Deepdene, in Surrey, which she
has leased from Lord Francis Hope, who
married some time ago the American
burlesque actress May Yohe. Her Lon
don house is No. Carleton House ter
race. Blenheim palace, upon which as
the Duchess of Marlborough she spent
| 4hor hac IN
stepson, the present Duke of Marl-
borough.
The Duchess of Manchester was Con-
suelo Yznaga of New York, when she
married the Viscount Vaudeville. Her
son is now Duke of Manchester. Rim
bolton castle, in Ireland, is the favorite
estate, but the dowager duchess and her
son and daughter spend part of each year
in London. Paris and Berlin. The Man
chesters are reckOned the poorest dukes
in England, but they have an enviable
position socially, as the beautiful duchess
is one of the favored friends of the Prin-
cess of Wales Since the divorce of the
Vanderbilts the old story of Willie ks
boyhood devotion to the Duchess of Man
chester, for whom he named his only
mitted by some of the close friends of
both that their marriage would not come
as surprise.
The Pretty Jerome Girls.
''The three pretty Jerome girls" as
they were called, have lived so much in
England that they have almost forgotten
that they were born in New York. The
loveliest of the three, Jennie, married, in
1874, the late Lord Randolph Churchill,
brother of the eighth Duke of Marl-
borough.
Her ladyship's very comfortable Lon
don house is No. 2 Connaught place, and
many grand entertainments have been
given there, not merely to the social set,
but to further the political aims and inter
ests of her late husband. Her interest in
that powerful organization, the Primrose
league, has always been most keen, and
as one of the danes she is known to most
of the women of England. She is a very
great favorite with the Queen, and when
her husband was under secretary of state
for India, her majesty invested her with
the order of the Crown of India
In Paris, the Princess de Sagan is the
leader of the smart set, so it goes with