The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-21
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM

A sense of relief, even if shadowed
with chagrin, will be felt in the ultra
credulous set, which takes up nobodies
who pretend to be somebodies, to learn
that Miss Beatrice de Lysle, who posed
here three years ago as the Countess de
Lysle, and laid claim to connection
with the tip-toppers~ in English aris-
tocracy, has been exposed in London.
She borrowed SIS from a civil engineer
of West Kensington, =on the strength
of her alleged relationship to the
Wyndham family-asserting with an
effrontery simply amazing, that she
had been married to George Wynd
ham, chief secretary for Ireland, in
1897, and that the wedding was ceIe-
brated in Sorrento, Italy. AS Mr..
Wyndham had wife living at the
time, such a marriage would have
made him bigamist, but the engineer
swallowed the story, and advanced the
money, admitting on the witness
stand after the arrest of the adven-
turess for fraud. that he really believed
her story of the marriage, notwith-
standing its reflection on one of the
most morally upright men in the
British empire. When the countess"
was in this country her charm of man
ner and loneliness of person gave her a
ready welcome to homes in New York
where a title is the surest passport
There was nothing vulgar or common
about her. Her intimate knowledge Of
old families and a wonderful familiar
ity with heraldry, were distinct aids
to an engaging personality in gaining
recognition unsougllt.
Viewpoints jaded spirits have been
logged into something like activity by
the proposed self-eXpatriatio of
James j. Van Allen, because it revives
the memories of the choice tid-bits OF
gossip that followed Mr.. Van Allen 5
violent opposition to the marriage OF
his daughters. Indeed, the unpleasant
publicity Of the love affairs of these
two charming girls is. said to be tbs
moving cause for the abandonment or
his American citizenship. Sara Van
Allen became the wife Of Robert j.
Collier, and Miss May was to have been
married to Robert r. Remington, bur
Jimmie" as he is known to his inti-
mates, and always so designated by the
most respectable of his admirers,
Stornled and. funed to such purpose
that the match-which really was a
ease of love on both sides-was broken
off. The tragic and mysterious death
of Remington: follow ed. He was found
dead in the reading room, Newport, in
August, 1909. shot through the head.
The reading room is the most, exclu-
sive rendezvous, for the fashionable set
in all Newport. and the tragedy caused
a profound sensation. There is little
doubt now that Remington killed him
Self, but the sensation mongers in
sisted on making q murder mystery or
1t, to the great distress of the. families
related and about to be related when
the engagement was .annulled. Mr..
Van Allen Will escape from these I'M
pleasant memories when he turns his
back On America.
Botany and foricnlturs-tha is to
say. the study thereof-has received a
decided Endorsement. by the success of
the LenoA horticultural society, where
Mrs. Edward Wharton and Mrs. Frank
Is. Sturgis took prizes in. the conlpeti-
ton. 1t was an artistic exhibition
throughout, and the arrangement or
vines and flowers was SO pretty that an
extraordinary interest was aroused and
it was voted that the cultivation OF the
flora gave more satisfaction than the
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