Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-02
SOCIETY GOSSIP
BY LADY MARY
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Mrs. Potter Palmer Wins Social
Race With Her Rival, Mrs.
Bradley Martin.
SEEKS TO COAX ROYAL SMILE.
Both Have Spent Years OF Efforts and
Thousands of Dollars Seeking
70 Get Recognition.
sneclal Correspondcnce.

r ONDON, April 23.--Thete can q
nothing but supreme joy
A tho heart of that mriva!e
American society grandc dame
Mrs. Potter Palmer, these days Fo
aS in playing the host to King Edward
ms she did SO recently at Biarritz. sh
realized the greatest ambition of he
many years in the social stage Sh
\ has arrived" and henceforth the door
10 the most exclusive circles in Eng
land are open to her
We have all watched Mrs. Palmer
efforts to capture the king. She has
been at 1t q long time and most of US
were sure that she would ultimately
win out" as you Americans say. 1t
has been generally recognized that of
the many American society women in
the English Smart Set, the Chicago
social queen was the Ideal entertain
en- Her purse seemed to be bottom
i less ana Il dinner or a ball at Hamp
Adcn House, her London residence, was
sure 10 be the very last word in pleas-
ui'e and enjoyment. But try as she
might she had never been able to get
the king under her hospitablc roof.
Mrs Potter Palmer made no bones
about admitting that that was her su-
preme ambition. It IL the ambition OF
evory woman here who makes amy pre-
tence to social leadership.
TOO OBSERVATIONS.
For long time English society has
been amusing itself by watching the
progress not only of Mrs. Palmer but
of her fellow counuywoman, Mrs.
Bradley Martin. The latter has not
yet had the pleasure OF entertaining
his majesty. but you may be sure that
1t Is not because the late New York
woman has not tried. Those who know
the king say that Mrs. Bradley Martin
has overdone the thiug--that her hos
pltality is much too ostentatious and
gorgeous to please level headed Ed
ward. There was considerable specu-
lation as TO whether Mrs Palmer or
Mrs. Bradley Martin would be the first
10 win the kings favor II was race
between New York and Chicago with
the western city prime favorite. II
was no short distance dash OF a single
season but contest of endurance
ana considerable tact-stretching over
many years
SOME SILLY GOSSIP"
Some very silly gossip has gone the
rounds of the Smart Set regarding Mrs
Pamers efforts to hob-nob with his
majesty one particularly attractive
one, which nobody who knew the
American widow believed. credited her
With willingness to pay the sum of
100000 outright for the privilege of
Feeding the English ruler with her own
hand, hguratively speaking This sum
was TO be paid 10 Mrs. George Ken
pei one OF the impecunigus favorites
Oh the king whose word Is moro or
less law with her sovereign I'm matters
OF that kind, Curiously enough Mrs
heppel Is now at Biairit2 with tho kim
and was one OF the guests at Inc aim
her which Mrs. Palmer gave I'm houoi,
OF nus majesty and incidentally M.
eSQultn, the new prime minister of
Great Britain w
nHr Mrs Palmer is not the only
Aulericah who is dancing attendant
uPoh royalty at the little French wnter
ils place In fact the American eIs-
menu JUST about owns the place. desnit,
.ne pre-emlnencc of the Eugliah SOW
erelgn The majority of Inc sr,a,.,
residences under the shadow of ~
Falace hotel, which in Seasons nos,
We're occupied by wealthy uoIish
chums or The king have this vour bccn
taken by Americans.
GOES KING ONE BETTER
Whitelaw Reid, the American onb,s-
sador has aroused considerD Bile ,,,,,,-
ment In the kings set by his onorts
10 Fplshine his majesty The diplomat
surrounded himself With AN kinds AZ
state and ceremony and me e,.o,
suite of rooms he engaged ON the 8tsf
iloor OF the Palace hotel were FAR u,ot.,
luxurious than those uf his aiesty ,n
we ground hoor His one idea seomed
10 be to 60 tho king one better. I'm
the ambassador apartments ,yrre tn
pe round the most beautiful furniture
IN house renowned for It's lovely ANA
historic furnishings Among tho price
less articles are many of those which
were used 10y the Empress Eugenie
when the hotel was "A private house
MI Reid offered q large sum OF money
for the empress bed "a beautiful cy
ample of the Louis XIV period. TN,
deal did not come or. however because
the hotel authorities were unwilling 10
part with their treasures
cRoNIEs or THE KING
Jean Reid who rs great n,vorlto
with the king, recently had tho honor
with her father Of dining iu the pu-
Nate apartments of his majesty That
IS Il signal favor, lor unly the nost
intimate of his cronlcs are over asked
10 meet him thus when he rs not "on
his dignity"
Edwards liking for Anthony DreNcI
seems 10 Increase every day Whan
tho luttcr arrived al the French I,.
sort recently. one Of his first culIpr,
was his majesty The two are cone
stanuy seen about together and some
of the gossps have gone so far "a a.
predict that the American millionaire
win be knlghted In the very near fu-
tuio which, of course. Is absurd Just
what the king sees in the American
10 admire so greatly " not known but
In some quarters Il rs said that the
banker is great help 10 Edward In
a business way. Al any rate the
Philadelphia Is royal speuder and is
never tired OF putting his hand in his
copious pocket 10 assist the "hard-ups"
of the English arstocracy
JOSEPH cHAMBERLAiN BETTER
Now that Joseph Chamharaln Is got.
ting along 70 nicely ana some OF his