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The "Butterfly" Marquis of
Anglesey.
London, AuguBt 9.
WHY does the young Marquis
of Anglesey retuse to live
vita his wife, the former
dy Marjorle Manners?
Mystery surrounds this desertion
of the prettiest and most accom
plished girl in English society by
one of its richest young noblemen.
Certain facts are known, however,
which make It appear probable that
one of the most peculiar tragedies
ever created by monarchical social
conventions lies behind the separa
tion. It Is known that the Marquis was
formerly devoted to the Princess
Patricia of Connaught. the prettiest
and most charmjng member of the
English royal lamily. It Is univers
ally believed that the young people
were in love and that they planned
to marry soon as they could over
come t,h opposition of the bride's
family This statement was pub
lished again and again, and no evV
dence was presented to disprove It
Certainly the Princess has remained
unmarried much longer than is cus
tomary with women of her rank.
But, strange to say, the Lady Mar
jorle Manners was equally a friend
of the Prince's brother. Prince Ar
thur of Connaught. Society believed
with the same assurance as in the
first caBe that these two were
deeply in love and were barred from
happiness by royal authority and
conventions. These circumstances
drew the Marquis and lady Marjorle
much together, and finding that the
desires of their hearts could not be
fulfilled, they decided to marry one
another. .
They why have they parted? Was
it the Marquis who deserted his
pretty wife or the Marchioness who
abandoned her noble husband? The
facts suggest that it was rather the
Marquis who took the Initiative.
It Is believed that he kept on
sighing and longing for the Princess
"Pat" whom he had lost, and that
as the months went on he found his
wife, beautiful though she was, un
endurable. 6he, on her part, was
little inclined to tolerate a man whom
she had never really loved and who
could not now conceal his aversion
for her.
They "were married on August 3,
1912, and have one daughter, Lady
Alexandra Paget. Early this year
the Marquis fell ill and, after a
period In a London sanitarium, went
with his wife to Alx-les-Bains, the
southern French watering place.
After a month there the Mar
chioness went home to Indon alone.
The explanation was given that the
Marquis needed a complete rest.
Persons who were at Aix-les-Bains
said that the Marquis acted as if he
were weary of life and looked at his
beautiful end charming wife as
though she were the most disgusting
object on earth. After leaving Aix-les-Balns
he went on to Naples ac
companied only by a secretary.
Since then the two have never
lWed together. Friends of the
Marquis say that he has declared In
an agonized tone that he never will
nd never can live with her again.
He has nothing against her far
from It, he considers her the best of
women. Then he wrings his hands
and saye that he can never, never
see her again. Sometimes they hear
him murmuring, "Patricia. Patricia!"
The Marquis is extremely rich.
He owns 80,000 acres, Including
some valuable town property and in
dustrial sites, which bring him in
about $40,000 a year. He possesses
several beautiful old country places,
including the noted Plas Newydd.
near Anglesey, In Wales. He in
herited his title rather uneTTectedly.
a he was only a second cousin of his
predecessor, who died young and
without children. This predecessor
was a most eccentric young man,
who squandered vast sums in Strang
"Right through the Princess
Pat's heart jumped the Mar
quis and then straight
through that of Mar j one
Manners and he broke both."
ways- His madness suggested that
of King Louis of Bavaria. He built
a gorgeous private theatre and spent
his time planning fantastic spec
tacles. He wore romantic costumes
loaded with real Jewels. His wife
obtained a divorce for a singular
reason.
It was expected that the present
Marquis, who had been a cavalry of
ficer, would prove a very different
type of man from his predecessor,
but there Is now an Impression that
he inherits some of the family ec
centricity. In fact he has been dubb
ed "the butterfly Marquise"
His unhappy 'lf. the former
Lady Marjorle Manners, is by many
considered the most charming figure
that English society has known in
this generation. Not only Is she beau
tiful, hut she Is a skilled and cleper
musician, an artist and a remark
able linguist.
For several years Lady Marjorle
was the most courted girl in English
society, as wao only natural. Noble
men with the most Impressive titles
and the highest millionaires twere
her suitors. Several Americans fell
victims to her charms. Among them
was the wealthy and distlnglushed
cotillion leader, Craig "Wadsworth.
He has never marrLed and has hid
himself in distant parts of the world
ever since.
The Wistful, Unhappy Face of
the Beautiful Marjorle Man
ners After She Became the
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Lovely Mariorie Manners as She Was Before Her Marriage to the
English Peer Who Has So Cruelly Abandoned Her.
For a time the lending figures of
a gay and htppy little social set
were Prince Arthur of Connaught,
bis slMer. Princess "Pnt," Lady
Marjorle Manners nnd the Marquis
of Anglesey- The royal members of
this group enjoyed a social freedom
that wns formerly unknown. They
welcomed to their gutherlngs artists
and actors nnd all sorts of aimuslng
people. Prince Arthur of Connaught
is the oldest son of the Duke of
Connaught, who was King Edward's
oldest surviving brother and Is now
the only uncle of the King. In his
youth as the King's senior nephew.
Prince Arthur was of great import
ance from the monnrchial point of
view, but since Queen Mary lias
raised such a large ramlly bis Import
ance has diminished. He is a nice
looking young nan, wearing an air
as if the burdens of royalty saddened
him.
How
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HE puzzle of how man got bis
metals, bow he learned to
extract gold, silver, iron and
copper from the ores of the earth,
has been solved at last by Professor
A. W. Buckland, of the Anthropologi
cal Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland.
He claims that gold was undoubt
edly the first metal known and Us
use may date toark to the Stone Age,
for as it is found in a pure state in
many countries it would probably
'be seized upon for ornamental pur
poses by savages who would Boon
learn that it might be beaten into
shape with a stone hammer.
Some early traces of metallurgical
knowledge appears in the Bronze
Age, showing that man had already
gone so far as to make an alloy of
copper and tin, but this was com
paratively late, for it meant that
man had mastered the art of navi
gation, for the early workers In
bronze, coming from the East or
from the shores of the Mediterran
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Inexplicable and Heartless Conduct of the
Marquis Who Broke Princess Pat's
Heart and Who Has Now
Abandoned His Beautiful Mate
It was the attachment of Prince
Arthur and Lady Marjorle Manners
that first beenme known. King Ed
ward put his foot down severely on
all hopes of a mnrrlnge in this quar
ter. The King believed that mem
bers of the roynl fnmlly should mix
with interesting persons of all classes
of society, but when it come to mar
riaee he stood firmly by the ancient
conventions- Besides, he pointed out
thnt Prince Arthur. had little money
to support his rank and must marry
money.
Then King Edward
snld that Princess
'Pat's" affair with the
Marquis of Anglesey
must roftne to an end
nt once. Obeying the t.
King's orders, the Duke
of Connaught Instruct
ed his daughter nt to
receive the Mnrquls or
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Man Got His Metals
ean, sought their tin in Britain, and
carried the art of smelting and
welding metals over all the then
civilized world.
But before the age of bronze, pure
copper was used, beaten out and
not smelted or mixed with alloy.
Some of the earliest metal imple
ments are of pure copper, strength
having been secured 'by beatJng to
gether several thin layers of metal
and lapping ovor the edges. This
Is found in the Lake-Dwellings of
Switzerland, and in the caves of
Spain, as well as among the pre
historic remains in Egypt.
Many old geographers claim that
the art of smelting metals was dis
covered through a violent conflagra
tion, which melted the ores, and
caused them to flow down pure, and
there Is a curious legend in the
Mahabbarata (2100 B. C.) connect
ing serpents with smelted metals.
"The good genii, wishing to ob
tain the amrita or water of life,
went before Brahma and Vishnu, and
requested their help to remove the
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mountain 'Mandar. with which to
churn the ocean. Then he with the
lotos-eye directed the king of ser
pents to appear. Anata, the king
of serpents, arose, and the mountain
placed on the back of a tortoise was
whirled by Indra like a machine."
This churn Is Identified by Tylor
with the early implement for fire
making. The fire is at length quench
ed by a shower of cloud borne
water poured down by the im
mortal Indra; and now a stream
of the concocted Juices of vari
ous trees and plnnts ran dowu
in a briny flood. It was from this
milk-like stream of Juices and a mix
ture of melted gold, that the Soors
obtained their immortality.
This is very plainly a poetic ac
count of the discovery of pure gold
as it flowed down In a snake-like
stream from some great volcanic
eruption, and is at the same time a
very probable account ot the discov
ery of this, the first metal worked
by man.
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Look at Her"
even be seen In his company at large"
social nffnlrs. The king derided that
as the only handsome and distin
guished Princes in thp royal famly
she must marry a sovereign, or at
least an heir to a throne.
Soon nfter the Princess TatrlcU
yielded to the almost Irresistible
authority of the King and her own
family by giving up the Mnrquls of
Anglesey, lie wna married to his old
friend. Lady Marjorle Manners. It
la said Hint the Princess "Pat" and
the M.irquls had mnde a compact
that, as they could not marry one
nnothrr, they would never marry any
one else. When the Princess avoid
ed marrying one after another the
royal husbands proposed to her, she
wns obeying this compact
The Mnrquls was less faithful to
the solemn love compact. Mi-n have
less fortitude In such matters. Feel
ings of entiul, of loneliness and dls
consnlnteness were too strong for
the Mnrquls. and he married one
whose beauty and charm were fa
mlllnr to him.
The Marquis saw the change In
his Princess, nnrt then he bitterly
regetted that he had not been faith
ful to the compact. Recently she be
came engaged o the Griind Iuke
of Mecklcnbiirg-Strelltx. a minor
Herman sovereign, for the Marquis's
course had released her from the
compact-
The Princess Patricia of Eng
land Whose Love for the Mar.
quis of Anglesey Has Kept
Her from Marriage.
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It is generally believed that the
first metal workers belonged to that
ancient pre-Aryan race. denominated,
Turanian; perhaps more correctly.
Mongoloid, for it is among Mon
golian races that reverence for the
serpent or dragon is, and always
has been carried to excess. China
and Japan may be cited as examples
of this to-day, 'but ancient legends tell
the same tale of India, as has been
shown, at that remote epoch when
the Aryans crossed the Himalayas
and swarmed into those great cities
inhabited by tribes who were cer
tainly not savages, but were skil
ful metal workers, especially In
gold.
... There is further confirmation of
this theory in the wondrous domi
nance of the ancient HUtites, long
identified as Mongols on account of
the pigtails appearing upon their
monuments, and It U alto known
from these same ' monuments that
they were great serpent worshippers
and highly skilled in the working ot
metals.
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