Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

= Venice regularly in the spring ana
| autumn and this year has for q guest
| Lady Essex Muriel Wilson'S apart
mant is on the canal and is a perfect
| treasure house of beautiful things,
/ Priceless rugs. tapestries, wonderful
4 china, silver and brasses as well as
| Italian masterpieces in pictures ana
| sculpture arc in every room. The
apartment and its contents are her
| own special property and she goes
there when she wants to seek reposr
| and rest.
Sergeant, the r. A. is also in
Venice just now and goes everywhere.
or is at least Is asked everywhere. He
is often with Consuelo Duchess Of
Manchester with whom he is. on very
friendly terms. Later he Is to pain
yet another picture of her. but she
wishes the sitting delayed until she
is looking her best. as of late she has
been far from we'll.
Mrs. Bradley Martin has succeeded
in obtaining a far more important
social position in Scotland than hos
tesses who boast of the flow of royal
blood in their Veins. Even the Duchess
of Fife, the Princess Royal, Is said
tofee anxiety regarding the popular
ity of-the wife of the American mil
lienare. The duchess is practically
the first lady in Scotland BY right
.
the fact that she is the eldest daughter
of King Edward Fife belongs to.
the famous clan OF Mactutf: besides
hesis one of the greatest Scotch mag
mates. OF late years the duchess has
seen but to live on her reputation With
out troubling to take any active part
in popular gatherings. Here Mrs.
Bradley Martin came in and scored
She gave and distributed prizes p
the annual sports, brought friends
from Balmacaan in twenty-odd motor
cars, took hotel to accommodate
them and wore jewels. this year 1t has
become the chic thing to array your
self in magnificent ones at the Nari-
QUE Scotch meetings. fashion set
absolutely by Mrs. Bradley Martin who
hitherto used to be very severely critic
lied for DOMINIC her amazing treas
! llfy or stones for such occasions. one
rof the most definite characteristics OF
the present mistress of Elanlacaan IS
the contempt with which she treats
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS remarks in the press
or elsewhere This year at the In
verness meeting she had the pleasure
of seeing every aristocratic lady IN
the neighbcrhood wearing the Family
heirlooms.
Five specialists were summoned
when the young Countess SzechenSi,
formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, was re-
being a cold or something as trivial
They were telegraphed for by the
count who is so devoted to his wife
that he is under the delusion that
he Is bound to lose her. The falf
Gladys is abnormally amused at the
notion and the story goes she was al
most killed with laughter, in which the
great medical men Joined, when they
found themselves arrayed around her
couch Nevertheless. after she had ell
tertained them to a sumptuous repast
they each pocketed their hundred
guinea fec and still laughing de-
camped.
During the visit of the five medi-
cal stars the countess Informed
them that the only Illness she suf-
fered from was ennui and that II
thew could only give her a remedy
for, that she would truly bless them.
she is bored to death in the ancestral
home. its state and ceremony and old
world traditions being trying IN the
extreme to have 10 live up to. she
has informed some of her intimateS
here that for sure she will spend the
seas son in London next year. one OF
the trials OF the American heiress IS
that while in Hungary she Gan never
teIantiore to her friends. She pfo-#
noses later TO have the telephone liked
M in the ancestral castle---a matter
| of considerable cost inasmuch as 1t
has not vet made its appearance IN
any part of the kingdom save the
capftal. She recently purchased a new
property on the Danube when Is -
ba Transformed into one of the most
s,,r,, \ ,,t, tis : houses or the continent.
Il has cost s1.OG0.o00 and she pro-
noses to spend s5,0o0,G00 more upon
Il in al, attempt5to make 1t a home
worthy Of the daughter of gander-
bilt LADY MARY.