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The American Duchess of Manchester Wearing Her Peeress's Robes and Coronet, and the
Duke In His Ceremonial Robes.
TUB latest of a long series of cruel sorrows baa
just happened to our charming and Admirable
American Duchess of Manchester.
At an hour whan aho wtahea to see her husband
travel? fjhtlng for his country on the Held of battle,
he la engaged In an unworthy atruggle with creditors
In New York. ,
There li too much reason to fear that her life will
not be any happier than that of the Duchess of Marl
borough or the great majority of American girls who,
misled by the glamor of titles and castles and social
privilege, have married foreign noblemen.
Everybody knows the miseries suffered by the lovely
Duchess of Marlborough, who was slighted and Insulted
until she was forced to separate from her husband,
much as ahe wished to preserve a united home for the
Me of her children. But she, at least, has the conso
lation of knowing that her husband Is now playing his
part as a man by serving In the war, while the Duohess
of Manchester has the unspeakable humiliation of hear
ing that her husband is dodging his creditors.
The Duke of Manchester, who Is now thirty-eight'
years old, began his career as a scapegrace, and recent
?icldents suggest that he Is returning to his early ways,
be principles of heredity Indicate that the outlook for
the Duke is a bad one. Ilia father was separated from
his wife, also an American woman, and was constantly
In the company of a notorious music hall singer named
Bessie Bellwood. At last London was shocked by the
spectacle of seeing the Duke called as a witness In a
police court case in which Bessie was accused of hitting
a cabman on the nose because he tried to collect a bill
from Ills Grace of Manchester.
The present Duke was recklessly extravagant In his
tollege days. lie made presents to the objects of his
admiration that were not Justified by his means. , Ills
ancestral home, Kimbolton Castle, once occupied by
Henry Vlll.'s Queen Katharine of Arragon, was the
scene of parties that must have shocked Her Majesty's
ghost By these ways the Duke acquired a collection
of debts that led to his bankruptcy soon after his
marriage.
Ills marriage In 1900 to Miss Helena Zimmerman,
daughter of Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, waa a
surprise and a runaway affair. She was a young, pretty
girl of simple, modest manners from the Middle West
From tUa day of his marriage the Duke appeared to
undergo a magic transformation. He gave up all hla
bad habits and became a devoted husband. He began
steadily paying off his debts with the help of his
American tather-ln-law. Children arrived regularly and
bow be has four.
Boon after her departure the
European war broke out. Every
body. Including the Duke's friends, .
expected that as a peer .of England
and a former army officer he would
hasten to offer his services to his
country. That an able-bodied young
man with such a training should stay
away Is simply amazing. The Duke,
however, furnished an explanation
that was amusing as well as amai
lng. "You see, old top." he said, "I am
In a devilish awkward position. As
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
I am entitled to the rank and prece
dence of a major-general In the Brit
ish army. But I am sure if I went
back the government would not give
me a position as a major-general In
the active army. I can't take the
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The late King Edward observed that Manchester waa
becoming a credit instead of a shocking example to the
court end showed many attentions to the Duke and his
American wife. On one occasion the Duchess had the
rare distinction of entertaining the King of England
and the King of Spain at the same time. The royal
friendship to the Manchesters has oeen continued by
the present King and Queen of England.
The Duke bought Kylemore Caatle, In Galway, the
most beautiful modern house and estate in Ireland. He
started many local Industries and Improvements with
the assistance of his American father-la-law. He re
ceived the appointment of Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard, that entitles him to wear a magnificent and
picturesque uniform of Tudor design and to command
the Guards who stand about at certain royal functions.
It must not be supposed that progress on the path of
virtue was absolutely continuous. Occasionally Hla
Grace showed a tendency to excessively convivial
habits and doubtful society. Ills habit of promising
everything to everybody over a good bottle of wine
naturally alarmed his friends. Early this year he made
one of his numerous appearances In the London bank
ruptcy court
Last Spring the Duke and Duchess arrived in New
Vork for a visit Soon after his arrival the Duke
began very busily to promote a concern known as the
International Educational League, with a capital of $10,
000,000. Its object was to furnish educational, religious,
moral and Instructive moving picture films for the
young, to be shown at Sunday schools, ordinary schools
and other educational Institutions. Many of hla friends
thought that the Duke had not been specially trained
for this kind of work, but, of course, they said lhat it
was a very fine thing tor him to do. Many prominent
ministers were associated in the enterprise.
Then it became apparent that the Duke was not at
tending atrlctly to business. He rented a little bunga
low at Premium Point, New Rocbelle, which is quite a
favorite residential neighborhood with New York. brok
ers. There he entertained on Sundays and other days
various luminaries of the White Light District who
kept the highly respectable neighbors awake with their
mirth.
Late one Saturday night, a popular dancer, fresh
from Summer triumphs at a New York roof garden.
Jumped off the dock. Excess of spirits made her think
she could rival Annette Kellerman's diving perform
ances, but she overrated her abilities and sunk to the
bottom like a stone. The other revellers fished her up
with some difficulty and revived her with sal volatile.
The Duohess went away to, Europe. It is only rea
sonable to believe lhat she has lost patience with her
noble husband.
Kylemore Castle, the Handsomest Place in
Ireland, Which the Duke Bought and Began to
Develop, with His American Father-in-Law'f
Assistance. ,
Yeomen of the Guard to the war because they are all
very old fellows. So, what can I do?"
Then word began to circulate that the Duke was
hard up. It was said that he was not selling any stock
in his highly moral, educational moving picture enter
prise. It was even stated that he had lost 12,000,000 of
his own in the scheme. Creditors, people with big and
little bills of all kinds began to hunt for him and could
not find him in New York. One report said that be
was suffering from nervous prostration In a quiet little
retreat in Philadelphia. Another said that he had gone
to Canada with a patriotic object
His father-in-law, Eugene Zimmerman, laughed hearti
ly at the idea that the Duke had lost much money.
"It is absurd to.suppose that he lost $2,000,000 in any
sort of enterprise," said Mr. Zimmerman. "He didn't
have it to lose. He didn't lose $2,000, and I am doubt
ful If he loBt $200."
Various checks drawn by the Duke then began to
attract attention. He had incurred a debt of $700 for
flowers from a Fifth avenue florist
"After we chased the Duke for weeks," said the flor
ist's attorney, "he paid us $250 .by check. Later he
gave ua Another check for $250. This check has been
protested."
Another unsatisfactory check was one for $250 sent
, to the Pullman Company In payment for a private car
to Canada. These and other plebeian creditors had the
audacity to charge that His Grace the Duke of Man
chester, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard to His
Majesty the King of England, was dodging them!
One of the Duke's New York society friends tried
to explain matters.
"The Duke," said this man, "Is a charming fellow,
but he simply doesn't know the value of money. It a
man proposes a likely scheme of any kind during a
friendly evening the Duke will agree to back it tor any
amount It never occurs to him to find out If his bank
balance is large enough. He doesn't attend to little de
tails like that The merrier the company the more
liberal bis promises become. There are few things that
be will refuse to a friend, and nothing that he will re
fuse to one of the fair sex."
In the meantime it is impossible to describe the
misery and humiliation of his American wife In Eng
land, where all the haughty peeresses and high per
sonages of English society must be reminding her that
her husband is keeping away from the war and engag
ing in a game of hlde-and-eeek with vulgar American
creditors.
The Duke In His Army Uniform
Hie Friends and Countrymen Think
He Should Be New Wearing on the
Battlefield.
kY means of that invaluable little creature, tne
I guinea pig. Professor Rutledge Rutherford, a
physiologist of Chicago, has finally unearthed and
Identified a remarkable substance which he haa named
"trophogen" or "bltrophon," which means "to produce)
nourishment and life." His experiments began with,
guinea plga; were confirmed afterward upon mice,
chickens, kittens and bther animals, and there la not
the slightest doubt that his great discovery will
lead at once to the rewriting of all our knowledge upon
foods and nutrition.
Trophogen is an all-sustaining nutriment that la
bsolutely essential to lite. It is widely distributed
n every known food, and without it that is, by trying
to nourish yourself on supposed foods that do not con
tain, it death quickly occurs. It occurs in albuminous
so-called protein foods, and la the basis of all animal
tissue.
Professor Rutherford and his pupila have also dis
covered that sugars, starches and carbohydrates gen
erally have relatively little trophogen; and hence, in
spite of their heat-producing power, no one could long
survive on them alone. Furthermore, and startling
to learn, is the fact that oils and fats Intermixed with
animal matter have absolutely no trophogen. They are
therefore of ho value as food it unaccompanied by,
other things.
Chemical preservatives, even when harmless In
themselves, according to thla revolutionary research,
destroy trophogen, and are thus" the worst enemies of
civilized man. Even some canning processes rob the
food of this life-giving principle, and the staler a food
grows, no matter what its original contents, the less
trophogen it retains.
Fresh foods are always full of trophogen, and hence
are decidedly the best tor all of us. This also explains
why savage nations, that obtain their diet from nature
In its fresh, wild state are so hearty and full of health.
Trophogen la manufactured by herbs, vegetables, plants
and the botanical kingdom generally. It is retained and
stored up by man and the other creatures, but the
animal world cannot make It and is therefore forever
dependent upon the vegetable world.
There is a new chemical and dietetic science grow
ing up around Professor Rutherford's marvelous
triumph, and It is called "trophology." It is the new
est of the sciences, and explains the origin, the nature,
the cause and the results ot eating various foods. Dr.
Harvey W. Wiley and his cohorts taught that sugars
and starches are dangerous foods in the Summer, la
tropical countries and In hot weather. Yet tew stop
using them. Trophology explains this by showing
that these elements contain no trophogen.
One of the Important sources that hastened Profes
sor Rutherford's discovery and his conviction that there
was such an underlying food principle as trophogen
was strengthened by findings in rice which caused
the disease "berl beri" It was shown that polished
rice and machine crushed wheat lacked an essential
necessary to sustain health. It remained for Professor
Rutherford to point out that it waa trophogen. Even
pigeons grow poorly and develop thin skulls If some
thing is lacking in the foods they eat
' Trophogen is entirely different from a fat a protein,
a sugsr, a starch or a salt It more closely resembles
fat than any other food constituent It is more
subtle food than any yet known. It required five years
for Professor Rutherford to finally get his hands on it
Now he Is able to Isolate and identify it without trouble,
and expects soon to develop a simple way ot obtaining
It without expense.
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