The San Francisco call., 1906-08-14
Fdscindtes JrtiII, Though Age Is
Nearly Three JCOre.

sitting out a dance with partner.
She is certainly pretty, but not uI.
usually so, and she has quiet, dignineo
manners. Yet nearly every week
new fiancee is assigned to her Rc-
Gently it was Lord Acheson who was
supposed to be the favored one; now
it is Lord Dalmeny, the elder son OF
Lord Roseberry.
From most points of view Dalmeny
would be much more welcome to the
parents of Miss Reid than young
Lord Acheson, who is a pleasant
young man enough, but something or
a nonetity as far as personality 10
concerned. Dalmeny is, however, a
coming man, though he is never hkelv
TO attain the glorious success or the
magnificent failure of his father. He
is a young man with views, with
plenty of ambition and plenty OF
promise. He is an optimist, too
Other advantages he possesses are
that he is the grandson of the late
Duchess of Cleveland on his fathers
side, while his late mothers people
are the Rothschilds, which means that
one day he will be fabulously rich.
On the day that Lord Da1meny mar
ries he will come into possession OF
Mentmore, one of the numerous mag
nihcent seats of his father. A great
deal of color is given to the rumor
of Lord Dalmeny's possible engage
ment to Jean Reid in the fact that the
Whitelaw ReidS and their daughter
have spent week-ends this season as
Lord Roseberry'S guests.
That Lord Acheson proposed to
Miss Reid and was rejected is now
pretty we'll known among the imme'
diate friends of both, and the very!
last story going round was that 'he
meant to have another try" Miss
Reid was asked to be one of the
bridesmaids at the wedding OF Lady
Mary Acheson and the Hon. Robert
Ward, but the Reids got out of it, as
they thought by accepting such an
Office little Jean would be giving en-
couragement to the future Earl of
Gosford, and this they considered
would not be right. Every one says
how very much in love he is with her,
and~it was remarked at his sisters
wedding how very unhappy he was
looking. He is furiously jealous OF
Dalmeny, and if the days OF dueling
were not over there is no doubt we
might look forward to some excite
ment of that kind in Hyde Park.
If the engagement to Lord Del
meny is not announced it won't be
because Miss Reid has not been
asked" If she refuses it means she
will have rejected three future Earls,
No. I being Lord Brook, the eldest
son of Lord and Lady Warwick, per-
haps when all is said and done, the
most individualistic and clever young
man of the lot There is certainly
no doubt little Jean is most faStidi-
Gus young lady. Maybe she would
be less so if she knew the scores and
scores of girls who would literally
jump at any one of the three men
in question.
To those in the know there was
something pathetic in the marriage of
Austen Chamberlain. For his popular
and charming American stepmother
he has, since the day his father stole
her from him, treasured most de-
yout and spiritual platonic Affection
an affection which was very near
sending him to his grave as a con-
Mrs. 1JoSeph Chamberlain returned
the affection in entirely the same
spirit. OF late years there have been
moments in the elder Chamberlain's
life when he felt angry with himself
for having appropriated his favorite
sons best girl" and his conscience
hit him hard, seeing as he did the
emptiness of Austen's life and the
imminent danger there was in his
never marrying. He flung girls right,
left and center at Austen's head. So
ciety naturally did hkewise-Chancel-
lors of the Exchequer are not to be
picked up every day-and Mrs. Joe
Chamberlain also did her little best in
the years she had been in London to
find wife for the boy who had been
her slave until his father came on the
scene and told him he was "oer young
to marry yet
Austen Chamberlain was within
measurable distance of "A on his
wedding day, and it was only six
weeks before that he bethought him
self that after all his father and step
mother must be right and that he had
better marry some onel On the we'd
ding day Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain
looked younger than the bride, from
whom she took more than half the
honors. She was never a pretty
woman, but she possesses what has
so much more power than good looks
an infinite charm; a characteristics
sweetness that even played havoc
with one of the shrewdest statesmen
in the world and actually induced him
to steal his own sons sweetheart!