The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
QUIET SEASON
FOR MISS REID
Daughter of the Ameri-
can Embassador in
Ill Health.
Many Titled English
men Make Offers to
Mrs. Field.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

that real country fresh air and plenty
of it is imperative for her. She started
we'll this season, but the few weeks
! she has been in town have told on her
to such an extent that the fat has gone
| forth from the doctors that she must
| leave London at once for an open air
cure.
| She had been looking forward so
keenly to spending the whole season
in town and having a real good
time that it seems peculiarly hard
| she should have had such a disap-
! pointment
| The other night at the Marchioness
! of Granby's SMALL farewell party for
Princess Ena of Battenberg Miss Reid
was one of the three American girls
who had the privilege of being in
vited to meet the Princess, the other
| two being Miss Post and Miss Padle-
| ford. The ambassadors daughter
| looked about sixteen in her white
frock, but before the night was half
over she got so tired she had to go
home. The sudden arrangements for
Miss Reids departure have upset very
considerably Mr.. and Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid's plans, and for the moment
the ambassadors wife has stopped her
series of dinner parties, and all the
festivities which had been arranged
are postponed.
The friends of the family are hoping
that after the pretty little debutante
has spent few weeks in the noun
tains in Switzerland the doctors will
relax their mandate and permit her to
return for at least the visit of Mr.
and Mrs. Longworth, to which she had
been looking forward especially.
Mrs. Marshall Field has royal suite
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six-year- girls nurseries 1t is
probably because the child is so deli
cate that she is so fused over. She
is never allowed to remain in the
atmosphere of one room for more than
an hour or two at a time, and when
she leaves it the windows and doors
are all opened until her return
These apartments are filed with
growing plants, there being now
theory in the medical world that GER
tain living plants exude an oxygen
which is peculiarly helpful to children.
At all the principal hospitals for chill
dren this idea is now in vogue
The important little lady has three
lady nurses who have had hospital
training. as well as a governess, and
she is the possessor of her own pony
carriage and the daintiest motor Ian
daulet. Her dolls represent the queens
OF every country in Europe with their
attendant suites. The very latest ad
dition to the collection is Princess Ena.
the Queen of Spain. who has been
especially made for the young mill
lionairess. The buxom fair doll bears
a most excellent likeness to the Queen
and the lady has a trousseau modelled
on the lines of her Majesty's which is
contained in dozen or so of small
basket trunks.
Mrs. Fields very deep mourning is
not becoming to her and it makes her
look very much older than she is She
presents a curious anti-climax to what
she appeared just nine months ago.
when last August she came to st.
Margaret's, Westminster for the mar
r1age of her father-in-law to Mrs.
Cation What a vision of daintiness
and charm she made all in azure and
white. Her husband was there, too.
the first man to arrive, tall, distingue.
with the most courteous manners and
the pleasantest smile.
The septuagenarian bridegroom and
his son, her husband, have both been
gathered to their fathers and Mrs.
Fields three little children-two BOYS
and a girl-are the owners of their
combined wealth. Before their mother
departs for America, which will be in
three or four weeks, she will place
the boys at Eton, but her daughter
returns with her to Chicago.
There are no words to qualify the
lack of taste which would-be suitors
have shown in already pestering Mrs
Field with Offers" Il have 1t on the
best authority that titles have been
laid at her feet, and in one case at
least matrimonial agency tried to
open negotiations with her for the
hand of a Marquis. who must be name
1aS Mrc Vfn1l Io, .
indignant and says she is SO thoroughly
annoyed that she feels as though she
never again wanted to see London.
However the future is on the lap of the
gods and Mrs Field may yet relent and
in decent time make another American
peereSs.
Like her husband, the Countess of
SuffoiK, formerly Miss Daisy Letter.
promises TO become an expert shot
Until she married she was opposed to
the destruction of wild birds: now she
has become so enthusiastic in practfc-
ing with her gun that she is expected
to take prominent part in next sea-
sons Shoots"
Lately during her residence in Lon
don she has been in regular attendance
at the shooting school. which is
situated at Ealing, and is about half
an hours drive from Hyde Park Here
a tower ninety-f1ve feet high has been
erected from which birds are allowed
to escape for the purpose of testing the
pupils proficiency The expertness the
Countess has shown in bringing down
the birds has puzzled many of her
friends with more matured experience
Lord Suffolk is a hunter of big game,
and it is anticipated that the Countess
will accompany him on tour in India
next year.
Miss Post, one OF the American
favorites of society, has developed
very original hobby. She has taken to
collecting live giants. For certain oc-
casions she insists that her cavaliers
must be at least six feet four. She
had q wonderful exhibition" the other
afternoon when they were all on show.
The invitations read Come and meet
my giants" Major Ames. who is the
tallest man in the British army, heads
the list. Miss Padleford has set up
rival show, in which all the human ex-
hibits are five feet nothing. and in her
collection Lord Roberts is conspicuous.
This season philanthrophy is not so
fashionable as 1t was lew years ago.
There is a distinct slump in charity
bazaars II the King does not do some
thing to revive the interest in this
specieS OF Dhilanthrophy II looks sus-