The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-02
Mrs. POtter's Idea
Better the Life One Loves
Than the Man One Loves.

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A special from London to the New
York World has this:
All England expects to hear soon from
authority an announcement OF the en-
gagement Of Mrs. James Brown Potter
10 well-k aeswn man Of title and of vast
wealth.
This GENT eman, whose fame as a rtsao
psc- SH42DLU ETAOIN ETAOINETA
This gentleman whose fame as A
sportsman is as great in the United
States as in England, has been for sew
eral months paying Mrs. Potter marked
attention.
Il is conceded that the match would be
an ideal one. The gentleman in question.
though on good terms with the Prince OF
Wales. has not yet a social position so
high but that he can be materially aided
by Mrs Pot1er's beauty. tact. social ex-
perience and UnGoubted standing. He is
credited with the ambition to shine and
possibly to win a higher title. ana in
these ambitions no mate could be more
serviceable to him than the beautiful
American woman.
Mrs. Potter is thoroughly at home in
England. She has been Of late establish
ing country homes after the English
fashion; she has now completed the sum
mer house at Maidenhead. modelled in
manner after She Shakespeare cottage
at Standardization. IL which she has
given her close personal attention for
the past year.
Here she Will keep omen house II her in
timate friends through the summer and
deep into the fan. The bread grounds.
cropped and set with flower beds and laid
with gravel walks. slope gently down to
the Thames, where among lazily plum
ins swans at an acre long wharf are
moored cushioned sliffs and puntinx
boats.
The wide, weedy river is fun of CAV
traffic and bright with regattas. and Bray
Lodge. which its mistress has so named
lies midway below Tap;ow Locks. be
tween Cliveden. William Waldorf Astor,s
estate. and Surly Han. the home of the
Duchess Of Sutherland.
when I began on this house" Mrs
Potter said. as we sat in the cool white
and green hall, marble tiied and foors5
Il started with the plan OF Shakes
peare's house at S-ratford-on-Avan. bi+
l soon found that would be neither lars.
enough nor comfortable enough so
had TO enlarge on Il. I've kept the gen
eral character. however-the square stair
the heavy oak door and the windows
the lower walls Of red brick and the m
per story Of paneued stucco earn. the 81
feet You never could guess where chose
diamond loaded pareS came from
! looked q, them. They were old iri-
descent glass. watch caught ana soIfnf-
cred The sunlight
No I sa-c.
"oll church windows. I searched then,
ont myself and had them broken -,
They don't make that KIND Of glass now
sdsys
TAe interior Of Bray Lodge IS Eliza
bcthsn. the furniture entirely early Enz-
lisa The beautiful decorations II the
3ericd-the stick and ribbon the Ian
= wreath and the "esg and button" IN.
thrSus 3 panel and arohitrave-that deli
cate sylo II century and q half ar,
simple in its very complexitv. less
he9Nf thaB the Tudor. and with It's sracs
derived srorn the influence Of French pst-
terms AID The earliest imporratlons Of
Japanese and Chinese .conceits.
Opposite the hau fireplace stands a
IH2int se''ee. bearing a brass plate