Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-09-30

Mrs. Clarence Collins, granddaugh-
ter of Commodore Vanderbilt, d.
vorced.
Countess Czaikowsky, great-grand-
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, d.
vorced.
Leroy Dresser, brother of Mrs.
George Vanderbilt, divorced.
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the unhappy marriage of Consuelo,
Duchess of Marlborough, daughter of
Willie K. Vanderbilt and the woman
who is now. Mrs. o. H. p Belmont
The papers gave page to the descrfp-
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 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 ft-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 not be
done. They are now living separately,
with the two children in the custody
of the duchess, except for 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.
kissed him and wished him happiness.
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 was provincial.
This made some smile, since she came
| from Mobile and he from New York.
| Mr. Belmont was of temperament
| different from Mr.. Vanderbilt's- He
| was vivacious and fond of pleasure.
| A divorce from Mrs. Belmont, who
soon after became Mrs George L.
Rives, seemed to depress him not at
all. He and Mrs. Vanderbilt became
warm friends and even confidants.
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 lfveried carriage
with a woman 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 1.-The game
| had been.
Marie Vanderbilt Allen is said to
| have been baptized at birth In her
| mothers tears. 1t was not a good
| omen Her mother died of broken
| heart She had several successors,
none of them happy women Marie
| grew up capricious, beautiful, fascf-
| mating as her father, and lacking like
| him character BALLAST Her marriage
| with John Wflmerding was one of the
| memorable weddings of Grace church
| IN New York, but it did not hold long.
| Her husband threw a plate of ice
cream in her face in a burst of rage
| against her for her airy behavior. Mrs.
Wilmerding for time was kept in an
| 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 pretty woman, fell in love with
| her, married, repented, and was df-
| 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 one of few
| weeks past when the young heir to
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
bflt family but a mere foreshadowins
| of what is yet to Gomez 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
a fhp time they have faEou- r,Jaro