Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
LADY LUNsDALE's
Song is ssThe Best OF all ways to
Lengthen your Days is to Take
Few Hours from the Night,
MY Dearo-She DOes-The
consequences.

Correspondence Baltimore Sun: The FIVE
o'clock tea-parties are very much agitated
over the sale of Lcrd Lonsdale's great collec-
ton. This earl and peer of the realm, the
head of the house of Lowther, set high So
ciety 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 gypsey.
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 'tla
Gitana," and another daughter, joined the
Catholic church. The tall and handsome
Gitana did not follow their example,
but dashed into the gay world of
dance, song and Workmanship, and met Lord
Lonsdale who Is her senior by eight years
she being twepty-three years of age. Both
loved the world too well, and not wisely, be-
fore 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 at
tractive two, if not the leaders, at least the
chief features. The art world was ransacked
| for Lady LUnsdale, and an income of eight
hundred Thousand dollars per annum brought
to her mansion many costly gem or the
painter and jeweler. Her diamond bill IN
seven months was one million dollars, and
her upholstery and bIic-a bTGc invoices were
double that sum. To this menu the noble
earl added sundry and divers items, such as
| twenty-five blooIed raee-horses, various i'm
pSovements 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 a
| HOzor pOunfrv pStafQS a O1aODlfPPpt town
mar sion, and the luxuries OF art, science and
| pleasure combined, nor, indeed, that ominous
/ and varied circle called the fashionable
world, can make up the sum of happiness.
| The beautiful Lady Lonsdale and the dash
ing, handsome earl, the head of the house OF
| Lowther, were not happy. There was skel-
eton In the costly mansions cupboard,
and 1 only allude to this case as a
| type of many others, and as truly portraying
| the life of the most modern British aris-
tocracy. When at Palermo last fall l 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, a Yorkshire
baronet slightly taller than ''la Gitana, " and
| of that drab or pale-ale visage peculiar t.
those who think ''the best Of all ways for tc
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 well known efforts not to length
en- his days, or nights either. When a York.
shire baronet of thirty-three years and
| worldly ways becomes skeleton in the cup
board 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 has it come to pass, in a
period of little more than eight months Of
! honeymoon that our fashionable five
| O'Clock tea is in troubled sea of excitement
over the head and front of offending of the
chief of the Lowther's lady.