The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-17
MORE HEART THAN HEAD
The Reason Men Immediately Dis
graeed Find Favor With
the Women.
Miss Gardeners Devotion to Cor
don Cumming Compared With
Another Woman's.
Some Other Remarkable and puta.
BILE Alliances Made by Various Mem
beers of Noble Families.
We women have more heart than head,

We women have more heart than head.
Only on this ground is it possible to account
for the strange attraction which men rightly
or wrongly condemned to irremediable dis
grace find in our eyes. Is it attributable to
a feeling of pity for the object of persecu-
ton? Is it a desire of social martyr
don and sacrifce? Or is it merely
a love of notoriety and of fpur-
ing before the public as a sort of
feminine hero? These questions arise in
my mind when I recall the fact that Miss
Gamers devotion to Sir William Gordon
Cumming was by no means appreciated.
Indeed the %saciice of the duke of Grafton's
daughter, Lady Eleanor Hartford, may even
be said to have been far superior to that of
Lady Gordou-Cumming.
In 1875, when Lord Sutfield's brother, the
handsome and fascinating Walter Har-
bord, was caught cheating at baccarat at
the Circle de la Mediterranee at Nice, Lady
Eleanor was attending the deathbed of her
first husband, Herbert Eaton. The very no
ment she heard of the disgrace of the
dashinR major of the Seventh Hussals (the
"Cherubims," as they are called in the
s%ervice,) she left her husbands bedsIde
Gilla U LlO Ill llS u Iub uIBnDlOTau
man.
Eaton, who was one of the most charm
ing fellows Imaginable, and a thousand
times superior to Hartford in every wav
had made p will i'll his wife's favor, leaving
her the whole large fortune and the superb
country seat and estate Of wort
Park, Cambridge.
OF course rs soon as ever he became
aware of her flight he sent for his solicitor
to alter the will. but the man of law ar
rived too late. Eaton was dead before 10
reached the hail, and Lady Eleanor
inherited all his property. This WAS
fortunate IN moie senses than one, for Wal
rer Hartford was scarcely the kind of man
to marry a pGnnlless woman, even though
she had sacrificed her station in society.
her family and her position at court for LIS
sake.
Lady Eleanor'a sister-in-law, the wife OF
her brother, Lord Euston, was foruerlv
known as one of the most Infamous fire.
quentels of the Burlington arcade. which
after Il certain hour in the afternoon be-
comes the happy hunting ground, not of
the d~enl-monde, but of the quart do
monde"
Lord Euston has tried in vain TO secure a
divorce. But since her marriage the noto-
rious Kate Cook-that was her nom de
guerre--Eas behaved with such circum-
spectlon That she has furnished no pretext
Tor any charge of betrayal OF her VOWS.
oilc VIII therefore MT tlo death of the
present Duke OF Grafton, n yenel able gen
tleMan between seventy and eighty wears
OF age, become the Duchess of Grafton.
Oue OF the countess of customs sisters.
now aead: likewise succeeded IN entrapping
III "A marriage II man of rank. high up in the
service OF the crown, and holding ore of tie
most resnonsibie positions III the civil ser
vice. During her lifetime he made re-
Eeated attempts To force her down society's
throat. but OF course he was doomed to
failure. For apart from her extremely
e%f-lslve and vulgar personality, socie-
~ could not forget that u well known