The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-02

American ladies mrryinE British mo- biemen and helping them along" with Yankee dollars. Fourteen years after she was married to Lord Randolph Churchill. her husbands brother. the riproaring eighth Duke of Marlborough, followed Randolph's example and took an American wife with dollars. She was Mrs Hamersley, nee Lily Prico of Troy. N Y. Mrs. Hamersley gener- ously gave of her Yankee dollars to re- habilitate tumbledown, historic Blein- helm castle At length. the eighth Marlborough died and Mrs. Hamersley was gently sidetracked out of Blen- helm. leaving a large portion of her wealth behind. Then appeared on the scene the ninth Duke of Marlborough Charles Richard John Spencer Church III. This young gentleman did not ap- parently amount to much in himself but he got great boost when he In like manner took an American wife with dollars-millions of them She Is gentle Consuelo Vanderbilt. Consuelo gives largely in charity. cultivates her intellect, takes good care of her sons, lets her Duke have all the money he wants and continues the work of fixing up Blenheim castle where Mrs. Ham ersley. laid 1t down.
 V Other American wives of Churchills have made th"m a,r;-lv with dollars. 1Aduy IbdHQOlpH SHuTCuill IS more HkG Sarah Jennings. the illustrious forbear of Randolph. in that she brought her brains to bear on the task of making something out of him. It must be ad- mitted that of themselves, with perhaps one exception. the Churchills have sell dom achieved much since the first Duke, Sarah Jenningss husband The excep- ton Is that promising young member of Parliament, Winston Churchill. Lady Do ArIV Lt,f uNl 1R water we believe he gets his intellec- tual gifts from his brilliant American mother.
 Jennie Jerome married a title, took the man with 1t and made the most and the best of him. He was capable enough, but gloomy tempered and err ratio. Nevertheless his beautiful and fascinating wife put nim into politics and showed him ahead with all her might. She obtained recognition at first because of her husbands title, then on account of her own brilliant qualities. She quickly became a fa- vorite with King Edward. then Prince of Wales, and equally so with Alex andra She held herself brave and high. In her husbands parliamentary campaigns she personally visited the voters and gained their ballots for him. Good Queen Victoria herself was IOHu OI luS lONely dItu American woman. At length Lord Randolph was appointed a member of the British cabinet, being made Chan cellor of the Exchequer. He was also leader of the Conservative party in the House of Commons. All at once he re- signed both these high places and re- tired disgruntled. It was whispered in British high life that he did 1t out of jealousy of Prince Eddy" eldest son
 Nf n.-Nw TAIA aR..I Raar cinating Lady Randolph Churchill was the object of Prince Eddy's calf love" in violent form at that and Lord Randy didn't like it. There was not breath of anything to be said against his love- ly American wife She couldn't help it if Prince Eddy admired her, but Lord Randolph didn't like 1t all the same. He went to Africa and wrote some letters of travel and at length there came over him the lingering dis ease of which he died, and during the progress of which Lady Randolph nursed him with devoted care.
 After his death she went to Paris and lived quietly awhile, wearing her mourning robes in a most becoming manner and for sufficient time to sat- isfy even British propriety. Then she reappeared, and, behold, the first thing she did was to fall in love with one of her eldest sons young chums, George Cornwallis West It is true she had good provocation thereto, for he fell in love with her first, most romantical- ly and intensely and consistently and would not give her up even at the be- hest of his high placed mamma and titled sisters. Under the strong inspi- ration of her love for the handsome youth. twenty-five years younger than herself Lady Randolph plunged into varied activities. She wrote, she be- came editor and proprietor of The An glo-S Saxon Review, she was Vice-Prosi- dent or the Ladies' Primrose Leag gue she fitted out the American hospital ship Maine and weRt with it to the South African war. Her son fought in the Boer war, so did her lover, who was wounded. sun stricken and in- valided home.
 Lady Randolph returned to England and in 1900 was married to MT. West Heavens, how the British matron howled! The Churchills didn't like 1t, Queen Victoria was offended, the CoTnwallis Vests were madder than words can describe, and 1t was freely predicted Jennie Jerome could never hold up her head again in British so- ciety
 We'll 1t was a pretty romance any how.
 Those who have not yet had all TO- nance and sentiment, ground out of their souls will be glad to know that this fascinating American woman has