The San. Francisco Sunday Call

nephew; of earl , of Wlnchelsea,/and* cousin, the head of -which Is the duke of Ar- Ernest HaliburtoniCunard, t /present Anita wed Miguel gyle. 7 the *baronet, married Florence Stewart/ Prince de ; , Bragansa. ; William C. Whitney's "daughter/be-;. PadelforJ, daughter of the late James Hugh Paget. * of Baltimore, so that the Cv- ; Not 'long; after her.; marriage ;to :Cap- came the wife of Almeric McPheters J family entitled tain the Hon. Charles -Beresford Fulke nard is almost "as much English. ;. GROWING TITLES Greville, Mrs. 'Henry Kerr, daughter of to the name American as Mrs. J. W. Grace of New York, became Titled Family Transplanted Lady Greville by the succession of her ;{ltv not that entire family husband to the title. A daughter of M. P. is~ ten .an . noble birth and .distinguished line- ON THE Grace, Elena, '\u25a0. in ' 19011 became i? the /wife; of age -la transplanted to this country, but of Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchin- \u25a0.'\u25a0"-.-\u25a0 Brooklyn, V., resides Sir " / 7 7 '*/• «\u25a0 in -South" N. Robert James Stuart Graham, baronet INTERNATIONAL of Esk, who married the daughter of MARRIAGE TREE

One Match Springs from Another in the Alliances of American Heiresses with An- cient English. Houses ** A*

\u25a0»\u25a0 ..-':\u25a0 \u25a0.-:-,--. i-Sv-. :. -'V-. ,-\u25a0..-- •»» T ITHIN the ' last quarter of a --of Louisana, who had married th« duke century a curious International of Manchester, and whose • sister, \j V marriage tree has sprung up Natlca, had* married Sir Lister Lister WITHINand developed wonderfully until Kaye, bart. ' / * '..- "\" V- now It is in a highly flourishing condi- One of the very youthful-- bridesmaids tion. of the ; young duchess was Miss May American girls had married titled for- Qoelet, Ogden Goelet's daughter, whose

; Charles Burn,' and : his - son,' Montrose t Stuart Graham, heir the title. His second ; eon, Perclval \ Harris Graham, married -In 1901 Louise, daughter of John Wolf and resides his father. The third ? son, Robert * Vernon, married In 1904 Charlotte, daughter of Gilbert diners before that time, some of them Baldwin / Smith, and his ./address is In •yen touching royalty, I the . hem of as that borough. The; youngest son, did Miss Patterson of Baltimore, who George; ward, lives with his . father. married a member of the Bonaparte The ;- baron's ibrother, ; Charles Edward Graham, also lives in the United States, as does his sister,who married I* F. Gardner of Boston. All of this is duly recorded in Burke and'De Brett. . Another -Scotch nobleman living,In this icountry is Sir James , Stuart-Men- teth, third baronet, who in 1872 married Helen Gertrude, daughter of •; Darwin Fay, of Fulton,: N. Y. He is descended from Walter, lord high steward oi , Scotland. His address Is Canandaigua, '1 New York.

Uncle Sam's iCats '7t*THAT.thethe ']government .carriescarries :on its payroll a large number of dogs, family, ' - and Miss Lee of New York, THATthey ;being necessary for' the use whose first husband was a prince of the of the signal corps in Alaska. Is widely royal house to which the present kais- known, but doubtless there are few who belongs •rin and whose second husband would believe it if told that Uncle Sam the was great soldier and statesman. has thousands ."of cats which he em- 7 Count Waldersee. .V . ploys at a cost of about $18 a year each. throughout Here and there the coun- * The "'army has its regular corps of try there were heiresses or beauties or them,; kept at the commissary depots of young happily combining women both the great cities. It is customary for the officer In charge of. each depot to submit to the war department a re- quest for an allowance; for so many cats, and -the regulations provide that meat/shall be purchased for them at a price not greater than five \u25a0 cents a pound. 7To these rations is/ added a quantity of canned milk for variety. - In view of the fact*that the govern- ment maintains these cats for the pur- pose of killing rats and mice it would see,m that the i great amount expended yearly for/cat; food ; could be saved. by > allowing the felines nothing but their prey as food. This, however, can who has titled relatives, not numerous /and be done for"/ the ; reason that: his stepdaughter is the wife of the f It has / been proved by experiment that no mat- • Hon. Lionel Lambart, < heir !to the earl ter how good the cats are as hunters, of Cavan. "'-\u25a0-"•'-•',,\u25a0 •\u25a0\u25a0' . '\u25a0.'•', \u25a0 -.\u25a0' '.."/'\u25a0\u25a0'"\u25a0'\u25a0 nor how abundant the pests, no cat Closely associated ; with Miss Jean properties thrives, properly on a diet- who by graoe of these gifts Reld and /other American girls who of unmiti- of greater gated rat, nor does it neglect Its duties won scions houses of or less married abroad was Miss 'Mildred, Ca- nobility. when fed on other food. . So few were these marriages, rter, who became i last year, the. wife of Not only has the army large corps however, and so scattered that no one Viscount; Acheson, heir to the earl of 7/ its thought of cats, large govern- of making them an issue as Gosford.7 ',• 1 *'-•. .'-. \u25a0'" '7 /\u25a0\u25a0-.\u25a0 but all of/the. has attempted ment buildings throughout the been since the tree has The first -baronet Cunard.was the son coun- grown proportions. try provided with living traps. to such It would be of/a^ Philadelphia merchant, and his /are fat possible now to have a Burke or a De The New York postofflce -alone:spends nearly $100 a year ; Brett or its equivalent of our own, in- for cat food. v, t Not only does Uncle • Sam employ all oluding the names and connections of kinds !of cats, from the Iyellow: Tom to those who were born untitled, but have jthe silky maltese, but he; maintains'< in acquired an ornamental prefix and the . the Philippine islands a small army of % storage" ''-\u25a0 cats. ;lAt the i. immense volume would not be a small /"cold r one. cold J storage 5 depot J at'- Manila, /where The foreign alliances form a sort of great quantities of provisions are kept, endless chain, which is as good- a sub- cats are most inecessary, and at the stitute for descent through as establishment yof *;the :'\u25a0; post £there was blood sent there some of imagined. the famous cold could be One member of a storage^breed/ZThls breed originated family marries a nobleman and sets the in the great warehouses of -a cold stor- example for others,, or her bridesmaids age company, / and has developed spe- , ' \u25a0 cial qualifications for enduring - are infected a . \u25a0\u25a0.'\u25a0 v :: < » '\u25a0 • extreme with the fever for title. aunt, Leila Wilson, had married' the borough; wedding/arid-stepped into a entry, married son,' - - cold. cold ; storage cats t the daughter of Colonel sixth, earl of , whose grandson/ Sir Bache. Edward Cunard, /These are short On the foreign side, too, certain fam- Right Hon. Sir Michael Herbert, E'lght foreign alliance, one her, stalled/; chubby, '.;\u25a0 with long { so did /of7 Lawrence Kip of New York. His cous- principal jseat; is in county Tipperary, came to < America; for; his wife/Maude, and heavy ilies lean toward American alliances. years fur, and their.eyebrows . later Miss Goelet; herself /was bridesmaids, Miss Beatrice Mills, in, the ,; married in 1893 . ./-,;;;....,/.'; . 77//7-;.-: daughter E. ;F. Burke and whiskers of an * />/ jof of York. are extraordinarily long and :strong . Most of the branches this matri- married to Englishman, Henry John daughter of Ogden Mills, a -few ; J :: who Cornelia, 'daughter of Bradley Mar- The present duke of Manchester is monial tree are occupied by English- Innes-Ker, eighth duke ;of .:Roxburgne. years Lady Granard, later/became wife !tin. f:'" -777' '''/'.'"' -77 -v/•. 1 the son an men, but of Italians, Frenchmen, Ger- and grandson of the seventh duke of: of Bernard of American mother and - Arthur William Patrick When Vivien i Gould, daughter of married an rAmef leant girl, Helene Zim- mans, Russians, Austrians and Hun- Marlborough. Hastings Forbes, eighth earl George : of his line, J. Gould, married Baron Decies. merman. " ' .'.''\u25a0, '" ' CHRISTMAS garians there are not -a' few. The duke ; \u25a0.\u25a0:•\u25a0 GIFTS Roxburghe ""..*;\u25a0* *- * and duchess of a baronet and ;captain 7of/the Scots i'tS''** \u25a0'.\u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0' ':- " \u25a0 7 of the noble house of Beresford, there / - custom of • making Christmas hold a high place in English society guards. a head, he/muttered, "They are too light." / He is Catholic and holds va- was among the ushers a young ,'man, Marriage of the Misses Letter* gifts Married Jennie Jerome and have received many royal '.. .is -.as old as the Saturnalia, "Let me see' them again," marks of rious Spanish and Prussian orders,; was .;Lord^Cambys,V,who/. recently / said the' ? returned The same year that Consuelo Van- 1-HEthe Roman festival :in ; honor donor, The ti'ee may be said to have taken favor both «from King jEdward and •of "for, by the v way. there ;is VII an :at -King; Edward's court and to be iithe principal at a wedding, his / one 1895, about King /officer derbllt.became duchess of Marlborough. Saturn. The pagan origin ,of the cus- of; them its -real start in or that and from and played a very i part In the I would be loth' to part Alexandra/ /prominent bride being Miss -Mildred; Sherman, Mary.. 5 daughter tom -provoked It was Consuelo, Queen • Mary. They Victoria, oldest of Levi some of the church fath- with." time. then that have entertained coronation ceremonies > last summer. - daughter of William Watts Sherman. .Chicago and Washington, ers |to as daughter of William K. Vanderbilt, royal guests :at ; their magnificent es- |r^Lelter; of denounce it "diabolical." Expecting to get a larger gift. Archie This young couple was wedded quietly D. was city : Sex, became the duchess :of " Marlborough. tate, Floors castle, in Scotland, and have Favored American Marriages C.. married in the latter rank and circumstances regulate returned the pieces to the because of the serious illness of the the nobleman, To be sure, was second in parties to the Hon. George Curzoh, value and nature •of the gifts. who, putting his she the Amer- been Included select approved / Mlss Mills/ cousin. ;Miss-Jean/Reid, bride's Nathaniel them in pocket, title, father. A friend of Lord f eldest son Lord ScaVsdale. .By . When pins were -invented, ican girl to bear that the eighth by the king and queen at '"other great daughter of married his about the "I once gave my money into the hands Whitelaw-Reid7 Camoys, Lieutenant T. Roche Rearden, appointment as viceroy century, duke having married Lillian, daughter houses. They children, of India she sixteenth women -esteemed of a fool who had have •no/ and the Hon. John Ward, brother of*- the Second Own Rajput not the wit to keep of Commander; Price, U.S. N., and the next /Hubert! Queen's attained to one of the highest posi- them as acceptable presents. Money it." ' in succession /is the; duke's of the Earl of , who served in Light India, is going . widow Hammersley infantry of to tions that can be held by any one ex- given to purchase them was "pin ' of Louis of.New brother. ;Lord Alastalr Robert InnesV Africa as an'aide, de camp and held, take called In England the old custom of.Christ- York, - back with him next month cept royalty in the empire money., , but the circumstances of this Ker, captain of the Royal Horse guards,/ an important place: of Great ..Tenant farmers used:to pre- boxes still , prevails. The name at court. American bride. Henrietta,, daughter* Britain. Miss a fat!capon union: attracted far more attention than who married in 190T Miss Anne Breese, Another English Leiter's two bridesmaids sent to their landlords, and Originated In ancient practice • noble family/that,. , oft Mr. and Mrs. Roy /the of any marriage yet daughter; ..-"-"-•- •- -- -.' ..-..-.., •,'•:. Le Cramer. Ralph were her sisters..Miss Nannie and Miss neighbors gave one a turkey and International had of W. R. Breese - of New York. has *.-own 'a marked. predilection another public private servants going rom for Francis Julian Stonor, Baron- Camoys,; Marguerite Hyde (Daisy) Leiter, a goose. done. Both; were young and an enor- Her cousin/ Eloise Breese, married in alliances, is both or house house with7^n; \ Amen '-» * that of:Coventry. has been in the diplomatic service and of whom :to earthen or mous fortune and a splendid name and 1905"Lord. Gilbert Willoughby married British subjects. Miss In those days, as now, some grumbled wooden having a de Eres- :In 186-* George William Coventry, Vis- is an army officer. His Daisy /box; slit to receive title dates loiter became Lady Suffolk, at not '\u25a0 estate were Joined together with daz- by, heir. to the earl of Ancaster, who Deerhurst, the receiving as valuable a present money. ;. ' ' count married Virginia? back to :-: 1264 ;'and one -of ' his ancestors ' wife of the- . zling, possibilities; «, -7 7 had a fine . army; : and - ", a branch as they expected. One of these grum- self record Ihad % taken stepdaughter of Charles William Bon- commanded the English- left The Interest of the English post- A son of the seventh, of a part wing at of the !illustrious Howard family, who blers, Archie Armstrong, jester man, dustman, duke Marl-, prominent; in/public/ affairs, /be- ynge. \u25a0; His brother, the Hon. Charles Agincourt. the of lamplighter, Journey- borough had been an aide de camp Cur- Charles 1., was had married 7 the brilliant ing a; member; of parliament and a jus- Lily, Lord taught not to look a .man and shopkeeper's John Coventry, in 1900 married , Lady Decies' boy keeps alive Jennie . .-- ,-•-.-. \u25a0--... ' .-"-- -.- ::,\ -\u25a0\u25a0--,\u25a0» .p-..,,«- .--..„- ".* aunt Feincess de Miss ; Nannie Leiter.mar- gift 7 '7 Jerome,; daughter of; Leonard tice of the peace. younger daughter Hugh is^the aon|lnllndia..; horse in the mouth. . > this old custom. Every- one who of Fitz White- Sagan and her brother in law's sister, ried only a has Jerome of New \u25a0As Miss Goelet had officiated as house, military title, but her hus- Calling on a nobleman, he received served a household during the year ex- York./Consuelo/Van/ of Newport, and .another Margaretta Drexel, 1 his derbllt was named for Consuelo Yznaga married Viscount band, Colonel Colin Campbell, is a a few gold pieces. pects Christmas box/and'he Is ;not bridesmaid at the Vanderbilt-Marl- brother, the Hon. Henry Thomas - They fell short of at all Maidstone, eldest son and heir to the member of the famous Campbell jester's modest about making-known his f clan, the expectations. Shaking his expectations.