The age-herald., 1901-01-06
Passes Through! the City En
 Route to Natchez VIEWS OF AN EDITORS WIFE Mrs. Harmsworth is of Great AssIs- lance to Her Husband-The Flo- raI Industry of Birmingham.
 The News of Society.
BY ANNIE KENpRIcK WALKER

The Duchess of Manchester had her luncheon served yesterday at 2 o'clock on board the private car in which she is travelling South, accompanied by her hus- band the Duke, her father, MT. Zimmer- man, and Lord Lambert of London. Her grace went first on little stroll up the avenue, where she was followed by cur ious throng. Tbe latest American Duchess wore travelling gown of black The skirt escaped the ground and the Eton jacket opened over a dark shirt. A toque of black rested lightly upon the fair head of the Duchess She impressed one as being quite tall, and with her 1.-the, trim fig ure clad smartly in black, which accentua- ted the pale gold of her hair, she would have been distinguished looking woman without her recently acquired title. She has very charming face, and as she sat at luncheon there was a huge bunch of pink roses on the table,, whose fragrance the Duchess would occasionally inhaIe the pink roses relieving for a moment the som breness of her gown.
 It may sound very absurd but this glimpse of this American girl, whose money is going to swell the coffers of an English duke, this picture of her with the pink roses, is the one that impressed itself most upon those who saw her yesterday. The plodo HUG LLlI Sne pears, ana the Quke himself who really looked somewhat bored the sang froid of Lord Lambert who smoked cigarettes necessarily, the millions of the Zimmermans and all tine rest of it. could not have made Helena Zimmerman, the duchess of Manchester, more charming than she appeared at luncheon yesterday and when latter the duke and Lord Lambert stepped from their private car and went off together after the manner of two school poys, the duchess followed them to the platform and threw the duke a smiling glance. She looked as if she wanted to be taken along, but the duke and his friend. the latter swinging a camera were taking long strides towards view that the hand some young Englishman had admired from his car window, and the duchess quietly withdrew.
 It was not the first glimpse that her grace had had of Birmingham When she was Helena Zimmerman she spent several days in this city on the occasions of the visits of her father Then the Zmmer- mans engaged apartments at the Morris Last winter the young Duchess visited Tal- ladega The present plans of her grace include visit to Natchez, Miss where she will visit the Dukes grandmother, Mrs. Hznaga. From Mississippi the Duchess will go to New Orleans, and later she will our ney to the Pacific coast. A coincidence in connection with the marriage of Helena Zimmerman to the Duke of Manchester is in the fact that both the Duke and Duchess have a peculiar interest in Mississippi The Duchess birthplace is Vicksburg while Natchez is the birthplace of the Dukes mother, the latter's family, the Yznagas, being the recognized leaders of a most bril- liant social regime. But the recent mar riage of this Southern girl to the English Duke, Helena Zimmerman becoming the Duchess of Manchester, has recalled in de- tail the dominating sway of the Yznagas the story too of how the Zimmerman mil lions were made.
 The Duchess has been censured for her love of a title, and the same old stories have been retold because an American woman had preferred to become a Duchess The latest American Duchess has de- clared that she was not influenced by the English title. She is in love with her aus- 1 band and Is quite as happy as any mid winter bride travelling through this sunny | land When the Duchess returns to Eng | land she should have portrait of herself, her arms full of pink roses.