The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-19
COMING TO The END
MRS. LANeTRY is SELLING HER
HOUSES
The Most Successful of Modern Adven-
= turesses Is on the Down Grade
Usual Fate of Those Who Live Too
, Fast-The End Is Always the Same

An account of Mrs. Langtry which
has been going the rounds of the East
ern press is very interesting, and at the
same time is a story with moral.
1t is a case of great beauty being the
ruin of a woman. She began life on
the island of Jersey and was married to
gentleman. He took her up to Lon
don where her beauty attracted great
attention and she became member
of the fast set, which then revolved
about the Prince of Wales. Almost at
once her head was turned. True, the
woman did not seem to have any moral
sense. She became one of the most
munificent spenders of money that the
modern world has known. She left her
husband and he, poor man, died of
broken heart The rest of her career is
we'll known. Not very much of an
actress, her beauty attracted crowds
and she made immense sums, the
greater part of it on her tours Of Amer
lea, which were conducted on the plans
of royal progress. Special trains,
private cars and yachts, jewels fit for
queen, gowns costing a fortune fast
living of every kind, marked the life of
this remarkable woman. A few years
ago she gave up the stage and went in
for fast horses and racing, and con-
sorted with the rowdiest kind of sports
men in England. She made and squan-
dered millions. 1t was about this time
that fairly decent young man actually
married her, and right here is a mystic
rious phenomenon; that a woman of the
kind under discussion can usually find
a good husband. For undoubtedly the
1uckless young man who gave her his
name was better sort than she was
accustomed to. OF course he did not
remain with her, but how in the world
he came to marry her has never been
explained. The article concerning her
says that Mrs. Langtry is coming to the
end of her tether. That her jewels,
houses and horses are being offered for
sale, and it is quite evident that the
Lily is in need of money
Why it should seem at all strange to
anybody that an adventures, like the
woman in question, should come to an
adventures end, is not understand
able. A woman cannot live as this
woman has lived and then have a
peaceful old age. There is but one end
for fast life, and Mrs. Langtry must
reap what she has sown. Read the lives
of the great adventures of history and
1t is easy to see that even in this world
they come to the logical end of sin and
riotous living. When Napoleon was at
the height of his power and had con-
quered nearly all of Europe, and was
almost the dictator of the world, some
wise man who had watched his career
and knew that he was merely a sue
cessful adventurer, said that if Ma
poleon died without falling from his
nigh estate, he could not believe there
was God. But Napoleon fell; he
spent his last years in exile and died
friendless and alone. And so does ev-
cry man who wins success by Injustice
The mills of the gods grind exceeding
sure, after all, and the man or woman
who spends his or her strength in dis
honor, In fast living, in extravaganza,
Will inevitably reach a dishonored old
age and die unhonored and unsung.
But when women are great beauties
like Mrs. Langtry, and have not deli
cate moral sense, their. heads are very
quickly turned. Persons of that kind
never learn anything; if they would
look about bit, they would see on ev-
cry side men and women who are reap
ing the reward of an evil life. Yet they
go on preparing for themselves the
same unpleasant fate. The beginning
of the end has come with Mrs, Lang
Try; her extravagances have grown,
she must have large sums of money to
live as she is accustomed, and now she
is on the downward path of life 1t is
never too late for one to repent and try
TO make reparation, but there has been
nothing reported of Mrs. Langtry that
would show she regards herself as
having anything for which to repent
Her present condition is merely an
added confirmation of the fact that in
TINS HE we receive exactly the treat