The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-06-26
WOMAN MAY WIN DERBY
Blue Ribbon OF Horse World
May Go to Ex-Actress.
voLoDYOvsTI Is THE FAvoRITE
LeSy Neux. Eccentric Ex-nnIlct GIRL.
obnid. Likely to lie the First of Her
sex 60 own winner of the Historic
Race-some of Her queer Actions.


srx 60 own winner Of the Historic
Race-some of Her queer Actions.
II would appear as II the English
Derby. that blue ribbon which both
Lord Rosebery and the late Lord Derby
declared they priced more highly than
either the order of the Garter or their
premiership, was to be carried of this
year for the first time on record 10y a
woman. the eN-varicty show singer
who now bears the name Of Lady
Meux. for her horse, Nolodyoyski is 50
far and away ahead of all other Derby
favoritcs that his winning OF the race
is regarded MS a foregoue conclusion in
sporting circles.
The horse had been leased uy Lady
MeuX to Lord William BerCsfurd. who
bad charge Of its training, aud when
he died the other day his widow at first
declined To surrender IT, The courts
were appealed to in the matter These
have decided that NolodyovSd is the
property of Lady MeuX and that the
lease lapscd with the death OF Lord
william Bercsford, while the Jockey
club has decided that inasmuch as the
nag was nominated for the Derby
Jointly 10y Lady Moux and by Lord
William Beresford his demise does not
in any way cancel the nomination.
Lady MeuX. Who races under the
name of MIR. Theobald." is one Of the
most eccentric of titled women In Eng
land and is forever before the public
Although over 40. says the London cor
respondent of the New York Journal.
she is extremely handsome, with short,
curly hair, bright complexion and ad-
mlrable teeth. she has an income Of
nearly 100000 a year, two maguih-
cent country seats, a great town man
sion on Park lane, facing Loudouder-
ry House, a deer forest in Scotland. a
magnificent residence in Paris and the
vast majority of the stock in the ccle-
brated McuX brewery.
Ii was while pirouetting ON the
stage of a music hall at Brighton un-
der the name of valerie Langdon"
that Lady Meux first attracted the at
tentiOn Of the enormously wealthy
Henry MouX, only son Of the multi
millionaire brewer baronet Of that
name, who was under restraint as an
incurable lunatic, his property being
administered by trustees pending the
majority Of his son.
Young Henry MeuX soon became in.
fatuated with the ballet girl and re-
solved to marry her. Els relatives
and guardians did everything that lay
in their power to prevent the mar
riage. But the fair Valerie was shrewd
and determined overcamp all Obsta-
cles, was welded to young MeuX and
drove off straight from the office of the
registrar where the ceremony had
taken place to the lawyers OF the
MeuX family. to whom she trium-
phandy announced her victory.
\ few years afterward her demented
father-iu-law died. and. while her hus-
band Inherited his fathers barouetcy
and entered into uncomfortable and
undisputed possession of all his vast
I wealth. the variety actress became
Lady Meux.
Her husband remained devoted to
tired of satisfying all her strange
caprices. Thus when Temple Bar.
which formerly constituted the west
ern entrance and gateway to the city
of London, was removed from the
place which it had occupied for hun
dreds Of years she induced her bus
band to buy 1t and to have 1t re-erect-
l I'D ittr %. q .
the MeuX country place, Theobalds
Park, which is within a drive OF the
| metropolis.
When in Egypt, Lady Meux achieved
a good deal of notoriety 10y her efforts
20 buy the obelisk at Heliopolis. the
only one Of "Cleopatra's needles" that
still remains standing on its original
site. She was Convinced that the obe-
lisk would constitute an excellent pend
ant at Theobald's Park for Temple Har
and was only prevented from making
an offer to the Egyptian government
FOR the purchase OF the sphinx by the
manifest impossibilty Of transporting
that hoary granite monster to Eng
! land.
" W. t'Ai AANhAg hhhA hlNhs Hf ltA Z
all his property to his wife, and while
some of the uses which she has made
thereof are open TO question 10y reason
of their ecceutrlcity there are others
for which she deserves much credit
! Thus when the war IN South Africa
broke out and Lady Meux learned OF
the lack OF artillery she Immediately
bought from the great ordnance hrm Of
Armstrong Whltworth d Co. an entire
battery OF artillery, which she present
ed complete. guns. ammunition. horses
and equipment, to Lord Roberts as
| commander In chief In South Africa.
Finding that Bulge. the chief OF the
| Egyptian and Syrian department Of the
| British museum, had succeeded in max.
| ing remarkable translations OF lnscrlp-
| lions dealing with the Ethioplc life OF
! Alexander the Great, but had been un-
able 10 scrape together sufficient mon
] IN 10 70 1 4