Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-10

udy VIII sc Lazy ADefudre, ana WHO
is entertaining, with her husband, at
bungalow just across the river.
INTENSELY EXASPERATING.
Rather "A striking showing. is 1t not?
Especially considering that many
names are left out because the writer
has not been able to ascertain defin-
itely from what American cities their
respective bearers hail, Significant
enough, however, in all conscience and.
as L have said, intensely eXasperating
TO the Britishers, who hold that the
Thames at least might be left an
English possession. After all, how
ever. 1t is not so much the actual i'm
yasion" of these exclusive reaches of
the Upper Thames that conservative
English folk resent so highly, but the
fact that, with the rest, the principal
SHOW places" on the river have fallen
into the possession of the enemy.
Chief of these always win be Give
den, the great white house set like Il
pearl among the emerald woods, but.
of course. Its sale by the Duke of
Westminster 10 William Waldorf AS
tor is the most ancient of ancient his
tory. AS If TO accentuate American as
cendancy in this years river season,
however, there has been more lavish
entertaining at Cliteden recently than
at any time since tie stately seat pass
ed into transatlantic hands. Young
Waldorf Aston and his beautiful Ken
lucky wife have been having a sue
cession of brilliant house parties there,
prominent among the guests having
been Mrs. John Jacob Aston and Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson.
NUNEHAM TOO.
Bar Clivenden, there is perhaps no
finer seat on the banks OF the Thames
than Nuneham park, and here again we
find an American chatelaine, in the
person of Mr., Levi Harcourt, am
not sure If am right. IN saying that this
is Mrs. Harcourt's first season as.
great" river hostess. though Nuue-
ham Parks former owner Sir William
Harcourt, died two years ago, but GER
tainly II had brilliant beginning when
King Edward himself expressed
wish TO see the wonders OF the seven
teenth century mansion. and incident
ally get better acquainted with it's mis-
tress. and passed the weekend with
the First Commissioner of Works and
his American wife. She of course. is
a daughter Of the late Walter Burns.
brother-in-law of j. Pierpont Morgan.
incidentally the former New York girl
who promises TO become one of the fore
most of Liberal hostesses must have
taken a lot OF pride in showing the
king over her river home-one of the
fairest "demesnes" IN Britain. Haw-
thorne. who visited Nuneham Park In
1867, described 1t as perfect AZ any
thing earthly can be-" echoing the SEN
tlments of Horace Walpole. who found
IL worthy of the bold pencil Of Rub
ems, or 10 be the subject OF the tran
quiz sunshine Of Claude lorraine"
SOME APPREHENsIoNs.
viii All the great show plaoes along
the Thames be "Americanlzed" in
timer Thames enthusiasts affirm not,
and point out that Lord Desborough,
who owns Tanlow court; Sir George
Young, proprietor of the famed For
mosa at Cookham, and the Earl of
Raglan, whose Thames seat IL called
oakley Court, all are ardent river low
era, and would not sell or lease for
trainload of American dollars.
One would not care to bet on IL. how
ever especially with such places as
Modmenham Abbey and Bolney Court
already under the Stars and Stripes.
The former of these. which IL situated
Just above Temple Lock, can be des-
crtbed without eXaggeration as one OF
the most interesting piles IN England.
The hest known OF It's recent owners
was Herbert Oakley, who, when he
died few years ago, left II TO his
beautiful young widow. She later mar
ried Col. Sir Douglas Dawson, King
Edwards master of ceremonies who
lately has taken up the appointment
of controller OF the lord chamberlain's
department and II is Sir Douglas who
has leased Medmenham Abbey TO Mr..
Marsh. the New Yorker.
On the site OF Medmenham the
Danes established one Of their camps,