The Omaha Sunday Bee I
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WOW!
"Bow-Wow-Wow," Sigh tho Poor Neglected
Dogs in the Belmont Kennels as They Gaze
Enviously at Mrs. Raymond's Prize Winners.
"What Are We Coming to? No More Shows,
No More Blue Ribbons, Life Is Just One Dog
goned Thing After Another."
Raymond Belmont's Show-Girl Wife
Takes a Sweet Revenge on Her Has
band's Family by Turning Dog Fan
cier and Winning All the Blue Rib
bons Away from the Belmont Kennek
WHEN Mrs. Raymond Belmont, the
former Winter Garden show girl
bought Pansy, her $500 Pekinese
toy dog, did she plan to be most exquisitely
i-erenged on the members .of her hus
band's family? Was It malice aforethought
tjiat guided her? Or did it Just happen?
Mrs. Raymond will not tell, but tho various
members of tho Belmont family aro sure
that the former Ethol Lorraine, one-time
chorus lady, has turned dog fancier just
to spite them. And now no ono dares say
bow-wow whenever any of the Belmonts
are near by.
And wbr should not this young woman
buy dogs and travel about the country
showing them?
Because the Belmonts have always
shown their dogs and attended all tho
shows In this part of tho country, ahd they
can not do so any longer, because every
where they go they bump into .their new
relatlons-ln-law.
Simple, is it not? "But very painful.
You see, in tho beginning, the Belmont
family did not acknowledge the existence
of Mrs. Raymond; they even denied that
Raymond, tho second son of the multi
millionaire and banker, ever did marry any
one, and even if he did, It was not Ethel
Lorraine.
The air was filled with denials the day
after the marriage was reported. The
Belmonts denied that the wedding had
occurred, Mrs. Raymond denied that the
marriage had not occurred. At that time
Pansy, the Pekinese, did not deny any
thing, because she had not been added t6
tho family. She was an afterthought, so
to Epeak.
But the' Belmonts speedily found that
their donlalB did them no good. The mar
riage had tauten ' place over in Hoboken,
and Ethol Lorraine had the paper to
prove It
In tho boginnlng tho family of tho foolish
young husband refused to consider that
the young wife had any claim on them.
They went on their way exhibiting their
dogs, and their dogs went on bow-wowing
and tho brido wept at home, neglected and
forlorn.
Now the Belmonts eay that while tho
bride moped at homo sho was busy think
ing and planning how sho could bring "her
husband and his family to terms andto
make them at least acknowledge her physi
cal existence. . ...
. Hero la the picture the Belmonts draw
of the young wife. Hero Is what they say
she was thinking.
"Brrrh, Brrrh, but I will be revenged on
Raymond's family. I will bring them to
tems. But how, oh, how shall I do It?
Shall I go to Newport? No, I have nbt
money enough, and then I simply could
not stand being lorgnettod at by those Ca
sino dames. But revenged I will bo."
At this moment Mrs. Raymond stopped
her tears long enough to read about the
Toy Dog Show at the Waldorf, whore the
Belmonts wero exhibiting their pets and
winning prlzos, and where August Bel
mont was tho over-lord, so to speak.
And then a dog outside ,hor window bo
gan to bark, and all at once tho inspiration
struck tho ox-showgirl.
"Bow-wow, sho cried, bow-wow-wow, I
havo found my revenge. I will buy a dog
and exhibit her and win all tho bluo rib
bons for myself."
And straightway It was done. Mrs. Ray.
mond Bolrnont's namo appeared In tho list
of entrants at tho very next shbw held at
Mlneola as tho owner and exhibitor of
Pansy, a Pekincso toy, worth $600, and
warranted to take at least two blue ribbons
at every show.
The first day's session of tho Dog Show
at Mlneola was a busy period; there wero
hundreds of dogs to bo exhibited. Mrs.
Raymond arrived early, so as to bo on hand
when her neglectful-In-laws should arrive.
"Bow-wow". yapped Pansys "what are you'
doing here In-this" horrid'place with all
these dogs?"
"S-s-8-h, we are waiting to see our
father-in-law and stepmother-ln-l&w," an-
Mrs. August Belmont, Her
Displeasure at Having a- Show
Girl for & Daughtesr-in-LaW la
Made All the Keener fey the
Repeated Triumphs of Mrs. Raymond Belmont's Dogs at the Bench Shows.
Miss Barbara Rutherfurd, Whose Admiration for
Dogs Can Hardly Be Expected to Include
Mrs. Raymond Belmont's Prize Winners.
Mrs. Raymond Belmont and Her Pure-B!oedei3 Pekinese "Pansy,"
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swered her loving mistress.
But young Mrs. Raymond's revenge was
only too complete. Tho Belmonts already
knew that her name was on tho exhibitor's
list, and, of course, they withdrew their
dogs and stayed at home. This was par
ticularly hard on the Augle Belmonts, for
they had some perfectly lovely Pekinese
pups that they knew would sweep all be
fore them. But young Mrs. Belmont who
was a Yory haughty young beauty beforo
she married August, Junior, utterly re
fused tos run the risk of meeting her now
Bisfer-ln-law, and she did not even want
her pups to meet the new Pansy.
"But," said Mr. Angle to her father-in.
faw, whose word in his own family has
always been law, "but she Is only doing
this to tease us temporarily, or perhaps
she does not know how It does tease us.
8he will not go to any of the other shows
t am sure."
But sho did. The effect of her presence
at Mlneola pleased her so much that Mrs.
Raymond decided to follow the dog clrcv't
and show her dog all over the country.
An underground currest took this sad
Information to the Belmonts.
"Bow-wow-wow," barked the big dogs In
the Belmont kennels, and "bow-wow-wow"
yapped the little dogs In the same ken
nels, "why are we not being sent to the
shows, why are wa not winning any mora
beautiful blue ribbons?"
This bow-wowing was heard up at the
fiouso whera the Belmont family was in
consultation.
"Can you not do something?" asked Mrs.
Belmont of her powerful husband, 'can
you not keep this Pansy from being
shown?"
But such a course was impossible under
Raymond Belmont
Who Started All
the Trouble by
Marrying Ethel
Lorraine.
the laws of the Amer
ican Kennel Associa
tion. Any dog whose
points were correct and
whose owner fulfilled
certain conditions must
be admitted to tho
bench. Therefore Pansy
could bow-wow to her
heart's content at every
bench show In the coun
try and nono could jsay
her nay.
From New York Pansy was taken to
Boston, and v there won another blue
ribbon, but the effoct on the Bolmont
family was electrical. And society itself
took up the cudgels for tho much-tried
family.
"Lot us freezo Pansy out," Bald society,
"lot us make her realize that sho belongs
in another class."
But the Judges said "no, no, Pansy is a
winner and cannot bo ignored, oven If she
does send tho Belmpnts from tho field."
Society, however, took its revenge on
Pansy's owner by not. noticing her or her
dog at all. It was as though neither dog
nor mistress existed.
"I am being revenged, however," was
Mrs. Raymond's dally thought, and it was
a great comfort to her, indeed. Revenge
Is ever sweet.
But not until rocently did Mrs. Ray
mond realUe the real depth and exquisite
nesB of her revenge. Not until she learned
that her marriage has interfered with the
pet dream of her father-in-law's heart that
Raymond should marry the younger
daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbllt
Miss Barbara Rutherfurd, also a lover of
Pekinese dogs.
Oh, the double-barreled revenge I Just
at tho time that Mrs. Raymond was plan
ning her bow-wow revenge MJss Rutherfurd
announced that sho would enter her beau
tiful Tossio, a pure-blooded Pekinese,
worth several thousand dollars, In the
Mlneola show, but she had to withdraw
Tossio when she heard that Pansy was to
be shown. It was bad enough to lose the
men she bad planned to marry, but it was
worse to lose the chance to show her lovely
TgsBle, she said.
"Ah, but revenge is sweet" sane Mrs,
Raymond when she heard It
Tho Vanderbllts sailed for Europo and
took Miss Barbara with' them, and alBO
TosBte, and they are still over there,
bow-wow,
But Mrs. Raymond has not yet finished
her reyenge. She began it with Pansy,
but sho is adding to It with soveral other
dogs. In the big Belmont kennels at
Meadow Brook, L. I., are dogs of every
dogree and kind. There are sheep dogs,
Irish terriers, Airedale terriers and bull
dogs. A wonderful collection all bow
wowing and lamenting because they are
never shown before admiring crowds any
more.
To offset this collection, Mrs. Raymond
recently doclded to form a kennel of her
own and sell pups to add to her Income.
She is gradually adding terriers and bull
dogs to her string, and when her collection
Is complete there will bo evon raoro ox
cltement In the Bolmont kennols.
But stay, thoro is worse to come. It la
whispered among the social friends and
enemies of the Belmonts that the young
wjfo has a further card up er sleeve, ono
that will be a body blow to her husband's
family, Sho needs a home for her futuro
kennels, and whore elso but on Long Isl
and could she find a better place? Thoro
Is a farm for sale adjacent to the Belmont
estato, and unloBB Mr. Bolmont beatB her
to it, young Mrs. Belmont Intends to lease
It with tho privilege of buying It later.
"Bow-wow-wow," sigh tho old-established
dogB in tho Belmont kennels, "Wuat are
wo coming to? No more shows, no more
bluo ribbons, bow-wow-wow life is just
one dog-goned thing after another."
Will it not be something too awful to
think of if young Mrs, Belmont secures
that farm next to her father-in-law's?
What will happen should the ladles of the
two households ever moot whllo exercising
their pets?
Suppose ono of the dogs gets lost? Will
not tho loBor Insist that her neighbor has
!t?" "Oh, whore, oh, whore, has my little
dog gone," she will alng and sdnd out a
searchor to hunt through her neighbor's
kennels.
There la no doubt that tho advent of the
new Mrs. Belmont will add to tho gaiety of
tho Long Island season, bow-wow. And
for onco in his life August Belmont, Esq.,
finds that his millions are of no avail.
How can millions affect a dog, or sev
eral dogs, anyway?
"Bow-wow-wow, am I not being sweetly
revenged?" fttjUn Mrs. Raymond Belmont
and from Mlos Rutherfurd over in Paris
and from ftU the BelKicnt family comog the
unsworn "Yes."
The Diary, a Doctor Kept Whil
PROBABLY the strangest, most at
fectlng diary ever written waB thai
found at the bedside of tho IaW XH
George Henry Roque Dabbs, who dlod rtj.
cently In London of that form of hoar
dlsoaso called angina peotorls, whliU is
accompanied by lntenso pain involving tho
whole left side and arm. Dr. Dobba, a
distinguished physician, sixty-seven yearn
old at the time or his death, attendod Ton
nyson during tho poet's last Illness.
Here is the diary of death, written on
the backs of envelopes, and entitled, "My
Case"
"Juno 6, 8 p. m.I think this experience
may perhaps explain what must some day
happen. It was not wise to walk up-fetalrs
on a full stomach. , . , I should have
watted, It Is only my own faultno one
is to blame for the impatience of un old
fool. Pain down left arm agonizing. Chlo
roform might reliQve me.
"8:15. Stopper stuck." (The Coronor
said the writing was rather tremulous, as
It tho writer wero excited.) "Crawled to
kitchen.
"8:30. Moved it at last Telephone
operator has begun a new chapter, evi
dently." (This, obeervod the Coroner,
looked as it some one had been ringing
him up, or the operator, as usual, had
given the Wrong number.) "Pain a little
better.
"13:10. Pain quenched for quite two
and a half hours. Coming back again. In
spite of my promise to Mrs, shall
take moro chloroform, but I am bound to
stop It, or it will stop me.
"8:45 a. m. Pain conquerod, I think.
Have just telephoned for moro chloroform.
Cannot bo without It
"6 p, m-, Friday. 6th. Just had a clutch
at my heart again. Was talking to dear
Adelaide (his octogenarian friend), and
had recited har my last poem from the
W. Q, Well, I won't funk, and even If J
mi wane mi
die lu her dear arms sho will tbr&v) rae;
out pornaps tt win pass.
"Juno 6, Continue diary. Rest W. jtory
in my bag,
"J0:25 p. m. Some pain a tut chlo
roform.
"Juno 7. Must rest Wt some gwd
professional advlca. YtTf W.
"6 p. m., Juuo 7.--tfiit Jaiaa more shloro
wtm. It is safer for me than morphia,
which I havo not touched,
"Saturday, 8;0,A kind frlond has
given mo o llttlo dinner. I was only there
an hour and flvo minutes. Her kindness
ought not to bo rewarded by her name
being mentioned If, as seems probable,
my trouble comes on In the night
"Sunday, Juno 8. Bad .night. Oh, the
humiliations of disease! Shall keep quiet
all day, and dlo like a stag it I may be
alone. I havo avoided morphia hitherto,
but tho pain (a tocmuch, and chloroform
is like milk to mo. I do so want to live.
The world is so full of light, and life and
interest Jack Seely will do If he wlU
only remember his own explanations, but
will he? If Winston bad been in Opposl
tlon now ho would havo been Prime Min
ister in six months. My love to all t the
office, and I hope they will appreciate
my partner, who is of sound opinions."
The Coroner said tho diary was evIdonU
Jy a record of sensations extending over
two or three days. On another table by
the side of the bed, said the Coroner
what was evidently a last attempt by Dr.
pabbs to express himself was found, but
It was very Indistinct and scrawly. m
seemed to readi
"Be kind to Simpson (his partner). I am,
dying. Thank yon for all your kindness?
To be continued In my next"
"Be kind to my partner, I am passing.
Can I keep awake tBl they find me they
And me they find me? I must"
Here the pencil evidently fell from the
.dying man's band.