Evening star., 1924-01-24
Divorce Suit Involving Two
u. S. Women Draws Attention

Sir Charles is a very useful citizen.
a man of many attractive gifts, OF
originality of mind, and who has
known how to turn to good account
the very large fortune which he in
herited from his ancestors and which
he has vastly augmented by means
It of his spirit of initiative, resource
/ ifulness and clever enterprise, it must
be admitted that in some respects he
has been heavily handicapped. The
common sense and practical outlook
on life assuredly have not come 10
him by inheritance. His father.
grandfather and great-grandfather
were eccentric almost to the point
Of lunacy. Thus, his grandfather was
so passionately fond of poultry that
he insisted on having all the rooms
and apartments of Balna goWan cas-
tile, the ancestral home OF the lam
lily, In the county of RosS-shlre, liter
ed with straw so that dhiSg ne mignt en- e
! joy the pleasure of watching tns
chickens scratch and scrape anohs
/ it.
! x X x
/ With regard 10 Sir Charles education
IL NAV be said that in all the history OF
the famous school of Eton, extending
been a boy who enjoyed such COM
| mand of money and of luxury as was
! layished on Charlie Ross While at
/ school by his widowed mother. Already
in those days he had magnlncen'
| ocean-going steam yacht, large saiiing
yacht. the most superb and biggest
| steam launch for river use on lhe
,rhames n coach and four, and heaven
| Knows what else besides. Far from ap.
! preciating this, he no sooner caiiie
! age than he instituted an extraoruiha4s
! lawsuit against his widowed mother io'
having during his minority spent mo-
| So, tba revenue of his estates lHa"
sha was entitled to do by law anu "
| ,ha terms of the will. Her ohy eN
l. tr,yoeancs however, had been IN eases
where his luxury and welfare
cerned. ,rd.rstood at the
.,raa that he had been instsatou ~
inn+ this somewhat unnIidi az
auG smSa hv his wife, whom he staa MAJ
I'D in defiance OF his mothers p,o
tests while he was SUI ,,ndar
and a Cambridge university une1
.raanate. aru Thus it happened that ne
Sas remained on record as tne oiiS
nssa In the history OF the university
of . married man rowing III Inc GIL
nnaI oxford Cambridge boat race,
rrba amount for which Sir CharieS
sued his mother amounted to q sun
Of a quarter of a million oollars.
Eyentually the case was Withdrawn
from, the consideration or the couI =
though not before the public mao pee a
/ treated to a number of more OF
! a astonishing revelations. It's VIII
drawal conceded with a cross SUIT Lot
divorce between the barely tWeHls
/ one-year-old husband and ms ,.p,.
! tha former Winifred Berens, sister
! of olivia Berens, widow OF ina.
second Earl of Cairns, who useo 70
/ 90 in London society by the ua@.h9 ~
| "C,umhon" This was due 70 tne ASo -
| that the title that he bore ouIin sae
! lifetime of his father, the ola uta
NOUS Lord High Chancellor S@ns VIE
| son of village copo.e'
| count Garmoyle. s .,,,.
matrimon onial experience Hved IN
I state of ngle-blessedneSs, untli roof
| yaars later he became infatuated by
fhs good looks and the superb voice
| of the fair Kentuckian who has been
| his wife for the past twenty-one
| Years or more and who Is now seek
| ing release from her matrimonial ties.
| She is at-granddaughter or that
! Cen. Charles Scott who served on the
i. staff of George Washington and who
was the. third United States Governor
| Of Kentucky The couple seemed so
completely in harmony with. one
| another and so thoroughly in mutual
understanding that the wreck of their
! marriage is deeply regretted by their
many friends on both sfdes OF the
Atlantic