The National tribune., 1909-04-22

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girls" There are five of these, and
they are the daughters of Col. c. D.
Langhorne, of Virginia These girls are
all famous beauties of the type made
familiar by Gibson, and each one as she
married did little better, in the eyes
of society, than the last The first Miss
Langhorne was led to the hymenal al
tar by a Richmond gentleman, very
well off and all right, but not especially
distinguished, while the second sister
married Charles Dana Gibson himself.
The third did even better than that,
from a worldly point of view, becoming
the wife of Waldorf Astor, the heir OF
the richest landowner in America. Miss
Langhorne No. married the rich
Reginald Brooks, the fashionable mill
lionaire of New York and Newport
That left but one, Miss Nora Langhorne,
considered by many to be the most
beautiful of the bunch. 1t is said that
her sisters had great ambitions for her,
especially Mrs. Astor, who kept her
lovely young sister with her much of
the time in her London home, where
she became an immediate and immense
social success. Pretty heads bent over
tea cups insisted that our eXpatriated
mul.imillionaire, William Waldorf As
tor, pere, was taking a very likely in
terest in the matrimonial prospects OF
the sister of his daughter-in-law. 1t is
known that his persistent efforts to get
into the sacred royal circle have not
been particularly successful. The mar
riage of his son to the famous beauty,
Mamie Langhorne, who was the dl-
vorced wife of Robert Gould Shaw, was
a good deal Of a blow to his ambition,
but in the lovely Nora he thought he
saw a way to redeem the family for
tunes. Prince Francis of Teck, brother
of the Princess of Wales, met and took
q great fancy to the beautiful American.
He is a good-looking, charming fellow,
but the poverty of the Tecks has al
ways been common gossip in England,
and Prince Francis had very little ex-
cept his name and personal attractions
to recommend him matrimonially. The
Astors were bent on bringing about a
marriage between the Prince and Nora
Langhorne, and when things were ap-
parently progressing swimmingly the
little Jade announced her engagement to
Mr.. Paul Phipps, young architect, de
pending upon the practice of his pro.
fession for a living. He is half-Ameri
can and half-English, his father being
English and his mother American, anc
he was chum of young Waldorf Astol
before his marriage, and 1t was at his
house that he met the lovely Nora II
Is said Mrs Astor and the other sisters
were terribly broken up over the en-
gagement, and did their best to change
their little sisters decision, but she was
obdurate, declaring she loved Mr.
Phipps and should marry him. even il
the King of England offered her 6
crown. How much eof the story relat-
ing to the hopes and plans of the Astors
for Miss Nora is true cannot be said
The latest report is that the young lady
Is now in her Virginia home, where She
was received with open arms, and tina
her family approve the approaching
marriage. Miss Langhorne is just u
years of age.
Now 1t Is the good, oid-fashioned
well-established custom of going to bee
that the doctors are condemning. L
you want to go to sleep. they say, Wh.
seek the very cradle OF insomnia IN IN
luteIy unhygienic with the conventional
bed clothes, ETC., and II Is far better to
sit up all night than fly to its enticinf
softness. The hammock is the thing
Have a hammock strung up in your
bed chamber, and when you feel sleeI
stealing delightfully."- over you do MOI
wake yourself up by undressing, pu'
tumble in at once. If the hammock bt
not forthcoming, lie down upon coucf
as you would for an afternoon siesta
or, better than that. on rug. Ther'
are those who say that the bag fde'
of the Eskimo Is the thing, ana Iron
these suggestions you can make you
choice. 1t is thought. however, that Il
spite of what the medical men may tel
us of the injurious, even deadly quail
ties of the bed, it will not go out 0
fashion Just yet.
Having been largely instrumental II
providing a good hot luncheon at a Low
price for the employees of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, Miss Anne Morgan, Pier
pont Morgan's generous-hearted daugh
ter, has now turned her attention to tn
frI Ax-ar Rof1rnad
ductors, etc, and is planning to do thu
same thing for them. Mr. Fredericl
Whitridge, the receiver of the road, ha:
been interested in these men for som
time, and has been studying over tn
best way to help them. He decided
that a clubhouse, with its various mean
of diversion, would bring about as mucl
pleasure into their lives as anything
else he could think of, SO he got holt
Of an old hotel which he has converted
into g. club, for whose maintenance
the men pay 80 cents month. TIL
club was opened the other evening
with an orchestra and refreshments
and Miss Morgan was there helping t
receive. About 2,100 railroad employees
with their wives and daughters, wer
present, all in their best clothes, look
Ing nightly pleased. After the receI
tion was over and the tea, cakes an
sandwiches had been disposed of, tn
and danced in their new clubhouse un
Ill nearly time for them to go to wor
again.
It is said that the ideal marriage ez
lists when the wife has an intelligeI
appreciation of her husbands work, ca
advise him, If necessary, and even max
Inspiring suggestions, but that she mus
not know too much about ii. Indeed
i is claimed by many wise observer
that the closest union cannot exist be
tween husband and wife If the latte
has any outside interest which absorb
her Those are certainly rather excel
donal persons who can throw then
lelves very deeply into their own worl
and at the same time feel any yer
keen interest in that of another, an
In matrimony a house so divided
very apt to topple and fall. 1t seen
36me stich condition as this caused til
MacMonnies to apply for divorc
Frederick MacMonnies is the America
lculptor, whose work is too well know
to need explanation. His wife Is
painter whose pictures have been e,
hibited in the French salon and a
tracted much favorable comment. tt
couple were supposed to be unusual
happy, but It Is now said that the scull
tor resented his wife's painting pictur'
and exhibiting them, saying that OF
celebrity in the family was enoug
The MacMonnies, VINO have been livir
in Paris for some time, were granted
divorce by the French courts last NJ
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