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Show LANGTRY NOW FORSAKEN". Once Feted Actress laves in Comparative Compara-tive Seclusion. Mrs. Lily Langtry has fallon on ovll days. Her daughter Ignores her, sho has lost on the races, she may not -wear the title of Lady de Bathe' and old-time friends forget to overwhelm her ivlth congratulations on a first night. Her beautiful house in Chelsea has been given up, all tho treasures with which It was crowded have been sold off, and she has taken a little lint at the Savoy hotel, to remain yet in tho center of things, if no longer of them. "Here am I," she said to a friend, "yet no one comes to see me; I who had duchesses bowing before me; I who have had all the world at my feet! Here I am left entirely alone, without a soul to speak to. Discarded by my daughter, daugh-ter, I have no wish to stay here any longer. Since the day of her marriage I never once have seen her. Once I did go to their house at Hampstead to see the little baby, but tho mother was out, and so I did not see either of them. It was no- good, though, for all the acknowledgment ac-knowledgment I ever received from my daughter was a post card saying she was sorry she was out when I called. Yes this this Is the greatest grief of my life." As If to supplement these private troubles, Mrs. Langtry has been returning return-ing from race meetings with stories of continued losses. Her husband's brother broth-er has announced his engagement to Miss Violet Wood, and while Mrs. Langtry may wear the title of "Lady" before handling It over to Miss Wood, that Is not certain. It was the opening night of her last fortnight's tour that brought to Mrs. Langtry what seemed to her the last straw. Used as she always has been when "opening" In the provinces or in London to be overwhelmed with shoals of letters and telegrams from old frlenda and new. wishing her all the success she should wish herself, she waited and waited ns the day went by for the stream of kindly messages to crtme pouring- ln. But ln vain. Apparently Appar-ently she had been forgotten. London Dispatch to Chicago Record-Herald. |