A BRITISH-AMERICAN UNION

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 452, 13 January 1914, Page 7

A BRITISH-AMERICAN UNION

MR AND MRS CHAMBERLAINS SILVER WEDDING. Mr and Mrs Joseph Chamberlain celebrated their silver wedding on 15th November. The marriage of Mr Chamberlain to Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of the Hon. W. C." Endicott, Minister for War m President Cleveland' 1 ? first Administration, took i place on 15th November, 1688, m New York, the President arid all the members of the Cleveland Cabinet being present. There is a romantic story connected with the engagement and marriage. Mr Chamberlain journeyed to America to receive the acknowledgment of hie success m, negotiating the Fisheries Treaty between Great Britain and the United States, and he first met his future wife at the British Legation, at a dinner m honor of the Plenipotentiaries. Twelve months later the marriage took pla^e, and after a honeymoon on the Riviera Mrs Chamberlain met at her new home m Birmingham for the first timo her husband's family and relations;. Public presentations were afterwards made to Mr and Mrs Chaml>erlain. and the member for West Birmingham, m reply, humorously remarked : " I have done all m my power to promote union between this country and America." There is an amusing reference to Mr and Mrs Joseph Chamberlain, remarks a 'Chronicle' writer, m Lady Dorothy Nevill's 'Under Five Reigns.' Lady Dorothy once expressed her doubts as to the success of Anglo-American marriages. A short while after she received a note from Mr Chamberlain : " I am going to the United States to many Miss Endicott — one of those American girls whose importation you once deprecated so strongly mmy hearing. You said : ' I like the Americans very well, but there are two things I wish they would keep to themselves — their girls and their tinned lobster. ' I am willing to give up the lobster, so you must be prepared to like the girl." And on meeting her Lady Dorothy was constrained to admit her "the most~charming woman imaginable,."