South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 297, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1918 — Page 5

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One of Mrs. Asquith's Nieces, Clarissa Tennant, Who Is Married to Major Lionel Tennyson, Heir of Lord Tennyson and Grandson of the Poet.

rlin announcement i mado in London that Miss Klizabeth Asquith. younqrst daughter of Kngland'a lato Prime Minister, is to marry Stephen McKenna, l youn? novelist who has only recently made avreputatton in letters. Miss Asquith belonK3 to one of the most powerful families in I'npland. both socially and politically, and lier engagement to a little known young author 1 clearly an event and a romance of a very unusual character. What are th facts about the romance? The most interesting fact, as London hears It, is that Miss Asquith is the heroine of

Mr. McKenna'R new and very entertaining that did not rip some novel, entitled "Ninet7-slx Hours' Leave." absent person up the Those who know say that Mis?. Asquith tack To make was finally persuaded by the very charm- things clearer, he exIng portrait which the novelist made of plained to inquirers

her character to bestow her hand on him. Many are equally convinced that Mr. McKnna was plunged deeper and deeper in

love by his labor of lovo.in depleting Mis3 Mr3 Asquith and her

Asquith s attraction,. tep-daughter. Miss

All who have read the book and are familiar with Miss Anquith agree that the heroinft, who bears the name of Patricia Kavanagh, Is a remarkably lifelike presentation of the ei-Premler's daughter. Patricia Kavanagh is a British general's daughter, and she spends her days until the small hours of the morning laboring for a soldiers' and war workers' canteen.

Miss Asquith has been working like a

aggressive character. Years later sho was made the theme, not exactly the heroine, of a poem called "The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue," by WKliam Watson The poet In very clear, succinct lnes explained that this '.vornan never uttered a word in social l!f

that the poem was intended as a com-

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was stung liy Mr. Asquith's failure to procure for him a title thi support can bo continued after tho

Another of Mrs. Asquith's Charrning Nieces, Kathleen Tennant, Vho Is Married to the Marquis of Granby, Son and Heir to the Duke of Rutland.

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as he did for Sir A. Conan Doyl and other knight uf th pn. in any race Mr. Asqv.i:h did not give the ro- a knighthood

Trojan for canteen:, relief funds and other for writin- h!s poem.

rar organizations. Patricia Kavanagh Is unconventional, frar.k. daring, impulsive, playful. So is Miss Klizabeth Asquith. What clinches the resemblance btteen the novel heroine and the ex Premier's daughter is the daring with which Patricia

Mrs. Asquith's social prestige was not seriously disturbed by Mr. Watson's poem. Sho i? widely popular in lar;: classes of society. Her public actiit:?s. especially :nce ih outtreak of war. have been remarkably extenshe. Slie his kept her busband's and her own lar income fully en.-

Kavanagh solves the crucial difficulty of p'.oyed by her work. As an example of her the story when she walks in unannounced unon e::tio:iality. it may be recalled That on a royal prince and tells him the truth he held ar. exhibition of French fashions about the amazing network of practical in the British Prime Minister's official resJokes and real conspiracies in which he i.lence. "In Downing 3tret."

Las become Involved. Mi-s Asquith's social connections are Tery Interesting and impressive Her mother was the celebrated Marmor Ter.r.ar.t. long a leader and a torm centre of Pri'ish society Mis Tennant w.is 'he

Miss Klirabeth Asquith has been as cn-er-tii-a. ii-r ir.other in war "orU. She has civei. her services free for the greater

war. Then, it seems, Asquith will have the larrest united following behind him. Therefore, anything that happens in his family is interesting to the whole country. Let us look a little more into Mr.-Mc-"Cerma's new novel. "Ninety-six Hours' Leave" (published by Gorg. H. Doran Co.. N'cv York I. Let us take a peep at the chai acter which suggests Miss Klizabeth Asquith so strongly. In the first place, tne book gives a very lively picture of the lighter side of lndon life in wartime, the kind of life In which Miss Klizabeth Asquith would be plunged. W- see 3 good deal of a great hot labeled the ' Seniiramis." the playground of the most important people in London, the place where the more fortunate officers on leave from the trenches like to take a fw hour

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par: of the i!.iv r.) he Three Art Wtmnn's of relaxation and find a fair fare. Kmp'oyment rur.J. an organiration to tale "To r. man fresh from the trenche-." rare (f the r-at nuriber of women arti.-ts says th author, "the lounze of the Semi-

daughter of ir Charles Tennant. an im- "ho have suffered want througii the war. ramis represented lieaven witlioiit any of

the formalities there anticipa'ed. It wa.-5 scented, warm anil light, peopled with slender girls in transparent clothes and melo-

rnensely wealthy Scotch ironmaster, nr.d cne of her brothers Is now Lord Cilenmncer. Her brothers' daughters. Mrs. As-

Ait.hvK.gh of middle class origin. Mr. Asquith ha.- alwiy been very popular with the b-st element of the British, aristocracy

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quith's nieces, are remarkably picturesque on account of his social qualities, a? was dious with unambitious music. Late at

end interesting. One of them. Mi

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noted by the Oman Ambassador. Prince night, rr early j:-. the morning, it never

leer. Tennant. married th.n Marquis of Licar.o.v f ki. in his secret report before the quit lest Its savor of cocktails and TurkCranby. heir to the Puke of Rutland, a ar. Mrs. Asouith's Intimacy with tha ih cigarettes, its air of having stopped the f-eer of historic lineage, who possesses the Duchess r.f Rutland, mother of fli pic- (lock hands ten minutes before an agreelamous estates of Belvo'.r Castle arj Had- furenie Ladies Marjorie. Violet and Diana able m&al."

don Hafd Manners, is only one example of the link Mrs Asquith ! her husband'- second that bind the Asquith family to th? most

wife and he had a large family by his first distinguished noble houses. It should be whose normal occupation was "ic-bbing wife. One of his sons. Herbert, is married noted that Mr. Asquith could easily have high explosive shells into the Hun

to the daughter of the Karl of mv?s,

The hero 1 a young lieutenant of tne Royal Artillery. Christopher Markhaxn.

hose family goes back to the most roCiantic era of Scottish mediaeval history.

In fact, it would require volumes to chron- of Commons

raise j himsejf to an earldom, but such trenches." but who is up to see London on distinctions are not always desired by "ninety-six hours' leave." He had "iraKngHshmen who are powerful in the House maturely polygamous instincts." end it was

lcle the social connection? of the Asqulths and the Tennants

It is by jo means Impossible that Mr. Asquith will on"e a?aln control the desti-

while on his way to keep an appointment with a fair but unknown friend of lonely lieutenants that he was struck with the

Years ago. before her marriage. Margot nies of the British Empire. He Is still re- vision of Miss Patricia Kavanagh:

carded fis leader by the majority of Eng

lish I-iDerals He was forced out of office

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table, and by his side walked a gtrl of sev-

Tennant was the heroine of a queer novel called "Dodo." by II. F. Benson. It dealt with the doings of a set of London society

people known as "the Soul?." vho speud That was the only question of importance, frrrn the ankle?, a ?carf line a? a spider's

localise all parties felt that Llcyd Gporpe rnteen cr eighteen. She wa? dressed in

coubl push the war with more energy v-hite. with a flounced skirt cut well away

their time in useless philandering.

Mrs. Asquith recovered from "the Souls'

Lloyd George an advanced Radical, but web over her bare arms and satin strap

he now holds office with the support of fastened with amethyst buckles oveY her

piaäe cl her eiistei ? acd assumed a core Tories and Unionists. It 13 doubtful if

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An Unconventional Picture of Miss Elizabeth Asquith, the Heroine of This Romance, in "The Impertinence of the Creature," in Which She Has Eeen Acting for the Benefit of War Charity.

at one side, was the color of ripe corn 1 her eyes as Markham had lost no time In observing the deep shade of a bluebell. "She walked easily ?.s though conscious of her own beauty, her parted lips smiling in very enjoyment of lif "Her eyes rested on hi face for a momnt; then he passed on and he sighed like a mar. whose head is giddy with the scent of all the flowers of Paradise." Unfortunately, Lieutenant Markham had only morning clothes with him. and there was the stringent rule that no one could enter the dining room of the SemiramJs without evening clothes. In this dilemma his brother officers hastily agreed to pretend that he was Prince" Christoforo of Catania, expected in London. Princes are allowed to wear any clothes they please.) Amazing c(ra;.lication. followed. Markham as made the object of an attempted asraslnatlon intended f r the real prince. But the personality of the heroine is the eh iff point to be explain ?d here: "The Semiramis orchestra wa beginning to play a second encore, when che girl in the white dres appeared at the top of the sfeps. if you were the only girl in the world and I were the cr ly boy.' she hummed to herself, as she cr.me dovn into tue lounge. The orhe.-rra wa-- unaffectedly ored with he song; it had beer played once at lunch on. t vice :t tea, and now this was the fourth time-, sine T o'clock. Prince rhriitoforo. however, did rot hare their boredom; it was at the request that they were giving th encore. "Suddenly he Prince left As sea: and approach.pd the girl in white. Great Dritaln Rljhts T.-servei

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Stephen McKenna, the Young Novelist, Whoso Engagement to Miss Elizabeth Asquith, the ExPremier's Daughter, Is Announced.

"'If you're looking for a chair,' he said, mance and an amour la tho difference b$ 'there are four unoccupied ones over twen a menu and a dinner." there.' We catch this entertaining glimpse of "The girl turned at sound of his voice, the canteen at. Victoria, where Mi.j?. Patri-

still gravely noddinn titr: to the music. '"If I were the only giri in the world.'

cia carried on her patriotic labors: "Hihlnd the counter Ftcoi a row of women In overalls, and Lehtnd them a

'And 1 were the only boy.' he answered. ?roup gathered round the waghtubs. All

worked under the dii"Mrtion of a domlnat-

"I ?bould like to dance, only I expose ing matron, wüo hLd the air of bavin?

people would etare.' "'I've been ofTering you a chair for tb

made her own clotbe3 on daringly conveatlonal lines and written several Looks

last seven seconds, only you've paid no a- about misunderstood -a omen ho married

ter.tion.' "She attended now and looked her companion up and down, quickly but exhaus-

vlolet-eyed men ycunger than themv-'.ve and lived unhappily ever afterward " Certainly Mr. Stephen McKenna created

tively. He j-eemed young and well mad", a most attractive character in M!.- Patrici i wi'h clean-cut features, animated brown I-Cavar.arh. and none will wonder tha In

eyes and an attractive voice. He was, moreover, presentably dressed, and his black hair was neatly parted and Crushed. Hi. manner, too, was deferential, but easy.

fell m love with her. The young auhor ij a nephew- of u 1r.?.M McKenna. who wa-i ('ha.ncer. ir of ' . i Exchequer in Mr. A-;u.th's Cahir-t. !b is about twenty-eight years old. and a Cim-

Altosether, in the girl's Judgment, thern bridge nan by education. Hi- r.r-'

could be no harm in returning civil anEwtir to a civil question.

of any Importance wa "?-.'.uia: IMa'-i Two World?" It d-alt. with orr.-- ef 'hi

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" Pm really waiting for father.' ?he said, mo-r periou problems of the w.-r. e,; - when he a?ain pointed to the empty chairs, cially th.e regeneration of so:: ' 'he 'Besides, you were sitting there, weren't idler- of England's upp-r rlas ? hr-cigii you?'" tho great ordeal vir, ,uly it .i -i yn'

This book simply dnpa wifh epigrams. different in character For instance, young Markham. explaining Hours' Leave."

to hia friends his complete absorption in hia latest affair, says:

"This wasn't an amour

mance." "My dear young friend." renii his chum

Fenwick, "the difference between a ru- ambition is to make a, name in lit- t y

Mr. McKenna o c .: tm e .- v.-r;. ;Nord;

iute poslti )n In ,v e flov-rnr: r.t -r: It was a ro- H" cam- to Arr. ri i w.tlj the p. d.'our e'on in 1 r 1 7 a hü ofrici.il of th ÜTi'ii

War Trade InteHL'-n. D- pirt