A ROYAL DEBUTANTE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 3

A ROYAL DEBUTANTE.

Now that it is known that Princess Alexandra, 1 the elder' of the Princess Royal,/willreally.-make her debut at 'the 1 Court which ; will be given in May,-vthe'.'gos T ' sips and Royal matchmakers are already beginning to wonder what matrimonial plans are on foot for the .young Princess./ It is understood that a very gay season .is : signed for her. The King will give a State ball in her honour, the Princess Royal'will give' another, and no fewer than four others are in prospect for her, although there are yet five, months, before her.debut.' : Princess Alexandra is ' almost as shy as her mother,' who is known by ■ her family, as her, -Royal Shyness,'and her life has, so fari been al r most- as; secluded'as if she had'been brought up in- a convent. When the fairy Prince does arrivo he will cortainly stir a childish heart, and find not even the shadow, of -a rival therein. - • / ..

: The i American circle of the Lyceum Club recently gave a most successful luncheon to nine American <'Rhodes i scholars. Madame' Thayler,, the originator of the scheme-of ' scholarships for vomeQ. on the lines of the Rhodes scholarships, and president of the circle,,' was the principal hostess. Among the guests, present was ■ Miss Clara' Howard; the 6rst woman student who is dowered by tlio Society of American Women in London. Cecil Rhodes was certainly well remembered at this luncheon', for coffee was i accompanied by cigarettes made. from tobacco ■ grown in Rhodesia, which- were handed round b.v a guest in the employ of the Rhodesian Government. ' j