Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

nihed, way with her that quite enchanted all
those on whom she cared to exercise her
charm. As early as 13 years she had deh-
nite ambitions, and IL anybody wonders that
the vicerene knows how to bear herself so
irreproachably under her almost regal hon
ors in India, the mystery Is explained when
assure you she was literally trained for
society by lady OF royal birth.
Instead of putting their eldest and MIR.
Letters favorlte daughter at a finishing
school, Lady Curzon's parents secured as
I her tutoress Fraulein Elise Won Rotch
Moewis who comes of the royal Prussian
house. and lived all her youth in palaces.
From such governess Lady Curzon learned
the sort of lore that has helped perhaps
more than anything else to make her well
come at Buckingham palace and Queen Vic
toria one of her staunchest friends. No
duchess ever came to court better equipped
than Lady Curzon to make her way success
fully, and though she is in no sense
learned woman, she has all the accomplish
ments necessary in brilliant society, while,
| of course, her looks serve as powerful
lever in her favor.
Her beauty ard Her Clothes.
| Not one of her pictures do her justice
! because they fail to show her coloring, her
faultless hands and the poise of her lovely
head. She is slim and tall, full five feet
seven inches, blue eyed, brown haired and
like sensible woman she gives lots of at
tention to clothes In Washington the other
women frankly accepted her as the mirror
of fashions, and l remember that the night
after she appeared at a ball with her hair
parted and a diamond star low on her fore
head diamond head lights and parted
/ crowns were absolutely universal in the cap
ital for the rest of the season.
After establishing herself socially in
| Washington, when Miss Letter appeared in
! New York, even women of the smartest So
ciety we have in America and certainly the
most luxurlously costumed creatures in the
| world, opened their eyes very enviously at
the new bellies toilets.
1T was not jewels this young lady spent
her tremendous allowance of $4,000 a year
on, but the most perfect and artistic studies
| in color and drapery that Paris could pro-
vide. What Furthermore opened the eyes of
! New Workers was the quite royal methods
| Miss Letter adopted in considering her COM
| fort through gay season. She had nothing
| to learn in the way of blissful luxury, or the
machinery of social duty from English Ger
man or even Russian princesses. From her
early youth Miss Letter enjoyed the minis
| trations of her own body of servants, the use
! of her own carriage, and to see her attend
as many as five entertainments in night
was simply a lesson in how to accomplish
the most enormous amount of fashionable
| duty at the least loss Of nervous energy,
spirits and physical vgor.
To go to a dinner the OPERA appear at a
musical and at least two balls was often an
evenings diversion for this young lady, and
it usually took three persons to help her do
it. An accomplished maid always stood
| wraps in hand at the dressing room door
when Miss Letter wanted to leave, foot
man gave her his arm to lean on down the
stairs, her carriage warmed and pillowed was
| exactly at the moment at the foot of the
| steps, and SO, borne about on rose leaves,
| she able to accomplish twice as much as
| the average society woman who does not
| study her comfort or is not able to afford
such Injuries.
MarvcIs Were Accomplished.
| OF course by these means Miss Letter got
/ through most arduous seasons with never
| the loss of a tinge of color, and yet in spite
| of her great income she never had quite
| enough money to spend. She cherishes a
passionate love OF flowers and her rooms
are always redolent Of the freshest, hand
/ soonest roses She has princely disregard
of the value of things. When she shops
whatever pleases sher she buys and bears
off, superbly Indifferent to It's price. Then,
! too, she is absolutely generous, delights to
have lovely, artistic, unique objects about
, her, and is as carelessly impatient as a
child. On occasions when half dozen enter
| tainments are on her cards in day it will
require two maids TO accomplish the task
of merely taking off or putting on a gown
with celerity to suit the wearer
Though a frock be worth many hundreds,