Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-07
Duchess of Roxburghe Acquires
Eighteenth Century Town
House in London.
ALL OBJECTIONS OVERCOME.
Her Grace Has at Last Prevailed Upon
Her Ducal Husband to Permit
Winter Entertaining.
Especial Correspondence


London, Nov. 25.-At last the Duchess
of Roxburghe has O town house and
great is the gossip about 1t all The
rumors anent what her grace will do
at Chesterfield House during the COM
ing season vary considerably. but on
one point they all agree namely. that
there will be great "goings on" in the
near future at the one-tlmc home Of
the most perfect gentleman in Eng
land" Hitherto the Duchess of Rox-
burghe has rented a town house for
eDly few weeks of the season, but 1t
Is said that the duke has withdrawn
all his objections to allowing the
duchess to take her fitting place as
great hostess, and intends to let her
do precisely as she likes. IL knew 1
would win i'll the end" the duchess Is
reported to have said.
Her grace would not be her mothers
daughter did she not love to do things
en- prince. She is as fond OF entertain
ing brilliant crowds as RoXburghe is
OF grim moors and retirement. When
his wife gives great functions at
Chesterfield House he will no doubt
lc found in the billiard room practis-
Ing one of his fayorite strokes, and *
will be a bad business for the one who
disturbs him when thus engaged. All
the same. like his race he is fond of
his friends and enjoys giving them a
good time. 1t is crowds and entertain
ing as duty that he breads. for he is
an abnormally shy man. May the Lord
deliver me from strangers" is his fer
vent and continual prayer.
Chesterfield House Is in its way a
palace and the finest eighteenth CEN
tIry house in London. Designed and
built by the great Lord Chesterfield in
1T47 1t is cram full of historic associa-
tions. There the sixth Duke of Hamil-
ton met Elizabeth Cunning. the famous
Irish beauty whom he married two days
later. When he saw her first she was
standing on the top OF the famous
double staircase, which Is a special fea-
ture of the mansion. congratulatlng the
host on the wonderful new house. In
Imagination 1t is easy to see the great
American duchess In the filnly drape1ies
so dear to her heart and her wonderful
Jewels receiving her guests thereon.
II is predicted by those in the know
that the Duchess Of Roxburghe is to
be political hostess; that she is pining
for the opportunity to advance the in
tereStS of the Conservative party, and
already prides herself on having a con-
siderable amount OF influence with that
body. 1t is her desire to increase her
power in order to be able to help the
future of those who have names to win.
In this she resembles not a few of the
great ladies of the day whose burning
ambition is to have their fingers in the
political pie
SOUGHT ART TREASURES.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorillard have probably
arrived in the states by now While in
Europe they ransacked England and
the continent for art treasures-qualnt.
odd things which they picked up In
the most unpromising looking quarters
1t Is the kecnest enjoyment to Mrs
Lorillard to so forth on these quests.
A dealer would have to get up very
carly before he could take her In she
has studied her subject thoroughly,
Having taken lessons from the great
est art experts and connoisseurs she
could find. In the south of Franco and
in Spain she found numerous interest
ing odds and ends of bric-a-brac, for
many OF which she has been offered
twice the sums she paid for them All
her friends will want to see that de-
]ightful screen she took over with her
made out of five panels which belonged
to the famous Judge Jeffreys. She
bought them separately. and 1t was
her own idea to have them mounted
together. One of the things she picked
UP IN Spaln Was a crystal ball which
belonged to the great Napoleon In II
he is supposed to have seen how he was
TO end his days at st. Helena AS he
saw the vision he flung the crystal from
him, cracking it through the center.
The I>orillards are great fayorites in
Anglo-American society, and when they
come over entertain incessantly They
don't think much of our English houses
md never occupy the same one two sea-
sons running; in fact they usually take
house only by the week. and If 1t
does not appeal to them they clear out
and have new one. Their friends
credit them with the intention of build
ing London house at no distant date
on purely American lines.
Only a few weeks ago 1 wrote you of
the gaieties of Balmaacan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradley Martins Scotch seat. 1t
was then, as 1t always Is during the
shooting season. the gayest house in
Scotland. It is difficult to imagine what
the north would be to Americans with
out Balmaacan and its hospitable host
and hostess. who are never happy un-
less surrounded by a crowd of their
own compatriots. Quite suddenly, how