The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-01-08
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DUO IS GAY DOG
Tbcodoro'S Rusbond Has .yotOn
- Many Wild Oars



Theodore Shontz, the pretty Ameri.
can heiress, who married due de Chaul-
mes recently in New York, married one
OF Europe's most noted spendthrifts
and fortune seekers, says Paris cable.
Because OF his frivolous habits and
wild and reckless living. dissipating
TWO fortunes as soon as his fingers
touched them, he was branded "a CAV
young dog" and his efforts TO find a
bride with a bank account sufficient TO
maintain his mortgage-plastered es-
tates has associated his name in more
than one escapade with Cupid that did
not resound TO his credit.
Emmanuel Theodore Bernard a.
Albert de Luynes due de Chaulnes ct
de Picquigney. which same Is his full
title without a single omission, is a
descendant OF one of the Oldest and
proudest families OF France. indeed.
OF the continent. Unfortunately scan
dal has touched the family of recent
years. and the dukes mother. the
beautiful Princess Sophie Galitzin. a
Russian Nobewoman, frivolous. bril-
liant and petted was the center OF an
unpleasant affair with the Comte de
Dion twenty-five years ago
AS for the due de Chaulnes. society
has looked rather leniently upon his
witness. Brought up with his sister,
Iherese, now Duchess Dues, in sur
roundings that were almost cloisteral
In the gloomy ancient palace. he inner
lted the FUN loving nature of his
mother and found his every instinct
vigorously repressed Family restric-
tions once removed. however, he en-
tered upon the life OF the gay world
with zest that soon made him motor
ious throughout Europe.
Handsome and gracious in manner,
he quickly dissipated two small for
tunes. and his name began TO be asso-
ciated with wealthy American girls as
fortune hunter. His really fine es-
tate in the Department Of La Sarte
early began to feel the burden OF debt
and his town house in the Pare Mon |
ceau quarter Of Paris to groan for ad.
ditional funds with which TO support
its state.
The eagerness Of the young duke TO |
repair these losses and his unfeigned |
desire TO At himself out with a fresh |
fortune by selling his title and his
family name for as high a figure as |
possible brought him some notoriety |
few years ago. One OF his former |
fancees 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-
tons
A 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 few
months before his assassination and
number of years after the birth OF
their three children.
The Princess Doigorouka is. in spite
of her great fortune. reputed to be ex-
tremely niggardly. and she was so
shocked at the dukes pecuniary de-
mands at the time of the engagement
TO her daughter that she let all Europe
know the reasons which prompted her
to reject him as a sonin-law. He
then resumed his quest throughout
Europe.
The immediate family history of the
young duke is piquant in the extreme
and not without an element of real
rathos. The rare beauty and charm
OF his Russian mother, even during
the lifetime Of her husband, was an
open offense to the 5igoted old duchess
of Chevreuse. The dukes father. COM
pletcly dominated by the old Ouch
ess. did little to tighten existence for
his duchess and at his death the run
ture became complete.
The young duchess. careless. infin-
itely bored with her dull surroundings,
and lacking in discretion. allowed the
Comte de Dion TO become her cham
pion. While she never lost her popu-
larity. this frank reputation of the
above all i'm a foreigner.
estranged her from the old duchesss
friends and compromised her in the
eyes OF the law. She finally was
driven from the palace Of the duchess
OF Chevreuse, who undertook 10 rear
her two grandchildren.
sensational but futile attempt was
made later by the mother and the
Comte de Dion to kidnap them served
again to draw attention to her after
society had forgotten her very exist
ence.
Broken in spirit and deserted even
by the comte, the young duchess re-
sorted TO morphine and died some
two years later in an apartment that
was little better than a garrett I'm one
OF the most unsavory portions of Paris.
maid. as poverty stricken as she was.
was with her at the time of her death
and was the sole attendant.
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