The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-11

THE most beautiful English woman
! Of the decade is coming to Amer
= lea for visit. This is not any
professional beauty like Lily Lang
try, who would never have been heard
of out of a little set had it not been for
certain social notoriety which she
achieved. Neither is it the good and
lovely Princess Of Wales, whose charms.
while notable, have profited by her
nearness 10 throne. Nor is it the
fiirtatious Princess of Pless, whose
youthful vivacity and the fact of her
being the daughter Of a one time IA
nous beauty gave her a reputation.
Nor is the coming visitor Lady War
wick, whose claim to beauty depends
rather on her wit than on her face and
figure, which are only fairly fine.
The visitor is none OF these, but Lady
Theresa Susey Helen Stewart, mar
chioness OF Londonderry. She was
married "A years ago, and Just the other
day her son, the Viscount Castlereagh.
welded the niece of the Duke of Suth-
erland. Her daughter. Lady Helen
Stewart, is a belle of London society.
Yet, though the marchioness is past her
youth, in her splendid prime none of the
young beauties can compare with her.
She has regal carriage, a perfect face
and Il figure that is a model in contour
The daughter of hundred earls, she is
an ideal of the type which one would
expect in a Lady Clara We're de We're.
The Londonderrys belong TO an Irish
house. and Lady Londonderry own
ancestors have been making history
since the time of William the Norman
The earls of Shrewsbury. who were her
forbears. have been as famous for their
pride and talent as for their splendid
deeds. 1t is one of the boasts of the
family that the men of the house were
always brave and the women always
fair.
Lady Londonderry married when the
present marquis was still Viscount Cas-
tlereagh, this title always being used
by the heir to the marquisate. In 1854
Lord Londonderry came into his title
of marquis. This brought to him a
handsome town house in Park lane, the
Fifth avenue of London, where the
family resides during the London sea-
son. He has also five handsome coun-
try seats, the favorite one OF which is
Wynyard Park. Mount Stewart, Coun-
ty Down, Ireland, is the original family
seat.
Wynyard Park Is one Of the most
places in England. The es-
tate is famous for its fine horses and
cattle, some of the stock of the place be-
ing race winners. The stables and the
paddocks connected with them are
models of luxury. On the stable boxes
are silver plates recording the achieve
ments of the most famous horses that
have used them.
Salter House at Wynyard Is the man
or in which lives the hired expert who
cares for the home farm. one Of those |
model agricultural experiments in |
which the gentlemen of England have |
a mania for dabbling. The London |
derry farm is a picture. So well is II /
kept that its cabbage fields are poems |
and its turnip patches dreams in @s-
-hetics. The Londonderrys very rarely
exhibit any of their stock, it being their
taste to live in proud, almost regal. ex
for they feel that there is,
after royalty. no better blood than
heirs in England.
In the stables where are kept Lady i
Londonderry's two favorite hunters. |
Fountain and Sobriquet. are 40 other
handsome animals, all reserved for the
Use Of the family and guests. Lady /
is a graceful and fearless
'ider. but, strange to say. her daugb-
er, Lady Helen Stewart, now aged 20.
ices not ride at all. Dogs are Lady