The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-14
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Personal 81 -tches OF Some Noted
English Women.
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune

Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune
At the rink one often sees many of RI.
celebrities of r;ghton, for sometime there
are as many as two thousand people. skat.
err and spectators. there at one time, and
among such - nunb.r, Of course, mix many
sbose names are familiar 10 the public
tongue. Many times may be seen there
fair woman, upon vScse brown head falls
The supsiine yet from the eastern horizon
OF lite. whose contourS have girli,h round
ness, but whose features begin TO show the
harsh touch of the chisel of care. Look
ing upon her ole would believe her to be
girl yet, for her year. cannot be more than
twenty tbree-One HbO has been very
P.y Of girls, aud is not yet far separated
from a -ldiant, hnOyant youth. And yet
this fair woman is one whose name has
been -mircl od, and whose fair fame tarnish-
cd by one Of the most monstrou. scandals
Of fashionable English society She is the
wife Of mcrln-r Of tn. prouie,t ari-to IRA
cy in the world who il heir TO two eardons,
and whose wealth :. 40 great that he him.
self hardly Knows it, extent
This 10 Lord Wsntwnrth, son of Lady
Lovelace, who sss Ada. sUie daughter OF
the heart-nnd home If the poet, Lord
Byron. By the paternsl line he will inherit
the titles and honors of Lord Lovelace; by
the maternal be came into possession OF
his present one. Ii would seem that some
dreadful curse had fallen upon this family
TO make its domestic nests foul with toads
and vipers, and all unclean things. Ada
Byron, the first Lady Lovelace, was of a
very peculiar Temperament inkcritiny from
her father the morbid conditions which. IL
his case, we're reactiODary effect of emo
tionaI delusious, but In hers cOnstitu ion
al depression.
TITALED BLACKSMITH.
Lady L .selace, A la ByroI, transmitted
a peculiar mental constitution to her sons
The elder Lord Ockam, who would have
been Lord Wentworth had he not died be-
fore the title descended from an eide,
branch, was youth of many abnorma
TASTES and eccentric habits In his esrly
youth he abandoned his home, his luxuriou.
habits, and all the refined association. Of
his rank, and worked for months 10 black
smith shop. Later in life he married
pUblican's dnu. ter and it is not unreasen
able To suppose that the curse Of his race
a domestic blight or tragedy, would have
come also to him had he not died soon after
his marriage. Diving childless, the title
which is now Lord Wentworths, passed
over him t. Lady Loyelace's second son
who 10 " bears it.
And now thi. son, Lord Wentworth, rich
noble, only thirty two, and the husband OF
a wife SO benuti ul that, when she appeared
bride in London assemblies, st,tely dow
ayers and Mother Of the- Graceful nIatrons
mounted chars and tables to look upon her
over intervening heads AS she passed.,
would seem that he must, indeed, be the
man whose garment could cur. the King
malady. Bu. no. Marrying in haste a
beautiful girl, whose graces were those that
euchant only the sepevs, he repented at
leisure, when the glamour melted from be
fore bis sight, and he saw that tho brigb,
eyes had no Swallowed depths; that the
merry laugh bespoke a vacant mind; that
the woman was but an airy nothing, the
most impalpable simmer Of u bubble be
hind her beautiful face.
1t is told OF this nobleman that one even
ing, going into the theatre. he m ade bet
with one of his cOmpalions that he would
marry the most beautiful woman at the play
that night. 1t CHANGED that the lovely
daughter Of Newcastle clergyman occupied
stall rear enough to the young men for
them 70 discover that rhe Was lovely enough
to have contested for the golden apple in
the gift Of Paris: and before the curtain
had fallen upon the drama of that night the
tragedy Os their lives had begun, for Lord
Wentworth determined upon the spot to
make the fair girl his wife. OF the subse
qnent appearance of TIE couple in the di
vOrce courts, of the shameful charges
brought against the wife, IF the dreadful
counter charges brought against the hus
band, VITO seemed to have in him the NOR.
bid faint of his ancestry, I'll England, ~hich
has a passion for spicy bits OF arlstocratic
scandal, knows full well
MISS BRADDON.
Sometimes, also, we see at the rink a tall
rnther angular woman, evidently upon the
shady sit.a ol forty, with dark hair, cat
short, and slTenked with gray, with coarse
lines about her mouth, and IL deep furrow
between her evss She dresses tolerably
WELL not ella borateIy, or with blind obedi
eucs TO the latest mnndat Ns of fashion, but
with evident ind ference to cost, if, also,
with sense obtuse to the more subtle
person "hLm one might imagine to be tl..
principal of girls school, or the spinsler
aunt OF large family of obstreperous boys
and naggimg girls, and thus account for the
stern ines OF her face, which seem not SO
much that Of Il dominant or a CONQUERED
sorrow as of repre.sed passion. She il
pointed out as formerly an actress in the
Brighton Theatre, now the wife of Lon
don publisher. She has no truce of the
actress about her; 10 overflow of lie b.
hemlan soul IN startling eccentricities of
dress OF manner. She does not look tho
thorough lady, nor does she seem the WI
gar woman. In her rather raw boned
physique there is no evidence ovsrbala danced
OF the sersuOus elements, although that
overbaiance can scarcely but exist in one
whose spiritual perceptions are go dimmed
by the phosphore-cent light of feshy pleas
ures as to enable her to create the scnsa-
tionai romances that bear her nom dc plume
M. +. Braddon.