Lord Churchill and his Wife.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1469, 1 October 1885, Page 3

Lord Chur chill an d his Wife.

Here is a story of the yonnsr nobleman who aspires to be the modern Disraeli : A -few years ago Miss Jennie Jermone, tho second daughter of Mr Leonard W. Jeromo, met Lord. Randolph Ghnrcliill at a a dinner m Paris. Attracted by her beauty and the brilliancy of her conversation, he sorin •'•confined his attention to her. Those who sat near them stooped talking ' and listened -to them with undisguised admiration. Miss Jerome was noted for her conversational powers, but they had never seemed "to her friends as brilliant as on this occasion. Lord Randolph, however, proved a match for her. Her satire was met with sparkling repartee, and her wit and humor for once found a fair exchange. When the ladies had withdrawn, Lord Randolph tnrned to. a friend and said enthusiastically.: "That's the brightest woman I ever met :" and added, with the seriousness of a fatalist, " and I. mean to marry her." Singularly enough, while he «as saying this, Miss Jerome was mak'ng an 'almost. identical remark concerning him to one of her sister?. Within a fortnight of thftjr first meeting they were engaged, and very Roon afle*wards were inarned. By this union Lord Randolph secured i' a -wife -whose aspiring and ambitious temperament hag spurred him on m h:s political career, and whose income is sufficient to form a welcome addition to h>s small annuity. Mr Jermone conveyed to his daughteiv before her marriage,, the valuable property upon which the University Club of New YorFcity stands.