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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1914)
The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page II w v m immii Bear 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 Wife of the "Butterfly Mar quis." t, A - L VS IMP) f-sf ...... . w. ... "X. ' W"t; v - t. --w - viv . III vs: $ P"J ; - v JVv ? v 1 V- ' ' ''- J ' 1 : v. ' ' M Sf t 7 5 V Copyright. im 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 THE m ei 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 th Stir Comoany. Grsat Britain fererte .oveliext 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 if A . 4f - 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 Rlhts Reserved. nJan Wire Because He "Can't to r j-t r.. v-:-' ' ' . , v - K4 1- W - 4 PtiT0 my Cpf ftwoot- 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. CUT 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. r J JP C ri"yv 1 i i 1 cr A' ',ri hU v f rl. fie' y Jy y- $?X4x jf nr.., OvpavooO' a. v. 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. ,y .v.---:f--vg' i- ...' i