The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-23
DUKE CHARMED BY
THE GUEST OF
HIS WIFE
SUSCEPTIBLE HUSBAND OF COZ
SuELo VANDERBILT GETS
INTO TROUBLE.
HAPPY DREAM is ENDED
When Father VanderbIt'e Efforts to
Bring About a Truce Failed
London Deeply Stirred Over
the Latest Scandal.

legged that a grave cause Is the rcas1n
for the determination of the Duchess
iof Marlborough to separate from the
| Duke forever II is asserted that sym
pahy of the Duchess was evoked nn
behalf of charming yGing lady who
| was the victim Of severe domestic
| trouble. The Duchess met the young
woman while travelling on tho cont
nent, and after few mon hs' az
quaintance invited her to sit Ben
helm Castle The Duchess ana the
! young lady became intimate friends.
and for time all went well Suddenly.
however, the eyes of the Duchess were
opened 10 the fact that her husband
was paying the charming young wo-
man moro attention than was neces-
sary, and subsequent developments
may be left to The imag natl ii. 50
erious had the affair grown. that NJ:
Vanderbilt, the Duchess father. was
sent for. He desired to have the dis
trcssing affair hushed up gu etly so
that it would not become a public
scandal, His sympathy was all with
his daughter OF course and he advised
an appearance Of tranquility between
her and her husband, so far aG the out
side world went but the American
spirit of his daughter would not permit
of this, and she insisted that her feel.
ings had been so outraged mat even
4 seeming reconciliation with tne
Dulo was impossible London, In fact
all English society, Is agog over the
reports that come from the aneien.
homo Of tho Marlborougns.
Society Even.
The wedding Of Ccnsueio Vanderbilt
daughter of w X Vanderbilt, by h-s
FIRST wife, now Mrs O. H. r. Belmont.
10 the young Duke Of Marlborough. In
St Thomas church, on November 8.
1895, was New York socloty's greatest
ovea..
The wcdd ng, according TO the Eng.
lish view. assured the rehabilitation
OF the Marlboroughs and in America
1t gave the greatest possible social dis
unction to young woman who hal
not yet made her formal debut. Mis-
was given dowry of S.
100000 by her father, and there was
every prospect that If she survived her
parents she would come I'm for the
larger part of the vast estate of her
.ather, william X Vanderbilt. His
wedding TO Mrs. Rutherford a few
years ago is said to have been one cf
be main causes Of trouble between
he Duke and the Duchess The Duke
Confidently expected that he would one
lay control the Vanderbilt millions.
and with this idea in mind had built
'astles IN the air He wanted to 20
nto politics, land a v.ceroyship II pos.
'ible. and excel Lord Curzon. the other
bright young EngIishman whom tie
american millions of the Letters OF
'hicago had pushed to the forefront
Not only had the Duke Planned a
brilliant future for himself as a states
nan, but he expected. with the mil.
ions of his wife's father. 10 buy back
he old estates Of the Marlboroughs.
}lcnhelm Palace was again 70 be put
Ipon plane with other places of it's
ind. The Duke wanted town house
nd he even tried to get the famous
Marlborough house IN London. now
n the possession of the British Gov.
rnment. and the residence of tho
'rince If Wales.
His Aims Wer. High.
These are some OF the things the
oung Duke Of Marlborough hal
Tanned for his family when he mar
led the pretty. demure Con uel1 Van.
erbilt who was inst IL years Old.
ie was scarcely q years Of age at
be- time. bat he vas ambitions.
u was not until March 81. 1906.
ban the Staten Island fcrryman
rcat granddaughter was installed as
be- mistress Of Beinheim
The Duchess gave birth 10 .on on
sptsmber u, 1927 at Spencer HOUSE.
be- Dukes Loudrn res dence. Their
.cond child. Ivur Spencer Churchill.
AS horn on October Is 1925.
Apparently the couple were enjoy
z al the happiness that had been
.ed.cted for them. when the Duke
gan his whimsical cxtrayacauces.
is wife's dover of g o0a .oa0 bad
en- largely depleted I'm the rehabili-
tion OF Bienheim Palace and in IRE
teuainments they gave. The Duca-
s had given literally ~ charity. anI
r popularity soon became much
cater than that Of the Duke. HIS
ide wa huri and he took no pains