The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-20
LADY LONSDALE,S LOVER.
A Considerable HI Ut scandal In London
High Life
Correspondence Baltimore Sun.


The o'clock tea parties are very much
agitated over the sale OF Lord Lonsdale's
great collection This earl and peer of the
realm. the head Of the house of Lowther, set
hlgn society into spasms last year bycreating
the matrimonial talk Of the season He then
married that tall, nearly six font-high, and
dark. Jewess type beauty, Lady Gladys Her
bert. In her immediate circle she Is known
by the pet name OF ia Gitana," or gypsy
She Is the daughter Of the well-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 daughter, joined the
Catholic Church. The tall and handsome
dashed into the gay world Of dance, song and
horsemanshlp, and met Lord .Lonsdale, who
| Is her senior BY eight years-she being twenty
three years OF age. Both loved the world too
well, ana o. not wisely, before and after mar
riage. The fashionable bathrooms 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 II not the
leaders at least the chief features, The art
world was ransacked for Lady Londsdale,
and an income Of $800,000 per annum brought
to her mansion many costly gem of the
painter and jeWeler. Her diamond bill in
seven months was $1,000000 and her up
holstery and brlc-a-brac invoices were double
that sum. 70 this menu the noble earl added
sundry and divers items such as twenty-five
blooded race horses various improvements
on the three country estates, and lol the de-
the Northumbria.
There are some people so very peculiarly
constituted, either mentally or morally, that
neither an immense financial revenue a QUAR-
ter OF dozen'of country estates, u magnlfi-
cent town mansion, and the luXuries OF art,
science and pleasure combined, nor indeed,
that ominous and varied circle called the
fashionable world can make llp the sum Of
happiness. The beautiful Lady Lonsdale and
the dashlng, handsome earl, the head Of the
mousse o. LoWther, We're not happy. there
was skeleton In the costly mansions aup-
board, and only allude to this case as a type
OF many others, and as truly portrayng the |
life OF the most modern British arstocracy. |
When at Palermo last fall / heard and saw |
something OF the yacht Northumbria. and
later on, when near Nice, / heard and saw saw
something of my Lady Lonsdale leaning On |
the arm OF that notorious young rake. Sir I
John Lister Kaye, Yorkshire baronet.
slightly, taller, than ia Gitana," and OF
who think ''the best OF all ways for to I
lenghten their days is to steal a few hours I
from night" Both are in the spring of life |
and both are OF that speed down hill which /
may be termed rapid. His mother, with
lynx eve looks at, on and over the pair, while
Lord Lonsdale is On the Northumbria, off the
coast OF Algeria, where rumor says he has
MADE some well-knoWn efforts not to length
"a "a MS days or nights either. When York
shlre baronet Of twenty-three years and |
WORLDLY ways becomes a skeleton in the cup
:, ar; Of any mansion, you may be sure the
~ r nllure, pictures, bric-a-brac and even the
personal gems Of lustrous brilliancy become
very soon under the sway Of the auctioneers
t tlannleI: ana thus has it come to pass in
period eena' Ct little more than eight months p Of
tea noih u noon that our fashionable o'clock
head and .1of fna, sea of excitement over the
the Lowthers' lady. : 0lo 'nloh =
Ree ial as popularity goes, the Queen Of the