The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
THE LATE LADY SALISBURY
4 PERSONAGE OF IMPOR1A NCE IN
 ENGL1ND.
Her Pride, Bad Manners and n Few
 Other Traits.

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 voted and clever wife, woman of great strength of character, and abso-
 lutely devoted to her husband and
 children, caring nothing for society, 1T
 which, nevertheless, she was so con-
 spicuous a figure, never liked Ameri-
 cans, and never took any trouble to
 conceal her feelings on the subject. In
 deed, had it not been for the discretion
 of old John Welsh when United States
 envoy in England, a very awkward em-
 broglio might have been created
 through her Urea tlnent of the American
 embassy.
 MT. Welsh, as may be remembered,
 was widower when he was sent to
 England as envoy by President Hayes, and the honors of his house were done
 by an unmarried daughter. Now, Queen Victoria has made it strict rule
 that the unmarried daughter of a for elgn plenipotentlary cannot make pre- sentations at court or fulfil any of the duties of an Jambassadress. In conse- quence of this, Lady Derby, as wife of the English minister of foreign affairs, undertook the presentation at court of all American ladies whose names were submitted to her by the United States envoy for the purpose. This was in accordance with the custom which had prevailed until that time, whenever the American minister had no wife or mar ried daughter to discharge the duties of ambassadress.
 Everything went on all right as long as Lord Derby was minister of foreign affairs. But when the latter was driven out of office as the result of that mem orable encounter in the House of Lords, in which Lord Salisbury, then secretary of state for India, publicly stigmatized the earl (that is to say the man who had married his fathers widow) as
 Titus Oates" the most infamous char acter in English history, matters be- came less pleasant for the United States embassy. For Lord Salisbury became foreign minister, and his wife, the mar chioness, the first lady of the govern ment, the premier, Lord Beaconsfield being widower.
 The very first drawing room that took place after this, Minister Welch sent to Lady Salisbury the names of the American ladies, whom he begged that she would present in her capacity as wife of the minister of foreign affairs Lady Salisbury, on receiving this list, wrote in reply most curt note in the third person to old MT. Welch, stating that while she would consent on this occasion to present the ladies named by the minister, as a personal favor to himself, she did not have the slightest intention of considering herself obliged to present all or any American ladies I,<,, l~1 .I<-l~@ ,tzl. L. I HI the British court.
 The slight was all the more marked as Lady Salisbury made not the least objection about presenting the country women of any other foreign envoys who did not happen to have wife or mar ried daughter to undertake the duty. In fact, it was a distinct affront to this; country, her objections being only to presenting American women.
 Minister Welsh, like sensible man. declined to permit the relations of the two greatest English-speaking coun- tries of the world to be impaired, pos sibly ruptured, through the ll-will and prejudices of an elderly lady and kept his mouth closed about the affair." He strictly farbade his subordinates from making any mention whatsoever there of, and refrained from reporting it in his dispatches to the state department.
 It is pleasantto be able to relate that Lady Salisbury's prejudices against American women were subsequently, en- tirely obliterated through the influence of the charming wife of Minister Phelps. Indeed, Lady Salisbury and Mrs. Phelps became such intimate friends that when the time came for the 'Phelpses to return to America the mar chioness herself organized and headed a subscription among the great ladies of English society, which took the form of a superb diamond bracelet which she presented to the American embassadress with many pretty and charming compli- ments that were manfestly sincere. For Lady Salisbury was sincere to a fault. This presentation to Mrs. Phelps was compliment as unique as unprece- dented, and nothing of the kind has ever taken place, either before or since
 Lady Salisbury's marriage was very romantic match in this sense, that her husband forfeited his allowance from his father and turned him out of doors in consequence of his obstinacy in per 4 sisting to marry woman not his equal JlE DlIlll. EOI dl lllG llIllc WllGI LULU Salisbury, then only Lord Robert Cecil, l married Miss Anderson she was the pen niless daughter of a then brielless bar lister who, it is true, ultimately died as Q thirty thousand dollar year judge.
 Lord and Lady Robert braved the an- ger of the old marquisia land resorted to | journalism and litera ture for living, | Lady Salisbury welding a pen almost l as brilliant and as trenchant as her bus band He wrote in those days for the | ! london Standard, while it is well known that many of the articles credi- ted to him, and which appeared in the Review, were in reality Lady handiwork. Of course, the death of Lord Salisbury's elder brother. he became heir to the and estates, and not long after this developed, through his fathers de- mise, one of the wealthiest peers of the realm.
 Lady Sallsbury's death will be in eve- ry sense of the word an irreparable loss to her husband and to her family. There is no more domestic man than the present British premier, who, like lis late wife cares nothing for society. Tn fact, Lord and Lady Salisbury were lonneSticlty DelSonlfed. Lady Sails