The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-11-30

succeed. try, try again'--apparently
have made their way into court cir
.oles. and the ghost of good Queen Vic
.tQrta, if she still hovers about British
!o9ija boards, must be throwing
Seung fit,
For it is announced that the di-
Vorced Duke of Westminster. Eng
lands richest peer, will be married in
- rev days to a fair Divorce OF
twepty-eight, Mrs. Violet Mary Ger
aJdine Rowley, the former Duchess Of
Westminster having also taken a new
domestic partner within five weeks Of
Cher separation from the Duke
. Everybody happy, you see-quite in
accordance with the Reno-New York
formulas!
The affairs of the then youthful
and good looking ducal master Of
Englands largest rent-roll-he is now
about forty-began TO take space in
american newspapers some twenty
Years ago, when he was married u
fhe brown-eyed, beautiful Sheila
CorhRallis- West daughter of the
iIate william c. Cornwallis-Wes
IiAifFe was a tremendous catch, in
hOSeA days, and his mother and
s4ather were not at all keen for the
match, which was the elimination OF
, q 'boy-and- girl romance. So t. ay
13eeb WAR happening along and there
Tbeins place for His Grace on the
stan OF Sir Alfred Milner. But II the
contemplated union with Miss Corn
Wallis West was in the nature Of IA
-dfSihg-pan to the Duke of Westmin-
sLe4'Ai parents, they soon found that
south Africa was nothing less than
= fire. For the youthful Duke
promptly fell 1lead-over- in love
'Wfth7 ~ a mature super siren, Mrs.
1Aehnas Anterior.
The daughter of Sir Edward John
Dean-Paul, and the wife OF Col. Ath-
lerton of the crack 12th Lancers, this
woman of thirty-four, with her iblaZ-
sing black eyes and crown of red
brown hair had made one of the
group of smart Englishwomen who
followed their husbands to South Al
RIGA and evoked from Kitchener the
armies-fiies a a women
Col. Atherton went to Modder
River Camp. Mrs. Atherton remained
In Cape Town. That is, she remained
there, until her husband heard Of hel
frlendship for the rich young peer
qndrlnsisted on interrupting it. Then
she and the Duke of Westminster
wept back TO England on separate
boats. That is, they started out sepa,
Tatety, but Mrs. Atherton stopped OF
al Madeira, waited. till Westminster
came along, and cannily extracted
feoFn him a promise to make her a
duchess as soon as she disposed OF
her husband.
II didn't work out that way, how
ever, for at the request of Mrs, Corn
yvallis-West, King Edward VII. had
n long and earnest conversation Will
The impetuous ducal lover, He haC
asked his fiancee for his release from
their, ,enga cement, but she followed
ths advice of her mother and refused
tOdgiRe him up.
Col. Atherton, mea nwhile, sued foi
divorce, naming the Duke OF West
minister as correspondent Again th'
King interviewed; the suit was with
drawn and, after a postponemc mt
Miss9 CORVALLIS West became The
briderof the youth described as "th'
most unwilling bridegroom ever seeI
in London" One thing on which h'
insisted was the settlement Of
quarter OF a million dollars on tn
o'iOther woman"--Mrs Atherton.
,n!The sophisticated, who knew how
the marriage began, nodded wsel!
at each other and said, Wait anC
see!" They saw about what the!
expected, eyen> though it was Ions
time coming. The Duke and Mis-
SheiIa were married in 1901 Their
\. were three children, two sirls--Lad,
.biuIula and Lady Mary, who survive
and a boy for whom King Edwar
tStood godfather. but who died year