Lady Islington.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1910, Page 4

Lady Islington.

A CHARMING HOSTESS. AN INTIORVIEW. (From the Port's Currsepondent). LONDON, April 25. ( 1 hough lor some years the new Governor's wife ha.s been one of the most graceful hostesses in London .sooii-ty, and has iiiiteitained Ho\vilt.y nt her rrwideiife in Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, she has not yet overcome her ohjeeition to publicity in tin , lor in or newspaper paragraphs and interviews. A well known and popular figure in society .she lias never yielded to the insistent journalistic de.siro to describe her charming iliiiu.i'.'rs and receptions in the columns of the papers, and it was with repeated prote.st.s thai, sin; submitted k> tlie conditions of her new potion and agreed to s:iy i'f\y words lor 'the readers of the I'lvciiiiii; - IVst. Lady Islington is of medium height, dark-, and strikingly h.andsoiiie. fie,' father, Air ' I?o:b w t Henry i). Dnii-das, h a direct linoal di'sct'ii.lant ol' the Diinilawcs, one ol' the oldest ..imilies in Scot Land, and her mother, who is a!:;o fi\fnrr, the U'"i. C'liithci :ne Anne ton .N:-pii'r. of (he firlst Lifi-'l Napier of .Masidala, after wlu.jii the capital of ilawke's Bav was naiiU'd. l,.ady I'oynder (as s]i'o was then known) herself was inarvi:: I in LSl'li, and the one child of the marriage, a dan-litcr, is now I wcl, e years cf aye. l.aiiLr!i:iiL';ly protect tliait she 'li.i not wish to be '"interrieww!," L'niy Islington ladini'i-ted that she whs looking forward to the change with a :;t)i:d rl,<;'l ol' interest. "Of course." '-.he said, ''it is quite a new tliiii'. , : for me, and one cannot tell how' one will like a i;wv life, but I hviii , from all acrounts that the j.'.iiji!.' in New Ze-alaiid an? chaniiiii'i. !he coiiiilry delightful, .and the climate wonderful. 1 foe! ''ertain the people will oe very sympathetic." It was only natural I should n>sk Lady Islington to express herself on the (jiiestion of I'Vinalo Suifrage. Slic pleaded privilege. "1 really slniuld not say anylhiivg .alxnit it, at .my rate in relation to New Zealand, in my public speeches i have always said I am wry imi'ii opposed to it here in F'lnj'Jand, because i <.!o neit think it would he a lj;<:;i ! tiling for us." ••My wilehhr;a r ; never iieeU an jiciivi> political woman," ' r<'iuarke(i Lord Islington. " .She has really taken r.o active part in things o! thai sort." On the education of too. Lady Islington ])roferre;l not U) .-peek. As f;:r huhbies? '' AVlnat does it i.'iean exactly I -, " she asked. "If it nie.Mis that one writes Iμ■<>k.s, or paints pictures, or si:i.ii.s in public, i. i >.■''. I Lave no hobbies. Bin I am V;-ry fond of literal ure mid of art inn! of music. "l'ie.:se do ntvf say that T am a ktvn ii!i,tori.st. ! use the motor to ;r to t.'ie station and to jjvt about, l.'ii! not lor anything else-. With me iit is [iiirely a useful form of locomotion. But 1 like riding .and and 1 am \ ery fond of an o'lfior life that 1 am lo ■kinij; forward to very much in New Zealand." Asked if >}n> (111 any!bin!;'; in the way ol pliilant'hri.pic work. Lady Islington pleaded not guilty, bur Lor:! c"iife.'-:sed th:i:t she Was |>! evident of tile Society I'm l'revr'iition of Cruelty to C'hiluron. in which sU« tcok a. v.'vy active par.K and that she had for years assisted him very I'l.nsiderably in the work ol the Giva.t Nurtliern Il'ospital. ol uhieii he is chairman. Tii(> only child of tlio (ioverri'ir and Lady Joan Alice Catherine, a of twelve yea is, is at present hein.LC educated under n privau* y,Oi-eines.s :>ucL will c;<i out lo Xen Zt-alanU \ .lii- her motbor. Tliere it ts hoped .siie will h[kik{ {he .V.i'fi.iLor part oi he.r unu;. in response to cho urgent wisii i-xpri.saeu uy i.iii< i'vew /i.jaiand AliuLiini will icuve Junylaiui in liinn 100 iiifSriit at the opening oi I'aiii imeut in ..lune. Jic «,il join the i\ ami U. .slwinier -UaceLUHiia at .Marseilles on the l.it.n ..lay. It will not be the first time tliat Laily Islington has bten abroau. Mii> has iiaii Ireijiiem tours in Euri i>e, and she went to .India <ir Ihe i'iiiie oi l.he great JJurbar. j >uc s.'ie conies-jus to being a. deplorable, •siilor, and louk.s lonvard witli some trepi.iaiion to the Australian Hi;jju. "I should ii(;L bo a.iile io go'oiM with my biLsbaiid even if Government .House were icady. 1 h-avu •simply millions of to tlo botii here and in Wikslih-u—-everything to arrange, I h<> si!rvant.s to goL together, and a host of visits to pay, a,nd, you sec, it, is practically only three Weeks. The notice is verv sliorc." Lady Islingii.n is v< , ry popular among file- tenantry on the estates in Wiltshire. Her be.-,t-knowii portrait is that by Sargent. Another of hi-r and her (Laughter, by J. .1. S!iaii:ii.-ii. i{.A., Was exhibits ■■. the Hoyal Academy a few yea's ago.