Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-16
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COLD AND NAUGHTY.
In accordance with what she believes
| 70 be due to her aristocratic lineage,
Lady Leconheld Is extremely cold and
| naughty, Most vigorously does she set
her face against the widening of socie-
| ~, against the nouyeau richie. and
against the wealthy jew element that
makes its way almost everywhere else.
She Is hercely opposed 10 that spirit
| which does not refuse to meet all sorts
| OF wealthy nobodles because they arr
friends Of King Edward and are taken
up Enthusiastically by all the kings
| followers and circle Of intimates At
no time could Lady Leconfeld be in
duced to receive Tom Dick and Harry,
| and much less likely would she be to
acknowledge the wives of Tom, Dick
or Harry.
Lady Leconneld practises exclusive
ness In every phase Of her life, At their
| church at Petworth, the Leconnelds
have q gallery pew" sort of royal
box, so that they do not mingle with
the other worshipers and there
are but few among the most UNI
blemished of the blue-blooded arlstoc-
racy who ever are honored by
an invitation to enter their charmed cir
| Gle at home 1t IL not impossible. by
the way. that this may have had some
| thing to do with the very bad matches
which have been made by Lady Lecon-
| fields Children
However, no family. however censorl-
| GUS 1t may be, seems to lack it's own
| private skeleton In the cupboard the
| contemplation Of which might be eX-
| pected to lessen said familys hauteur,
| and Lady beConholds father-m-law
was known to be the ilegitimate son Of
the Earl Of Egrement.
GREAT MAN ONCE.
| This earl was a great man In the
days of the Regency when the Prince
Regent of England made Brighton a
| fashionable watering place and built
the pavilion there Lord Egrcment
who was one of his boon companions.
! was n hard fighter, hard drinker, and
a great gambler and although he had
several children he was never married
| To his son, whom he adopted the earl
gave the name of Wyndham, and Percy
| Wyndham, NJ F., who Is brother-ln NV
| TO Lady Leconfleld, Is one of his grand
sons, To Lady Leconhelds fa'her-in-
law, Lord Egrement. who was unable to
| leave him his name and title left all his
| estates, all his money and the bee fiful
| London house, No. Q, Chesterfield Car
| dens, where Lady Leconheld now lives.
| and which Is built on the gardens of
| Chesterfield House. where lived the
famous Lord Chesterfield Of the Let
| ters."
The stately Duchess OF Bucoleuch,
who may be described az second only
| 20 Lady Leconiield In exclusiveness, is
best known outside Of society as miss
tress of the robes to Queen Alexandra.
a post which she also held under the
late Queen Victoria, BY no power
| could this gentlewoman be induced TO
mingle with what she would describe as
the "riff-raff" of smart society. She
disdains even 10 live either In Mayfair
or Belgravia, but makes her home in
exclusive grandeur at Montague House,
Whitehall, where the windows look ON
to the embankment and the river
Thames. Yet the duchess Is quite up-to-
date and progressive In other ways. for
she has organized a dairy to sell fresh
cream TO London customers.
A LARGE FAMILY.
II is sometimes limited that, IN her ex-
clusiveness, her grace makes q virtue Of
necessity, her family being 40 large
that when all lts arlstocratic members
have assembled at a ball or house-party