The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17
FAMOUS DIVORCES.
CHARMING WOVEN WHO ARB
mot WIDOWS"

4WO AMERICANS w no 1roQ OF Tnetr
Foreign Lords-Divorcees Who Are
Received in Society-The Fuller Case
Recalled-Pretty Mrs. Daniels-The
Aston Family's Contribution to the
Divorce Colony.
(CopprIoht 1897
New YORK, April 16.-Divorcousl 1t
seems to be popular appeal in American
courts just now, and the responses are with
few exceptions eagerly affirmative. One
great divorce case has followed quick upon
the heels Of another, statesmen have lent
their pens TO the formation Of the divorce
history of this time, social kings and queens
have aired their family skeletons in court
and even the clergy has come to the front in
defense of the hasty marriage ceremonies
which it performed.
We are rapid, we Of the last decade of
the nineteenth century, and we gloat over
the story OF the bullet that cut short a
liaison as we greedily devour every iota of
the correspondence which proves one man a
eur and a coward ana another @ rather
faltering husband.
New York has it full quota of pretty d.
vorces, although. if latest advices are cor
rect, another, 10 the person of an Astor
beauty, will soon be added to the list and
one OF some years standing will soon re-
turn.
A divorce, in the words Of society leader.
is IAN ex-married lady who is, unfortun-
ately, not widow" In other words, she is
not received in the very best circles unless
the circumstances Of the divorce proved her
altogether the injured party. Such an one,
for instance is Mrs. Rurke-Roche, the
famous Miss Work of several years ago.
She is now living quietly in her country
home, although often seen in New York and
much sought after by the ''best club SET {"
Throughout the great trouble, which ended
in the divorce granted by a Delaware
court, she showed herself the gentlest
OF wives and the most honor
able Of women. Her husband, the son of a
member of the House of Lords, had proved
burden not alone to her charming self but
to the entire wealthy Work family upon
whom he had fastened himself.
While she is perhaps the most interesting
and intellectual Of New York's famous
divorces, there are others who have
dropped out of the social swim, but whose
charming personalities continue to enliveu
select circles of chosen friends. At the
wedding Of one of these, Mrs. Child's, then
Mrs. SFosdick, not so very long ago, there
were four divorces, all of them handsome
young and anxious to try married life again.
One Of them is, l understand, about to be-
come the wife of wealthy coffee merchant,
himself divorced man.
Aud this reminds me of that other coffee
merchant, James Brown Potter, who, it is
now again affirmed, has quietly secured q
divorce from his actress wife. But Mrs.
Potter ia long since 'out of the social
world, " as fashionable society woman put
it TO me the other day. divorce or not
the fact that she has gone on the stage is
the crime which has brought about her
ostracism.n
Perhaps the prettiest of the young women
who have unhappily figured in divorce
courts recently is Mrs. DR.. Fuller, not yet
20 and already a burden to the man to
whom she had plighted her troth.
| understand Mrs Fuller is living
in California since the husbands
failure to secure the coveted freedom, but
the correspondent in the case. Judge Leices-
ter Holue, often meets the husband, and |
am told that another set-to like that which
occurred between the men on a ferryboat
recently is not at all unlikely. In the mean
time Helen is conquering new worlds. Mrs
Fuller has large fortue in her own name,
aud spends it literally.
Should the Coleman Drayton- Borrowe
affair get into the divorce courts, as it prob
ably will, now that all the family unhappi-
ness is so thoroughly IN the public mind the
Astors will have furnished two very
pretty divorces to New York's rather
long list. Baroness de Stuers was the
first. Mrs. Dayton may be the Sec
ond. The boroness enjoyed her liberty
for so brief time that one hardly knows
whether she really became eligible as a
New York divorce. But she is an Aston
Caney, and they are of the very best the
cream, the $50" This, notwithstanding
the fact that the brother of Nine de Stuers
married his sisters governess, a charming
lady, who. as Mrs. Caney, occupies an ex-
allied position in society.
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brisk, is now living In Chicago, though
why no one knows, unless it be to keep
Within sight Of Sioux Falls should the ex-
husband make any effort to have the di-
vorce decree annulled. This he threatens.
Then there is the former Mrs. Sidney
Swan Turner, now Mrs. Elisha Dyer, third ,
one Of the few divorces who by right oocu-
pies leading and permanent position at all
social functions. Her unhappiness was
brief, and Baltimore mourned the loss of
one Of its handscmest, gentlest and most
charming women when she left the scene of
her marital martyrdom TO become Mrs.
Dyer.
1 noted recently on a New York hotel
register the name Of Mrs. julius Clarke
Daniels, and this reminded me Of that esca-
pade In which Chicago had its share, and In
which the second marriage was but the
sequel of the divorce Of few hours pre-
vious. The lady. who is still very young
and as handsome and charming
as ever, was Miss Gertrude Potter,
the western heiress, who married School
Boy Rust, then secured divorce and mar
ried the young New York man OF fashion,
Julius Clarke Daniels. l am told there is
not happier couple in New York city.
Society has no compassion for the erring
woman, although it makes some remarka-
BILE DETERMINATIONS at times recall Just
now in this connection the divorce case in
which Mrs. Florence Padelford figured.
That was not so very long ago, and yet with
what zest did Mrs. Psdelford join in the
Newport gaveties of summer or two ago.
Society dropped its bars to let her in ''as the
fisncee of the Hon. John st. Aubyn," as the
great leader of New York society put it at
the time.
l might mention scores Of these divorces
of the few past years, but the present LIST is
confined to those VINO are, those who will be
and those who may be. The Deacon case
belongs to the will bes, the Collier case of
Brooklyn that Of the may bes." Both will
probably be given as little airing as possible.
In the Deacon case there will be no opposi-
ton, and social ostracism awaits the wife in
her American home, as it has already met
her in France.
The divorce case of DR.. Collier OF Brook
lyn is one Of the social mysteries Of the best
set in the City of Churches, and unless
trouble arises, the matter will be adjusted
quietly and the world will be little the wiser
One OF Fthe titled divorces who often
comes to New York and who is recognized
in the best circles here, I am told, is the
formor Countess de Montercole, pretty Vir-