Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-15
LILLE LANGTRY.
The True Story of the LIES Loves of the
Jersey Lily.

OcEsoY LILY
Nsp York Citizen.
will carry her quickly back here, where she
has just been purchasing a home in Thir-
tetuth street. The story Of her life's loves
has never been truly told. When she
came, a beautiful young bride, to London it
vas htr fortune TO sit tor an artist to whose
studio Prince Leopold was q constant
visitor He met her. was struck with her
if not at first striking yet peculiarly classic
bt auty, which grove on you the more you
iCok. 80 presented her to his brother, the
Prince Of Wales, who was fascinated from
be fIst. 1t is the custom in
sCciely in London when tho
Prince accepts an invitation to send
him 3 card aud ask him to afiS the names
oi ans he might desire TO meet him. Mira.
LaDguy's was always affixed. She became
be Tcrue. She was for the lime the dream
Of the poet and painter. The Duke Of
sutherland said when here that one night
At a great ball at the Stafford House, as she
entered and walked down the hall alone,
simply dressed in white, there was q pause
in the music and dance to gaze on her su.
perb loneliness. And so her loves current
rsD smoothly slorg until one of those fancies
which will come to women ran in
10 break it. She had met in society Sir
George C~hetwynd, loved him, as Camille
says, and felt that he loved her. There are
many who may remember the story of how
the beautiful Lady Florence Psget, on the
morning Of her intended wedding with the
wealthy Mr.. Henry Chaplin. quietly at an
early hour got into her brougham, drove to
o secluded church, and there met and mar
RED the young Marquis of Hastings. On
his death she became the wife of Chetwynd.
She was seized while still young
with paralysis. She took TO reli-
gi0n when she lost the power TO
sin, and went through a course of rituaistic
curates. Her husband. left the power Of
SHINING, continued to sin, and found that
happiness, fed from curates, Langtry,
"dWelt with thee" Society could not for.
give in a Bsronet what It had pardoned in
q Prince, threw up It's hands and eyes. Mira.
Langtry found no more her accustomed
place on the Princes ticket, and quietly re-
tired. The place Of her retirement (near
Twickhenham) was not far from
Mr.. L~abouchere's villa Of ST. Annes. His
gentle heart was touched BY her woman
sorrow. he advised her 10 seek sohce on
the stage, the iorlorn hope Of the afflicted
female, and set his Wife-R Welltrained
actress, Henrietta H~odgson-to coach her.
The result-she came here, was seer and
conquered. The aduiriDg gaze Of Mr.
Frederick Gebhard fell on and followed
her. Bot, accustomed to such admiration,
she merely regarded him as but one more
scalp on her well stocked belt. Sir George
Chetwynd had agreed to follow her aud az
company her round the States; and he had
actually taken his room on board the
Bolhnia and gone as Ear as Liverpool With
the just deceased Earl Of Aylesford, his
companion to be, when 50 many messages
and 60 many apparent proofs Of her faith
~lessuess came crowding on him that he re-
turned home. lord Aylesford left alone.
Mr.. GebhArd, who had, with an assertion
Of heroic selfsacriice at the shrine
of public feeling. left her at St Louis
really to be ont Of the way when Chetwynd
came, when Chetwynd did not come re-
turned to her side and he remained there
Indifference has grown into love. She ID
about to seek divorce, and they will prob
ably be married in the autumn. They are
both wealthy. She is beautiful and very
amiable. agreeable and gentle. HE'S 6re
youpg fellow, and whatever other faults he
may carry. has behaved in this instance. 30
use the vulgar ~vernacular. like q brick"
So, as Claude Melnotte prayed, may ell
good angels, etc, ETC."