The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29

Copyright. 1903, by Arthur Morris.)
The cable. the other day. flashed to
America the news. which was con-
spicuously and quite generally printed.
that Mrs. Ronalds, an American. had
entertalne his majesty, Edward
VII, King of England, at her resi-
dence in London.
straightaway there was much rack
ing of Yankee memories.
Mrs. Ronalds." said the reading
public, meditatively; who's Mrs. Ron
aids? We've often heard of Mrs.
George CORVALLIS West. and many
other American women in the Kings
set, but who is Mrs. Ronalds?"
Be it known that Mrs. Loriilard
Ronalds, she who was Mary Frances
Carter. of Boston, is one of the most
significant figures in London society.
She is my good friend" to his maj
esty the King: dear Mrs. Ronalds"
to yours affectionately, Alexandra"
center of the American colony. and
''savoir faire' incarnate to the Amer
lean and other aspirant for social as
sistance in Englands capital.
| to every struggling deserving must
clan who comes within her ken. Her
! famous "at homes" are gorgeously
sprinkled with titled folk, and proba-
| bly, come as near to the old-fashioned
! saloons of the Mary Wortley Mon
tague days in social influence as it is
possible to approach in the prosaic
reign of Edward VII.
Her Life Abroad.
Mrs. Ronalds has spent most of the
| last thirty years in London and Paris.
She went back to New York in the
| early seventies TO marry one of the
Lorillard family. The unhappy de-
velopments of that marriage resulted
in her joining her mother in Europe,
and joining her for good.
With her children-one of these the
clever Mrs. Ritchie of to-day-the
rich American took up her residence in
! Cadogan Place, London. She has lived
there ever since, or, more accurately,
| No. has been her Official residence,
and the continent in general her oc-
casional abode. Few women are more
widely Travelled, or know the continent
more intimately than does Fanny"
| Ronalds.
| Mrs. Ronald's house in Cadogan
Place is nothing much to look at from
the outside, for that is the way many
| famous London houses have. 1t
might be a boarding house for all
that would be discernible to the pass
! ing stranger who didn't happen to
know that Cadogan Place is in the
| heart of fashionable Belgravia. Mrs.
Ronald's house is hedged in on every
| hand by the homes of titled folks
| homes equally forbidding without, but
rich and beautiful within.
Her House Crowded with Priceless
Souvenirs.
The wonderful array of souvenirs
with which Mrs. Ronald's house is
fairly crowded form a sort of record
of her social career in London, tesri-
! flying to her friendships with great
people, royalty. artists, musicians,
actors, lords and ladies.
If Mrs. Ronalds boudoir were
| lifted out bodily, il would sell to any
one of half dozen kind of collector
| 'fiends." The autograph hunter, for
! instance would have a glorious time
! of it. He would find the Kings hand
writing a dozen times over. The
| Queens latest likeness would go at
a hieh premium for the sake of the
| Christmas message on il: with every
good wish to Mrs. Ronalds from Alex
andra," is reads.
A recent morning caller. while
waiting to see the owner OF all these
treasures in behalf of an American
musician, found that her walls IN
Guided some notably good and cor
daily signed photographs of Ameri-
| can peeTesses. "Consuelo Marlbor-
ough," as one picture reads in her