5 vim'' f - "w . 4$ EVENING PUBLIC L13DERPHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST? 1, M2 , WiZSEM W'kwM BEAUTY. LOVE ROMANCE IN R i "V'iw. ,. ''?! ' ; 'J .rV3W ;. ?' :i V , ' MADE: FRENCH COUNTESS BY FAIRY G0DM01HER TiW AMERICAN UINS. Wis wi $& fr ? Tacaueville Adotets Prettv f Claudia Windser Tarteue. te Replace 1 1 irf Daughter as Heiress te Historic Title and Estates Acress the Ocean GIRL ONCE MORE WILL BE MODEL FOR HUSBAND WHO IS SUING HER FOR A DIVORCE I Adoption Brings Happiness te One Ap- '" m M I 9 r.M T tl MS M MS M MM raw - mm m MSmmmummW 7 r M MS MM Painter Fell Victim te Her Charms at First Sight SIR OLIVER, page Hans Christian Andersen! 1 Tell him the story of Claudia, "Queen of Women," with its throbbing foments of siinshine and rain, of laughter and tears, of disillusion and i "Ask him if the story of Claudia Windser doesn't beggar the fas hiatinff incredibilities of the most incredible fairy tale he ever wrote! Z week age she was a citizen of the United States, a pretty ii.. nlnfn Mr. and Mrs., of Portland, Ore. - Today she is the lawful child of .Henrietta Isabelle Le Rey, Cemteise Clerel de Tocqueville de Rampan de Chanquetet, and heiress te the wealth of a noble French family. One year age she lived in seclu seclu lien, broken-hearted, afraid of life, a prey te publicity, a prey te the cruelty of her own wretched mem cries. Today, under the indulgent care cf Cemtesse de Tocqueville, there is a brave smile in her eyes, which leek out upon a world newly rich for tenquest, which glimpse new heights te be wen, new joys te be Known. Claudia's is the story of a vagrant mother-dream come time, here is the itery of her own aching dreaming heart. At moments, bright with the midline of happiness and hope, at 'moments dark with the pain of dis illusienment and tears, the young life of Mrs. Claudia Windser Tar-teue-since July 27 Claudia Windser de Rampan de Chanquetet has been one of a thousand moods. Found Haven of Help in Heart of Cemtesse These te whom life has been kinder, and yet perhaps net se kind, may blame her and say the grief in her life was of her own doing. Doubtless there are some who de blame her. But there are many, of course, who de net and chief among them the Cemtesse ue Tocqueville, who en July 27 in the Gurreirates Court of New YerK Uiy was given the right te regard Claudia in all respects as her lawful child. "I have no child," said Cemtesse de Tocqueville, the widow of Vis- eemtn Autrustin Rene Clerel de Tocqueville, an officer of the Legien of Hener. "Once I had a little daughter. Her name was Marie. Had she lived she would have been the same age as Claudia. But she died in her eighteenth year. She was beautiful, my Marie. Vivacious and loving life, but she died. When I law Claudia for the first time two years age 1 was strongly attracted te her. It seemed that I was leek ing at my own Marie again. Later when I heard of the great tragedy of Claudia's life my heart went out te her. "I wanted te help her, te shield her from the many bitternesses of a young life tern by an unfortunate marriage. I told her I wanted her for a daughter. And at last she came te me, And you must call her the Comtcsse Claudia new." And it Is an example of the lncen- etlTttble agarics of circuniBtnnce, that aet twenty years nge, Claudia's own mother in Portland. Ore., called her "my little French Countess." "ben ! was a little child, I was wry beautiful," smiled Claudia, with tie faint pink of modesty Itself height ening the plniinnt beaut v of her fure. one wits chatting in the lobby of the Ambassador Hetel, New Yerk. "And r mother is adorable. She Is Mill "Ting In the West Wlmn mntliKi. fiveil '".' c,ur'H. or primped up n new dress "' "m J'lfct put en me, she used te "y ,)" re my little French Countess. "Cnt you?' Anil hlin nvi. .lrenmeil "t I would be one I" inie0r A1J nu' "pn se lote as J..: h. ,!ft9 ' 11'18. thnt the news news ffi,.8.efi,,' wer,(' hlnrrd the colorful 0u V w? r10,nllnt,e courtship of Miss the T le "7 " un n'"r,. Allfn.ll... " .' """", lllllliuimiiu -T..UIIUII mine owner, nml sldered by me the most perfect type of American beauty." Within six months they were mar ried. They lived in apparent happi ness for seme time, andthcn came a day, In November, 1020, when Mrs. Claudia Tnrteue's lawyers filed In her behalf a bill of complaint against her husband, in which she charged htm with cruelty. According te the statement by Tnrteue's lawyers, filed in answer te the suit for scparntlen, Clnudla, ac companied by another woman, left him and tlieltr luxuileus studlo-hemc, 1200 West Twenty-seventh street, late one night In November without cause. The Comtcsse de Tocqueville knows Pierre Tarteue. She had known him In France. In 1018, she was sent te New Yerk by the French Y. M. O. A. It was then she met Claudia Windser. Her sympathy was nreused when the suit for separation became known. She made exhaustive Inquiries, accord ing te the lawyers who arranged for the adoption of Claudia. And for the greater portion of the last two ycdrs since, the two women have been In separable. One of the motives, said her attorney, which prompted the adoption, was the desire of Cemtesse He Tecnue- vllle te secure cemplete right te protect Madame Tarteue from further embar rassments. "Imagine the grief In the heart of thnt child," snld the ComtpsBe. the ether day, a moment or two before train time from New Yerk te her maimer retreat en ijeng jsinnu. as n very young child she had grown te expect only hap piness from life. Sim gave all her love te Tarteue. And although she." and the mouth of the warm-hearted French woman curved te a wan sad smile, "Is all compassion ter mm, mm all mng- shattcrcd all her dreams. She drooped like any wilted flower might. She went about as though dead. Ne Wonder my friendship for her burned Inte love. Bhe has been the victim of blackmail and no. end of lies and deceit) when went she looked for wag only leve and an opportunity te live her Ufa te Its full est. I shall take Her te Europe with me. I shall Introduce her te the royal family of Spain ; she shall meet my rela tives In France as my own daughter; she shall see Italy, and visit my many friends there. Anything te make her forget the great tragedy of her life ; anything thnt will brighten the smoul smeul der of her enthusiasm, I will de for her. Happy Girl Is Writing Nevel te Shew Her Jey "But you should see Claudia, In her bright little room at Glen Cove. She pounds se! and set and fel nt her typewriter with her two pretty little fingers. She Is writing a hook. In deed!" and the plcnsant-fuced Com Cem tesse, beamed her admiration. "A most Interesting book! All about her self " "It's mv dlarr. Clerel means." Clau dia calls her fester mother "Clerel." She hmlled. "Se far I enn only use two lingers. But I have the cutest lit tle typewriter. I leve te watch the words grew. And I leve te go out en the hill it's n little machine and I can rnrry It and work there " "And some times In her room she writes fur Inte the night," Interrupted the Cemtesse, and grimaced jovially, "and then she sleeps all the morning through. But I de net mind. It keeps her mind busy." "Tlmt diary you knew," contrib uted Clnudla, "It is going te ec pub lished one of these fine days, and will be illustrated by a great artist. And I shnll call It 'Memoirs of Claudia,' or perhaps just 'Claudia : Memoirs.' "When I was ever se little ray mother taught me te keep a diary," continued Claudia. "She told me that It would make me geed. She snld that I must make up my mind thnt whatever I did I must write down In my diary. And I de just that. And even today when I nm set en doing something I am reminded that it must go Inte my dinvy If I de It. And thnt very often makes me net de It, after all, because I wouldn't want anybody te see It In my diary. My mother Is lovely!" The mother is new Mrs. It. Bengue Hernet, of Portland. Saw Happiness Everywhere When She Was a Child "My childhood was a happy one. And that's why I wanted nil of my life te be happy. I looked for happi ness. I saw happiness everywhere. I loved te be out of doers. Every day when I lived in California it seems ages age I ued te drive my enr te the Gelden Gate stables, nnd there I'd get my horse, nnd ride nnd ride. I wr the lirst girl in California te learn hew te fly. Silas Tophrrsen was my Instructor. He's dead new, peer dear. In the summer I used te go yachting n let. cruise out among the Cntnlinq Islands, with the sunshine in my fnce. and the warm sweet wind blowing through my hair. It was all se splen did! "And I had such plans for my life. I was sent te u convent when I was ten j ears old. My mother was lovely te me. I had everything I wanted, nnd lets nnd lets of lUitlniMasm. I took singing lessens. My teacher was Mad ame Augusta Iteynard, Anna Cage's teacher. She snld I had a rich natural eice, which she hoped would become really a great operatic voice. Oil, I had plans! "Then the war came, nnd I traveled east. I did war service In New Yerk, nnd then one rtrangely beautiful night I met l'ierre. He loved me right away. And J seen grew te leve him. Oh, te much !" Claudia hesitated for n moment, nnd then with one white linger lifted as n child lifts its finger when it is en the point of saying something impeitnnt, .vet iiesituung u little about buying it, sin- entrea:ea: WkW ?f' -yc :wW$WA'J' wffi'M$d ; " -- J m i f a fjA.i -r "Hepe," one of the several noted canvases of Pierre Tartgue for which his wif was th e model And pleuM", don't be hnrd en Pierre He loved me very much nd he Is heart broke.' 'iew. He is n great nrtlst, nnd something of n great big child, loe. His friends can se easily lend him. He does the met incredible things, just be-caii'-e his friends tell him te. The newspapers carried terrible stories. They hurt me and they hurt him. Everybody knows hew I was black mailed nnd hew l'ierre was the dupe of contemptible persons. Will Act as Medel for Husband Who Sued Her the picture the elder Cemtesse decsn t like. "It was painted when Clnudlu was suffering, and it holds the hitter tears of her sorrow," she says. "I like the one called 'Hepe.' It is full of the premise of this new period of her llfe!" l'ierre during the courtship and the few hnppv months of marriage, painted three well-known pictures of Clnudla. 'The MuJennn" is the best known, "Hepe" and "The Mndainc de Pom padour." the pastel of Claudia in her white Colonial wig. Hut I was telling nbeut when Pierre and I met," continued this young worn- "The suit for separation is still pend- I an mnny moods, I seen grew te Ing. And. somehow. I nm net heart-I !eve hl"V Am' l bccnm' "e precious broken any mere. Llfe is becoming ' n me- , s"w n, h'm " opportunity te interesting te me again. But I don't u. weiineriui mini;, lie lem me mnny uiui-s uiui i nun ins iiii'irilliuil. .vim 1 want te hurt him. He came te see m since our separation, -nnd 1 nm going te sit for him again, se that lie ran change the mouth of his 'Madenna.' That's the picture the famous one he made of me, nnd he wnnts new te correct the mouth. It is going te he hung In the French rcem of the Metro politan Museum seen, I bcllce." It's wanted te be. I wanted te be that mere nnd ineie. I worked and worked for him. nnd we were se happy. "We went te Seuth America, and there I caught my wonderful butterflies. Felks tell me that my collection is the met ucnutiiUl private collection there is. liutterUies are se generously ger l'ierre JWeue. Trench nrtUf ...i! i,.i M at?,!'"?,10 d,..the Portraits of Prcs- lie ikJ W,,H0". neral I'mhIi '"I. the du l'enu Tl.m.. A,i..,t..,.i ai. "4 ethers. .. a.m., flfant Beauty Wen Leve of French Painter Ooleniii iKii f,0,f,ie ,flrHt time ut the w3Sl?,M '" tll Klti-Cnrlten. Miss eil! h U8 "e of lll debutantes who W wEumL' K:!?,H- h were u Colon Celon Colen ly SVvll,V" Pewdercil wig. which mly L.1, ?n,ke l,:r. Keem '"" Pl" fcr. . Ilfu.1, , Th0 l,nlntcr hPleil rm.Vt.S'rt lni""'htely by her '.Wlhthi'S:'0".?"" 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One proposal come' from even n president of n nation. I should like te show you his letter. It was a beautiful letter." According te ncr nMnrni. tb Countess vns, before her mnrilage, a MademoiFclle Tc Hey, member of a family of Frcneh pioneers, which held, and still holds, large estates in Cali fornia. The University of Berkeley, Calif., is built en property which once was part et the Le Rey estate, and 1 Itey street Is one of the , principal streets In the city. CmntesKe de Tocqueville was edu cated in England, I'nrls and Germanyr She has traveled extensively, hertrlp. te this country In 1018 making her twenty-fifth crossing. The attorneys who handled the petli tien for ndoptlen declared that it was necessary te investigate both parties concerned. The mere or less complex legal action consumed but a fraction of the long period of investigation. The confirmation by the Surrogate, if there should be any future dissatisfaction of relatives ever the disposition of the de Tocqueville wealth, prevents any litiga tion ever charges that thu Cemtesse de Tocqueville was insidious, influenced or inveigled by her ndepted daughter. The Cemtesse entcrtnins In Paris in a luxurious home en the Hue Vlct. The Chateau de Teurlavllle, a splendid old mansion near Cherbourg, is her ceun try place. Her lamiiy lias the rignt te bury in Plctus, where Lafayette in burled. And she declares that what wealth she has and what privileges are new her daughter's also. The career of Pierre Tarteue has net been without its interest. He and Claudia became engaged after the first Mrs. Tarteue began a suit for divorce. The first Mrs. Tarteue, who was Miss Alma Dodsworth, daughter of T. Geerge Dodsworth, of New Yerk, obtained her final decree in Maine In November. 1010, en the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. It was reported at thnt time that Tarteue admitted he had married her en ajjet. Artist Wen Bettle of Wine and Bride in Jeke Bet Our marriage was the result of a bet," he Is reported te have said. "Mrs. Tarteue docs net knew this, und none of her friends knew it. I bet a bettle of champagne that I would mnrry the first young woman who entered the deer of n friend's studio. Miss Dodsworth entered. She came te take a music les les eon. "I saw her only five minutes. I could net speak English very well. I had been in this country only two weeks nnd I was most unhappy because In three weeks I would have te go back and marry n young French girl. It was an encagement nrrnnged between our I two families. I did net love her, but the trousseau was aircaay cougar. There seemed te be no escape. "Se I had this idea of a bet. Miss Dodsworth, who afterwards became my wife. Invited me te dinner with her fnmlly the next night. After dinner I nnneunced te her family that we were engaged. I told her of my engagement te the French girl and thnt I wanted te break it, nnd she confided te me that she was engaged te u man for whom shedid net care. We decided te save ourselves unhappiness by marrying geeus In color, nnd se graceful, I think the wing of a butterfly ! "But never mind. There came a time when Pierre .nnd I fell te cilef. Accu- sntiens were made when the first trouble I started. But new I renlize that he was I u victim 01 Designing menus, who whuiu caci, 0ther " tell him tales which he always believed: nfVns five years after the incWerW Alter we separated, ami I saw my love n broken thing, something inside me broke, tee. I wanted te see nobody. Fer the Inst two years I have net been in n public restnuranti I linve se cluded myself. I have been lling with I reported, thnt suit for divorce was made. The action wns net contested. Tnrteue's enreer ns n painter has been singularly brilliant. It Is snld that during the period of his courtship of Claudia, he received $30,000 for a -''AV ? y & y. " ty ,,", '. T.2?KV. V'Xstt8K3R?'. r $&t&i, i vs ,, '""i is '?&? rik ivr fc.i .: ? ,v 'S T -r.: " 'ti'B 't Mmkwt& tkmm 'lBBK Jkjw E9aL IIEJBHf V. fmWMkkmhkmmmWL wW BM m0Y iM3tkmmmkmmmmmmW vr'S' , JkkEkmm Claudia, Countess of 'locquevillc Island I have been hid- Clerel in I.en ing myself "But IhiiiKs nre cluingii'g new. eomteHso has been sci geed in uk am iinuing in,. nliMiibiiig ugi.iii The 1 Named Beautiful Bird "Leve" for Her Husband "Thi Madenna." painted just before the Tarteue parted and for which the new Countess will pose again te permit the expression of the mouth te u p " r .h,nirl riniiclin Wtnilun. na fUlni.p firuf nw h.p tn ball cuatume .,MMj, .-- - .. V-.HWW 0 ,IV(lfl".ttV BMI. t.V -. . . .-..,. I , pninting lie old te a Vv erk society 1 woman One of his pnuitings, "The (Jeddccs of HnpliiesH." was sold te the du Ponts 111 III ,11 fn.t ii lit(.i Lilt,. (luLutti liml . l '. . i' ii iii.i- r-ii,ii. iiDnii !., I jv i r n,.., i... , i t lie- amount ns high ns SH00.OOO. The painting is n seini-nude figure, whose linger Is teucluni; the hend of a little bronze und. fat nml merrv. The imr "l have ten lieniitlfnl IiihIh - ten 1 Hally clothed feuinle llgure smiled nrchly treupials' Yhu'm' never seen u tinu- ' 0llt f the narrowed slit of her eyes, plnl? They uie yellow nnd bind,, nbeut j "One day." explained Clnudla. "I the size of n jilgcen. After I left Seuth entered lux studio. The eyes of the figure Ainei leu the President t,f the Itepuhll" -iere dosed. They were erlglnnlly pnlnt pnlnt ef Colombia sent nie ten of (hem, lied thnt wny. !ut when 1 entered I hae them at a bearding n-himl imw." smiled nt Pierre, out of the rernern of Her merry ees twinUlud. , ".'-V ,'w''- ' V".K Hiiiidlng Just u little "Imleed I have! Twe sweet Iiitli h keep them for me. Mrs. .1. A. Jeukl is mid Miss Anna Thompson. The latter alls herself 'Leve' nnd 'Fill's Aunt Aiiiiii.' But 1 haven't told ;.ou who l.ee' nml 'Fllii' nre, huve IV They are my luii fnvei'lle trniiplnlx' Yes! I riillcd the one 'l.nvp1 after Pierre " It is said thnt many noted inci) havu been nttrnetcd poignantly by this young woman's beauty. Other artists 'than Tarteue have pAlntcd her portrait, net- sidewnjH, nnd I smiled-like Uils Juct a in i it", you K (iv ii wns n vnrv tin. tural thing te de ut the inetiienl. "It struck Pierre like a lightning hilt. lie shouted 'Held thai peel Pjense .lust n uiliinte'' I tieiii Dint way for nbeut mi liiiu. v hllf he worked mndly nt the ennvus When I snv (he Pliltlie again, it wim ns you see It leilny the Hume wan mulling nt ! with my own eyes. Pierre snlil.it wM jutst wuat was needed te make She pX luiu u re nt one," fl a t 4 A va M ,i? '1 s I ?' m m Jjfttkl lw. Wt&tMQt,tilift4 m-WAi'-ti JiWi0fji-t-yM frji.V ft,tftii,hf, t iiift"Ev&teifcis. Nitfa'-)i ,t 't m! &.,. tOli ,,j I 4 . . 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