The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-23

John Armstrong Chaloner, great grandson of William B. Astor, author of Who's loony now?" breeder of prize. pigs, spiritualistic medium and proviGer of much amusing copy for the newspapers, is legally insane in New York State, and has been of fcially declared to be incompetent to manage his own property. In Virginia the alleged experts on mental diseases have declared MT. Chaloner quite sane. Lay opinion, based on per usal of MT. Chaloner's interviews, in visit to the internal regions, develops many differences. All must agree, however, that whatever MT. Chalon- er's present mental condition, he showed every evidence of sound judg- ment when he married Amelie Rives, the beautiful and gifted Virginia novelist, some twenty-four years ago. That he was divorced by the lovely author of "The Quick and the Dead" was quite enough to turn his mind.
 She who is now the Princess Trou- betzkoy, wife of an eminent Rususian artist. was born in Richmond, Va, for ty-nine years ago to-day. Parenthet- ically, he would be an untruthful as well as ungallant man who would say that she looks to be more than thirty. On a recent visit to America with her handsome husband, Prince Paul,
 
 of the beauty for which she was fa~ nous when, as a mere girl, she first won international acclaim as a writ CT.
 The Princess comes of an old Amer ican family, long prominent in Vir- ginia affairs. Her grandfather, w. c. 5Rives, was one of the first minis ters to France, and a United States Senator. Much of her childhood was spent in the family's big and ramb- ling country house in Albemarle County, Va, which has been describ- She was educated by private tutors, and at an early age developed the genius that was to bring her wealth and fame. She was twenty-five when her first ambitious literary effort, ''The Quick and the Dead,'' was pub llshed. It brought her immediate recognition, which has been added to by her subsequent novels and verse, NE1e fch include '"The Witness of the Sun, Herod and Marianne" ''Tho Golden Rose" The Hidden House, . and others equally we'll known and widely read in America and Europe.
 Miss Rives became the bride of the wealthy John Armstrong Chanler- he has since changed his name to Chaloner, out of disrespect for his family-in 1888. The alliance was not a happy one, and ended in a ci-
 
 loner declares that he entertains feel ings only of the greatest admiration and respect for the gifted woman who was once his wife.
 In 1897 the lovely grass widow met and married Prince Paul Pierre Troubetkiy, and the fifteen years of their life together have been happy for both. The Prince is the descen- dant of an ancient and honored Rus sian family, and as a painter has won wide fame. He began studying art in Milan, Italy, at the age of ten, un der Ranonni and others, and contin- ued the instruction under the great painters of Munich and Paris. His works include modern street scenes marines and portraits. One of his most noteworthy canvases is is a por- trait of Gladstone that is considered one of the best in existence of that great statesman. He was once not ed as a big game hunter, but since becoming a vegetarian as the result of Upton Sinclair's exposure of the pack ing industry he has sworn never again to engage in useless slaugfl- ter.'