Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-16
LADY LoNsDALE's LOVER.
A Bit of Scandal in London High Life.

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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 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 Herbert. In her imme-
date 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 Penn
broke. Some years ago Lady Herbert,
the mother Of ia Gitana, and an
other daughter, Joined the Catholic
Church. The tall and handsome
Gitana did not follow their ex-
ample, but dashed into the gay
world of dance, song and horse
manship, and met Lord Lonsdale,
who is her senior by eight
~years-she being twenty three years
of age, Both loved the world too
well, and not wisely, before and after
marriage. 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 if not
the leaders at least the chief features.
The art world was ransacked for Lady
Lonsdalc, and an income of 100000
per annum brought to her mansion
many a costly gem of the painter and
ieweler. Her diamond bill in seven
months was 81, 900, 900 aud her uphols-
terry and bric-a-brac invoices were
double that sum. To this menu tho
noble earl added sundry and divers
items, such as twenty-five blooded
race-horses, various improvements on
the three country estates, and 10! the
d%evouror of all fortunes, a large steam
yacht, the Northumbria.
There are some people so peculiarly
constituted, either mentally or NOR
ally, that neither an immense financial
revenue, a quarter of a dozen of coun-
try estates, a magnificent town man
sion, and the Injuries of art, science
and pleasure combined, nor indeed.
fashionable worth" can make up
the sum Of happiness. The beautiful
Lady Lonsdale and the dashing, hand
some earl, the head of the house of
Lowther, were not happy. There was
a skeleton in the costly mansions
cupboard, and l only allude to this
case as a type Of many others, and as
truly portraying the life of the most
modern British a~ristocracy. When at
Palermo last fall | heard and saw
something of the yacht Northumbria.
and, later on, when near Nice, / heard.
and saw something of my Lady Ions
dale leaning on the arm of that noto-
rious young rake, Sir John Lister
Kave, a Yorkshire baroSet, slightly
taller than {" la Gitana," and of that
drab or pale-ale visage peculiar to
these who think the best of all ways
for to lengthen their days is to steal a
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.
of the coast of Algeria, where rumor
says he has made some we'll known
efforts not to lengthen his DAYS or
nights either. When a Yorkshire
baronet of twenty-three years and
worldly ways becomes a skeleton in
the the cupboard Of any mansion, YOU
may be sure the furniture. pictures.
bric-a-brac and even the personal
gems of lustrious brilliancy become
very o o under the sway of the aue-
%tioneer's hammer. And thus has it
come to pass, in a period of little
more than eight months of honey.
MOON that our fashionable 5 o'clock
tea is in a troubled sea of excitement
over the head and front of offending
Of the chief of the Lowther's lady.