Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
is WITTLEST BRIDE
IN LONDON SOCIETY
FORMER MISS KNoLLYS CLAIMS
THAT DISTINCTION
Lady capeI-W Brings UP Hus-
band According to American
RuIes-Admits She's
Freak

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON, July 2O.-Lady Wolseley, wife
of the baronet, Sir Capel Charles Welse-
lev. is the wittiest bride in London So
ciety. She was married only last month
She was Miss Beatrice Knollys. Lady
Charlotte Knollys, her cousin, is queen
Alexandra's intimate friend and private
secretary.
Unlike most English women, Lady
Wolseley is full of enthusiasm and is as
unconventional as an American woman.
Her wedding was one of the most fash
ionable of the season. There were sew
eral innovations at the ceremony. which
of course, was expected of Miss knollys,
"for she never does anything ike any
body else is what all London says OF
her. She married under a wedding bell OF
flowers, which is an American idea; she
composed one of her own wedding hymns;
the six bridesmaids dresses, instead OF
being all one color, were each of differ
ent shade of pink or blue.
"Why I'm Not Popular"
When asked the cause of her great pop
ularity in London society, Lady Wolseley
simply laughed.
"Why. | am not and never was popu-
lar" she declared. people have always
focked about me in order TO regale their
friends next day at tea with something
shocking that l had said or done. If that
is popularity have had my share.
But, seriously, let me tell you wo-
man with an original idea in England Is
looked upon as queer with two orlslnaI
ideas she is thought to be crazy, and
well, l am a freak laughed Lady Wolse-
ley.
"Thats why American women are so
charming; they are so Independent in
thought and action. 1 say, why shouldn't
women be? We are brought up here to
think women should have about as much
freedom as Gagged birds and just about as
much gray matter inside their heads.
when 1 married I said to my hus-
band: There are three ways by which
married folk are known. In our case it
will be either Sir Capel Wolseley and
Lady Wolseley, Lady Wolseley and her
husband or Sir Capel Wolseley and his
wife. Which is it going to be-? And
what do you think he said? 1t was, !
suppose it will be Lady Wolseley and her
husband and 1 answered, Quite right,
as 1t should be That is why 1 married
under an American wedding bell.
"That old Fogy Notion"
"There is no use of keeping up that old
fogy notion that what was good enough
for my grandmother is good enough for
me- because 1T isn't. That is the spirit
that accounts for England being CEN
turies behind America in so many
things"
Speaking of types of people, Lady VOL
seley said: do you know when | am
invited out to some dinner or function
where there are a number of guests whom
I meet for the first time, 1 can always
tell who's who by the looks of them?
'lThe old families people are always
plain looking painfully so; the rich ones
fpu nd he
clever ones are queer looking.
1.-THE old families are very easily
shocked, the rich ones are hard to shock
and the other clever ones want to do all
the shocking themselves.
"It makes an interesting assembly,
doesn't it? Why, a dear old lady was
frightfully shocked at me one night at
dinner last week when she asked me if 1
wasn't a very happy bride. oh, yes, you
see,' I told her, my husband thinks and
says nothing, and 1 say things and don't
think; it makes us so congenial.'
Meets "silIy Idiot"
The witticsm of Lady Wolseley that
was most tailed of in London last season
was uttered when she sat after dinner
chatting with what she would call a silly
idiot" when suddenly she tsked him:
What are you thinking about?" Moth
lnB' ne repHeu anu A4auS NoioSi0S St.iu
nonchalantly, How egotistical," and the
Englishman is the only one in London who
hasn't laughed at 1t.
The same evening a very proper young
man came up to claim a dance, saying
"Why, / have already danced with Miss
Knollys.Y Yes answered Miss Beatrice,
yawning behind her fan, there are two of
us equally attractive"
81 have already angered many of my
dear friends" said Lady Wolseley, 'by
saying | do not like women as sex, but
as individuals. They always come back
with You're a woman, aren't you? and
then / tell them yes, but an individual
one and they do not quite know whether
l mean to claim great individualities or
that / am merely one woman. never eX-
plain.
''You see. women as sex are such poor