The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-16
By LA MARaUIsE DE FoNrENoY.

pi LA MAH4CISE DE FONTENOY.
HUSBANDS of Macdonalds making
their home on Shis side OF the
Atlantic will be deeply interest
ed 10 learn that the bitter quarrel
which dates from tho year 400, regard
ing the chieftainship of their istoric
clan, has at length. after all these 500
years OF feud. been satisfactorily set
tied. There have always been three
candidates for the chieftainsh!p, each
showing an equally unhroken line OF
pedigree namely. the Macdonald OF
Cianranald. Macdonald of Sleat. ana
Macdonald Of Glengarry. 1t has been
found impossible to settle the dispute
by the election of one OF the three as
entertain. because to do 80 would have
| necesstatcd the obtaining OF the votes
or the entire clan, which Is scattered
far and wide over the civilized and I'M
civilized world. So Macdonald OF
Glengarry has agreed with Macdonald
OF Clanranald. with the concurrence OF
Macdonald of Sleat, that the clan is
10 have three heads. like the giant tina,
JOCK killed. II any two OF the heads
should happen to meet. or even the
three. and the question of precedence
arises, settlement is to be effected by
the spinning of coin; method which
may be commended TO President Taft
! as the most equitable way OF disp osin g
OF the troublesome disputes on the sub
ject OF precedence that are constanl.y
cropping up and being referred to him
for decision at Washington.
Many Will fail to recognize under the
name OF Princess Joseph Lubom.rskt.'
whose death has Just taken place at
the Crateau de la Grave. In the De-
partment OF the GIronde, the widow
OF that Due Decazes. who for q mum
Der of years was Minister OF Foreign:
Affairs In France, during all of winch
! time. as also during his tenure OF the
post OF French ambassador in Lon
don. she did the honors for him In a
particularly gracious and brilliant
manner She was a viennese BY birth,
daughter OF old General Won Loe-
wenthai. OF the Austrian army, and had
inherited from her mother, who was
. famous as one of the shrewdest polltl-
cal intriguantes OF Europe, consNcr-
able intuition and tact, in everything
relating to diplomacy and statecraft
Her only sister Is the wife of that Mar
quis Ludovic de Beauvoir who spent
a considerable time in this country, es-
pecially in New York. In connection
with certain mining concessions grant
ed 10 him by the Gear, and who was
confidential secretary and grand mas
ter of the household Of the late Comte
de Paris, UP to the time Of the EATERS
/ death.
The princess leaves two children.
both by her first marriage, namely. q
daughter married TO the Count de Sar-
delys, and her only son. the present
Due DecaZes. widower OF Isabella Sin
ger, who was one of the daughters and
! heiresses of old Isaac Singer, OF sew
ing machine fame.
Why the Duchesse Decazes who be-
sides being Duchess OF Decazes in
France, was also Duchess of Gluck-
bierG, in the peerage of Denmark, as
we'll as widow of a statesman OF in
ternational renown should have wish
ed to marry Joseph Lubomirski. In her
| siXty-second year, can only be ex-
/ planned on the ground that, in spit,
| of the princes enormous girth and his
varicose-veined leg. which had to be
amputated short time after the mar
riage. he was quite as witty and as
amusing as herself. and was. more
| over, q "Furst," or prince, of the HOLY
Roman or old German Empire. a dig
nifty dating from the end of the seven
teenth century, and which possessed n
great value to a native Austrian like
herself Moreover, LubomirskI mad in
herited great wealth especially from
his first wife, whereas the Duchesse
Decazes had been left in very strait
ened circumstances by her first hus-
band
Lubomirski was so fat. that he USED
| to be known in Paris, even in his
younger days, when he was a favorite
at the court of the Tuileries, by the
nickname of "Boule de Stuff" (Rowl OF
SueD, under which he won much dis
tinction by the invention of a new fig
I ure known as the Pas de Coret," in
| the dance which was then the feature
at the Jardin Mabille, as 1t was subse-
| auently of the Moulin Rouge. The
| prince in 1877, having completely ex-
hausted two large fortunes which he
had inherited from his Russian Polish
| relatives. and finding himself in fl
nancial difficulties. married the enorm-
ously wealthy widow of NJ. Boyer, who
had amassed great riches by the manu-
| facture Of so-called Eau des Car
mes" a story used to be current to
the effect that the prince on the morn
ing of his wedding day, was delayed in
getting to church by Huissier effect
1 ing an entrance to his room before he
had risen from his bed and setting
| then and there, in behalf Of his cred!-
tors, the evening dress suit which he
Y was about to don for the marriage
ceremony. The prince was In despair.
I, But at last he was rescued from his
predicament by the concierge or JAM
tor of his house, who advanced the
money necessary to release his clothes,
I thus enabling him to reach the church