Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
Her Marriage Not Only Crowns Her
With Social HOnors, hut RECON-
Giles Edward ana an
Old Foe.

means 10 continue to do so. Her mouse
party for the kings visit will include
Consuelo, duchess OF Manchester. Nellie
Post and Claire Frewen, though, of course,
the usual troop of English people whom
the king expects always TO find will be
there, too, to meet him.
Mrs. Ward has been inundated with at
%tentions and kindnesses from the highest
quarters since her marriage as now she is
one of the most influential ladies in the
land. receiving the kings ear more almost
than any other, her husband being his
right hand man and confidant. Her corre-
spondence is larger than her fathers, let
ters pouring in on her from all quarters
asking her to use her influence for this,
that or the other purpose. One of the
things she was taught as an ambassadors
daughter was never to leave a letter I'M
answered, so that what her secretary has
to get through may be more easily imag-
ined than described.
Also n Peacemaker.
Mrs. Ward is said to have been the means
of bringing about a reconciliation between
the king and an old and at one time
popular general, with whom the king had
a tiff some years ago.
"I know someone who is very distressed
because you are not friends with him" Mrs.
Ward is reported to have said to the king.
1t is a recognized fact that his majesty
never treasures i'll feeling.
Mrs. Ward explained that 1t was General
k. whereupon his majesty said:
st had forgotten the incident. He mustn't
be unhappy five minutes longer"
There and then the king 'phoned the OLD
general, saying:
MRS. Ward has been telling me you're
unhappy. l had forgotten that we were
not friends. Mrs. Ward has given me per-
mission to. invite you to come round ana
ioin rs here at tea at Carleton House Gar
dens this afternoon. It will make her
unite happv to see us shake hands. You
know I like to make ladies' happy. So,
come"
One afternoon this week two or three
American women, who ought to know,
were discussing in a Mayfair drawing room
a contemplated visit to London from Mrs.
Hetty Green and her daughter, Miss sylvia
Green. The announcement caused Immense
excitement and general satisfaction. II II
is really true, the Greens, when they come
will find themselves lionized on all sides
and may even hope to be invited to Buck
ingham palace. The story goes hat one
OF our societies for the protection OF emil
dren wrote to Mrs. Hetty Green for a sub
scription, which she sent with an assur-
ance that she hoped to visit London at no
distant date and would then make a point
of hearing about the organization. Several
royalists. including Princess Christian, the
kings sister, are greatly interested in Mrs
| Green and her doings. If Mrs. Hetty does
decide to visit these shores she will be
well advised to bring her check book for
the philanthropists will be all in her wake.
American Women to Front.
American women, who in the past could
scarcely be said to have made themselves
famous in our hunting fields, nevertheless,
for the last few years have been steadily
coming to the fore. Last season Mrs.
David Beatty was in at the death no less
than nine times with the Cottesmore, one
Of the smartest packs. To have received
1.-The brush" so often in such a short time
and in a field which invariably included
some of the finest riders in the kingdom
is a remarkable achievement and one OF
which Mrs. Beatty Is very proud. She Is
one of the women who wage relentless
war against riding astride and vows that
a skirt does not %incommode in the slight
est degree. She has a splendid seat in the
saddle. A gushing spokesman, in describ-
ing her, said:
"She was as graceful as a bird and as
light as a butterfly"
The Beattys have each season one Of the
finest studs of hunters in the kingdom.
Each has a horse for evvte day in the
week, as we'll as a mount cam for a dozen
or more friends,
The strawbridges, well known Philadel-
phia folk, are to do all their hunting this
season from Sysonby Lodge, which in years
gone by used often to DE rented by the
duke and duchess of Marlborough. II is
in the immediate vicinity of Melton Now
bray, the great hunting center. Lady War
wick, one of the Diana's of the Quorn, re-
CARDS Mrs. Strawbridge as one Of her very
few rivals. The Strawbridges' horses are
American and this year they have from
twenty-five TO thirty to choose from.
Mrs. Robert Emmet Another.
Mrs. Robert Emmett, another American.
whose husband we are told comes OF tho
great patriot, Robert Emmett, is another OF
the pretty American women who is to hum
this season in Warwickshire.
Before Mrs. Adair started with her niece
Nellie Post. for Texas she gave a farewell
party at her place at Windsor cher town
house being let TO Mrs. John Jacob Astor)
1t was amusing to note the London papers
announcing Mrs. Adair's departure for "hel
ranch in California" She was anxious Il
take out a party with her, but it seems hcl
friends were not keen on going. Wher
Mrs. Adair invites people to this famous
abode of hers she does things on a princelS
scale and arranges to pay the return pas
sage of her guests. But in these days it II
} the way of British society to think that il
accepting invitations (even when their eX
pensls are paid they are comforting a com
pliment on their hostess. and IL must b.
/ extraordinary Inducements which preNSii
upon them to lend their presence.
It was an agreeable surprise TO many o
Mrs. Adair's friends to find she was abb,
to undertake the journey. Her sight Il
stll Indifferent, but her pluck is enormous
To this home OF hers in Texas she is de
voted and she says she would live there al
her life II she could take her friends Will
her. Her family were determined she mus
not undertake the journey unless she wa.
accompanied by some relative. Nellie Pos
did not care about the mission, but sh
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