Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-20
LORD AND LADY DECIES SAIL
Daughter Of GOulds Delighted Over
Prospects Ahead Of Her.
WILL BE PRESENT AT CORONATION
Talks to the New Work Reporters
and TELLS Them OF some OF the
Things she Proposes 70
Weir.


WHEN Lady Decies. clapped her little
hands together in her cabin de luxe on the
Cunarder Carmanis. on which she and Lord
Decies sailed for their honeymoon In Egypt
saturday. and told how delighted she is
at the prospect Of her entry into English
society. She was so very enthusiastic about
-t that her mother Mrs George ]. Gould,
held up a warning finger and said:
MY dear. don't be so demonstrative.
Al first her small lsdyshlp. who has just
returned with her bridegroom from a visit
In Frank Gould's bungalow on Jekyli island,
Georgia, said she couic not under any cir
cumstances be interviewed-she was too
nervous to say anything and she knew she
would be frightened TO death II she saw
anything she said. in the newspapers. but
when finally she was asked II she thought
she would like the new life she IL entering
as a peeress Of Great Britain her black
eyes snapped. a quick smile came over her
face and she took her arm from around
her mothers waist and capped her hands.
II shall love t." she cried. almost dan
cling on tiptoe. land | just know any Amer
lean girl brought up In New York would
love II, too. And we'll be there In time for
the coronation and I'm to be presented,
and-oh WELL how could 1 help loving H.
because it's all TO be so new to me and so
different from anything I've been accus-
toned to-but I'm talking too much!'-and
she retreated behind her mother.
VIII Find Il Gripping"
Certainly she will find It all ripping"
put in Mrs. Barclay Lord Decies' sister,
who came over for the wedding and went
down TO the pier with the Goulds to wish 1
the couple bon voyage. THE coronation
especially, it's most wonderful! Shall 1
tell them what you'll wear?" and her lady
ship nodded a delightful assent
We'll she will march into the abbey
with the peeresses. you know" went on
Mrs. Barclay. land she will wear white
satin and an immense red velvet mantle
lined with ermine and eli the Decies jewels
that she can support Her coronet, which
has been I'm the family for ages. is a four
pointed affair Of chased gold. with rubies,
pearls and diamonds and she will have two
little Elizabethan pages to hold her train.
This description seemed to fairly trans
port the little bride, and Mrs. Gould herself,
and George Gould also, showed their pleas
ure at the anticipation. All the Goulds are
going over in the spring to visit the Decies
during coronation week.
Expect n Great Time.
"Deoies has taken Manchester house in
Port Chester square," exclaimed Mrs
Could the town house Of the duke of
Manchester. you know. and we expect a
great time"
Sorry to leave America" repeated Lady
Deees. "of course, because IT'S been my
home, but England's a darling place. and
adore the English and especially the Eng
lish country house life-I think its lovely"
And here was where Mrs. Gould held
up,a warning finger
The Hon. Bobby Beresford the hero OF
the boxing match with young Tony Drexel,
Lady Decies' brother-in-law. got to- the
pier a little late, but he made up for II by
the gustliness of his greeting.
''Hullo, sis" he cried to her ladyship
God bless you-a smooth voyage and no
sea sickness" and the Hon. Bobby left in
a hurry to catch a train for Philadelphia.
Lord and Lady Decles both accumulated
some sunburn in Georgia and said they
would pick up more in Egypt, Their cruise
lasts three weeks. They leave the ship at
Alexandria and will go down the Nile in
a dahalbevah, one OF the iuser Egyptian
boats stopping at army posts TO be enter
tained by his lordship's friends.
"Oh, there you are" cried Lord Decies,
when the newspaper men surrounded him.
He came on board after his bride and her
mother. well, this is your last chance
10 have a go at me, so fire away. Oh,
yes, I Ike America awfully-my dear fell
lows how many times do you want me to
say that? Like It awfully. jolly country.
jolly people and jolly newspapers so
there"
After the coronation l shall play poll
tics" he continued Yes I'm going into
the House Of LordE-if they don't abolish
It before / get chance. I've chucked the
army you know"
Lady Decies wore a big Gainsborough
hat OF black velvet, with big white and
red birds wing. The two small diamond
hoop earrings sparkied under her black
hair, which she wore drawn low and in a
Green knot In the back. Her gown was
tailor-made of gray and her boots had
white tops. His lordship wore a gray suit
and overcoat and a brown soft hat with a
bow, Alpine fashion, In the back.
Mrs. Gould was handsome as usual In