Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-14
LADY LONDSDALE'S LOVER.
4 BIT of Scandal in London High Life.

Il BIT of Scandal in London High Life.
Correspondence Baltimore Sum-
The 5 o'clock tea-parties are very much
agitated over the sale of Lord Lonsdale's
great collection. The earl and peer of the
realm, the head of the house of Lowther, set
high society into spasms last year by creating
the matrimonial talk of the season. He then
married that tall, nearly six-foot high, and
dark, Jewess type beauty, Lady Gladys Her
by the pet name of "la Gitana,'' or gypsy.
She is the daughter of the we'll known and
esteemed Sydney Herbert, of Crimean fame,
and sister of the earl of Pembroke. Some
years ago Lady Herbert, the mother
OF ''la Gitana,'' and another daugh-
ter, joined the Catholic church. The
tall and handsome Gitana did not fol-
low their example, but dashed into the gay
world of dance, song and horsemanship, and
met Lord Lonsdale, who is her senior by
eight years-she being % years of age.
Both loved the world too we'll. and not wise
ly, before and after marriage. The fash
ionable ball rooms of London, Paris and
Vienna, the race courses of Europe, the
yachting and hunting excursions of the
night and day, the season and SUNSHINE of
life, found these attractive two if ct the
leaders at least the chief features. The art
world was ransacked for Lady Lonsdale, and
an income OF $500, 00G per annun brought
to her mansion many costly gem of the
seven months was 100000, and her up
holstery and bric-a- brac invoices were double
that sum. TO this menu the noble earl
added sundry and divers items, such as
twenty-five blooded race horses, various i'm
provements on the three country estates, and
10 the devourer of all fortunes-a large
steam yacht, the Northumbria.
There are some people so very peculiarly
constituted, either mentally or morally, tina t
| neither an immense financial revenue, a
quarter of dozen of country estates, a mag
nifcent town mansion, and the luxuries of
art, science and pleasure combined, nor in
deed, that ominus and varied circle called
the fashionable world,' can make up the
sum of happiness. Tho beautiful Lady
Lonsdale and the dashing, handsome earl,
the head of the house of Lowther, were not
happy. There was a skeleton in the costly
mansions cupboard, and I only allude to
this case as type of many others, and as
truly portraying the life of the
most modern British aristocracy
When at Palermo last fall l heard
and saw something of the yacht Northum-
bria, and, later on, when near Nice, 1 heard
aud saw something Of my Lady Lonsdale
leaning on the arm of that notorious young
rake, Sir John Lister Keve, Yorkshire
baronet, slightly taller than "ia Gitana,
and of that drab or pale-ale vissage peculiar
to those who think 'the best of all ways tt
lengthen their days is to steal few hour;
from night" Both are in the spring O.
life, and both are of that speed dowl
hill which may be termed rapid. Hi
mother, with lynx eye, looks at on and owe
the pair, while Lord Lonsdale is on tn
Northumbria, off the coast of Algeria
where rumorasays he has made some we'll
) known efforts not to lengthen his days o
nights either. When Yorkshire barone
of % years and worldly ways becomes skel
eton in the cupboard of any mansion, yo
may be sure the furniture, pictures, bric-a
t brac, and even the personal gems of lustrou
brilliancy become very soon under the swa
of the auctioneer's hammer. And thus
has come to pass, in period of little NOR
than eight months of honeymoon" tha
our fashionable o'clock tea is in trou
; bled sea of excitement over the head an
= front of offending of the chief of tn
IloWther,s lady.