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Show Sl iili "Real Uhing and the Climbers. Hllfl ill if ! m jt if uVm ' Hiul i llm Wasn't it in the Associated Press dis- Bflff'' ' If IIS patches that we read of the death of C. ID. Lang B'l i 1 H nam "on llIs estato in southern California," and h1 11 HI tlmt llls daughter, tlie Baroness Speck Yon Stern- IK&S "' 1 IS 1 horg could no- g0 e uneraV but had wired re- W a - it II I garding the burial of the remains. Poor, unsel- ' 'i' fish Charlie Langham. Hundreds of us knew him Bif 1 II '9 I here, and many knew the wife and daughters Bi! "I II J fl H I for whom he sacrificed everything that Mrs. L.'s B"' P ! 91 social ambition might be realized and that the ' III 19 daughters might make brilliant matches. Lily H I i 9 Langham married Von Sternberg, whom she cap- B' Hi I 9 tured on a steamer while going to Europe; the H r I 9 younger sister is engaged to an attache of the V ' 1 rM 9 French embassy in Washington, and the old lady mm r lit 9 with anotner daughter is traveling in Europe look- v h-ik 9 Ing or antuer ve ne B1 jni 9 In the meantime, Charles Warde Langham dies mm I Lin 9 neglected, with no one to care a penny, except the H 'if!!'1 9 1joys on tbe road wll use(i to know hIm nere anJ R I liii 8 tne ew neighbors who lived near him and sym- V M ' In) fl pathized with him in his lonesome struggle. I ill 1 B' ! ill I The glrls w use(i to play a1iout tJie oId on Bt k IL I B tinental hotel were pretty little things and every- V ' r ll 11 I one loveti them then, but the old girl had ideas of B' lllll S her own Peculary opposite those of most every B ' hlr 1 one else, and she had few friends. The absurd B ' Ij l flower garden nomenclature of the daughters, Ivy, j ( . I Lily and Violet gives the weight of Mrs. L.'s gray V A '' f I matter to a nicety, and one need not wonder at ijJ i her lack of sympathy for Langham, but it is pain- 'I' o? B u serve ne behavior of the daughters, for JMlf ' B whom he worked away his life. il IS 1 llil B Bu' thIs disPatcn m a western journal tells li ft B the story best: "San Bernardino, March 10. The mmtl r t 1' IB funeral of C. E. Langham, father of Baroness Von BK; 'l It III ll Sternberg, wife of the German embassador, will Hi 'Mill Iff talce Pace ere tomorrow morning. The neigh 1 1 ' 19 ors w attend in largo numbers out of respect B ' B hs memory Considerable feeling is felt at B ijt n Etiwanda, where he died on his little fruit ranch, ! i ill 1 S over wliat Is termed the unfeeling neglect shown B '1 ' ! m lllm by uis fam during his two years of lonely BB lii! rl 'w residence in California. H ; (III w ni Langham had three strokes of apoplexy while B ? li 1 'B residing at Etiwanda, but though shattered in B9 ! - HI I nS health he lived alone, doing his own cooking and 9 ' 1 HII 91 housekeeping, explaining to neighbors that he had M ' ! T II Wa to Pratice frugality, as his family needed all the 9lf I ill Wm income from his Denver Interests for their social Bsi IwBrc career abroad. nll IbWhH H'3 Drther in Louisville wired directions for Bvrall 131 mm the burIal of the remains in the humble little cem- 9iil ISflHa etery here, on learning which his neighbors took BiP iiiffifli charge of the remains and will hold a public fu- BBf! al II neral, as Langham, during his lonely life among MM, ill II them had won the esteem of the entire community." commun-ity." And if charity begins at home well, no matter. tv 5C Most of the younger set are going up to Sam Newhouse's this afternoon to enjoy the tea he is giving in honor of Mrs. Belvin, chaperoned by Mrs. Rob Walker and Mrs. Walter Filer. The event marks the initial occasion of large affairs at the handsome home and is hailed with delight by the fashionables who have had the good fortune to be bidden. However, there will not be many more large functions given in the gorgeous rooms until next winter, as Sam prefers the informal dinner to any other mode of entertainment, and besides, the Country club will be his summer headquarters, head-quarters, and he will exchange the Tux for overalls over-alls to golf the summer through. iV 3 Gay Lothario Lombard our own Gay of the sky-rocket career, who was unsuccessful in amassing amass-ing & fortune during the stock boom here, through his efforts to depress Joseph Bowers, after having hav-ing shorted more stock than could be stuffed in the shaft of the mine, has managed to get a little free advertising out on the coast, where, according to the papers, his engagement to a Mrs. Lucia Burnett has just been broken oft by that lady. Gay is now a banker in Seattle and is described as possessing health, youth, good looks and plenty of worldly goods, somewhat of a revelation to some of us in these parts. Gay secured a divorce di-vorce from the sister of Blanche Douglas last fall and was to have married the little widow in the near future, but it is said she heard of an "entanglement," "en-tanglement," whatever that may be, and did not stop to write, but telegraphed an icy blast to the city on the Sound. 5 c5 O It takes a journal of the San Fran-ciscoesque Fran-ciscoesque variety to discover things about an attractive widow that neither she nor her intimate in-timate friends have ever before known. The clever Saunterer in Town Talk announces that Flora Clement is the possessor of a real live turquoise tur-quoise mine and says that "the specimens of the blue stone she exhibited in Frisco were of a character char-acter that made the fortune hunters' eyes water." However, I am inclined to believe that the stones were merely a surface showing, for even if Mrs. Clement does happen to be in Mexico, and has plenty of lucre, those facts are hardly sufficient suf-ficient to base the turquoise story upon. But if she has a mountain of the glistening pebbles to throw to the Mexican periquitos that perch on the palmettos surrounding the properties of-the Compania Minora "Santa Hosa de Mazapil" why so much the better. The news is nothing to feel blue about. |