Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-24
'0STRAC|SM FOR
AMERICAN WOMAN
Society Cuts Lady Gordon Cum
ming Whose Husband Cheat
ed at Cards.,
LADY MARY'S LONDON GOSSIP.
snecial correspondence.

Special Correspondence
4 ONDON, Nov. liI met the Cor
don-Cummngs In London this
week on their way homo TO Scot
land. Lady Gordon cumming was
Florence Garner, Of New York. one OK
the Garner helresses, her sisters being
the Countess Dc Moltke, and the Mar
quise de Breteull. No woman ever
made greater sacrifices for love than
Florence Garner. To marry man
brought In guilty OF cheating at cards.
meant end means TO the day OF her
death social ostracism.
At the time OF the famous trial she
and Gordon Cumming We're only en-
gagged and after the verdict. which
made him a marked man for life. he
came straight to her and offered tn
release her she rose to the occasion
In a manner which touched everyone
who knew them. saying II he insisted
upon giving her up she would Kill her
self. Gordon Cumming turned to her
and replied. That is precisely what |
had intended TO do with myself had you
taken me at my word To this day
they are still "out dead" by society. This
gives them but little trouble, for they
are Just IA much In love as In that
terrible hour when Gordon Cumming
was drummed out OF his own set for
all time.
SAY HE is INNOCENT.
There are people who still say he il
innocent notably all his humber neigh
bors In Scotland who just adore him.
Some time ago, the Wilson's OF Tranby
Croft at whose house the alleged cheat
ing took place, we're about to build a
mansion near the Cummings; but the
workmen engaged on 1t were stoned
| from the premises and altogether
| things were made so hot for this
Tranhy Croft people by Sir Gordon
| Cummings poor neighbors that the Will
sons thought discretion was the better
| part OF valor. 80 they abandoned
The site upon which II was to have
been built Is overgrown with weeds
and has become a kind OF common.
LOST COMPLEXION.
When q woman loses her complex
ion You may regard her socially as a
person of the past. This is what hap
pened TO the Countess OF Essex, who
before her marriage was Miss Adela
Grant. daughter OF Beach Grant OF New
York She was In despair. more es-
pecially as she ia one OF the women
whose good looks depend 80 much on
their coloring. The loss of her COM
plexion was caused by acute dyspepsia.
She consulted every specialist In Lon
don and the continent one suggested
a vegetarian fare, another fruit. a third
grains and so on. Though somewhat
better than when faring on meat che
was still far from well when she went
TO a Paris-"quack"-- have heard him
called. Anyway, ha has given her back
her looksl His prescription chiefly was
to motor at an unhoiy rate, the idea be-
ing 20 take in--with the greatest ra-
pidityr-as much oxygen as possible.
This is supposed to stimulate the d.
gestive organs more successfully than
anything else. II worked maryels I'm
the case OF Lady Essex who has just
completed 'scorching'' trip through
the south Of France and is now looking
like the proverbial peach" What she
paid In fines Is a detail. Has she not
accomplished the all important?
SLAVE TO HUSBAND.
No woman is having a worse time
just now that Mrs. Joseph Chamber
lain. The illness through which her
husband is passing-I may almost
write passing away" for that Is prac-
tically what Il amounts tots of a most
serious nature, and his nerves being In
such a strained condition have caused
his temper TO be most trying. never
knew of an American woman becoming
a slave yet this Ia what she has arrived
at. She Is never out Of the sick room