MRS. ASQUITH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 78, 22 May 1911, Page 2

MRS. ASQUITH.

It is not given to many men or women to be as sure of success and to attain it as surely as the wife of the Prime Minister has done. In the lays of her young ladyhood Mrs. Asquith, says the “World’s Work,” was one of the most romantic figures in England, if not in Europe. By the ;heor force of personality, without the support of a- great family name, she made herself a- figure, was almost the •mbodimont of an ideal, in that realty powerful circle which still rules the British Empire. (Stately Victorian dowagers, no doubt, disapproved of the wild pranks—many of them im-aginary—-laid at the door of Miss Harlot Tennant; but hundreds of friends worshipped her, and no doubt hundreds more, ;.s strangers, followed her is a shining example of cleverness end audacious brilliancy. She was made the heroine of popular novels, more or loss thinly disguised; and was undoubtedly the foundress and guiding light or a witty, worldy, yet serious circle known as “The Ennis. ’’ through these several years ol triumph Miss Tennant romned in great good spirits, always to the front vherever matters of interest were happening, and seemingly determined to play a prominent part in the social history of her country. It is pr-ababl;. apopcrvphal that as a young man fiord Rosebery ever said that ho was going to marry ibe■ greatest heiress in Eng land, win the Derby, and be Prime Minister, it is, perhaps, equally untrue that Miss Tennant ever made tin vow attributed to her that she wat going to I>o the wife of a Prime Minister of England. If she did it shows ; great deal of perspicuity to hare pick ed a Prime Minister Fourteen yea,:'; before his accession to the past.