Show f A g maJ 3 t r o How Her Elopement to South Africa With tear the h E Earl I 0 of f C Craven raven M Makes a k es I It t E Easier aSler to 1 il 1 Z if A i iL w L E Endure n d ure S Society's OCle t y S St 1 t lf tt M t 4 71 t Cold Shoulder 1 f t r t f r Sher p h but Still She She Sher A f N r t and Her De- De DeJ Dey y tt tte e A re J 1 t F w jaw t voted Lower Lover Lowert fit a 9 at e ef apt Can Cant Can't Be e eL t f it y 15 x r rr M Mx x tye s b p Ft L a r rr Married r 55 y e 5 z- z m x x 7 Because M S Sg t i v r k I g I a 1 e ey ey b bC His Wife y y The Earl of Cravens Craven's American mother daughter J r promila a ng I of the late Bradl Bradley y Martins who ere so la f Wo nt t Give j were C S n 1 nent m in New York society t f 1 v a vaa a 1 Nor Nore e eau This double loss hi D came soon after he t I a a n first looked into lively Lady Cathcart's o t S The present Earl of Craven and his lal la father the former Earl in whose footsteps footstep the young man has thus far shown no signs igns of following LONDON LONDON- A to the stones stories WIth ACCORDING which fashionable circles here are buzzing Lady Cathcart and the Earl arl of Craven the lovers Whose hose romance resulted in Lord Cathcart's di- di divorcing divorcing di divorcing HER but who cannot marry because of the stubborn refusal of the earls earl's wife to divorce have at last r run away together eloped together eloped to faraway far far South Africa It requires no great experience In guilty love affairs like this to understand what a great relief it must be to her ladyship to be able to flee nee with her lover beyond the reach of the gossiping tongues y that have made life so unpleasant for her here ever since she and the young earl became infatuated with each other Undoubtedly this elopement has made her ladyship a very happy woman much happier than she has teen been in a long longtime longtime longtime time But ho however er e happy she may be beshe she is not yet an honest woman and there seems little likelihood of her being able to call herself one very soon if at all Here in England when hen a mans man's love brings a woman oman into edit in the eyes of the conventional world he is expected as a man of honor to restore estora her good name as soon as 89 ashe ashe he can can can- canby Jy by marrying her This is called making hean he r an honest woman The 4 f y phrase conveys the samey same y meaning that you do in fn w America j ji i aS when you say f S x doing doing Cher th the right thing by byC C her fl g fir Now there has never been p i 6 s the slightest doubt of the f Earl v Earl of Cravens Craven's willing willing- tT ness yes eagerness to h hup live li e 7 up to to the English standard standards r 4 of manly honor and make t this illicit sweetheart of his r t an honest woman But Vf there is a difficulty in the 1 way which the young earl is qUite po powerless eress to overcome hIs his inability to secure a divorce from his wife In the conduct of the pretty e countess the earl call can find no ground for fo foa fora r II a divorce and although his relations wi with Lady Cathcart have haic given her the m am sin amplest pleat grounds for f or one she steadfastly y refuses to take her troubles into court and ask for a separation Why does docs the lethis countess refuse to let le t this most extraordinary of lo e triangle s bo be broken T Why does she stand In the th e of her way husbands husband's happiness an d Lady Cathcart's desire to be called t one e more an honest woman There are many guesses as to her be r reason and probably the real truth of the th e matter is S to be found in a combination n of two or more of the widely different t theories that the gossips are advancing Some say that the countess's refuse refusal l to divorce her husband is only the fury fur y of a woman scorned the fury which we weare w weare 0 are told can surpass anything to b be e found in the place of eternal punish punishment h J ment She feels that he deserves to au suf f fer suffer for the way he ho has forsaken herand he r and she can think of no better way of making maLing him lum suffer than by g the opportunity he seeks to make Lad Lady y an honest woman According to others her attitude it h i l e Lively and charming Lady Cathcart who captured the gay young Earl of Cravens Craven's heart almost from his Ms first glance into her com com- compelling eyes but who seems to have precious little I ff chance of be be- be becoming Q coming com g his wife v F r W a aK aI K i I Y I IF ti I 4 is 4 I pr a R Rs s J 3 r aa w its a 4 t i 4 leg e i z d I n i ey ay A r dictated by purely motives She he does not want ant to give up the proud position po- po position po position into which she was lifted from the humblest they obscurity when the tho Earl arl arlof of Craven married her Better to remain remaina a husband's countess she thinks even if her lius- lius hus bands band's love lo is lost than to permit a di- di orce voice lose her title and become a socia social nonentity Others say that it is the rife most unselfish ish devotion to her little son the future Earl of Craven Cra that prompts her to tor block the road to happiness for her hus hus- ton band husband huse and Lady Cathcart She is said to feel that the boys boy's future would be jeopardized bT by a divorce and so in m spits of the embarrassment and unhappiness which sucha such a course means mains for her she thinks that for his sake she must moat con con- con continue to let things thugs rest as they are Still another theory has it that In spite of the way her husband has robbed her of his love she remains as devoted to him as she was back in the war war time lima das when hen he wooed and won her She Sho is said to cling desperately to the hope that sooner or later the spell of Lady Catheart's Cathcart's fascination will Ill ill be broken and and he will come como back to her forgiving foi giving arms t I x l s 1 J- J Jv v y yr yr r N r v as v 1 I IX X e ei i i rg 7 a It v r M f 1 v z j v t v N v vv V v v y yv yV r rr ra r a r i N V VC C II t 1 I S S l 5 4 J v v jj S VM j t It II X X 1 t td L f d On the left the lovens whose ro Xi e v 4 r mantic trip to Deauville resulted tt fa in Lady Cathcart's Cathcart a divorce from L her elderly husband and whose whole 1 i s eve r i love persists in spite pite of the fact 1 ff that the Earl of Cravens Craven's pretty L f f aFe y wife on the right refuses to give t ri a t ft s d him his freedom to marry thi this r J r v e R f fit it tt v t t a new sweetheart of his iS s t L- L I fY w- w A A selfish reluctance rc re- re r to t give up the thet V 4 h hV St pro proud u d social j position winch yes she so un uner u n e wonA won won- wonA won r A very unselfish de- de devotion de devotion potion to the interests of her little sonA son son- sonA son A vindictive desire to punish the run run- runaway run runaway away earland earl and his gay sweetheart as severe severely I as she can can- canA canA can A passionate longing to win WID back her husbands husband's love lo and grant him forgive forgive- forgiveness forgiveness ness ness- ness Nobody knows lust Just which of these mo- mo motives motives mo motives tives impels the countess to stand apparently apparently apparently as immovable as the Rock of GI- GI GIbraltar Gibraltar Gi Gibraltar in the tho way of the romantic plans of her husband and Lady Cathcart Many of those who should be most com competent om to judge think all of them have a apart apart apart part in her perpetuation of this surprising surprising ing mg triangle If It the countess heart could be laid ald bare andall and all its innermost secrets re- re resealed re repealed sealed pealed what a treasure of material It would supply for tor the psychologists and paY playwrights rights and novelists I But the facts that are alren already Iy known concerning the Town Clerks Clerk's daughter and the nobleman who married her and the lively lady lio ho won his love away are enough to make mako scores of books and plays as fascinating as any ani any the public has ever cr enjoyed enjoyed- From the time when the Earl of Craven then then event Uffington Uffington went Into training to tight fight his country's battles i in in n France the of the story J j y lives 1 ves of these three has e i v been one ono long succession tab of thrills that would make V- V t the pages of a 11 book or tho the thoN N reels of a feature film fairi fairly fair- fair k i ly sizzle The training training camp to I which 4 t which the viscount was h tent sent was in a Scottish bor- bor border border bor border der town Among the girls of the neigh neigh- neighborhood neighborhood who rallied around the officers of the regiment to cheer them up for the hardships and dangers of war oar ar the pret pret- prettiest pret- pret prettiest prettiest was the of the tha Town Clerks Cerk And Viscount Uffington forgetting In Inthe inthe inthe the charm of her smiles all the fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable fashionable able young women omen of the London smart set bet promptly claimed her for his onIt own o It was a 11 rapid fire romance as so many of those in wartime are A sur- sur surprisingly sur surprisingly few weeks of blissful rides rules and strolls and dances together and then the day before the viscounts viscount's departure WIth his regiment for the battle front fi ont a qUiet marrIage ceremony that raised the Clerks Clerk's daughter to the dignity ofa of a Before society was fairly through gasp gasp- gasping gasping gasping ing over the news that the tho proud old Earl of Cravens Craven's only son eon had married so far beneath him the fortunes of oar ar brought the viscount back to England Ingland badly wounded wounded-so wounded so badly that the sur- sur surgeon sur surgeon ur- ur geon had to amputate ono one of his legs What should have been a honeymoon for the pretty little was de- de devoted devoted de devoted voted to nursing her husband through hIs convalescence When he was able ablo to I f W 1 i r rys ys 4 fee feer 1 t ass r z r o oc c z x rs have an artificial leg fitted to hs h's stump stun p of a a limb she helped hun him to learn how to t o hobble about with it And curiously enough it was this thi s same artificial leg which later helped snake make the crippled officer a n t in Lord Cathcart's suit for divorce In the mean time the old Earlo Earl Ear of o f Craven had been mysteriously mysteriously drowned d while on a yachting cruise The Tho VIS- VIS VIScount viscount vis viscount count of course succeeded to his title an anthe and the country village Milage girl he had married marrie d was lifted to the still loftier heights height s which a n countess knows For some months it t looked as if thIs romance was going to defy all the traditions traditions traditions which say that a man and woman so 80 far apart in social position can ne neer neve er erbe r be happy in love lo o e The birth of an heir to the title seemed to strengthen the probability Then came the tha wild delirium of gay gay- gayety fay fay-ety gayety ety which followed the th armi the e qUite natural natura reaction after the strain of years of war And in this delirium the young earl who had already lost last st n a leg lost lo-it both his head hlad and aid the heart which his lus wife trusting supposed was safely hers hera compelling eyes ees Within a 11 few weeks of their first meeting meet- meet t 7 i ing at a 11 fashion fashion- If R able London sup sup- 7 7 sup sup- J JM M Per clu they ere i were M d on their way to tor f m Deauville to- to I ry rS y get gether ether her and there 9 r v S n M 4 t r J q they passed T e d i ia 5 t W a summer that IS v vr said d to ht have set a aT c 14 t It 1 f new Dt nark a f for vi V fad k hIlarIOus defiance It y h T y yM M i k of convention 0 fi Perhaps 0 old d r 7 a It Lord Cath c a r t f 0 night mIght ha e ig ignored g nored the z i irya rumors rya a s tt r ii I 1 5 that reached lAnA A him q 7 f of or his gay young yeUT A wIfe's goings on q w t at Deauville with L tt f a fiN Pei a s a the t ta tWo w even gayer ta t v earl carl hadIt had it not es I fj z been for the milli- milli fi 4 nery and dr dress dressmakers ss makers bills s hat chat 5 l I began to pour in inon e eon t int v on him His lord lord- lordship lordship 1 13 t lordt 3 iJ 4 ship has the rep reputation f Seca t fr tM of being 4 b 1 rather stingy and ae when the bills fort for fort 3 t fin f hats and gowns ns j a v s afie x reached ranched a II total 1 hey of he v y h a a att tt thought it high x sc time to see sec W hat v sort ort of vacation 2 t triP it was as that t l tK b had necessitated 1 14 4 1 such a large ex- ex ex expenditure es venom 11 he set on the traIl sr 4 of his wife soon hoc reported that ho hoin it j c 1 j had many things j t r i ic c to worry about besIdes he h her er 1 ex ex- ex w tastes 1 in m dress So In in- in instead l stead of calling vj f callingS J f her v F home to ex ex- ex explain t ex- ex explain plain the bills she sh chad l w a had run up Iio ho t began suit for fori t 1 v j ti s divorce divorces One of the in- in interesting in interesting bits bit of evidence Lord Cathcart's detective un uncovered covered Cred was the presence of an artificial leg in the occupied by her ladyship on the steamer crossing from England to France Her ladyships ladyship's lad maid entering the stateroom to breakfast was as surprised to se the see sef reposing on the floor beside hei het mis tress's mistress's high heeled shoes divorce When Lord Cathcart obtained his di- di di dl I vorce everybody thought the Countess ot of en Craver el would file a suit against her bus hus hus- hus husband band But she has thus far done noth noth- noth- noth ing nothing of the kind How much longer will the oung Countess of pretty Craven see fit to block the Way to complete happiness for her husband and the gay oj beauty vho ho has captured his heart That is the ques tion The outcome of the Ear Earl of tangled lovd lovE affair is of especial Cravens ens interest to Americans because It dowager Countess his mother th the of Craven is an lean by the bIrth birth the daughter aughter of the late Bradley Martins of New York who ho cavo o gap o many ninny years ears ago the ball that le as one of is 18 stillIe still Ie- Ie the most brilliant socIal events e the United States ever Saw 1 J |