The San Francisco call., 1906-11-10

ONION. Oct 2O.-I met the Cor
don-Cummings in London TINS
,week on their way home to Scot
A land. Lady Gordon Cumming was
Florence Garner of New York. one of
the Garner heiresses. her sisters being
the Countess de Moltke and the Mar
quise de BreteuiI No woman ever
made greater sacrifice for love than
Florence Garner. To marry man
brought in guilty of cheating at cards
meant and means to the day of her
death social ostracism!
At the time of the famous trial she
and Gordon Cumming were only en-
gagged, and after the verdict. when
made him q marked man for life, ne
came straight to her and offered 10
release her She rose to the occasion
in a manner which touched every one
who knew them. saying if he insisted
upon giving her up she would XIII
herself Gordon Cumming turned TO
her and replied. That is precisely
what 1 had intended to do with myself
had you taken me at my word TO
this day they are still cut dead" by
society. This gives them but little
trouble, for they are just as much IN
love as in that terrible hour when
his own set for all time
There are people who still say he is
innocent. notably all his humber
neighbors in Scotland, who just adore
him. Some time ago the Wilson's OF
Tranby Croft at whose house the al
legged cheating took place, were about
to build a mansion near the Cum
nings. but the workmen engaged on
it were stoned from the premises. and
altogether things were made so hot
for the Tranby Croft people by Sir
Gordon Cummings poor neighbors that
the Wilson's thought discretion was the
better part of valor, so they abandon
ed the idea of erecting this Scotch seat
The site upon which it was to have
been built is overgrown with weeds
and has become a kind of common
When a woman loses her complexion
you may regard her socially as a per-
son 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
especially as she is one of the women
whose good looks depend so much on
their coloring- The loss of her COM
pIexion was caused by acute dyspep-
sia. She consulted every specialist in
London and on the Continent One
suggested a vegetarian fare. another
l.. a
Though somewhat better than when
faring on meat. she was still far from
well when she went to a Paris
''quack"-I have heard him called
Anyway, he has given her back her
looksi His prescription chiefly was
to motor at an unholy rate. the idea
being to take in with the greatest
rapidity as much oxygen, as possible.
This is supposed to stimulate the di-
J "a
anything else. 1t worked marvels in
the case of Lady Essex. who has Just
completed a .scorching trip through
the south of France and is now look
ing like the proverbfal peach" What
she paid in fines is detail Has she
not accomplished the all-important?
No woman is having worse time
just now that Mrs. Joseph Chamber
lain. The illness through which her
husband is passing may almost
write passing away" for that is prac-
tically what it amounts to-is of a
most serious nature, and his nerves
being in such strained condition
have caused his temper TO be most
trying. 1 never before knew of an
American woman becoming a slave,
yet this is what she has arrived at.
She is never out of the sickroom and
though there are nurses, of course,
they count for little. as II is his wife
who does everything for the fallen
chief She is to him exactly what Mrs
Gladstone was to the great Liberal
Premier-the sole individual essential
to his happiness in private life. When
he is out of pain she has the same un-
limited power over him and she rules
him by "canoodling" him into believ-
ing he has his own way, She has
never posed as being a clever woman,
but that is where her cleverness comes
in, for this great statesman has a holy