Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-28

In every club in London, and,
quietly, IN many CT the fashionable
drawing rooms, whispers are to be
heard accounting in this and that way
for the supposed arrangement of the
duke and duchess of Marlborough. The
young American woman is leading
practically l.fe apart from her hus-
band; they see little of each other
that Is, little, considering the fact that
their honeymoon days ought scarcely
to have waned-and While society Won
ders, it also explains in its own pc
culiar way
The young duchess has been seen
more than once dining alone, some
times, too, in the exclusive restau-
rants, while the young duke has on
more than one occasion lately been
noted in his old haunts, the Empire
and the Tivoli Whatever may be the
cause of the seeming drifting apart of
the couple, it seems to be fact beyond
denial that there is some difficulty in
the way of complete entente cordiale
Is Vanderbilt Cash Shut off?
The report most common to the pub
lie is that the marriage of William K
Vanderbilt the father Of the duchess,
has cut off the cash supply, that the
Marlborough find themselves really
hard pressed for cash and unable
longer tc keep IN the princely enter
tainments they nave been wont to give
in the past.
That they are in need of money is
without doubt. The recent sale OF
many Of the valuable pictures that
adorned the walls OF Blenheim shows
this Dukes selling works of art at
auction means only one thing. Many
impecunious titled folk in England
from time To time have parted with
Their art treasures to tide over ffnan-
cial stringency, but sales of this char
acte4 are privately arranged. Rarely
do they call in the auctioneer.
TIE Christie sale created a sensa-
tien throughout every part of England.
TIE famous picture of Gladstone by
Frank Hold, two beautiful Titians, a
Hobbema. an Alma Tadema, and three
samples of the Italian school have
long hung on the walls of Blenheim
went under the hammer and brought
but a trifie This. with the broad
spaces of the walls of unfinished
Sunderland house without the prestige
Of picture, has, Of course, set Lon
don talking over the dukes sacrifice"
Mrs. Belmont Takes Duke to Task.
But the reason of it all? Only a
few of London's millions know this.
The wise oles say the beginning was
in an angry scene in enc Of the small
drawing rooms in Blenheim last March,
when Mrs. Be,ront, mother Of the
duchess, travi! the Ion in his den, and
laid home to him what would be re-
CURED Of him if ne expected to find
financial favor at the hands OF the
Vanderbilt family. There had been
sone trouble before this time. many
via evtravaga nces, and the press
was filed with more CT less garbled
-enor4s Of the unhappiness of the
EflWE GIC ness. MULLINS WetS NfCi SN40
- related regarding the result Of the
visits of Mrs. Belmont to Blenheim.
But since that time gossip has reached
the public in dribs and drabs until a
fairly accurate account Of the scene is
reasonable public property. Servants
viii talk despite even the financial
adva ltages of working for such
family as the Marlboroughs.
Mrs. Belmont. it is said, freely taxed
the Young duke with his shortcomings
ana placed before him the only condi-
lions. stated TO him seven years before.
q wh:ca The Vanderbilt dollar would
aprear. fer desrite the fact that Willie
K. Vanderbilt and his first wife lcng
ESQ decided to 90 their separate ways,
there IS yet tact understanding as
to iust what shall be done for young
Marlborough.
His veins used to the virus of bache-