The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
IS ONLY AMERICAN SALUTED
WITH THE ROYAL KISS.
Schoolmate Says the Vicerine of In
dia Was Always a Social Diplo-
mat-Educated Abroad With Fifty
Thousand Year Pocket Money
Her Husband Calls Her ''Kinky."

Letters were wealthy ana their uduSh-
ter a deliciously beautiful creature
said this ex-schoolmate of Lady Cur
zon, but chiefly because, when she
wore her hair in pigtail and her skirts
at her shoetops Mary proved her gifts
as a society diplomat She had a cav
caressing, persuasive, yet perfectly Dig
n;fied, way with her that quite enchant-
| ed all those on whom she cared to eXer-
else her charm. AS early as Is years
she had definite ambitions, and if any
| body wonders that the Vicerene knows
how to bear herself so irreDroachaply
under her almost regal honors in India,
the mystery is explained when l as
sure you she was literally trained for
society by a lady of royal birth.
Instead of putting their eldest and
Mr. Letters favorite daughter at fin
ishing. school, Lady Curzon's parents
| secured as her tutoresS Fraulein elise
Won Rotch Moewis, who comes of the
] royal Prussian house, and lived all her
| youth in palaces. From such gov
| erness Lady Curzon learned the sort OF
lore that has helped perhaps more than
anything else to make her welcome az
Buckingham palace and Queen Victoria
| one of her staunchest friends. No Ouch
ess ever came to court better equipped
| than Lady CurZon to make her way
successfully, and though she is in no
sense a learned lady, she has all the
| accomplishments necessary in brilliant
society. while, of course, her looks serve
as a powerful lever in her favor
HER BEAUTY AND HER CLOTHES.
mot one of her pictures do her JUS
| tice, because they fail to show her color
! ing, her faultless hands and the poise
| of her lovely head. She is slim and
| tall, a full five feet seven inches, blue
eyed, brown-haired and, like a sensi-
| BILE woman, she gives lots Of attention
| to clothes. In Washington the other
women frankly accepted her as the
mirror of fashions, and I remember
| that the night after she appeared at a
ball with her hair parted and a'diamond
| star low on her forehead, diamond
headlights and parted crowns were
absolutely universal in the capital Tor
| the rest OF the season.
| After establishing herself socially in
Washington, when Miss Letter ap-
peared in New York, even women of the
| smartest society we have in America
and certainly the most luxuriously cos
| tuned 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
| $50, 900 a year on, but the most perfect
and artistic studies in color and 2EaD-
cry that Paris could provide. What fur
thermore opened the eyes of New York
ers was the quite royal methods Miss
Letter adopted in considering her COM
fort through d gay season. She had
nothing to learn in the way of bliSSful
luxury, or the machinery of social duty
from English, German or even Rus
| sian Drincesses. From her early youth
! Miss Letter enjoyed the ministrations
of her own body of servants, the use of
| her own carriage, and to see her attend
as many as five entertainments in a
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
viGor.
To go to a dinner, the opera, appear
| at a musicale and at least two balls
was often an evenings diversion for
this young lady, and it usually took
| three persons to help her to do it. An
accomplished maid always stood wraps
in hand at the dressing room door when
| Miss Letter wanted to leave, a footman
gave her his arm to lean on down the
stairs, her carriage, warmed and pill
| lowed, was exactly at the moment at
! the foot of the steps and so, borne about
| on rose leaves, she was able to accom-
plish twice as much as the average So
comfort or is not able to afford such
| luXuries.
MARVELS 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 cherished a passionate love
of flowers and her rooms are always
redolent of the freshest, handsomest
| roses. she has a princely disregard of
the value of things. When she shops
whatever pleases her she buys and
bears off, superbly Indifferent to its
price. Then, too, she is absolutely gen.
erous, delights to have lovely, artistic,
unique objects about her, and is as
! carelessly impatient as a child. On oc-
casions when a ha1f-dozen entertain
ments are on her cards in a day it
will require two maids to accomplish
the task of merely taking off or put
ting on a gown with celebrity to suit the
wearer.
Though frock be worth many hun
dreds, is fresh from it's designers
hands, Lady Curzon, when in haste,
will gayly rip, snip and tear away it's
silken bonds if time presses and my
lady wishes to make double haste. With
her time is everything, and it is far
more important to be prompt for an en-
gagement or ready to score a notable
victory than to stop and patiently I'M
ravel the ms and outs of a complicated
French toilet. In the days when she
was an American miss. these victories
were purely social and all Washington
wiseacres predicted a foreign marriage
for Miss Letter. Now her victories are
genuine diplomatic triumphs, and per-
haps the finest feather in Lady Cur
IONS cap is the frank goodwill, the
genuine unalloyed affection, even, she
has won among English women.
IN THE QUEENS BEDCHAMBER.
Conservative critical, proud and re-
served as titled Englishwomen are,
from the queen to a knights wife, they
have only words of praise for this par
ticular young American woman, and
have accorded her the most unusual
privileges Lady CurZon is the only
American girl whom the queen ever
saluted with the royal kiss on either
cheek; Furthermore, she is the only
woman of our nation who has ever been
admitted to the queens bedroom, and
after whose well-being her majesty
thinks to inquire.
Perhaps a more emphatic sign of her
popularity was the cordial interest and
good sistership showed when Lady Cur
zon began openly to court at her table
and drawing room the favor of great
parliamentary powers for her husband,
and when she went about soliciting
votes Influencing votes is one thing
the English woman considers her spe-
cial privilege. and Lady Randolph
Churchill, popular as she is, only at
tempts to do so within bounds. The
Duchess of Marlborough and even Mrs.
Naylor Iayland would hardly. venture
to try: powerful as their social posi-
hut ,,tlniln Sfin Sim mia Mrs