The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-16
MIR. LANGTRY.
The Husband Of the Actress Finds a
Champion-vulgar Gebhard.

The Husband Of the Actress Finds q
Champion-vulgar Gebhard.
New York Letter in Detroit Times
Society over this way is thrilled by the an.
nouncement thatMrs. Langtry is going to be-
come an American ,itizeness sue her husband
for divorce, and come here to live permanent
ly. The inference is that she means to get
married to Mr.. Gerhard Nh. Langtry, so say
the gossips, has at last consented that such q
programme shall be carried out, up to the di-
vorce part of it He is not of course, ex-
pected to know anything of the Gebhard item
upon the programme. So much for gossip,
which, as is quite often the case, knows
nothing about it Mr.. Langtry would
have been heartily glad if his wife had
generally been held in rather light esteem
by reason of the ladys curious conduct AS
matter of fact, there are points which ought tc
bring him some degree of sympathy. Wher
Mrs. Langtry's beauty first became known.
her husband, who was .passionately devoted te
her, had an income of about $4,000 year.
The flattery of the titledsnobs who surrounded
her quite turned the woman's head, and she
began to fly beyond the husbands means He
was weak enough in his affection for her to lie!
her go her own way, and she practically ruined
has pulled enough together to get along upon
in comfort and the story that she sends him
$15 q week to live on is only another of the
lies that are spread about to beget sympathy for
the precious creature and contempt for her
husband Long, long ago Mr. Langtry
behaving in a manner exactly wifely
and since then they have not been together
But all this time, while his name has been on
every tongue, while all sorts Of vile insinua-
tons regarding her good name and his man.
hood have been rife, even under the exaspera-
of<b o r,oioo r5 br1ui ho
has remained silent and reserved, too proud to
make sign, too full of chivalry to strike at the
woman he once called wife; and too manly to
call attention to the ruin she has wrought in
his fortune his position and his honor. We
would have been glad if she had sought to be
clear of him before now, though he would take
no step toward that end on his own account
Freedom from woman whose vanity whose
love of adulation, and whose utter disregard fol-
anything but the gratifcationof her petty whims
has estranged her from him III spirit would now
now be q very welcome thing. l happen to
know these things are true Mr.. Langtry is an
amiable but rather THIGH headed Briton, with
good deal Of strength of character, very much
spirit, and great amount of personal pride
50 far as Mr.. Gebhard is concerned, fancy
the d,yoTc sp will BE- ,s Like
woman like Mrs. Langtry in national scan
dal is one thing; to marry her quite another.
Mr. Gerhard likes to be the hero of the clubs,
where notorious liason is big thing. But
70 marry the other party is not so line among
club men, who in New York seem to rather like
that which is dishonorable and to frown upon
anything savoring of better stuff. 1t is dollars
to cents that Mrs. Langtry never becomes Mrs.
Gebhard Meanwhile don't let any enthusias
tic newspaper correspondents stuff you into be-
lieving he is genteel, elegant young man. |
out on that lay Gerhard is a vulgar, fashily
clothed, pimply, self-assertive, noisy dude.
He never was anything else and he never can
be. II isn't in him.