St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-12

Belle, who was his senior by some
seven years. and was already the
mother OF two children. He had writ
ten certain compromising letters to
her, ana concluded that matrimOny
was preferable to breach of promise
case. They had only been mar
Tied nine days when his lord
ship deserted her ladyship and fed TO
the continent, and in March of last year
he began an action for divorce from his
beautiful Belle. 1t was the most SEN
satiOndl divorce case London had known
for years. Lady Dunlo went to live
with her sister Flo at Cherwell house,
Mortimer Crescent Post, St. Johns
Wood, in the northwest quarter of the
metropolis. Much of the testimony is
said to have been perjured.
Bellies Defense.
Lady Dunlo defended herself vigor-
OuSly. She was Of a good enough
family. she said. to entitle her to be the
daughter-in-law of the "cantanker0us"
Old man, Lord Clancarty, who was
drinking himself to death"
1t was Lady ClancarIy, however,
whom Lady DunlO charged with being
the cause of her trouble. -'She knows
her husband cannot live much longer at
the rate he IS going" she said, land at
his death l would become Countess
ClancartY, while she would be put
upon the shelf as dOwager countess"
Bellies Victory.
The Jury IN the case brought in a YER
diet for the fair defendant on July 30
1890. and the court granted the cost of
the action against Lord DunlO. 4 vast
crowd gathered about the court house,
awaiting The verdict. and when Lady
DunlO made her appearance after it had
been announced she was greeted with
cheers. Her victory brought ner lucra-
tive offers of all kinds, one to visit
America on a song and dance tour at
$500 a week, but she declined it. Lord
DunlO, after the suit, begged her for
giyeness, and she finally became recon
ciled, and the pair have lived happily
together ever since.
Belle Becomes Countess.
Influenza became the fashionable dis
ease in England. Lord Clancarty fell a
victim to il, and dlcd last month, after
a few days sickness. When Lord DunlO
arrived his father was dead. Lady
DunlO was playing Venus at Plymouth
when the news reached her that she
was Countess of Clancarty.
His of the Apron String.
The Illustrated American draws this
conclusion from the Clancarty case:
The British idea i'll rearing boys is to
have the nursery influence supreme.
When a boy gets a bit older he
IS guarded by mald-SerYant and
lady instructress-the first attend
ing to his walks, while the sec
ond IS held responsible for his in
door conduct. A tutor comes next-a
man usually selected for his dignity and
severity: and so it goes. until at last.
after years Of repression. the college
gates are opened and liberty unrestricted
Is his. What wonder British lads abuse
their Independence so shamefully, and
SOW dlSgracefnl oats their entire family
are often forced to reap with tears?
No boy in all England was reared
under more rigid and relentless chaper-
Onage than the heir to the Ciaucartv
earldOm. Guarded and forbidden the
most ordinary privileges boys enjoy, he
was launched in London after his major
Iry an adolescent with naturally weak
nature. rendered dOubly soft by his un-
fortunate training. OF course. he was
guilty Of every absuTdIty and indiscre-
tions no American youth would ever
dream Of committing. His lady mother,
the Countess ClancaTty, is said to be the
prOudest woman of the British realm
her pride poor possession indeed
without wit to balance it, y"