The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-28
COUNTESS cAsTELLA1NE.

When the Countess Castellape. nee
Anna Gould, comes with her husband TO
live in castle in France, saws a writer
in the Sunday Herald, she will complete
the mystic number of 13 American girls
VINO dwell in Old World castles. BY some
10 is considered lucky number.
Inc fortunate 10 who live abroad in
castles are Miss Bradley-Martin, now
Countess of Craven, who lives in Coombe
ABBY; Adele Grant, the Countess of Essex
anu mistress of Cassiobury; Virginia
boHHynge, Countess Deerhurst, mistress
OF Ooombe Court; Lilly Hamersley, Ouch
esq OF Marlborough, formerly of Blen-
heam Castle, now of Dependene, the es-
tate of Sir Francis Hope: Miss King.
Mnarchioness of Anglesey and owner of
r. Tlasnewydd; Miss Flora Davis, Lady
terence Blackwood, who share Gland
poye with her mother-in-law; Miss
1znaga, Duchess of Manchester and mis-
tress OF hlmbolton Castle; Miss Endicott,
new Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, with
Hlgnoury House as her own; Tennie
Sianin, Lady Frances Cooke, mistress of
Montserrat Castle in Spain: Jennie Jer-
ONE Lady Randolph Churchill, with an
cestrai homes in England, Scotland and
Brancaccio of Italy, with a wing of the
royal Quirinal for her own forever; Matte
Mltcnell, Duchess de Ia Rochefoucauld,
WITH the old castle in France, and Miss
anna Gould, Countess de Castellane, of
the Chateau CaStellane, as the Castellane
castle is modestly called, although the
estate yields an income of 1,000,000 francs
annually from its tenantry.
All OF these Ii are singularly blessed in
having nne castles with fine outlying
grounds and not few can drive as far
their own domain.
Inc chateau of Castellane, the home of
when Miss Anna Gould will become the
mlstress, Is, strange to say, an Elizabeth
an structure. 1t was designed long ago by
one OF the Castellanes who, visiting Eng
land, admired its architecture just us
we, visiting Italy, admire the Italian villas
and construct and plan after them here.
Ihe chateau is a bunch of wings join
ing IN the centre to a large peaked
structure in whichc lie the living rooms
OF the house. The wings are devoted to
the family members. They consist of
of perfectly furnished suites of rooms. In
one there is the suite for the lord of the
manor-a large roomed lot of apartments
opening into one another and supplied with
tireplaces for the chilly blood of the sun
loving Frenchmen. And in the other
wings are dainty appointed rooms for the
ladies of the house.
Count Castelane told Miss Gould that
this chateau, the one which will be his
upon the large estate, was in need of re-
pair
perhaps we might rebuild it," suggest
ed the American-minded young woman.
But the Mortified look succeeded by the
merry laugh of the young man whose
/ family builds houses for a century's use,
showed her that she must think of reno
waiting it only. The beauty of the castle,
according to the count, is its banquet-hall
1t was frequently used by Talleyrand, an
ancestor of the Castellane family, ana
seats 500 easily There is an abundance
of plate stored in the cellars and vaults,
and, although one of its windows looks
upon the graves of the dead-and-gone
counts and ladies of Castellane, it is a
very pretty place to live. Already there
are plans for the Gould family to spend
next summer there.
Lady Blackwood seldom gets time to
visit Clandeboye, the country estate of her
! husbands people, and, indeed, the house
/ is seldom open except in the servants
quarters. The Blackwoods are all en-
gagged upon the English legation in Paris
and must be at their posts. During their