GILDED MISERY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1826, 27 April 1888, Page 3

GILDED MISERY.

Dr Talmnge preached lately on unhapry marriages m fas.hlouabie tojiety, and pointed his moral by this reference to the domestic lives of two British ppers, easllj identified as the Dukes of Ma-lboroutih and Sutherland, both of whom recently have been m America: — " Ab if to enow bow wrelohed a good woman may be m ■plendid sorroaudiuga. we have two recent illustrations — two ducal palaces m Great Britain. They are the fi.cnßof fciie best thirds posaibie m art, literature. In architecture, the accumulation of oihor eaiiibe until their wealth is beyond calculation, and their grandeur beyond description. Ooe castle has a caoi^el set tvi>h gams that coat £50,000, and the walla of it blocm with Kembrandts and Claudei and Ponisens and Guidosand Raphaels. and there are Southdown flocks m summer graz'ng on tta U«n, and dr^b steeds pranoine at the doorways on the fi.'at open day at Rennets. •'From one castle the Duchtss has removed with her children because Bbc can no longer endure the orgieß of her husband, the Dake, and m another castla the Duoheßß remains confronted by inanlta and abominations, In the presence of whloh I do not think God or deoent ■oclety requires a good woman to remain. BJore things ?re right m this world, genteel villains are to be extirpated. The time niuot come when a masculine estray will be as repugnant to good society as the feminine estray. But what a spectacle it was when last summer much of our waterIng place society W9nt wild with en'.hnßiasm over the unclean foreign dignitary whuae name m both hemispheres is a pynonym for pr> fligacy, and prlnceeses of American society from a!l parts of the land had him ride m their carriages and lit at their table?."