Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Women in the News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Women in the News

Sir 15homos JLtpton V Fiance. Rumor, current on both sides of the Atlantic, whispers that a beautiful society woman, Mrs. Edith Wyman Stuart, nee Brackett, formerly a resident of Boston, is to become the bride of Sir Thomas Lip ton, the famous English tea merchant and yachtsman, friend of the new king of England and all-around good fellow. The bride-to-be is a beauty of the Junoesque type, always well groomed and womanly in her attire, never affecting, until recent years, the tailormade. Her indoor gowns were exquisitely fashioned. When very young she married Ronald Adelbert Stuart, a Boston artist of some repute, who dropped the brush for uncertain-ven-tures; some of them of a disastrous nature, others fairly promising. The couple lived in the Ludlow and Trinity church fronted their drawing-room windows. They entertained on Mondays and at odd times had a celebrity as a drawing card—Calve, for instance, and E. S. Willard or some naval officer. Mrs. Stuart’s services were in demand as a chaperon and many a good time was enjoyed at the navy yard, for instance, where she was ever a welcome guest. She was counted ambitious and her eyes turned for a wider field in which to display her charms, so she frequented New York, increased her list of acquaintances and is now very much in the swim. The departure of the pair was quietly done and friends attended to their belongings. New York air did

not agree (physically) with Mr. Stuart, who was never very robust, but financially all seemed serene, and the handsome matron was happy in the fine raiment and congenial surroundings. Mr. Stuart went off to seek for health in California and incidentally to look into his mining interests. He died in July, 1899, and now his widow, emerging from mourning and once more seen in the corridors of the Waldorf-As-toria, at the opera and where society congregates. She has had many suitors, one of whom it is said presented her with an automobile which was sold at the bazaar in aid of the Galveston orphans recently. Mrs. Stuart is fond of yachting and when Sir Thomas Lipton came over for the cup she was a guest on the Shamrock. In her widow’s weeds she was charming and most attractive to the eye of the Britisher.

MRS. RONALD STUART.