The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-08
DOES 4 BIT OF EVERYTHING.
And This American Girl is clever at
Whatever She Puts Her Hand ne

anu ms american Girl IS clever at
Whatever She Puts Her Hand To.
tAda Patterson in the Chicago Arnerf.arl.)
Miss Norma Leslie Munro, an Amer
lean girl, may soon become the Lady
of Dumfries. With the title viii fan
to her portion the greater part of an
estate valued at $4,000 600
She is already one of the richest heir
eSseS in America When the Scotch
fortune becomes hers she win be one
OF the richest women in the world
The estate IS the property of the
fumes, now almost extinct Scotch
family. Il lies in the county of DUN
tries, on SolWay Firth, in lower Scot
laHQ- snort ride over the downs from
The country town of Dumfries. Miss
MunrQ.s mother, Mrs. Henrietta Mum
TO- dfwow of the publisher, Norman
J.. Munro, lis in London helping her
solicitors to establish the family claim.
In her absence Miss Munro is looking
after the business Of the big publish
izg house Of Norman L. Munro, just
past Arch No. 12HOf Brooklyn bridge. !
Miss Norma Leslie Munro is one Of
the cleVereSt as well as one Of the
richest girls in America She is proud
OF the eleverness and indifferent to the
Though only q wears old. she is q
publisher an editor "a lawyer, a dra-
matist, a business woman. a fine must
clan an artist, a brilliant amateur ac-
tess. an expert yachtswoman an ex-
pert whip.
Popular at home. she is one of the
best known Of the younger Americans
abroad. Her visits to Paris and Lon
don are welcomed equally by the smart
circles and the literary and artistic
sets. and she is eqdally at home in
each.
Had Lord George Hume the head Of
the Scottish Humes, had the gift of
foresight, he might have made a spe-
ctal effort to secure the estate in Dunn
fries TO the, brilliant kinswGIRana who
was to follow him. There was never a.
Hume who would not have been proud
Of such a lady of Dumfries But Lord
George Hume had not the gift of pre-
science. lie died 4ntestate- and his heirs
quarreled over their respective shares.
ulXided. In due time the Scotch heirs
died quarreling to the end The estate
reverted, Professionally. to the English
crown. should the remaining heirs
restore the. property- There was but
one heir left in Europe. He tried 10
communicate with the American heirs
A letter, reached Mrs. Munro, but her
reply reached an empty home. The last
scotch heir had died in Edinburgh
He had. however. furnished fhe
needed link in the chain of evidence.
Lord George Hume, who had neglected-
10 make VIII, was q great uncle OF
Norman Leslie fMunEo. the dead pub
Usher. ard a great great uncle Of Miss
Norma Munro. The Edinburgh rel
ative had httlt well FOR the American
branch of the extinct Hume house. The
English Court OF chancerV is drawing
the tOTtuOus length of the ease 20 a
close, and the close, london solicitors
say, is sure to make Miss Norma Mum
no the lady Of Dumfries.
The title Is one Of folk lore 1t does
NOT appear in the English Book of
Peefage. But for several centuries the
good People of Dumfrieshire have
named the reigning lady of the Hume
estate The Lady of Quantities. For
three generations there has been no.
bearer for the title. and the scotch folk
IN. and about Dumfries.- havif4g heard
of Miss AlunrQ are eager to see her and
confer IT,
Next month She VIII go abroad ana
VII make a1e9aching te@T 81 scotland
ana France The F'relch mail coach
one SO much admired sit the expesi ton
last summer VIII be finished in AfaB
She VIII mount II and tool out Of Paris
and through Britanny and Normandy,
ana thence the queer French coach
VIII take its way and its mistress
through her Ancestral possessions ia
the loWiands of Scotland
The future Lady of Dugnfries is 81
TAX atlIietic Hooking sitl u the pro-
nounced features that prove fler Scpfcb
origin. Her chin has. the same promi-
nence ana The same decided carvh that
made her fathers success possible. the
or every self-made man you have