The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-06
L|FE'S LITTLE IRON|tS"
Exemplified in the Divorce of the Once Young and
Beautiful Lady Randolph Churchill From Her
Comparatively Infantie Second Husband
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
! Interesting news floats hitheI from
London.
'Tis of divorce in what is now Ind
then curiously termed high life
| And, SO far as we tack the nomen-
clature to the thing it symbolizes, it
may be.
! That is, may be high life"
In any event it is of those conspicu-
ously in the famed public eye.
| And of one of our compatriots.
| In other words Lady Randolph
Churchill has secured a divorce from
her youthful George CORVALLIS West
! Divorces are frowned upon in Eng
land.
The puritanic Mary, Queen of the
Britons, and Haunting kingly domes-
ITCHY from the high places, looks not
upon the Divorce with complacence.
And the English church is more or
less exacting.
Hence there is more immortality in
high life," and Glow life" for that
matter, in the British Isles than in any
other of the ranking nations.
For human nature being what it is,
neither the church nor the crown can
legislate certain things away.
Separations are numerous and d.
Vorce uncommon.
This leads to anomalous social con-
ditions which are kindly winked at
and ignored
But now and then when someone of
special conspicuity wants a severing
of the test is not so hard
In this instance Lady Churchill, or
Mrs. Corvallis West, skipped into the
court room, mumbled few answers to
as few perfunctory questions, was
granted a decree and skipped ont with
more dispatch than the figures on .
moving picture film.
Her case was jumped over twenty
others and disposed of several days
before it would have come up in due
course.
Such things are not entirely un-
known to legal procedure in this
country.
Even in Richmond, Indiana, cabs
have been known to drive up to mu-
nicipal entrances and drive away
again so fast you couldn't tell what
was happening.
In the meantime divorce for cruel
and unusual treatment was granted in
the batting of an eye-lash
While Biddy, in open court and to
the tune of a severe lecture, is told
and lead a different life.
Lady Churchill, however, is not an
imadverted upon here as horrible
example of how to do it when you
know how and have a pull
But because she is shining
example Of matrimonial folly.
When the beautiful Lady Randolph
Churchill married Mr.. George Corn
wallis-West in 1900, she was forty-six,
looked thirty and was old enough to be
her husbands mother
The former was, indeed, but few
months older than Lady Churchilps
famous son, Winston Churchill.
But "love will find a way"
= At forty-six a woman may have all
the seductiveness of twenty plus the
fascination of experience.
In thirteen years time, however,
when forty-six is ifty-nine-well,
that's another thing
And SO George Cornwallis-West
found it.
There is no folly as great as the
marriage OF youth and age. either one
way or the other.
Although the truth is that it is not
so perilous when the balance is on the
mans side.
A woman ages about ten years fast
er than a man, under normal con-
ditions.
And frequently faster.
In an even race, the woman general
ly gets the worst of IL.
But with handicap Of a generation
she is, in the last analysis, the loser
And the tragic loser.
There have been glazing examples
of this.
The Baroness Burdette-Coutts, in
instance, who incurred the continued
of Queen Victoria by mar
rying a man twenty-five years her
junior.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett an
other.