Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-14
LADY LONDSDALE'S LOVER.

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LADY LONDsDALE's LOVER.
4 BIT of 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. The earl and peer of the
realm, the head of the house of Lowther, set
high society into spasms last year by creating
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 well-known and
esteemed Sydney Herbert, of Crimean fame,
and sister of the earl of Pembroke. Some
years ago Lady Herbert, the mother
of ssla 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 craftsmanship, 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 100000 per annum brought
to her mansion many costly gem of the
painter and jeweler. Her diamond bill in
seven months was 81, 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 large
steam yacht, the Northumbria.
There are some people SO very peculiarly
constituted, either mentally or morally, thai
neither an immense financial revenue, 8
quarter of dozen of country estates, 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 uD the
sum Of happiness. The beautiful Lady
Lonsdale and the dashing, handsome earl
the head of the house of Lowther, were no.
happy. There was a skeleton in the cost,
mansions cupboard, and I only allude tt
this case as type of many others, and a
truly portraying the life of tn
most modern British aristocracy
When at Palermo last fall I heart
and saw something of the yacht Northum
bria, and, later on, when near Nice, I heart
and saw something Of my Lady Lonsdal
leaning on the arm of that notorious youn
rake, Sir John Lister Kave, YORKSHIRE
baronet, slightly taller than 'sla Gitana,
and of that drab or pale-ale vissage peculia
, to those who think s'the best of all ways t.
lengthen their days is to steal few hour
from night" Both are in the spring Q
life, and both are of that speed dow
hill which may be termed rapid. Hi
!, mother, with lynx eye, looks at, on and ove
6 the pair, while Lord Lonsdale is on tn
: Northumbrja, off the coast of Algeris
:, where rumorssays he has made some vel
3 3 known efforts not to lengthen his days c
nights either. When Yorkshire barone
of % years and worldly ways becomes ske
eton in the cupboard of any mansion, 20
= may be sure the furniture, pictures, brio;
It brac and even the personal gems of lustror
s brilliancy become very soon under the swa
=, of the auctioneer's hammer. And thus
. has come to pass, in period of little MOI
- than eight months of s'honeymoon," tn
. our fashionable 5 o'clock tea is in a tro1
s bled sea of excitement over the head ar
- front of offending of the chief of Il
, Lowther's lady.