Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-01
'CARRUTHERS LUCK.

When vivien Dawnay Tilted young Car
1uthers, all his cynical friends declared
that it was blessing, and even those
who were not cynics admitted that Mist
Dawnay's trcachery might prove bless.
ing in disguise. But the heart of 81 Is
virgin loan, so that the first furrow Of the
plowshaIe cuts deeply, though 1t does not
scar forever. Carruthers was neither COM
forted by consolation nor hardened by Gym
icism. He had loved earnestly, and his
Indebtedness was in proportion The
sting of stings lay in the fact that Vivien
Dawnay had thrown him over for mere
money. She was now Mrs. Jessup.
AS regards Jessup, he had a huge fac.
tory on Long Island, mansion up town
and villa at Newport. He was not Of So
ciety, but he was gradually entering the
mystic circle that rings society around.
10 pass the boundary with due leclat he
deemed himself in need of just such wife
as was Vivien Jessup. So it came to pass
that there occurred a business transaction
between these two. For his money and his
potentialities Miss Dawnay barte.ed her
youth, her beauty and her undeniable de-
scent from Pocahontas. Accordingly they
were married, and young Carruthers fam
cied that this mere curtain raiser" OF his
life was all his worlds drama.
Carruthers was in fair way to go to
the devil when Vivien Dawnay Tilted him.
He did not go thither, however, but to
war instead 1t was the war of those days.
Some nervous courtier of the emperor OF
Mandalay had unwittingly trodden upon
the sacred pigtail of the ambassador from
Cambodia. Within moon and a half ev
cry pigtail in all Cambodia tingled respon
sively; hence the war.
I have spoken of Carruthers' cynica
friends Most cynics are good natured, ant
Hardness was the best natured of cynics
Hardness was q war correspondent, thu
stormy petrol of newspaperdom. He said t.
Carruthers: II sail for Mandalay tomor
row. You feel like making war on so
ciety. Come with me and make war ol
the Cambodians instead. ' And Carruth
ers went.
Nv
Tho Investment which Mr.. Jessup mad
did not turn out so we'll after all. A merel.
rich man who is also single stands
chance of sneaking into society by way 0
club parlors and yacht lunches, but mar
ried roturier even il his wife belong to
first family of Virginia" does not al
ways find open the front doors of Fift
avenue Moreover, .Jessup had married a
an inconvenent epoch There was rea
serene highness within the gates, and h
meditated marriage with the daughter G
a certain society she general. Through tn
medium of society papers the Prince 9
Hohenstauffen-P tilnpernickel' intention
were no secret. Under the circumstance
the introduction of Mrs. Jessup prove
difficult. You cannot ask an independent
high and mighty lord Of the empire t
dance the cotillon with the wife of Lon
Island manufacturer. At least the grea
danes up town argued in this WISE Poo
Vivien was very lonely at Newport an
still more lonely in New York. Jessu
had q short temper, and he lost it alto
gether when he found that his coup ha
failed Society papers began to say mast
things about the couple. Nasty things. ar
nastiest when true, and these paragraph
were hideously accurate.
In tho midst of it Ill the war in the cas-
collapsed with crash. To everybody
intense surprise, the forces of Mandala
made mince meat of the Cambodians
Then young Carruthers suddenly appeare
in London and wrote book. If the wa
was the war, then Carruthers' book wa
the book A year had passed without
new fad or a new lion. Carruthers an
his book filed the gap. Had not tn
young soldier author penetrated as far a
Bangkok and seen the peacock throne
Were there not grand, romantic storie
which made him the Joseph of mysterl
Gus oriental Potiphar's sultana? Th
Duchess of Gatherum fed him upon orta
lans and truffies in Lioncatch castle, an
his book went through five editions as
circus columbine goes through hoops.
When London bows down, New Yor
salaams Carruthers found himself twic
the hero in America that he had been
England. The great society she genera
heretofore alluded to intrigued for an il
PRODUCTION and hailed him off to Leno1
The Prince of Hohenstauffen-Pu mpel
nickel planned with him an excursion int
Burma. r.ss
One morning Mrs. Jessup, nee Dav
nay, read in her most detested society ps
per the following interesting item:
sFortune favors the brave. This wee
we announce the approaching wedding {
that modern Monte Christie, Mr.. Geore
CaIruthers, to Miss Virginia Van Ru.
ter 1t will be remembered that Mi
Van Ruyter and her $4,000 900 dow
were popularity supposed to bedestined IL
ii. 5. I'll. the Prince or HohenStauHel
Pumpernickel. This is not to be. Gossi
says that Miss Van Ruyter fell in 10y
with 'Carruthers Cambodianus' at fir
sight: Her hero is no needy fortune hun
er, for his recent work is coming none
and another book may shortly be expecte
from his pen.''
Mrs. Jessup displayed considerable
nature when her husband returned witt
out cards for the Van Astorbilt bal
Poor Vivien! She had been thinking
how differently matters might have falle
out If only she had remained the flancee
young Carruthers. New York Press