Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-01
Mrs Pele Ronalds.
Olive Lngan's London Tattle in the Chicago
Times.l

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Another sport connected with the wa.
ter and which is greatly liked by the
rich and idle in England, just as it is in
our own country, is yachting. This
week all the swell yachts have been
where our beetsteaks sre-that is, of
Cowes.
The commodore Of the royal yacht
squadron is a certain excruciating pa
trician known to the world of nobs as
the earl Of Wilton. | wouldn't say any
thing disrespectful of the earl Of Will
ton, nor the countess of Wilton, Aor any
Of the little Wilt uns. But the gentle
man name always recalls to me that OF
our beautiful countrywoman, Mrs. Pete
Ronalds, Of New York. You know who
| mean, of course that bewitching,
stylish, dashing, fascinating Fanny Car
ter, Of Boston, who wasn't at all in so.
ciety, you know. But she was just too
pretty for anything, Fannie WAS, and she
did stag like a nightingale. Her folks
took her down to Newport one summer
and 10 and behold the first thug hat
happened was that Pete" Ronalds, Of
New York, was dead in love aud wanted
to marry her. The Ronalds family are
all well off, and Pete has a handsome in
come Of his own. The Renaldses are
connected in some mysterious way with
the Lorillards, the great tobacco aud
snuff dealers of New York; the same
who got up that great dodge OF putting
a Sl00 greenbaek into the other odd
millionth or two Of century tobacco.
Just what the relation by blood or mar
riage between the Lorillards and Rom
aids is, | am unable to say, though some
of our nice geneClogists can tell to a 7
by examining a specimen, just where
the Lorlllards begin and the Ronalds
end. I'm not so clever as this myself,
so | just lump the thing this way: Put
one part Ronalds to two parts Lorillard
and fill the restin with snuff and money.
Well, Fanny accepted Pete's" offer Of
marriage so quick it made his head
swim. However, she got a husband
with money, and he got the prettiest wife
in two hemispheres, and he at once took
her to Paris to show her off.
Mrs Ronalds waS not only pretty, she
was smart. She was the finest prima
donna off the stage; she was the best
lady skater hat ever pulled a buckle.
She drove the Frenchmen wild on the
skating-ponds of Paris. Both the EN-.
peror and empress admired her, and she
was q pet Of the palace for awhile. You
remember the mot that went about at
the time? How did Mrs. Ronalds get
into the Tuileries2" Answer = She
STATED there"
When the Paris season closed, the
belle Americana came over to London.
and here is where the earl Of Wilton
comes ia. And again let me seize the
occasion to deprecate any intention Of
speaking disparagingly, etc. But poor
Pete Ronaldsl Well, like the boys 10
the trog.pond, it was fun for the boys,
but death to him. He didn't care any
more for the earl of Wilton than any
other man. But Fanny liked him very
well, | suppose, or so folks said, and be
admired her certainly. l mustn't fail to
tell you hat Pete was no logger Pete,
but Mr. Pierre Ronalds = Pierre being
the French for Peter, as everybody
knows. But when you we're weeping
over the woes Of Pierre" the cripple
in The Two Orphans, it would not
have been half SO pleasant if his name
had bsen Peter. Well, Pierre Ronalds
rebelled at last, and he and his beautiful
Fanny we're divorced.
Aud where on earth do you think she
has taken up her residence now7 Why,
in Tuuis, Algiersl Far from the scene
Of her iormer triumphs. I've seen o
statement somewhere, 50 Isuppose there
can be no harm in repeating it, to the
effect that the boy OF Tunis had contract
ed a snrt OF morganatic marriage with
the low ~ Fanny; but | think there is
more ruth in another version OF the
matter, which a club man told me Just
before / left New York: that Fanny q
father is engaged in agricultural pursuits
near Tunis, and she lives there with him.
q" Pierre makes his residence in Lon
don, bui, strange 70 say, both he and his
former wife have been visiting New
York ihis summer.