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Lorn Romances Mwcrbilts | K. Vanderbilt. NHW TURK ■— Julia Estelle l>«Kt, one of the j oungest de t Cendant* and bet'* of old < ommodore Vanderbilt. Las eloped with a ciauSeur of New I*'— and baa thereby one* again re tired e'ereat In the long line of ro mance and ocandaJ— romantic scandal scandalous romance—that has ac m Listed from c«L» ration to genera la* around the name of Vnndert.lt 1: turn* one* a'tentlan bark to the day* abet Cornelius disinherited his •ou at the same name because he in stst'-d on marryitg for love a young •reran eight year* h:s elder Hi* son Aff-» »ho presumably teamed to •u- him. and who inherited all of his money i* since divorced, while Corne rs is sa d never to have regretted his mamage Hot this Is but one of many anecdotes to be told of the love stories at this Illustrious family. Miss Wilson waa ar. extremely rich ’'•>.1; vuau In b*r own right- Her two t s-er* had married Ogden Goelet and «r Mtefcae. Herbert. But though <4d enough to mar-i. Miss Grace was fg-« “SLe has not yet fallen In love” said ter mother to the Prince of *'»■« -ater K‘.:.g Edward, who ad t -ed Grace and asked why she was to- eettled in a home of her own To the German emperor, to whom abe was presetted Mias Wilson said. “I would r tidly marry a foreigner your rr.a Jest? br I rculd marry no one If I did not first fall Is love ” Fh;i in love she did. with young ■ artel!os Vnr.derhtlt The match, be cause at the young woman's age. waa bitterly opposed by 'he bridegroom s father, and the young man waa prac • rally • uroed oat of the bouse But nevertheless the young couple were Owletly mamad A year later old r<w. us died and disinherited his son of the sane name “for disobedience to parental wishes " W lac* Comes to the Rescue. “M> laughter. Grace, loves you.” IT* ilsos to tbe young Vanderbilt without a fortune, “and If your fa ther bass t left yoa with enough to support your family. I guess I've got enough for you both “ Truing Cornelias went to work, ar.d te the laal ten year* ha* perfected enough valuable machinery more than to support h.* wife and family. Be sides any such turns, he received |C. MO.PM as a gift from his brother Al fred. to whom the father left mint of his fortune Sc the old man did not ‘■neat '»ve out of Its due of worldly fortune after alt You wouldn'* think t.e would wish to put a bar. on conticu- 1 ous and happy lev-. In bis family. Tbe:e has not b*»en enough of it to spare The second son. Alfred Gwyne Van derbilt. came into possession of J50. OOO.'JOO by the will of his father, but t did not brit.g him a happy marriage lie gave his iamily great pleasure by wedding Miss Elsie French, a repre sentative New York girl of old family. She bad a giea; fortune in her own right, but not in comparison with the fortune of her husband She was de scribed at the time of her marriage, which took place with great pomp at Newport, as being one of the blondest and one of the prettiest young women 1 of the smart set- Her hair was of pale straw color. It grew abundantly on her head, and she wore it in a loose fluff around her face. Her Bkln was fair and her eyes were like blue china. Reginald's Romance Sill1 Holds. Sbe was fond of her husband's fa-1 ■ vorite pastime of coaching, and was j his frequent companion on trips be , tween New York and Philadelphia But for some reason or other, they ! could not "hit It off." Alfred was not ( scholarly and he was not constant In i his affections His defections have been costly They have cost him his wife and a tremendous alimony, and •he society of his ten-year-old son. who ' was to have bad the bulk of his for- j tune There was one other brother who 1 has always been a romantic figure in the society of the country. This is j i Reginald—lover of horses and, more : | remarkable perhaps, of his wife. He married Kathleen Nellson when she | was the youngest and prettiest de butante of the year in New York. She had been out only a little, and then under th« escort of her uncle. Fred erick Gebhard. She was almost un known to society at that time, but her family was an old and an honorable one "Baby Kathleen." as she was called then, bad spent her life In the nursery and abroad at school. She 1 went from the convent Into the mil l.onalre’s borne. Since her marriage sbe has lived at Newport, where she has built one of the handsomest bouses In Rhode Is 1 land. It Is a palace, and sh j enter- j tains vast parties of house guests in | It. lJke the czarina of Russia, sbe 1 seldom sets oft cer own grounds. She 60es frequently over her estate, and she drives out occasionally with her husband. When be exhibits his horses she usually travels to the shows with him. however remote they may be from her residence. She was seen frequently in Chicago, when he drove cere She went to New York to the debut and to the wedding of her sis ter-in-law. who was Gladys Vander bilt. But she returned to her home immediately. “1 wouldn’t live in New York for the world." she has said. She is the prettiest and the most democratic of all the three Vander bilt sisters-in-law. Mrs. Cornelius is the leader socially, and Mrs Alfred was the most blonde and the most practical. She w as the most economi cal and the least talkative Mrs. Cornelius is the most brilliant, the stateliest, and the greatest society woman of them all. Unhappy Romance of Consuelo. All of the Vanderbilt romances, however, are not confined to tnis one immediate tamily. The subject cannot be mentioned without a word about the unhappy marriage or Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, daughter ot Willie K. Vanderbilt and the woman who is now Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The papers gave a page to the descrip tion of the wedding. It was one of the largest society events ever known in the 1 nited States. Some of the head lines read. “Hands Go With Hearts,’’ and the orchestra pluyed “Oh. Perfect Love" duriug the ceremony. When the new American duchess went for the first time to her new es tate. the servants who had been In her husband s tamily through years turned out to give her a hearty greeting. The nobility of England received and loved her. She was soon famous lor her en tertainment and her charities. But there was no denying It—her marriage was not a success. The duchess looked and was unnap py. Her father tried to adjust the dif ficulties of his daughter with her hus band even while be was undergoing difficulties with his wife which ied eventually to divorce. The king of England is said to have tried to bring the two together. But it could not be done They are now living separately, with the two children in the custody of the duchess, except for a brief period every year. v\ nen ner latner married .Mrs. «um erford in London, after obtaining bis divorce more or less sensationally, the duchess attended the wedding, kissed him and wished him happiness. When her mother married Mr. Bel mont, that most democratic ot million aires. she did the same. Nobody knows how she felt, however, while they were getting their divorce. Differences in Taste Striking. Mrs. Vanderbilt was originally Miss Alva Smith ot Alabama, and she was of restless and ambitious nature. Her husband's tastes were quiet. She said to her triends that he was provincial. This made some smile, since she came lrom Mobile and he from New York. Mr Belmont was of a temperament different from Mr. Vanderbilt's. He was vivacious and fond of pleasure. A divorce from Mrs. Belmont, who scon after became Mrs. George L. Hives, seemed to depress bim not at all. He and Mrs. Vanderbilt became warm friends and even confidants. This was while the woman was stili married to Mr. Vanderbilt. He oblig ingly went to Europe. He lived in Paris the life of the fashionable bache lor. He drove in his liveried carriage with a woman ot the demimonde. "How unlike Willie K.,” exclaimed his wondering wife. Later she mentioned the woman's name in her suit. After that Mr. Vanderbilt dropped her. and the world then knew what "the game had been. Marie Vanderbilt Alien is said to have been baptized at birth in her mother's tears. It was not a good omen. Her mother died of a broken heart. She had several successors, none of them happy women. Marie grew up capricious, beautiful, fasci nating as her father, and lacking like him character ballast. Her marriage with John Wllmerding was one of the memorable weddings of Grace cburch in New York, but it did not bold long. Her husband threw a plate or ice cream In her face In a burst of rage against her for ber airy behavior. Mrs. Wilmerding for a time was kept in an asylum. After that she led a gay fife in New York, and sank to the usual sordid life of the unfortunate. The marriage of young Elliott Sbep* ard was one of the same sort. He saw a pretty woman, fell in love with her, married, repented, and was di vorced. There are others—so many that one cannot think of going into their ramifications. Perhaps they have no particular significance now. But still they will rise to mind on such a happy occasion as the one of few weeks past, when the young heir to all of this love and romance and money runs away with a chauffeur, is all that has gone before in the way of unhappy marriages in the Vander bilt family but a mere foreshadowing of what is yet to come? Maybe so— and then maybe not. The only happy marriages of the long history of the family are those that have been deemed unfortunate by the connection at the time they have taken place. CHEESE LOVED OF EPICURES Car* That Is Taka* le th* Production at th* World-Famous Roquefort. On* who baa never visited the vil las* o* Hixjaefor. la tbe department of Aveyron. 1'ranee. can form no idea qf Use esfent of that cheese industry ■ -insr product h know* tbe world over from tbe name of tbe town where It la manufactured No pains are spared to secure tbe beat results. Tbe tied and qualify of tbe milk Is Important, it must be pure unskimmed •Men's milk, unadulterated with wa ter or with any other milk. Tbe green hiwa at the Aveyrtm. which furnish Am pasture* tor feeding the sbelp. play m email pan in the quality of tM milk and the celebrity of Roque fort cbeeae la tbe Roquefort Industry the cans and everything pertaining to tbe milk maat be scrupulously clean. Tbe Mirlea are In dry and airy spots, ana lit s n if e-washed walla cemented floors, and screeoej windows all con duce to cleanliness. The dairy con sists of three rooms, in the second of which a temperature of sixty-three degrees Fahrenheit is recorded by the thermometer the year round The milk Is first heated to a tem perature of over ninety degrees Fah renheit and curdled by the addition of rennet. The curds pass through cari ous processes of draining, salting, molding, etc., but to state this gen erally gives only a slight idea of the time and care necessary. From start to shipment it requires fifty to sixty days to turn out a satisfactory prod uct. The various operations might be briefly stated as follows: (1) Treat ment of the milk—skimming, heating, curdling, dividing the cruds. draining, putting Into molds and scattering with ; powder of stale bread crumbs, tasting, hardening; <2) treatment of cheese at factory—receiving and weighing, first and second salting, brushing, piercing and classifying, placing in caves, first turning, maturing in caves, second turning, second classifying, maturing continued, third and last turning t>e : fore shipment. The preparation of the bread is a long and interesting part of the proc ess. A special Kind of bread is mois tened and left to mold in a cave ror about two months. It is then cut into small pieces, dried, ground and bolted. The powder thus obtained is scat tered over the layers of curds as they are placed in the molds. This makes the bluish green streaks noticed in the cheese and helps to give Roque fort Its aroma. The caves perform an important part in the fabrication of this cheese. It Is largely by maturing and mellow ing In them that Roquefort cheese is celebrated throughout the world for its delicate flavor and peculiar aroma. These caves are excavations, some natural and some artificial, hollowed out tn the side of the steep and rocky mountain which dominates the little village clinging to its side. After the cheese mellows or ripens for about forty-five days in the cave, it is ready for shipment or to be placed tn the refrigerating rooms, which are cooled by an ammoniac process operated by electric machin ery. A STATEHOOD ENTHUSIAST William H. Andrews, known fot years in Pennsylvania politics as "Bull." is highly elated over the ad mission of New Mexico along with Arizona, and is making no effort to conceal 4t Andrews became a resident of the Territory some years ago. and has represented it in congress as Terri torial delegate. He hopes to be a sen ator from the new state, in which he claims twenty-five years' residence. "The happiest moment I have had since I took up my home in New Mex ico was at the White House when President Taft laid the pen aside that traced his signature on the bill giv ing the glorious old Territory state hood." said the rejoicing "Bull.” "I say It was the happiest moment I have had since I became a New Mex ican because it ended a long, weary and at times discouraging struggle which I pursued first as an Individual, tnen as a representative of the people here for admission to the l nion. "For me that struggle was continuous ior twenty-five years—seventeen in the Territory and eight here." "Will New Mexico be a credit to the Union?" continued Mr. Andrews en thusiastically. "Will she shoulder the new responsibility now resting upon tar with honor? My answer is: Watch her." "In a few days,” he said to a Washington reporter, “I'll go back 'to the old Territory' and lake with me the official message that the people out there have been waiting for for years. That will be another pleasant duty. "If old Scout Andrews—that's myselt—never comes to Washington again, either in an official or private capacity, I will feel my labors here in behalf of \'ew Mexico, considering the results, w ill have been enough for one man." EDUCATOR WHO WAS OUSTED Aitnougn oniy two monins nau elapsed since his first wife committed =uicide. Prof. Charles W. Minard, principal of the Marquette school in Chicago, was secretly remarried to Mrs. Bessie Belenger. and the couple are now living on a Wisconsin farm belonging to the much-discussed school principal. Minard has been formally suspend ed by tbe board of education. He was first called before the committee early in June, following the death of his wife. Mrs. Mattie R. Minard. who committed suicide June 1, during an unexplained abseWce of her husband. At that time the schoolmaster made an explanation and was retained in his position. Among his associates, the school principal had a reputation for domes tic perfection. His personal nabits were described as ideal. He was never known to smoke, drink or gam Die. i-Tom me outside, the life between the aged couple appeared as near a thing of perfect romance as the song of Darby and Joan. Everything indicated an untroubled old age and a tranquil ending. Then^ame the explosion. Mrs. Minard committed suicide during a strange 24-hour absence o! her husband. It is said now that he was with Mrs. Belen ger. When he came back he refused to account definitely for his where abouts. He seemed stricken with grief at his wife's death. It was a day be fore it was discovered that she had taken carbolic acid. The bottle from which Mrs. Minard drank the acid has never been found. News of the marriage, coupled with reports of a long intimacy between the two. shed a new light on the dual character of Professor Minard. 'Ideal husband.” The woman whom he has married Is different in every way from his former wife. Instead of being a woman of culture and education, her life has been filled with the hardness which comes from poverty. Deft a widow with five children six years ago. she worked as a seamstress until last winter. The former M’-s. Minard was as delicate and ethereal as an old minia ture. She loved books even more than her husband, and for twenty-five years they made a practice of reading together every night. They had two children Both died. FIGURE IN LABOR DISPUTE J. W. Kline, general president ol the International Brotherhood ot Blacksmiths and Helpers, has been brought into the limelight by the dis pute between the 25,000 mechanical workmen on the Harriman railroads and the management of the system. Kline's headquarters are in Chicago, but presidents of other crafts in volved have headquarters alcng the coast. Mr. Kline was the first blacksmith to resent the introduction of the pre mium system on the Harrlman lines years ago and started the strike of blacksmiths. He conducted this fight victoriously. Mr. Kline is forty-eight years old. married and lives with his wife and family in Chicago. He has been a blacksmith for thirty years. He joined the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Help ers. which organization now numbers 20,000 members, in 1890. He was elect ed a member or the general executive board at the Buffalo convention of 1901 and his first active work was in the strike on the Union Pacific railroad, a Harriman line, in 1903 and 1904. In the latter part of 1904 he was elected second vice-president at the St Louis convention. In 1905 he was elected general president and editor and manager of their official journal. He was re-elected at the Milwaukee convention in 1907 with out opposition and again at the Pittsburg convention in 1909. SWIFTEST GLOBE GIRDLER The latest globe-trotter and the swiftest who has ever sought to girdle the world against time, Andre Jager Schmidt. wound up his trip in Paris with a ’round-the-world record in 39 days and 18 hours. Jager-Schmidt Is a newspaper man and one day was foolhardy enough to tell the editor-in-chief of his paper that the world could be girdled In 40 days. "Then go and do it." said the chief. The young newspaper man made preparations for his 'round-the-world tour and completed his trip in less than 40 days. He landed at Cher bourg. France, and at once entered a waiting aeroplane and flew to the French metropolis. Among the noted cities he has visited are Moscow, Omsk. Irkutsk. Harbin, Valdlvoetok. Montreal and New York. After first leaving Paris he did not sleep in a stationary bed with the ex ception of a few hours in Montreal ana one mgm in xsew i ora. That waa one of his complaints made ta New York. Sleeping on trains and steamships Is taxing on the nerves and does not give the satisfying rest the system craves. Jager-Schmidt is twenty-seven years ©M. tall, athletic and blonde and with the vivacious manner of his race. Critical Sense. “That youngest son of BUggtas seems to hare the making of a true musician In him.“ “Does he or ntayT" “No. But he cries piteously when BUggtas tries to." Dally Reminder. 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Abbey, the American painter who lived in Lon don, was only comfortably off. where as he might have been rich." The speaker, a Chicago art dealer, had just returned from Europe. He continued: “1 dined one evening with Abbey in his house in Chelsea, and after dinner we walked in the blue twilight on the Chelsea embankment. "As we passed Old 3wan House and j Clock House, and the other superb residences that front the river. I re- i preached Abbey for his extravagance, i “ ‘Why,’ I said, pointing toward , Clock House, ‘if you had saved your money, you might be living in a pal- i ace like that today.’ "But Abbey, with a laugh, rather j got the better of me. He rattled off this epigram—and it’s an epigram I’ll always remember when I’m tempted to be parsimonious: “ “Some folks,' he said, ‘are so busy putting something by for a rainy day that they get little or no good out of : pleasant weather.' ” Qualified Player. Marion's mother was ill, and the aunt who took k sr place at the head of the household plied the children with unaccustomed and sometimes dis liked articles of diet. One day, after being compelled to eat onioas, Marion refused to say grace. "Then you must sit at the table un til you are ready to say it!” was the aunt’s stern judgment. An hour or so later, when the brilliant sunshine and impatient calls of her comrades together comprised an irrestible ap peal. Marion capitulated—thus: "Oh, Lord, make me thankful for having had to eat horrid old onions, if you can do it. But I know you can't.” A Trifle Withered. In his native tongue no one could have made more graceful speeches that Monsieur Blanc, but when he essayed compliments in English he was not quite so successful. "Have I changed in the five years since we met in Paris?" asked the elderly woman who desired above all things to be thought younger, much younger, than she was. "Madame." said the courtier, his hand on his heart, "you look like a rose of 20 years!”—Youth's Com panion. How to Find Fault. Find fault, when you must fiind fault, in private; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time. The blamed are less inclined to resist when they are blamed without witnesses; both parties are calmer and the accused party is struck with the forbearance of the accuser, who has seen the fault and watched for a private and proper time for mentioning it Too many officeholders who pre tend to be working for their country are merely working it — Friendship is the flower of a mo ment and the fruit of time.—Kotze bue. It doesn't require a skillful driver to drive some men to drink. A HIT What She Gained by Trying Again. A failure at first makes us esteem final success. A family in Minnesota that now en joys Postum would never have known how good it is If the mother had been discouraged by the failure of her first attempt to prepare it. Her son tells the story: “We nad never used Postum till last spring when father brought home a package one evening just to try it. We had heard from our neighbors, and in fact every one who used it, how well they liked it “Well, the next morning Mother brewed it about five minutes, just as she had been in the habit of doing with coffee without paying special at tention to the directions printed on the package. It looked weak and didn't have a very promising color, but nevertheless father raised his cup with an air of exceptaney. It certain ly did give him a great surprise, but I’m afraid it wasn't a very pleasant one, for he put down his enp with a look of disgust. Mother wasn't discouraged though, *nd next mornlog gave it another trial, jetting it stand on the stove till boil 'tg began and then letting it boil for fifteen or twenty minutes, and this time we were all so pleased with it that we have used it ever since. “Fhther was a confirmed dyspeptic and a cup of coffee was to him like poi son. So he never drinks it any more, but drinks Postum regularly. He isn’t troubled with dyspepsia now and is actually growing fst, and I'm sure Postum is the cause of it. All the chil dren are allowed to drink it and they 1 are perfect pictures of health.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little "book. “The Road to j Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” ®vw wH the aheve letter' A aew "• ■•heave fr»a time to tlate. They j «* ffMht, tree, aad tall of hnaaa SURE. She—Religion is a wonderful thing. He—Yes; but some people only look on it in the light of fire insurance. Diary of a F!y-Killer. Monday—My attention was called last night to a statement that house flies are bearers of disease and should be destroyed as soon as possible. I began my crusade against them this morning. It was a little discouraging, because there was only one fly in the house and it was quite agile. It es caped me. I broke two vases and a photograph frame. Tuesday—I nearly killed three flies this afternoon, but tne lamp got in the way. It was a $7 lamp. Wednesday—1 saw a fly on the out side of the fly screen and raised the screen so I could hit it. Seventeen flies flew in. I missed it. Thursday—There was a sluggish looking fly on the window with closed wings. I stole toward it cautiously, but it flew up just as 1 let the blow fall. Then I knew it wasn’t a fly. It was a wasp. My nose began to swell at once. Friday—My nose is a sight. Drat the flies.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Practical Illustration. 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