The National tribune., 1908-04-16
PEOPLE.

| DlIt divorce case, which IS certainly a
great improvement upon the usual
methods. The matter is being hurried
along in a very quiet way, only two
witnesses having been orally examined,
Mr.. Vanderbilts valet and Mrs. Wander
bits French maid. The name of the
woman who is supposed to be response
BILE for this marital unhappiness has not
been mentioned, tho it was stated some
time ago that a certain Nine Flores,
whoever she may be. had been seen a
great deal in the company of Mr.. Van
derbilt and that some time ago she
purchased an auto in Mr.. Vanderbilts
name, for which she paid $11,0GG- 1t
| is said that his wife, being quite rich in
her own right, viii not demand an ex-
Orbitant settlement, and that she has
consented that her little boy, who is to
remain under her care, shall see his
father whenever the latter chooses. We
are told that Cornelius Vanderbilt, who
has been out of favor with his mother
for some years on account of his mar
riage, has been restored to his former
position as head of the family, and that
Mrs. Vanderbilt, Sr, has added q codicil
to her will leaving Alfred's share of her
estate to the latter's wife and 10 Corne-
lius. All of which may be true o. not.
Gratuitous information and a6.ice on
ing offered the public. We are told
how to live to be 120 years of age, how
to preserve our physical charms, how to
succeed in life, etc. and now Mrs. Adele
Marie Rique, President of the Self-In-
provement Club of New York, tells how
insanity and nervous breakdowns may
be avoided She says the whole trouble
lies in our not understanding ourselves,
and that IN our ignorance we neglect to
cultivate some faculty of the mind
whose action is necessary to happiness
and mental health. Most people are
developed all wrong on this account,
which is the reason so many go crazy,
commit suicide, become nervous wrecks
or drag thru a miserable. unhappy ex-
istence as failures. person in har-
mony with the laws of his being can
command his life to an almost incredi-
BILE degree. Most of us do not even
know what color we should wear or
what perfume to use, for these seeming
ly unimuortant details have a great
influence over the nervous system, so
this high priestess tells us. BY wearing
the proper color a person is helped just
SO much toward success. Proper culti-
walton of the body is another thing most
important in Nine. Riquets estimation,
and those persons lucky enough to ac-
quire a little magnetism will be a long
way ahead in the race for physical and
mental perfection.
Those Americans who cherish the be-
lief that in their veins flows noble blood, |
and who would like above all things to
have the world recognize this fact. must |
be disappointed at the exposition by the |
Marquise de Fontenoy of the delightful
plan of the so-called Viscount of From |
sac. 1T seems this gentleman, who has
H, raid Marshal of the College of Arms |
.laSt h yiCiff n~ls,
Gently sent an invitation to the descend |
ants of the old seigneurial families of
the Dominion and to those American
citizens with claims to noble ancestry, |
to participate in tercentennial cele- |
bration in Montreal this Summer, for
the purpose of laying the cornerstone |
for a statue of Lord Dorchester. These
invitations were religiously restricted to
the patrician houses of the United
States and Canada. and their real at
traction lay in the proposition to invest
the representatives of such families
with the decoration of the "Aryan and
Seigneurial Orders" this order to con-
sist OF an enameled cross, manifestly of
his own design, bearing the motto ''Dieu
ct mon droit," to be hung around the
neck by a blue ribbon. The Viscount
made an invidious distinction between
these noble families of Canada and
America by allowing the former an ex
ira clasp with the words "SeiSueur Gf
Canada" engraved upon it, And now
the Marquise de Fontenoy, who is an
authority on all such sub
jects, comes forward and tells us that
she has received letters from many of
these so honored families containing
numerous inquiries on the matter, and
after thoro investigation she has
found that the invitation and all it i'm
plies is a purely private undertaking of
this so-called Viscount, and not only
but laughed at by the
Dominion Government. There is mol
such governmental institution in Can
ada as a College of Arms, like the great
State institutions endowed by the Brit
ish Crown in London, Edinburg and
Dublin, this of which the Viscount calIsi
himself Herald Marshal" being prf-i
vate affair of his own. The Marquise
de Fontenoy also says that she fails toi
place this Viscount de Fronsac, althoi
she has considerable knowledge of the
old seigneurial families of Canada and
of their relations to the European aris-
tocracy. After a careful search amongl
the annals of the French and English
nobility she has failed to find the proof
of the Viscounts claim to his title, sol
she is forced to conclude that it, as we'll
as the high-sounding Herald Marshal
of the College of Arms of Canada" isl
without official warrant
or sanction. The Viscount de Fronsacl
will therefore be unsuccessful in his
attempt to establish full
hedged aristocracy in the Western Hem
isphere, which would no doubt add
decidedly to the gaiety of Nations and
fill a long-felt want among a certain
small class.
Miss Helen Maloney, the troublesome
daughter of Martin Maloney, the Stand
ard Oil millionaire of Philadelphia,
seems to have considerable difficulty in
herself from Arthur Os-
bourne and getting herself married to
Mr.. Samuel Clarkson. 1t will be re-
nembered that this young woman ran
off with the last-named gentleman some
months ago, keeping her anxious family