Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24
LADY LoNDsDALE's LOVER.

Il BIT of Scandal ia London High Life.
Correspondence Baltimore Sum-
The 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
bert. In her immediate circle she is known
by the pet name of "la Gitana," or gypsy.
She is the daughter of the we'll Unknown and
esteemed Sydney Herbert, of Crimean fame
and sister of the earl of Pembroke. Some
years ago Lady Herbert, the mother
of 'tla Gitana," and another daugh-
ter, Joined the Catholic church. The
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 bali 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 not the
leaders at least the chief features. The art
world was ransacked for Lady Lonsdale, and
an income of $8O0,000 per annum brought
to her mansion many costly gem of the
| painter and jeweler. Her diamond bill in
seven months was S. 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, that
neither an immense financial revenue, a
quarter of dozen of country estates, mag
nifcent town mansion, and the Injuries of
art, science and pleasure combined, nor in.
deed, that ominus and varied circle called
the fashionable world,'' can make no the
sum of happiness. The beautiful Lady
Lonsdale and the dashing, handsome earl,
the head of the house of Lowther, were not
happy. There was skeleton in the costly
mansions cupboard, and only allude to
this case as a type of many others, and as
truly portraying the life of the
most modern British aristocracy.
When at Palermo last fall heard
and saw something of the yacht Northum-
bria, and, later on, when near Nice, heard
and saw something of my Lady Lonsdale
leaning on the arm of that notorious young
rake, Sir John Lister Kave, Yorkshire
baronet, slightly taller than "la Gitana,'
and of that drab or pale ale vigsage peculiar
to those who think "the best of all ways to
lengthen their days is to steal few hours
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 eye, 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 we'll
known efforts not to lengthen his days or
nights either. When Yorkshire baronet
of % years and worldly ways becomes skel-
eton in the cupboard of any mansion, you
may be sure the furniture, pictures, bric-a-
brac, and even the personal gems of lustrous
brilliancy become very soon under the sway
of the auctioneer's hammer. And thus il
has come to pass, in period of little more
than eight months of honeymoon" that
our fashionable 5 o'clock tea is in trou-
bled sea of excitement over the head and
front of offending of the chief Of the
Lowther's lady.