The morning times., 1896-12-07
AMERICAN FAMILIES
STRANGELY DIVIDED
Wives Spend in Europe Money Their
Husbands Make Here.
Some Striking Examples Among the
Best known Wealthy People
of This Country.

one or the peculiar phases OF American
social life is the number OF prominent mar
RED couples who live on either side If the
Atiahtlc, one member entertaining in Lon
don while the other keeps up an estab-
llshment in either New York, Chicago or
San Francisco, says the New York P~ess.
Almost any number OF cases could be cited
where the Atlantic separated almost CON
stantly the husband and wife
People often ask where Mrs. John W
Mackay is when they see her stalwart and
eminent husband pursuing from one years
end TO another the even tenor Of his money
making and housekeeping way in New
York. Mr. Mackay lives in u bachelor
apartment in Fifth avenue; Mrs. Mackay's
London mansion i'll Carleton House Terrace
has been for more than q decade the
scene OF social entertainments, at which
royalty has sometimes been present. Since
they closed their magnificent San Fran .sco
house in the seventies the Mackays prac-
ucally have been separated by the Atlantic.
WIFE a SOCIAL LEADER
The wife has devoted her time to society
and has been a social leader at least in
the American colony IN both London and
Paris. The husband has devoted his DAYS
IN New York To Il rigid business routine, in
which telegraph and cable lines figured
conspicuously. His nights have on rare oc-
casons been frightened by bachelor din
ners, at which Roscoe COnkiing, Colonel
Tom Ochiltree, Senator Jones of Nevada
and Edward s. Stokes were welcome
guests. Society in New York knows him
not, and has never known him. and if he
ever regretted 1t nobody knows it.
He has always remained the plain. blunt
lrlshman, If you please, big boned and cold
eyed, i'll suited to drawing-roOms, but lord
ing IL over hundreds of employees, indulg-
Ing under the stress of emotion in a brogiIe
winch might not be as welcome now to
the ears of his stately spouse as when he a
mine foreman, first wooed her in her modest
boarding house on the ComstOck lode and
married and cared for her, to the tIeIigh
or The OTHER boarders, who all sympathiZed
with he struggles of DR.. Bryant's wi low.
Once every few years Mrs. Mackay comes
TO America and Mr.. Mackays visits To the
other side are almost yearly But ne has
never seemed to care for the sociey OF the
Prince of Wales.
OCEANS BETWEEN THEM.
The first thing Mr. and Mrs Coleman
Drayton and Mr.. and Mrs. E. Parker Dea-
con did after their little mutual unpleasant
ness OF a few years ago was to separate
themselves by salt water Mrs Deacon and
Mrs. Drayton wercby and by relieved from
matrimonial bonds by law but the Atlantic
divorced them quite satisfactorily before
the law stepped in. Mrs. Deacon became
quite Parisienne, and Mrs. Ora ytOn's So
uBintH To .i,'ui .ri.u rams wiU.i l.,-t. mother
while Mr. Ora yton lived quietly on at Ber-
nardvilie, \. j, made her fayorite abroad.
while he still remained popular AT home.
When the home OF Mr.. and Mrs John
Bloodgood, opposite the Windsor Hotel, was
turned into a shop, Mr.. BiOodgood took an
apartment in the same locality, at Forty
seventh street ana Fifth avenue Mrs
B!oodgood soon owned a fine house in Lon
demand became Identified with S0ciervt here.
TO some extent. But when death overlook
her handsome husband. for many years
considered the best dressed man In New
York, his widow came across seas at once.
III ana AS u"llIe> LIC,sH & o. ser nave.
or six years been separated by the At
antic az Wen is the Pacific and the Indian
oceans. for the most part, although the
aW siiil holds them Tieidly to their mar
riage vows James Brown Fotter's dcvo-
ion 10 his daughter, Fiji, now leautiful
Young oman, is well known. FOR her ne
Keeps up carefully regulated home at
Tuxedo, in which Mrs. o ter has not nut
fcos for many a year.
MRS. WARREN'S HOME.
Mrs. Charlotte Warren, who's. husband.
j Esaias Warren, is and has continued to
be resident of Chicago. has been a we'll
known member of he American colony in
iars for some years.
Poor Mrs. Langtry's efforts to obtain
legal residence at two different FONTS in
California. IN order 10 lay the foundations
Tor suit for divorce on the ground of de-
Sertion, have been almost lUdicrousIy I'M
successful. The ranch thrived. but not the
salt. She is still Mrs. Langtry, bound to
he ruddy-Checked, clear-eyed EugIishIuau
Eho has calmly RETAINED from divorCing
Ter, and who came over TO New York in
at A
rs everybody then thought, TO get facts for
a divorce i'll his own behalf Mr.. I.augtry
right along, has kept salt water between
himself and his wife. even if il was Cnlv
he strait between old England and the Isle
Of Jersey But his beautiful mate is d ought
not 10 have been discouraged by many
failures; she thinks she'll tie a free woman.
IL is said, before very long.
THE CHANNEL BETWEEN THEM.
Lady Grantley prefers Dinard to Lon
don, where her husband now lives
Mrs. JOhnC. OsgUOd, whose husband lives
in Colorado and in New York, finds her
owncongenial circlein London. Sh~writes.
entertains and rides to hounds living On
the British, while lie prefers the American
side of the Big Pond
OF tie San Francisco colony Mrs Porter
lives in Paris while her husband resides
by the Golden Gate
Mrs. w W. Weigley, wife of the we'll
known lawyer, and daughter OF John W.
Forney, has a studio in Paris, while Ter
husband is a successful member of the
Philadelphia bar.
Countess Pappenheim, nee Wheeler. of
Philadelphia. lives in that city, while her
husband stays abroad.
The Painters Dream.
I'D love to paint her as she is"