Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — BECOMES A MARQUISE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BECOMES A MARQUISE.

PHILADELPHIA HEIRESS BEOOMEB WIFE OF TITLED SPANIARD. Th.jr Hat Amid the Bala* of Old ■nlos —Lon Wtt tha Only LutMf. Thar Knew In Common Kaclli tha Revolutionary War. A pretty romance had Its end In the marriage the other day of Mies Prances B. Holmes, a wealthy heiress of {Philadelphia, to the Marquis de Klaves Hermosa. The two met In Mexico among Aztec ruins. Both were wanderers. He could pot speak English. She could not apeak Spanish. He tried to tell her the deeds of his ancestors, who came across the sea and ruled in the land pf the Sun Ood. But she could not understand, and ahe was far more interested in the man than in the tale he told. So she tried to teach him English—a word here and there. That was only a few months ago. Now they are married. The wedding has interfered with the Bessons in English. The Marquis is atlll unable to speak a word of the language. But the marquise has jlearned a few words of Spanish, and (She acts as his interpreter. | The new marquise is the only daughter of the late Charles W. Holmes of Philadelphia. The family residence is a beautiful old place, pother and daughter are well supplied with world’s goods. The majority of her relatives are ■Quiet, matter-of-fact people. But there Is a French ancestor, whose national characteristics this handsome, clever

and very original young wdman has inherited. The marquise’s grandfather was General Le Mercier, one of the two officers who came to this country with General Lafayette. His daughter, Marie Antoinette Mercier, married General Sturdevant of Washington’s army. The beautiful French woman and her husband, stately, old-time figures, look down from the walls of the Holmes homestead. There is a similarity in the expression in the faces of the French great-grandmother and the vivacious girl who recently brought home a Spaniard as a husband.

MARQUISE DE KLAVES HERMOSA