The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
Social Foreign Service-

0p0C1dI F'OfolSn service.
LONDON, April 30.-Within the
next few months Lady Malcolm of
Poltallock will be leaving England
for the United States on a sort of
house hunting expedition, for her LADY,
ship feels that she can no longer stand
the English winters, and the whole Of
her time in America is to be devoted tn
J securing Kentucky to find some little
estate suitable for a winter home. Sets
OF houses and lands there NAV he
plenty in the state Of Kentucky. but IT
may not be easy for Lady Malcolm
to discover exactly what she desires.
for her tastes are peculiar and to her
OF more Importance than her own COM
Portable housing, is the housing Of all
the poor old horses which, wherever
she goes, she collects and takes care Of.
Lady Malcolm of Poltallock is an
American by birth, her father having
been a planter in the South. Her first
husband, III. Gardner Lister, was also
an American, and she became the sec
ond wife of Malcolm Of Poltallock in
1897, year after he had been made
baron Of the United Kingdom. The
Malcolms Of Poltallock are a very old
scottish family, and it was with yerv
great regret that on the death of her
husband, who died about two years
ago when travelling in the Riviera
Lazy Malcolm had to give up Poltal-
lock, place of great historic interest
IN ArgyllShire, Scotland. The grandeur
OF the views from PoltalIock have often
been spoken of in history and. there
Delng no direct issue, lordly PoltalIock
had to pass on to the brother of Baron
Malcolm.
The present owner Of the estate.
however, was no favorite of his broth
er, and at the death of the latter re-
ce1Ved nothing that it was nossib1e
to will away from him. 1t was LADY
Malcolm who came to the rescue. She
gave to her brother n-Iaw half a mil
hon dollars Wherewith to keep up his
position.
She Is perfectly Charming"
Though not what is termed a smart
american woman, Lady Malcolm is a
very well known figure in London and
Is dubbed perfect character" on ac-
count of her love for old horses. At
Barnardiston Hail. in Suffolk, the es-
tate she bought on the death Of her
husband, she has no less than thirty Of
them under her especial care. The hall.
an old and historic one, has under her
guidance been entirely changed and re-
first thought, now faces the drawing
room, so that Lady Malcolm can see all
that Is done to her old pensioners. And
every morning when in Suffolk her
ladyship herself insp9ets the exercising
or these old creatures, going out to
view the work, clad in short skirt
top boots and bowler hat and with
whip in hand. When in London Lady
Malcolm wears always two veilings Of
chiffon over her face, through Which
can be seen her fringe of fair hair
For the street her hair is confined with
pins, but ais soon as she gets indoors it
is released from these continuing prongs
and allowed to flow down about her
shoulders.
Many are the stories of her pIeadings
on behalf Of tired animals. She is, Of
course, a big subscriber to all the So
cieties for dumb creatures. On one
occasion when offering a cabman his
legal fare, he began to demur as cab
men will, and asked for more than the
shillings. We'll" replied Lady NAL
colin, eff / give you 10, will you take
your horse home and give him a rest ?"
Equines, old and worn out, that are
not likely to be well cared for in their
old age, Lady Malcolm takes under her
wing and spends her life in devotion to
them. So it is likely that her estate in
Kentucky will in all probability mean
another home for horses"
It is a son Of Lady MalcoInl's broth
er-in-law, the present owner of PoltaI-
lock, who is the Ian MalcolnT; M. p.
who married Jeanne Langtry. the
daughter of Mrs. Langtry This has
greatly shocked the rigid Scotch family
of the Malcolns to whom play ac-
tress" Is still far beyond the pale
Amongst Lady Malcolm's other &C.
centricities, she, when in London, al
ways carries her jewel bag in her hand.
This receptacle contains some most
valuable pieces of jewelry, amongst
others several immense ropes of Won
derful pearls
Dyspeptic but Persistent.
Mrs. Stockton, the wife Of Capt
Stockton, the naval attache at the
American embassy in London, is seen