Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13

in America. think that quite prouse and gener
Gus and explicit with my advice.
And the Lady from Kansas apprecative She
was delighted with my suggestions She would heed
my counsel and placing herself under the guidance of
Lady Oakhurst would return to Europe, and try Paris
or London or any other place which that lady would
consider best for her first venture Naturally she had
to consider her husband. But her absences would be
compar ltively Short and, although it might be hard
f bop to the it s NO br aI s ~ o
preston, and that he would find much COM
fort in this performance.
As soon as landed I looked up Lady Oakhurst.
"A She had been in America on quite an indefinite
stay. The truth of the matter that she the
wrong side of the market She simply loved to dabble
in Stocks and she adept in it. but she had been
taken in by SPECTATORS whose wives she had helped
along famously in the last London season. But the
tips given her in part acknowledgment of her kindness
and interest, were not Of the right sort.
After had carefully examined the credentials of
the Lady from Kansas-and it did not need Dun to
give data the financial status of her husband,
as was solid and satisfactory-we proceeded to action
brought them together and they took to each other
from the first. have doubt that there certain
tems-I could hardly call them that let say that
there understanding. | quite honest in
telling the Lady from Kansas what required and
she woman of the world with all her simplicity.
But pry into feminine secrets am too discreet.
My part played. had given good gratuitous ad-
vice-for the time
am not gong 1OllOW the career OF the Lady
Kansas in Europe. knew she was in competent hands.
There various runors which over from time
to time showing that she making steady Roadway.
She did nothing spectacular and she did not rush in
during her first with London house and villa
at Cowes for the yachting and shooting box in Scot
land afterward.
Paris was the first stop. She had brought talented
prna donna into notice; she had gone for the occult
and for phase of the last philosophy from
India; and then she had followed in the wake of an
other clever American woman, about the of
whose experiment the newspapers of the year previous
had given glowing accounts and was healed of
mysterious rheumatic ailment by weird magnetic
dOctoreSS, and her salon had become clinic. But 1t
had attracted the attention of royalty who cured
of ache pain and touched for the evthus
ing the ancient right and prerogative of Kings. In all
this evidences of the skllful hand OF Lady Oak
hurst The Americans chummy in Paris than
on their native heath, and years of this gave
aspiran valuable set of acquaintance She canny
enough to avoid being classed in "the colony. She
rather played for the British element
The Boer War followed, and the Lady from Kansas
opened her pursestrngs and those of her husband she
had been little shy about this previously, and had
stood to her detrirnent in New York;. There
equipment hospital ship and an endowment for
nurses in South Africa. This brought her again into
royal notice. and said that she actually asked
to partake of tea afternoon at Marlborough House
Lady Oakhurst, have heard, hired hanson, and
rushed from great London residence to great London
residence, telling everyone she knew how dear Maria
Miss Knollys the then Princess of Wales secretary
and companion, to discuss ways and means.
English people ask anything concerning social
position in this country They do not believe that there
are any distinctions except those of wealth And they
will welcome gladly anyone who is simple
and frank and kind and hospitable or will
amuse them. And my heroine devoted her
self to this and wisely let her country
people alone. When she had obtained her
- secure footing in London she would have
fl no difficulty in succeeding at home.