Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-15

the future Lady Howard de Walden ought
to be fairly contented. In addition, how
ever, she will probably one day come into
about the finest collection of jewelry in
this country. This is now the property of
Howard de Walden's mother who is Lady
Ludlow by her second marriage, and is one
of the handsomest women in the land. She
1t is who entertains for him whenever
there Is a big party at either Seaford
House or Audley End, and a most charm
ing chatelaine she makes. Her ladyship,
who Blanche Holden before she mar
ried the late Lord Howard de Walden did
not have an especially happy time with
that nobleman; in fact she secured legal
separation from him Immediately after
their son was born. But she and the pres
ent Howard de Walden are devoted to each
other, and before her marriage to Lord
Ludlow, two years ago, they. used to be
seen continually dining or lunching to-
gether at the best restaurants where
strangers generally took them for brother
and sister.
1.-THE young bachelor peer is about the
most battling proposition with which match
making mammas and chaperons on this
side of the water ever have had to DEAL and
perhaps this Is partly due to the inten-
ton which he has often expressed of wait
ing until he found a woman just like his
mother before he married. In society, how
ever, 1t is affirmed that Lady Ludlow her
self will choose her sons bride With the
possible exception of the Duchess of Port
land. no English peerless can vie with Lady
Ludlow so far as jewels are concerned.
Most of her priceless collection of gems
came to her when she married her first hus-
band. Her emeralds are of really barbaric
splendor, and she possesses sufficient to
cover an entire corsage. In fact, when her
engagement to Lord Ludlow was an
ncunced the former Lady Howard de Wal
den begged her friends no account to
send her jewels, as she simply did not
know what to do with those she already
possessed And 1t goes without saying
that these will pass on to her daughter-in-
law, whoever she may be-
On one thing. however, 1t will not be safe
for the future bride of this youthful peer
to count-unless present conditions undergo
a change-and that is any particular royal
favor. King Edward VII is a wee bit
sore on young Howard de Walden, for
about the first thing that the youthful peer
did after inheriting his fortune was to
euchre the king out of some race horses his
majesty particularly wanted. De Walden
was anxious to set up a racing stable, and
when the stud of the late Col. McCalmonc
was offered for sale he decided to buy some
of the best animals
The dead sportsman and the king had
been good friends, and it Is probable that
had not McCalmont died suddenly he would
have made over nearly all his stud, which
included some of the best horseftesh in Eng
land, to his majesty rather than had it
auctioned off. AS 1t was. though the king
was personally represented among the DID,
ders, the millionaire De Walden secured
the pick of the horses, and for that act of
lese majestic his sovereign has never for
given him.
Most of Lord Howard de Walden's great
possessions came to him through his grand
mother and formed part of the famous
Portland estate" to which one bruce of
Australia laid claim several years ago.
This lady was one of the four daughters of
the fourth Duke of Portland, to whom his
Middlesex estate was entailed She be-
came Lady Howard de Walden, and. sur
viving all her sisters. entered into pos
session of the great tract of London real
estate which now commands SO gigantic a
rental. Her son survived her death by only
a few months. and 1t was just as ne was
about to board the ship on his way to
South Africa with his regiment that the
present Lord Howard de Walden, then
barely twenty-one. learned OF his huge in
heritance. Up TO that time his life had
been uneventful enough. Educated, to be- |
gin with, at a private school. he went to
Elton and then passed through Sandhurst |
Military Academy, when he got his COM |
mission in the Hussars.
Having learned of his fathers death and |
OF his altered circumstances. Howard de |
Walden promptly got the permission of the |
military authorities to delay his departure |
for the Cape and returned to London to |
enter into possession of tds estate. An en-
ergetic young man. with a real genius for
administration. 1t took De Walden Just |
five weeks to settle everything, when he |
was of for South Africa again as a passen-
ger on regular liner. But those FIVE weeks |
in London had constituted a new experience
for him In more than one way, and his Sec
ond departure for the Cape was the signal |
for the beginning of pursuit which never |
has slackened, and won't, probably, until |
he has actually led bride to the altar For |
not only had the new parti been courted |
openly wherever he showed his face In May
fair, but those of his feminine pursuers who |
did not turn up. more or less plausibly, on |
tho steamer that took him to the Cape were /
nursesi
Speaking literally. IL IL probable that no |
great match of recent years has been so |
persistently angled for az Lord Howard de /
Walden during the Last four years. And l
on the face OF Il one would pick him out az