Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 276, 1 October 1917 — Page 9

"There Are Three Instances Where Rich Idea Marry Poor Girls to One Where a Wealthy Girl Marries a Poor Man."

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Sometimes HE Is Not Young, and Sometimes He Has Millions to Offer With His Hand, Bat SHE (as Fresh Proof Shows) Has Only to Be the RIGHT Girl

PRINCE CHARMING does not always come with gleaming sword, or rattling spurs, . or Jingling gold, and more frequently than not he bears but Blight resemblance to the handsome, debonair young man who sits at the table oppoaite the bewitching maiden in the magazine illustrations but he is Prince Charming just the same to the one girl, the girl who really counts. And the bewitching maiden for whose love Prince Charming vowb his readiness to lay down his life what about her? Does she sigh for the sight of a man like Gibson drew? Does her heart flutter when the graceful, lithe athletic society blade, immaculately attired, draws her aside among the palms and tenderly, compassionately, offers her his heart, his hand, and the privilege of feasting her eyes upon his handsome face and form throughout the remaining years of her life? Perhaps she does sigh, and perhaps her heart does flutter, but the weddings of prominent people recorded nearly every day show that recently, at least, there has not been the snobbery among the young Americans, cynics would have one believe.

The records in the office where marriage licenses originate bear confusing testimony as to the efficacy of winning a life mate with good looks, honeyed phrases and rich relations. At one time it was something of a sensation when the man of 70 eloped with the girl in her twenties, a sensation exceeded in interest only by the elopement of the millionaire and the shop girl or the heiress and the chauffeur. Such events have followed each other so rapidly in recent days that the tang has been taken out of them. They, cause but a mild ripple of low-voiced comment as compared with the oceanic fury of sound that formerly followed in their wake. The Magic of the Right Ctrl. A marriage is a marriage nowadays, and even when a prince comes over from Europe to wed a pratty or wealthy American girl, as has happened several times in the last few months, the event does not inspire the feast of gossip and the saturnalia of scandal which a few years back, were wont to trail every wedding where men or women married "beneath their rank." The pretty American girl weds the real prince, if it pleases her to do so, or she marries a man of 60, or the young fellow who keeps books in her father's store. And when Love gives the signal, the rich American marries bis stenographer, his trained nurse, or the girl "with the cutest dimples" who sold mm a pair of gloves. In its last analysis, it resolves itself down to conclusive proof ot an array of platitudes regarding the inexplicable exploits of the chubby little chap with the bow and arrow.'

among them being the following three, in the order of their popularity: "Love is blind." "You never can tell." "What do you suppose a girl like that could see in a fellow like that?" When Prince Charming chooses, he just chooses, and seems to "paynot the slightest attention to the artists who draw wonderful girls in his arras,, to the lecturers who prate on eugenics, to the rich or sociallyhigh relations who din "rank" into his ears, or to the so-called rules of a game that hasn't but one, and that one is "All is fair." As far as the girl is concerned, he is Prince Charming whether he is 15 or 50, whether he has the protruding chin of a prize fighter or no chin at all; whether his hair IS black and thick and wavy or WAS black, and thick and wavy before it fell out; whether he dabbles in stocks and rolls in wealth, or spends his time juggling a lot of acids in a shelf-full of test tubes. Rich and Poor.

One man who believes himself something of an expert on the subject of affairs concerning the heart and who has compiled a record of recent weddings, in each of which one of the contracting parties is nationally famous, declares that in such cases it is the groom, more often than the

bride, who is governed solely by love. "There are three instances where rich men marry poor girls," he safd, "to one where a wealthy girl marries a poor man. Nearly every day you read where a rich man marries a poor girl, but how often is the reverse true? "Parents, naturally, pay more attention to the matrimonial prospect of the daughter than of the 6on. They are inclined to use every possible influence to get the girl to make 'a good catch, but brother is allowed to shift for himself. He is given a greater freedom. The perils of marrying beneath his rank are not forever pounded into his ears and pictured before his eyes. "The result is when Prince Charming chooses, he usually goes out for the girl who suits his fancy and his fancy may be for beauty, it may be for brains, it may be for character, or for a combination of them all." The self-styled expert was asked: "Which marriages turn out more happily the wealthy young man's or the wealthy girl's?"

He replied like a true diplomat: "Sometimes they do, and sometimes they dont." It would be a confirmed cynic in-

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Luther Burbank and the Pretty Secretary Who Has

Become His Bride.

Miss Honora May O'Brien, Jilted by MultiMillionaire Manning, and Proudly Refusing to Sue.

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deed who would doubt that the recent wedding of Luther Burbank, the "world's greatest wizard of horticulture," and' Miss Elizabeth Waters, was the consummation of aught but a true love affair. Mr. Burbank is 67 years old, and his bride but 26. She was born in Hastings, Mich., educated in the Hastings schools and atjinded a Chicago business college. She had acted as Mr. Burbank's secretary for three years prior to the wedding in San Francisco. Lova and th Nurse. In the early years of his manhood. Mr. Burbank had but little time for romance. Born at Lancaster, Mass., In 1S49, his schooling consisted of but a term or two in the village

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has recently come to light has for its principals C. Cra-'g Colt, son of the late Robert O. Colt, and'Mos Mar-

g a r e t McDonald, a trained nurse. Mr. Colt, who Is now 55 years of age, inherited a fortune from his father. "He is a member of Union, Tuxedo and West

minster Kennel clubs, and of sev- father, the late Frank Day, a Boston "There Is no malice In my heart." eral similar organizations in Lon- banker. she 6aid prouaiy. "I bear Mr. Mandon and Paris. He was ill last Miss Gass, by her marriage, will ning np animosity for the injustice winter, and at .the sanatorium where become the sister-in-law of the that has been done. I would not dehe went for treatment Mis3 Me- Countess Montanari of Italy. Just , mean myself by starting lawsuits. Donald nursed him back to health, four days after the announcement. If Mr. Manning was not Inclined to WTiile recuperating he conceived the groom's older brother, also a marry me I would not be petty nor a romantic attachment for his student of Harvard, left college, con- would I bring force to bear upon him. nurse. He m-onosed marriasa and fpsRins- in hi rninrfl.-lpK that Yiis lnv 'TTnw;vf there IS" fustic in

school. His boyhood pets were 6he accepted him: the wedding tak- for his fiancee, Miss Katherine Rey- Heaven, and I believe firmly in that, plants, and at the age of 22 his genius ing place in New Brunswick, N. J. nolds, was so strong he could not put If I have been wronged, things will

was recognized in the propagation of the Burbank potato Since that time he has devoted his time exclusively to horticulture, having made more than 100,000 separate experiments with plants. Necessarily he was something of a recluse, and having passed three score years he was one. of the world's most noted bachelors.; He would have been the last person' expected to be a principal in a romantic wedding. He announced on' Dec. -Id that he was to marry his secretary, and the very next day the Tedding took place. ' v Another interesting romance which

The bride is 20 years younger than his mind on hia studies.

8" . . , . . May and December. The couple had been honeymooning for two months In Southern Cali- The CJnIc wbo sneers when a fornia before a friend, who was the young girl marries an old man, or a

only attendant and who had been poor girl marries a rich man. will

be. righted.'

She said she could not return to her old position, after all the notoriety. "I must turn to a place where I am unknown. At present I am In no con-

pledged to secrecy for that period ot find himself confronted with a situa- &teon to work, it has been such a

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democracy of Cupid can be cited ?wu" " IK ."fn.L V When U wa that Mr. than the recent announcement by banlter' orth f I5.00ft.000. who was Manniag tad settled a small fortune James M. Gass, a milk wagon driver engaged to Miss Honora May O'Brien, upon her before the wedding, she reof Maiden, Mass., of the engagement a stenographer 28 years old. plied indignantly: of his daughter, Miss Myrtle E. Gass, On the day of the wedding Mr. "No settlement was made upon me. a cleric in a Boston store, to Ellison Manning "jilted" her. Lawyers ad- . I did not intend to become Mr. ManDay, a Harvard student, and heir to vised her that she had a splendid case King's wife for the sako of his. a fortune of $7,000,000 left by his against the millionaire banker. - minions."