Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — Miss Ca1dwell's Love Grown Cold. [ARTICLE]

Miss Ca1dwell's Love Grown Cold.

A young lady who is visiting here, and who is a very intimate friend of Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, has just received a letter from the young heiress, whose engagement to Prince Murat ha-> attained so much notoriety. Miss Caldwell writes to her friend that the formal betrothal has been indefinitely postponed on account of an unwritten law of the French and Italian aristocracy, which requires the contracting parties to produce, at their betrothal, the baptismal certificates of their parents and grandparents. That Miss Caldwell is unable to do, as there is no record of her grandmother’s baptism, and a hitch in the proceedings is the result. Miss Caldwell intimates that she would not care at all if the wedding should not take place. Miss Caldwell’s friend thinks that if the whole thing falls through it will not be the fault of the bridegroom nor of the laws of aristocracy, but of the fair fiance herself. This is not the first time Miss Caldwell has promised her hand in marriage and has reconsidered her action after the engagement had been made public. She was engaged to an Italian prince about three years ago, and the match was considered the best to be made in Europe, but, like several others before, it was broken off by the young lady. Miss Caldwell’s first love was a young lawyer of this city, but the engagement was objected to. He has since married. In a former letter Miss Caldwell said: “You may be sure that I always intend to be my own financier. I am willing to allow any husband I may have a sufficient income to enable him to dress well and pay his club dues, but he will never have the management of a cent of my principal.” “Mary has a will of her own,”'said our mutual Liend, “and she means what she says. Perhaps Prince Murat found this out before it was too late.”— Louisville Post.