The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-01-01
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DUO IS GAY DOG
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- Many Wild Cafs



Theodore Shontz, the pretty Ameri
can heiress, who married due de Chaul
> mes recently In New York. married one
Oh Europes most noted spendthrifts
ana fortune seekers, says Paris cable
Because or his frivolous habits and
wild and reckless living. dissipatine
TWO fortunes as soon as his fingers
touched them. he was branded "a gay
young dog" and his efforts 10 find n
Drlde with bank account sufficient TO
MAINTAIN his mortgage-plastered es-
,ates mas associated his name I'm more
than one escapade with Cupid that did
not resound TO his credit.
emmanuel Theodore Bernard d.
Albert de Luynes. due de Chaulnes Of
de Frequency. which same is his full
title without single omission. is n
descendant OF one of the Oldest and
pIoudest families of France, indeed.
| vi the continent. Unfortunately scan
uai mas touched the family of recent
years. and the dukes mother. the
Deautlfui Princess Sophie Galitzin. a
RUSSIAN Noblewoman, frivolous. bril-.
liant and petted was the center OF an
unpleasant affair with the Comte de
DION twenty-five years ago.
AS Tor the due de Chaulnes. society
mas looked rather leniently upon his
Wiluness. Brought up with his sister.
lherese, now Duchess dues, in sur.
roundlngs that were almost cloisteral
IN the gloomy ancient palace, he inner
ited. the fun loving nature of his
mother and found his every instinct
vigorously repressed. Family restric.
uons once removed. however. he en-.
tered upon the life of the gay world
win zest that soon made him motor
lous throughout Europe.
handsome and gracious In manner.
ne quickly dissipated two small for
tunes. and his name began to be asso-
clated with wealthy American girls as
fortune hunter. His really fine es-
tate In the Department of La Sarte
carry began to feel the burden OF debt
ana MS town house in the Pare Mon.
ceau quarter OF Paris to groan for ad.
ultlonal funds with which to support
its state.
Inc eagerness Of the young duke To |
repair these losses and his unfeigned |
desire 10 nj himself out with a fresh |
fortune by selling his title and his
family name for as high a figure as
possible brought him some notcrietv
a Few years ago. One OF his former
nancees was Miss Gebhart, niece of
Frederick Gebhart and OF Mrs. Fred
erick Nelson of New York. The en-
gagement Is said TO have been broken
because OF the dukes financial exac-
tions.
still more notorious instance. how
ever was that Of his engagement TO
princess Katherine Yuriewska. the
youngest OF the natural children of
Emperor Alexander III of Russia. by
Princess Dolgorouka, whom the EN-
peror married morganatically a few
months before his assassination and n
number of years after the birth OF
heir three children.
me Princess Dolgorouka Is, in spite
u her great fortune. reputed to be ex.
remedy niggardly. and she was so
'hocked at the dukes pecuniary de
hands at the time OF the engagement
o her daughter that she let all Europe
NOW the reasons which prompted her
0 reject him as a son-in-law. He
hen resumed his quest throughout
Europe.
The immediate family history OF the
Dung duke is piquant in the extreme
nd not without an element OF real
aihos. The rare beauty and charm
u his Russian mother. even during =
he lifetime of her husband, was an =
pen offense TO the bigoted old duchess 7
I Chevreuse. The dukes father. com
letely dominated by the old Ouch
SIS. did little TO Tighten existence for q
is duchess and at his death the run \
lre became complete.
The young duchess, careless. inf,n. 4,
ely bored with her dull surroundings. !,
nd lacking in discretion, allowed the =
omte de Dion to become her cham
ion. While she never lost her popu. !,
Irity. this frank reputation of the :
inventions. above all in a foreigner y
stranged her from the old duchess's !,
lends and compromised her I'm the :,
res OF the law. She finally was ;,
riven from the palace of the duchess
Chevreuse, who undertook to rear I,
er two grandchildren. !,
sensational but futile attempt was a
ade later by the mother and the n
omte de Dion to kidnap them served
gain 70 draw attention to her after +,
'ciety had forgotten her very exist
ice.
Broken in spirit and deserted even =,
the comte. the young duchess re- .
'rted TO morphine and died some
70 years later in an apartment that
as little better than a garnet in one
the most unsavory portions of Paris. ~
maid. as poverty stricken as she was se
as with her at the time of her death 81
ID was the sole attendant. vi