The San Francisco call., 1898-08-21

schooling.
 Then 1t was said long before her mar riage that Miss Mary Letter was de- ternined to marry a foreigner and usu- l ally 1t was added that he must have a i title. The result has shown that she | did not want title so much as she l wanted power. And her training has demonstrated that she appreciated the advantage of a well-trained mind.
 The Letters have spent much time | abroad. Miss Mary Letter took ad- vantage of her opportunities. She be- came proficient in the continental lan- 1 guageS.
 The first warm friendship which Miss Mary Letter made in Washington was with Mrs. W. C. Whitney, and through her the young woman became an inti- mate friend of Mrs. Cleveland. She was an everyday visitor at the White House when she was in Washington.
 There isn't any doubt that the eld- est daughter is the intellectual member of the family. Young Joseph Letter went to Harvard and became immense ly popular He spent deal of money and did nothing in particular.
 Miss Letter met MT. Curzon first abroad. They saw much of each other in England, and MT. Curzon frequently came to the United States.
 There is no prOuder family in Eng land than the Curzons, and never was there a harder working or more ambi- tious young man. It isn't said any where that 1t was love match which is very excellent reason for believing that it was. Undoubtedly Miss Letter could have married a title had she chosen. Her father was worth $25, 000,- 900. She is very beautiful, a tall, dark young woman, eXquiSitely graceful, possessing that indefinabIe thing called style" and with fine skill in gowning herself Many falI in low Tx-itb her and many more with her prospect i've millions.
 MT. Curzon fell in love with her. No doubt both father and daugh- ter saw that the time was com ing when George Curzon would be great man. To be sure he would succeed to the title of Lord Scarsdale some day if he lived, but he was not content with that The young man pre- ferred to carve his own name His is one of the great historical families in England. The original Curzon smote the blonde-haired Britons with a dou- ble-edged battle aX at the side of Will jam the Conqueror, and he was made Lord of the Manor of Lockinge, Berks, and Fishead, Oxon. Giraline de Curzon was a nobleman in Normandy.
 To give an idea of the notifications of the CurzOn family would be like read ing pages out of Burke's Peerage. There are so many lords and earls and honor ables who have held high places, so many intermarriages with illustrious families, that ones eye wearies of the long names.
 The future Viceroy of India was born in the family home of Kedleston. over the door is a motto, cut there years and years ago: Waste not, want not" Possibly the able MT. Letter heard of this motto and it impressed him.
 George Curzon distinguished himself in Eton, carrying off nearly every prize and honor He went to Oxford, where he continued his prize-taking career. He was a rather arrogant young man, very naughty and very studious. There is a couplet which he has never been able to live down which shows how his fellow students regarded him. It runs:
 There's George Nathaniel Curzon,
 Who's a perfectly respectable perzon.'
 Entering politics he was returned from Southport and he has been in the House of Commons ever since.
 At first he was unpopular in the