The Saint Paul globe., 1904-07-17

ETY. is very rapid affair and if there
is any truth in the saying. 'Happy's
the wooing that's not long a-doing," the
happiness of the son of Lord Garvagh
and the daughter of Mr.. Carl Rube
ought to be thoroughly assured, for
within an hour after the meeting of
this young couple. their marriage en-
gagement was announced.
Mr.. Carl Rube is a partner in the
Wehrner-Beit firm, of South African
fame and it is said that he is so de-
lighted with his daughters engage
ment that he has promised to give her
$2,500,0O0 as her dowry. 1t was Mrs
Rube who first met Lady Garvagh
somewhere and invited her ladyship to
tea party at her house Lady Car
vagh accepted the invitation and asked
If she might bring her son with her.
a suggestion which met with Mrs.
Rube's warm approval. On the ap-
pointed day Lady Garvagh and her
son met Miss Rube for the first time
and before the tea was over the en-
gagement was @un fait accompli"
Miss Rube's fiance. whose present
name is the Hon. Leopold Canning is
only twenty-six years old and is a god
son of the late Duke of Albany. His
father, the present Lord Garvagh, is a
great invalid and seldom sees visitors.
Like Queen Alexandra, Lady Garvagh
IS 1IdulSU anu a very HdnuSOlle WO0l-
an. She is an accomplished linguist
and a keen motorist, frequently max
ing trips from Calais to the Mediterra-
mean. She is a baroness in her own
right, being the daughter of Baron
Joseph de Breton, of Copenhagen.
Lord Garvagh. who is, of course, Irish.
owns property in Norway called
Folaskard Hallings. and Garvagh
house, Londonderry, Ireland, but nei-
thor nf thnca oSta 10
tive and it is no use blinking the fact
that the GarVaghs are poor for their
position
Since Winston Churchill took up a
rebellious attitude towards the poIit-
ical party with which his name has
been identified Lady Randolph's at
tachment for her enterprislng boy has
eonspicuously increased. She is now
his constant companion at all his
meetings and lectures throughout the
country. He never makes an impor-
tant speech before first submitting the
skeleton" to his mother. She and her
husband-Cornwallis West-are hard
ly ever seen at functions together and
gossip is busy with innuendoes that
matters domesticaliy are not running
smoothly between them. At all events
her friends say that all her spare time
is devoted to her son. She was very
angry when lately an American paper
expressed astonishment at the report
that Winston was engaged to the
daughter of Lord and Lady Aberdeen.
OF course. there was no truth in the
report and it was pretty well known
that the announcement of Lady Mar
jorie's engagement to Capt. Sinclair,
of the guards. would be published al
most Immediately Lady RandoIph's
opinion was expressed in a few words,
''When Capt. Sinclair" she said. sis
an obscure retired officer on half pay
Winston Churchill will be making u
name for himself in the world of pol
itics and literature" So angry is she
at the hostility shown to her son by
the members of the Conservative par
ty that she has advised him to refuse
the small allowance he had been re-
ceiying from his cousin. the Duke of
Marlborough-or perhaps it might be
more correct to say from the duchess.
It is pretty well known in the house
of commons that there are many
wealthy men on the Liberal side who
would be glad to welcome Winston
Churchin as son-in-law.
Lady Mary.