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Birthday BioBriefs
Famous Women
From comparative obscurity to be
coming the toast of the town! From
waiting on lady boarders to having
Dukes lay their coronets at your
feet! This was Elizabeth Chud
leigh's fate. "Fate" ; for she owed
her frightful end to herself. "Know
thyself, conquer thyself." K'izabeth
Chudleigh did neither. Born in 1720,
she was the daughter of the impov
ished Col. Chudleigh. The Colonel
died, and the mother had to take
boarders. Elizabeth's striking ap
pearance, charm of manner, contag
ious flow of spirits attracted the at
tention of the Earl of Bath when she
was on a visit to a rich aunt. The
Earl had her appointed Maid of
Honor to the Princess of Wales. The
young Duke of Hamilton sued for her
hand. She promised fidelity to him
in his absence abroad, and while he
was away married, secretly, the heir
of the Earl of Bristol, Hon. Augustus
Hervey. He was ordered to sea.
Hamilton returned: Enraged at her
infidelity he married one of the en
chanting Miss Gunnings. Elizabeth
threw herself into the dissipation of
the court life; destroyed her marriage
certificate and the register in the
church; married the old Duke of
Kingston, and was by Hervey sum
moned to the bar of "Westminster to
plead guilty. She escaped being
branded with a hot iron only on ac
count of her titled connections. She
retired to the Continent, a ruined
woman to be pointed at amid the
garish lights of foreign courts.
TEMPTING RECIPES.
Fruit Dessert.
Three bananas, 3 oranges, 1-2
pound Malaga grapes, 1-4 pound
English walnuts, 1 pint pineapple, 2
tablespoonfuls sugar.
Chicken Salad.
Cut cold boiled chicken into dice.
