Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-18


lingly forged upon herself ard, seeking to
retain the shamefIlly bought tito asks re-
lease from the dissolute spendthrift who
conferred &c for a consideration.
Florence Audenreid OF washington a
beautiful and sweet-heartod girl, married
Count Divonne The ceremony was per-
formed in great spleudor Secretary Blaine
gave the bride away to the impecunious
foreigner and the best m was Theodore
Roustan, the French minister Archbishop
CorriRan performed the ceremony. and a
great crowd Of functonaries and the best
society at the capital went to the church
to look on.
But. like others OF Americas ovable
young women, she found that her foreigner
could not give her the happiness for which
her heart was yearnlng. The Countess Di-
vonne soon learned that her Frenchman
was not a model husband. He turned out
to be only a beribboned roue. He was a
magnificent spender Of money. He gave
gorgeous entertainments and bought won
derful presents for demi-mOndaines,
| But the noble American girl stuck 20 her
choice persistently, and even iourneyed to
Washington to obtain more money for her
husband. Her family objected. They told
her to let the count make the best Of his
| financial situation. They refused to allow
him more than 5000 a year. The count
/ grew wroth at such treatment and vented
/ his anger on his suffering wife He has
/ treated her so cruelty that she has become
an invalid and is cut of from even such
! happiness as her occasional visits to her
| home had given her.
! Lady William Bagot who has decided
upon separation proceedings against her
| husband. has been married but three years.
J Lady Bagot was the beautiful Miss Lillian
May OF Baltimore, and the wedding, which
! took place in London, caused no slight SEN
sation. Reports say that the union never
was happy one, and disaEreements soon
came. 1t is said that Lady Bagot left her
! husband several times, and that reconcilia-
tons were arranged. Now she again has
found the mistreatment accorded her by
| her husband insufferable
The union of Eva Julia Bryant Mackay
with Prince Colonna had the usual sequel
years Of unhappiness and neglected misery
! for the beautiful American who was mar
ried and dropped.
Isabel Bunce Was Unhappy
! Baroness Bronsart Won Schellendorf is
beautiful divorce. once she was Miss
Isabel Bunce. an Ohio girl. The baron
came to this country on borrowed money
and society received him with it's usual
favor. Mammas with marriageable daugh-
| ters smiled upon him The young women
looked upon him with sdmiripE glances
and thought him a wonderful person. The
baron held. through his family, some sort
of government position, which took him
| away from the more expensive life of Eu-
rope He took his pick OF the matri-
monial offerings made at his shrine, con-
cluded the business arrangements OF tho
AFFAIR, married in eclat, and then took his
bride and the money to the German colony
| in East Africa.
! This American girl was accustomed to
! the American conception OF conjugal pro-
prieties and attentions. She found her
| self Baroness Won SchellendOrf and moth
| ing more The baron spent her money
! freely, consorted freely with native
! women, and seemed surprised when she
ventured to demonstrate with him SO
! the baroness left her prize and secured
| a divorce.
! The society event OF year was the
marriage of Helena Zimmerman, Cincinnati
beauty and heiress, to the Duke of Man
chester. Recently reports have come TO
| America to the effect that their life is a
] succession of disagreements II lie said
the duke and the duchess have different
views on the vital question. She resents
I
is not to be supposed, however, that in
the case the American girl went blindly
TO her life of marital misery, for the duke
was regarded at the time OF the marriage
as the poorest duke in Burkes peerage-
poor, not in finance alone, but also in
morals. His father had the reputation OF
being the most disreputable noble in Eng
! land.
Countess Penaloza, who was Miss Marie
| Refine Fusz of st. Louis, was granted a
divorce from her husband who belonged
| to one Of the oldest and most respected
families in Spain. Responsibility, she
found, as have many before her, means
much less abroad than it does in America
Her husbands favorite place Of residence
! was Paris, but she could not endure the
life he led. The saddest part Of their case
is the fact that they have two children.
OF whom she has been given the custody
and who will be taken from their profit
gate father.
| May Yohe and Lord Francis Hope were
another pair who were divorced after
years of incompatibility. She found II i'm
possible to retain her respect and love
| for her husband, and even allowed him 10
make her the defendant in the court that
! gave her freedom
Few international titled marriages have
proved successful. Out OF ia American
heiresses of more or less note who have
brought foreign husbands 1921 600, 900 in
dowries there are less than twenty from
| whom reports of unhappiness have not
come to America Perhaps 5000, 0OO, O09
has been scattered among foreign hus-
bands who have mistreated and Inundated
the women who trusted them.
Rarely do American girls who marry
titles ever attain the coveted social dis
tinction for which they have longed. The
! American girl who goes abroad to live
! the life OF countess is taken away from
! home life In which she always has been
surrounded By loving companions-boys
and girls whom she has understood and
/ loved-taken away to a country the man
ners and customs of which she knows
nothing and there obliged TO live within
herself or associate with depravity. II
takes a long struggle for a girl to push
these surroundings aside ana raise herself
up to social recognition Only a few OF
the many have attained It. "A European
never will forgive you for not being
noble born"
More gnawing yet to the heart OF the
raaIaan a. the FarN