The Worthington advance., 1884-05-01


peerage. A sensual proAigste, roue,
and rake, no lady would ever dare to be
seen speaking to him.. much less re-
ceive any attention from him whatever.
The protector of the pretty Gaiety &C
tress, Connie Gilchrist, since she was
thirteen! His female friends consist of
women whose names are unknown In
even respectable, let talone high society,
and his four-in- hand coach at races is
always covered by "ladies" of question
able character only. In short, it would
stamp a woman directly to have the
Duke civil to her in any way. This is a
shocking state of things for q man of
sixty, whose dukedOm dates from 1852,
and whose mobility" on be"onial cre-
alton goes back to 1908.
The Marquis of Harrington, the Sec
retary of war in Gladston's Cabinet, is
one of the most outrageously immoral
men in London. It would indeed be
hard to say how many VILLAS" in St.
Johns Wood he does not keep up, or
for how many slips of the feet of titled
danes and demoiselles he has not been
directly answerable. The Marquis of
Huntly has been up in a police court for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
and for absconding abroad in order to
defraud his creditors. Two nice char
ges against q nobleman, truly Then, the
Earle of Aylesford is debauchee and
bare faced cuckold, his wife having for
years under his nose been the mistress
of the Marquis Of Blandford; while
Viscount Vaudeville is as confirmed
drunkard as any to be found frequent
ing the lowest gin palaces. The two
latter noblemen have adopted, it ap-
pears, the United States as their future
residence. I don't think the United
States is to be congratulated upon the
acquision. The Earl of Gosford was
short time ago summoned by cabdri-
yer, and made to pay not only the pal
try fare of five shillings, which he had
refused, but the costs of the proceed
ings, and Viscount Cole acted the part
of poltroon with Lady Mordaunt, and
had to perjure himself to get clear of
responsibility. These are all can re-
member just now, but they will suffice.
So much for the men, for have re-
versed the rule of the places aux danes,
and will now mention few of the fair
members of the nobility who are decid-
edly frail also. OF course do not speak
of ladies who have become titled only
| by their marriage with noblemen, but
who have been born so, else I should
have to include the Countess of Ayles-
ford, a notorious woman, and the Coun-
tess of Egmont, whose reputation as
Miss Lucy King an earl's coronet has
hardly yet been able to make people
forget.
The daughters of the Earl of Fife-the
Ladies Duff are the sort I refer
to. The earldom of Fife comes
direct from the Macduff immortalized.
by Shakespeare: yet what are the ca,
reers Of these daughters Of theh ouse?
All of them great beauties, they are as
unchaste as they are beautiful. The
earPs eldest daughter, Lady Ann Duff,
married Marquis Townshend, and was
soon afterward seduced by Lord Ernest
Bruce, the marquis giving the af-
fair publicity, and taking his sat
isfaction by wavlaying Lord
Ernest with two friends at night, and
giving him beating! Lady Ida Duff
married Adrian Hope, Esq, and in due
time was seduced by several men of IT,
tie, only one Of whom Lord William
Somerset-was made correspondent in
the divorce suit which followed A third
sister, Lady Agnes Duff, woman, if
possible, more beautiful than the Others,
married Eiscount Dupplin the man who
wanted to marry Miss Vanderbilt of
New York, and, true to her family in
stlncts, was shortly after scduced by
Mr.. Flower, with whom she eloped from
Epsom Downs, during the Derby day
The regulation divorce followed, and
she married Flower.
Then, there is Lady Mary Craven,
daughter Of the Earl of Hardwicke, a
mistress of the Prince of Wales while
he was but a boy. She resembles Mrs.
Mundv in her power of charming men
much younger than herself Long since
separated from her husband, the Prince
of Wales's great friend and associate,
she has been the clcre annie of more
youthful heirs to titles than I could
name. She is forty seven, an age at
which most women have quieted down
and lost their attractiveness to men but
she still retains her peculiar powers Of
fascination to an undiminished degree.
The Earl of Dudley, though one ofthe
ugliest men in England, is sensualist
OF the most depraved sort, as people we'll
know. His wife, Lady Dudley, the
great beauty, was hissed. by the crowd
when she made her first appearance in
public with him, after the honeymoon,
the contrast was so marked between the
two. They are called Beauty and the
Beast" There are one or two instances
more on the part of men, which slipped
my memory when closed their side Of
the account, and which let us add to the
list. The Earl of Cardigan. the leader
of the famous charge of the Light Brig
ade, distinguished himself in early life
by seducing the wife of MIR. johnson.
whom. after divorce, he married: and
the Earl of Glare "a title now extinct)
seduced his countess before marriage,
and while she was the wife of Mr..
Moore, the offspring being daughter,
who is now the wife Of the present Earl
OF Kimberly, the secretary for the Col
onles. The earls eldest son and heir,
Lord Wodehouse, it may be here OBJ
served, is low minded spendthrift. his
eagerness to obtain money to supply his
insane squanderings having led him into
the commission of forgery on several oc
caslons-little derelictions which his
fathers influence has been able to hush
up. Though a married man, he lives in
seclusion, his allowance from his father
being paid to him in weekly sums of
twenty pounds, it not being considered
proper to trust him with larger sum
at one time
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