MRS. HERBERT GLADSTONE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 11

MRS. HERBERT GLADSTONE.

| i Mr. Herbert,.' Gladstone has n great future before hini* as Governor-General of United" South Africa. This, 0? course, means'ii peerage, which, foi" a-Secretary of State, will no doubt be a viscounty. I-lis political -career may have no great promise, but. ho is a; popular man with his'intimates.' His chief "jov , is' music, and he is .keen - on-, golf, . cricket, and shooting.,, jJJiSfcjjrifei:! says;, an English journal, : is a. pretty'ivoman," with largo eyes, a pale', clcai' skin, and 'dsij» liair,' parted j ; in' the'-middle.. 'She reatts andwritpsji is clever-'-nnd cultnred, dresses, in ! rather artistic fashion', - ind- 'wouldhave been "soul" : in the nineties. " She,like l her husband,-"is fond of " music,-and has a good and well-trained siiiging voiced Also, ;she shares his taste for gardening,• i'eal hard gardening,''wluch she'practises ' at her .home, Snndj-croft.vLittlestone-on-, Sea. ' Mrs; Gladstono has a collection of lace which includes some pieces of' old Flemish lace that; are extremely-valu-' able. '' - She was." Miss' Dorothy Paget, daughter of ; the'-late.-Sir Richard' Paget, of Cranmore; ; 'Somereet. -Her fathcr was a Tory'ot' the "old school, so 'her. marriage with-jMi'.' Gludstono 'made ah'- 'alliance - between Liberals" and Conservatives. -'In this''it resembled that of 'Loi-d and Lady Tweedmouth, as the 'late' lord was-a noted' Radical,' '.and Ladv Tweedmouth 'is 'a daughter" of LonL Midleton, one of our' staunchest,'Conservatives,.'. ■ '