Show r rI I 1 J f V f i iV I rH H I I r r t I 1 I Ir I 1 I t I 1 01 a Mc r r f s I Vf ds H Hy II y yiK iK I I S r i et Z N I as y d Still Another Wrecked rf y t a aies a 41 Romance Added to toa a as ase e fOrD s sc sy ay y 1 a tw the Amazingly c f x 9 r t t a x Troubled Matri- Matri Matrimonial Ma tri tri- tritt c fr 5 tt r i monia Record Record- FN f c cr au aua a of the Fashion rt r able and Wealthy y Frenches fc r j rt r i iN iC N C e s t tr k tr rt b Er l f frt 4 f t 1 w n y t sS a s gt S v p y r r a Mw ri riS S Edward Tuck French and the telephone girl he married after their first motor rids ride A together and together and left almost as quickly t q qa a title of The family where THE marriage IS 13 always a failure is hardly an exaggeration when ap- ap applIed applied ap applied plied as it now is to the fashionable so- so socIety society so society men and women omen who were ere born to the name of French This famil family so long prominent in AmerIcas AmerIca's smartest circles is even more famous for the unhappy love affairs m in I mI which its members figure than for its unimpeachable lineage high social position position I tion and generous supply of millions For Por some reason or other which the analysts psycho analysts and students of heredIty have yet to explain the members of this arIstocratic clan seem positively unable to find any lasting happiness in love and marriage Hardly a love bud has ever sprung into being on the branches of thIs spreading wide spreading family tree that has not quickly been chilled by ugly quarrels and finally frozen by the icy ley blasts of a final decree For many years ears the history of the French family has been little more than one divorce after another The troubled love affairs of its members both old and I young have swelled the profits of count count- countless countless countless less orce lawyers lawers and furnished the i socIety gossips gossipy with some of the juiciest bits of gossip they ever had to roll un- un under under un under der their tongues And now to the astonishingly long tong list of divorces which makes almost every French who ho has had the courage to ap- ap approach approach ap approach the m marriage altar the former wife Ife 01 or husband of somebody still alIve is added one more The former Eleanor Livingston Bur Bur- Burrill Burrell nil Bur rill rell reached the parting of the ways ays wIth her husband Francis Ormonde French last winter and just gust the other day the courts granted her final decree And was society surprised Not Sn in inthe the least for Francis Ormonde French Frenchh is h ark an an important member of the famIly where every matrimonial voyage seems doomed for the tho rocks of own divorce divorce brother of the former Julia French whose elopement with and divorce from her chauffeur husband made mado such inter inter- interesting eating esting reading a few years ago The smart mart set has become so familiar faith uth the Frenches predilection for tor di- di divorce divorce di divorce vorce that each season it is a question not of whether there will be one but butof butof butof of just which of the couples will nIl get it And early last winter unter Mrs Eleanor Ileanor LIvingston French answered tho the ques ques- questIOn ques- ques question question tion for the season of 23 1922 by bring bringing ing suit against her richand rich and rather looking looking good husband As Mrs French had something much more substantial than incompatibility of temper on which to base her desire to be 4 detached from the French family tree she was not oblige obliged to go to Paris Pans She V had the necessary legal evidence of her husbands husband's misconduct with some unnamed beauty and so was able to obtain her dl divorce vorce I right hero at home under the laws vs of New York State I UV A UvA Young Mr French who mho by becoming Julia French a divorced man roan has lived up to his fam fam- famIly's family's who eloped a ilys ily's traditions is a graduate of Har liar Harvard Harvard witha with a vard yard in m the class of 1912 and connected chauffeur q with ith a prominent New York brokerage but found x house He Ire is passing the summer at love in a Newport and as yet et has shown no sign of cottage not t tall making malung another try at matrimony all its it's The latest of the Frenches to be cracked up parted have two A 3 to lobe be fir t daughters seven v and five years year ole who are arc ex- ex expected cx s to grow r y up to assume their share of J the the family's apparently apparently ap- ap inevitable T Frenchs French's brother Amos ble heritage of ofT p Tuck French viewed her unhappy marriages dIvorce and how strong strong- strongly The terms of the dl- dl divorce di divorce ly Iy he advised against her vorce are arc said to 7 v vt t f f fM leaving Mr Vanderbilt leave the girls m in inI inthe I c But within a few the custody of Mrs J years ears cars after Elsie ignored M W hIs advice brother One of the first 01 fir firt 1 Amos 6 t w was being of the Frenches to dIvorced from the fin fill the of pages the wife ife with whom ho he famIly's now voluminous ay rw had lived record of marl mari manK marital f fy K t wen w e n t y tal troubles was i y eight ears ears Elsie Ilsie French n aids w w h ha hat a t aunt of Julia seems teems to be Francis Ormondo Ormonde for or one of French She became the second wife ofa ofa of y a 14 l m mi thIs famIly Alfred Ij-Alfred l li K Ka a n remark- remark Alfred Gwynne Vann Van- Van Vanderbilt i 1 ably long longtime but the 2 r time Later match in m character- character French fash fash- fashion axt he married ion lon wound up in thet the gM j married 1 Miss Mar Mar- Marin Mart OICe I courts with 6 with with- within t haC h a C y In in a very few years z tg l Be eckman Long after Mr r fr i a o of f a 1 lineage Vanderbilt lt had mar mar- 0 w i t fw 4 as distin- distin distinguished ned again again and juul tl then f en V a y WH 3 gu ish e d as lost his life on the tt his own she mar- mar marfi fi wt e d l Q Pre P Pretty r e t t y tied LIeutenant Paul a elf s little Julia Simone Fitz-Simone a young oung rt i x French was naval officer whom its y a mer mere morer e eshe she met through the J school girl fact that he and heresy her herson esy r when she son William II H a ft I C lost o 0 a 8 t her hera VanderbIlt were heart t to toH great chums lH H and a n d some This v was as four 3 some Jack JackG years ago and tIe G Geraghty e r Fitz Simons mar mar- marJack mart marriage t 1 Jack was bark continues the son of off to sail apparently fashionable f untroubled waters wafers Newport's oldest But ui society as it IE and best known ponders the tho aston aston- Mrs Pauline French MacRae who hackman He was record of the ran true to her family's form by employed by the French family for divorcing her first husband French family as getting rid of hus- hus Samuel Wagstaff a chauffeur to band bands and VInes wi I drive Julia about wonders londers how long it will be before this and to teach tench her to manage the car too goes crashing on the rocks But Dut Jack Geraghty took jook advantage of The smart set sell ell i remembers A AI the his position to teach the young heiress stern disapproval val with which Elsie many other things besIdes the the shifting a Mrs Eleanor Burril French the latest of this and the two little da fr ti a Fr A 7 l IS S ks h c v t 4 r rs rM t tM v s A o M r a Jeannie Emmet French h i fromi who won from froma her husband William Wilam Wil am Barton r French not only a divorce but buta buther z r rf a n income of Y a year f z with which to keep the wolf l Nt from her door c of gears ears an and d the th e feeding of gas and the applYIng 3 p r u of brakes V Very cry soon her r ra Y f tion reached a a sk poi point where she a dIdn't care what h happened as long longas longas r er J rr err e r t as as she was not separated from Jack 1 a s One fine day t Q the young lovers filled the tank WIth gasoline strapped on a couple of extra extra I tires and headed i t br zt It t th e i r car for forMas forr Mas lit a s s a r where b before 0 for e night they were a aA Y v Of course it was a 8 terrible blow to the tho proud French family to ta tasee see Julia eloping with a chauffeur Cha the son of the village hack hack- hackman hackman looking good-looking enough man man a young oung but one of no wealth or social standing and with only the barest common school education At first they raged and laid land plans to bring Julia back home and have havo the marriage mar mar- marriage marriage annulled But when they saw how devoted devoted the girl was to her husband and how determined to stick to him they gritted their teeth and bravely tried tomake to tomake tomake make the best of what hat for them was a sorry mess Jack Geraghty got ajob a job in Boston and he and his bride started housekeeping in ina ina ina a modest suburban home For l or a time It really looked as if 10 lovo loo 0 in a cottage for fora fora fora a girl who had been reared a fashionable socIety heiress was going to prove a shining success The chances looked all the brighter when the newlyweds became the parents of a fine young oung son But the hands that had newer nc been accustomed to anything mole mOIO arduous than wielding a tennis racket or grip grip- gripping gripping gripping ping the wheel of a motorcar soon wearied of peeling potatoes and washing I- I y y 1 a A 1 dishes and end doing all the other menial jobs that the WIfe of a workingman must do In spite of the financial aid her family at last extended her helO he Julia began to pIne more and more for the comforts and luxuries she had had in New York and Newport Her hu husbands husband's bands band's love no longer could reconcile her to the hardships of life in n a rented rented room five-room cottage Of course her parents were only too glad to help her arrange a divorce and be rid of their unwelcome son law son lawShe She obtained her decree when hen her son was six siC years ears old and at once resume resumed her place in fashionable society A few married and this years irs e-irs later she again agnIn time a man who while by no no means a fashionable millionaire is high enough up in the social scale to satisfy her family A passion for runaway marriages wIth love mates far beneath them in m wealth and social position seems to be bo bred in inthe inthe inthe the bone of the members of the younger family to be divorced whom the courts have left teft in her custody r f French generation The romance of Ed- Ed Edward Edward Ed Edward ward Tu Tuck Tuck k French with a New Nev England telephone girl was surprisingly like hike that of Julia French and the Newport chauffeur Edward was passing a vacation in New Hampshire He lie telephoned to Bo Bos- Bos Boston Bos Boston ton frequently to see how his fashIonable d debutante friends were enduring his ab- ab absence absence ab absence sence Also he had to to telephone his father every few days to hurry along a check for the young man was a liberal spender and his allowance never lasted I hIm as long as his family thought It should Now the tho hello girl who put through these numerous long-distance long calls for young Mr French was an engaging specimen of New England womanhood named Lillian Harrington At first at- at attracted attracted at attracted only by her courtesy and effi- effi efficIency efficiency effi efficiency at the switchboard he grew to admIre her for many other qualities that seem desirable to an impressIOnable youth One night when she was going off duty he invited her to go motoring with him and they returned from that first ride man and wife The romance was even more precipitate than Julia Frenchs French's had bad been and it disturbed the equanimity equanimity equanimity ity of the aristocratic French family just justas justas justas as seriously But Dut the devotion of Edward Tuck to his telephone girl bride did not prove unshakable nearly so long as Julins Julin's to her chauffeur husband When his parents put him on very short finan finan- financial financial financial cial rations he was soon glad to let the courts fade Lillian HarrIngton quite out of the picture and end another of the French family's starred ill love affairs It would take more space than is here to recount all the troubles that make the French famIly so conspicuous The first romance of the former Miss PaulIne French ran true to family form She was dl within a few years after her marriage to Samuel Wagstaff prominent lawyer and socIety man and now is Mrs Donald MacRae Then there there is Mrs Jeannie Emmett French who divorced her husband Wil- Wil Wil William liam han Barton Darton French and received along wIth the decree a tidy little income of a year But even sucha such a heavy financial pen pen- penalty penalty pen penalty alty as this seems unable unable to make the rest of the Frenches any more careful about risking the perils of the tho dIvorce courts Their troubled matrimonial roc roc- record rec record ord keeps right on growing longer longcr Of all the clans that make up the tho smart New York and Newport port set probably probably probably ably none can show a more astonishing record of unhappy love elope affairs affairs elope elope- l G ments and hasty marriages separations r- r rand and enough divorces divorces enough to furnish plots for a foot 9 shelf of society novels IsIt Is it any wonder that when hen w hen the I renel family is mentioned society's first in m is to ask And which of the them m themis theis is it now |