Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-12

OF amuSementS III honor OF the Oc-
casion
ANOTHER NEW HOSTESS.
Lady Herbert, the sister. of Mrs. og-
den Goelet, also is expected soon as n
hostess In London She has done prac-
tically no entertaining since the death
OF her husband but means to blossom
out this season. While she was in
America she was in communication
side and practically settled on very
beautiful fiat In Davis street. Mrs.
Maldwin Drummond Is this week at
her house in Carlton House terrace
which Is one of the finest in the row
and has been decorated regardless Of
scale. NO vulgar brushes for me-"
she says, but to her friends she Is
most hospitable and when she Is In
London invariably has company" II
she dimes ut home. Lady Marlborough
Is another who has had her name down
for Il house in Grosvenor Square for
long while. but | hear It will have to
remain on the list considerably longer,
MS not one Is available. Meanwhile she
las resigned the tenancy of her pres
Ont town house.
TOO STIFF AND FORMAL.
Although American women are SO
adaptable those OF them who have
strong personalities resent the manner
In which they are bound, hand and
foot, by traditions in this country. No
one has more to say on this point than
Mrs. George West who remarked the
other day that she hopes. when she has
time. to band together n group of her
friends who will move heaven and
earth to break down some Of the alb
surd conventions of English women
There Is no scope for originality In
England" says Mrs. West.
'Onc has to submcrge all ones per-
sonality," grumbed Lady Willoushby
dc Ercsby recently, III one Is to live
without shocking ones neighbors in
England"
81 am never so happy rs when | am
shocking some of my prim and prosy
guests" says the marchioness of Duff
FERN. She is fond of telling her conf
patriots about an incident which took
place at n restaurant dinner she gave
some time ago. She was eating cut
let and asked someone to pass her the
mustard, whoreupon her guests en-
claimed with one voice:
"But you can't eat mustard win
mutton!' #
,,Vhy can't II" demanded Lady DUFF
ferln.
..NclI, because 1t Is never done!'
Good heavens" exclaimed the host
css, .'if | want to cat mustard Win
my ice shall do It,"
IL is such women rs these who keep
IN the standard of the American wom-
ans reputation for charm ana indi-
ylduality, for although Britons may
crltirlze them they admire them never
thclesa.
THE HOPE DIAMOND
In spite OF tho fact that circum-
ytontinl stories of It's disappearance
nav. been printed, that wondOrfu! gem,
the Hope blue diamond, Is said to nave
changed hands again this week having
been purchased BY Mrs. Perry Belmont
for $4,000. This we'll known American
ms n nnssion for historic gcms-indeed
| thc story goes that she will wear no
nthcrs ,rhe Hope diamond was an
| rrirloom in the duke of Ncwcastle's
rlmllv and was disposed Of by Lord
| Francis Hope some years ago IN inc
| f,rst Instance 1t Is supposed to nave
| hecn stolen from an Indian rn1ah ana
| taken to France by Baron dAlponie,
| At the beginning of the last century u
was purchased by q very rich banker,
| Mr.. Hope. and came through nm ~
| No Newcastle family. Later 1t got
, into the possession OF Abdul llam!d,
the deposed sultan Of Turkey
Mrs Perry Belmont had hdr eye on
the gem for years, but somehow sue
always heard of its being In th ne, mar ar
| kct tbs day after the fair uhlli ms
! time when she is, said TO have secured
| il by telegraph, II she really mas go,
Il sho will no doubt have u fnounaeu
swivel fashion. Because or ths nn"G 4.
inp md almost binding blue fight It
nnits it is regarded rs UNIQUE.
'''''N ! & LADY MARY.