MISS STANLEY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11980, 31 January 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

MISS STANLEY.

The engagement which has been publicly announced of Mr Brodrick and Miss Stanley, has been anticipated for some little time. It is a very suitable match (says Mr T. P. O'Connor in "M.A.P.") Mr Brodrick, though he has a married daughter, is in the prime of life; looks nearly ten years younger than his age; and is full of activity, industry and ambition. Miss Stanley is charming in appearance and in character. Indeed, there are few prettier girls in London. Her combination of dark hair and beautiful blue eyes is Irish rather than English; but she has not, I believe, a drop of Irish blood in her veins. Her father was an Englishman, and her mother —Lady Jeune—is, as everybody knows, a member of one of the oldest of Scotch families. Miss Stanley in addition has a beautiful complexion, fresh and rosy, a very beautiful figure, and l a manner soft and almost caressing in its sweetness and tact. She has hald the training for the wife of a prominent politician. For many years the one great salon of London was Lady Jeune's. It was the only drawingroom in London in which you could meet men of all parties, and of every class and sort of distinction. Mr Chamberlain jostled against an Irish (Nationalist, Lord Goschen could be seen chatting with Mr Morley; the actress was taken down to supper by the diplomat or the Minister. It is in such an atmosphere that Miss Madeline Stanley has lived almost from her childhood, and her education has thus been completed by association with all that, is brilliant in politics, literature, and art. She ~ad in her mother a lesson and an exemplar in infallible and instinctive tact—that tact that comes from a good heart as well as from fine breeding, and in her stepfather, Mr Justice Jeune, she had a devotion that no farther could have surpassed.