Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — The Ruin an Extravagant Woman Wrought. [ARTICLE]

The Ruin an Extravagant Woman Wrought.

We are apt to think, and other nations are of our opinion, that reckless extravagance is well-nigh monopolized by American wives. This is far from true as is shown by facts that have been disclosed in connection with the Lonsdales i who recently became so embarrassed - financially that the Earl, the head of the house of Lorther, has been compelled to sell his great collection in London. He has been married barely nine months (his wife was Lady Glady Herbert, a very tall, dark, Jewish type of beauty, often called the Gipsy), and has lived at such a rate, his bride assisting him very actively, as to be on the border of bankruptcy. She has been noted for her eager persuit of pleasure since her entry into society, and she met Lord Lonsdale while she was conspicuously radiant at the heigh t es a London season. They seemed to be fond of one another—in a well regulated way, of course—and after their union they scattered gold lavishly all over Europe. Balls, dinners, yachts, races, hunting, succeeded in unbroken succession. She wanted everything, and he bought her everything. The Old World was ransacked for curious, luxurious objects of art, and an income of £16,000 was not sufficient for their purchases. Her diamonds cost her £200,000, and her furniture, pictures, marbles, and the like, more than £300,000 in seven months; and yet she was not content. They appeared ot have loved the great world and its resplendent . gawds more than they loved one another before their honeymoon was fairly over) While he was yachting in the Eastern Mediterranean she was dancing at Monte Carlo. He dined late and long at the Maison Ddree, when she captured young noblemen and watched tne stars from the cliffs of Sorrento. She is 23, ana he 31, but both have lived long enough and fast enough to feel weary, jaded, and old. She is the daughter of Sydney Herbert of fair renown and Crimean fame, and the sister of the Earl of Pembroke; and the rapid pace at which she and her titled husband haVe gone has set the tongues of Tyburnia and Belgravia wagging and drawing morals from matrimonial indifference and wild extravagance. The men say he has ruined her; the women declare she has ruined him. Probably they are both fight.