Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-09-21

tSI VI NOnnEnOUOTe NdTOSTpiIty Ill
vorced.
Countess Czalkowsky, great-srand.
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, di.
vorced.
Leroy Dresser, brother Of Mrs.
George Vanderbilt, divorced.
the unhappy marriage of Consuelo,
Duchess of Marlborough, daughter OF
Willie X. Vanderbilt and the woman
who is nov Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont.
The papers gave a page to the descrip'
ton Of the wedding. 1t was one of the
largest society events ever known in
the United States. Some of the head.
lines read, Hands Go With Hearts,"
and the orchestra played "Oh, Perfect
Love" during the ceremony.
When the new American duchess
went for the first time to her new es.
tate, the servants who had been in her
husbands family through years turned
out to give her a hearty greeting. The
nobility of England received and loved
her. She was soon famous for her en-.
tertainment and her charities, But
there was no denying it-her marriage
was not a success.
The duchess looked and was unhap.
py. Her father tried to adjust the diff.
ficulties of his daughter with her hus.
band even while he was undergoing
difficulties with his wife which led
eventually to divorce. The king OF
England is said to have tried to bring
the two together. But it could lot be
done. They are now living separately
with the two children In the custody
Of the duchess, except for a brief
period every year.
When her father married Mrs. Ruth.
erford in London, after obtaining his
divorce more or less sensationally,
the duchess attended the wedding
When her mother married Mr.. Bel
mont, that most democratic of million.
aires, she did the same. Nobody
knows how she felt. however. while
they were getting their divorce.
Differences In Taste Striking.
Mrs. Vanderbilt was originally Miss
Alva Smith of Alabama, and she was
of restless and ambitious nature. Her
husbands tastes were quiet. She said
to her friends that he vas provincial.
This made some smile, since she came
from Mobile and he from New York
Mr.. Belmont was Of a temperament
different from Mr.. Vanderbilt's. He
was vivacious and fond of pleasure.
A divorce from Mrs. Belmont, who
Don after became Mrs. George L.
Rives, seemed to depress him not at
all. He and Mrs. Vanderbilt became
warm friends and even c%ontidants.
This was while the woman was still
married to Mr.. Vanderbilt. He oblig
ingly went to Europe. He lived in
Paris the life of the fashionable bache.
lor. He drove in his liveried carriage
with a of the demimonde.
How unlike Willie K" exclaimed his
wondering wife. Later she mentioned
the woman's name in her suit. After
that Mr.. Vanderbilt dropped her, and
the world then knew what the game
had been.
Marie Vanderbilt Allen is said to
have been baptized at birth in hel
mothers tears. 1t was not a good
omen. Her mother died Of a broken
heart. She had several successors
none of them happy women Marie
grew up c%apricious, beautiful, fasci
mating as her father, and lacking like
him character BALLAST. Her marriage
with John Wilmerding was one of the
memorable weddings OF Grace church
in New York, but 1t did not hold lCrg
Her husband threw a plate OF ice
e in her face in a burst of rage
against her for her airy behavior. Mrs
Wilmerding for a time vas kept In ar
asylum. After that she led a gay life
in New York, and sank to the usual
sordid life of the unfortunate.
The marriage of young Elliott Shep
ard was one of the same sort. He
saw a pretty woman, fell in love with
her, married, repented, and was di
vorced. There are others-so many
that one cannot think of going into
their ramifications. Perhaps they have
no particular significance now. But
still they will rise to mind on such
happy occasion as the n Of few
weeks past, when the young heir tc
all of this love and romance and
money runs away with a chauffeur. Is
all that has gone before in the way
Of unhappy marriages in the Wander
bilt family but a mere foreshadowine
Of what is vet to come? Maybe So
and then maybe not. The only happy
marriages Of the long history OF the
family are those that have beer
deemed unfortunate by the connection
at the time they have taken place.