South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 272, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 29 September 1917 — Page 5

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Prince Ludovic Pigatelli, the Latest Development in Whose Romance Has Caused So Much Discussion. WHYS Prince Ludovic Piprnatelli, of the famous House of Arairon, married Miss Ruth Waters a couple of years ago. fashionable society murmured in more or less surprise "a perfect romance!" The Prince had had many adventures. For a time everyone thought that he had captured the heart and hand of one of the richest heiresses in America Miss Mary Duke. In fact, their engagement was authoritatively, if informally, announced. But something happened to that romance, alas, and Miss Duke became Mrs. Riddle, marrying into a family which looks upon the House of Aragon as an upstart, for are not the Biddies all of Philadelphia! That is all of Philadelphiaexcept the VTisters. And the Prince became the husband of Mis Waters. Miss Waters was the only daughter of the Jason Waterses of Philadelphia and Monte Carlo. Vivacious and beautiful, she lacked, however, all but a sade of the fortune that helped make Miss Duke famous. The Prince and his Princess went to live in a charming but tiny cottage on the Merrick Road of Long Island. As the Merrick Road is a famous automobile thoroughfare, the Princess's father bought a flivver for their Royal Highness to traverse it.

The poets have sung that love in a cottage is the only perfect and who can blame fashionable society, therefore, for concluding that this international match was one of love complete and admirable? Especially so as the Prince's past performances had never been such as to create the faintest suspicion that he was at all domestic. But if he loved enough to live in a cottage, to enjoy a flivver, and to bury himself in the necessarily domestic seclusion of the outskirts on the Merrick Road, Long Island, then he must love indeed. So reasoned society. The former Miss Waters had not shown any marked domestic tendencies either. Of course the fact that her father had kept hotels

seemed to give her a working knowledge of housekeeping, but what in early democratic days used to be called "the balls and parties" which were given her during her debutante period were exceedingly stunning and undomestic. Furthermore, she was used to mansions and limousines and lots of servants. If Ruth Waters could give all this up for her Prince and be satisfied with p cottage and a flivver she must love the Prince, indeed. What could be more perfect then, than this romance T asked fashionable society. Sentimentalists and social students watched with interest the progress of this romance from the time of the return of the Prince and Princess from their honeymoon. Almost at once interesting disharmonies began to develop. But of these later. It is necessary to consider the last disharmony, which threatens to be the test of the whole romance. Prince Pignatelli went to New York. Coming home to his cottage late that night he saw the little nest ablaze with lights and filled with the sound, of revelry and mirth. The Prince asserts that he was surprised. He entered his little home and his eyes fell upon a joyous company of neighbors. The Prince demanded an explanation of why the party had been called and he had been left out. Particularly did he object to a couple of guests, Captain Edmund L. Haas of the U. S. A. and James Ford from the military camp at Yaphank. The House of Araoa is a proud one and the Prince's ancestors never allowed their remarks to be censored and did not like any argument "Off to the torture chamber" or 44choo his

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head off" or something like that was the old Aragon idea of repartee. It seems that the ancient blood boiled up in the Prince. But what went finally five or six hundred years ago does not go to-day. Captain Haas objected to the Aragon manner. 4 4 Come outside a moment," he said to the Prince. The Prince did. In what ensued he came off a very bad second. In fact, such a bad second that he took the whole affair and his bruises into court the next day. The Princess packed up her bags and went to her mother the morning after. And at the last accounts is still too angry at her Prince even to think of relenting. The Princess says that her noble husband's rage was entirely uncalled for. She spoke to him over the 'phone that same afternoon, she says, and !old him all about the party that she had considered having, wanted him to be there, and asked him if he objected to her having it if he was not there. The Prince, she says, answered, 4 4 Why not at all, ray dear' or words to that effect And so she went on and had her party. It was just after one of the most thrilling of the varied sequence of events in the adventurous life of the Prince that he fell honestly in love with little Miss Waters. His engagement with Miss Duke had been broken to the unconcealed joy of her family. He had tried to kill himself in his Paris home because of his broken heart, and then after he had failed and had returned to New York the immigration authorities held him up for days on Ellis Island as a suspicious character. Well, then, when the Prince fell in love with the dark-eyed, jolly young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Jason Waters, smart society on Long Island, which is the smartest New York set, wondered. Here, for once, was a real romance, here was a Prince falling in love with a girl whose dress allowance was small and whose father was unprepared to endow her liberally. The Prince was going to marry for love, pure and simple. He did, and then got his f rst bump. Mrs. Waters might have given the bride and groom a valuable gift, but all she handed out was a chilly and delayed forgiveness for their runaway marriage. The Prince took his bride to the small house he had occupied for several months on the Merrick Ro3d. In th meantime Mis Duke had twome

engaged to Anthony Bidcile, Tr and her mother, Mrs. Benjamin Duke, had leased a sumptuous mansion on Long v Island, right in sight of the Pignatelli t' cot. No matter where the Prince and Princess went, that great estate was it the way ! In June the second bump raised itself in the pathway of the lovers. The Prince was sued for one hundred thousand dollars by the widow of a man whom the authorities alleged he had killed when motoring. A verdict of about sixteen thousand dollars was awarded. The Prince went into bankruptcy. He claimed and proved that he had but twenty-eight cents to his name and generously and frankly laid the money on the table. The ccurt did not take the twentyeight cents, however. The Princess was in court throughout the proceedings, but did not offer to share her allowance with her husband. She evidently thought she might need it to live on. It developed later that the Waters family, when they found the Prince in danger of becoming a pauper, settled twenty-five dollars a wek on the young couple and added the advice to go into chicken raising! With the bankruptcy over, the Pignatellis spent the Autumn almost entirely on the golf course and verandahs of the ultra-fashionable Piping Rock Club, and every time they went to the club they passed the Duke mansion in their flivver, and the Duke-Biddle limousine, a most costly affair, passed them. The flivver, alas! speedily got on the Prince's nerves. He shrivelled every time the Duke-Biddle limousine glided by, and, oh. what bumps his romance had, for he found himself quarrelling bitterly with his Princess. But there was worse in store for him. Naturally they could not afford a stylish French chef. They were able to get a good hired girl who cooked spuds and things like that. But she objected to having 4 4 the Missus" visit the kitchen and complain when things were not right. No one knows who struck the first blow, but one day there was some bad srap in the Pignatelli kitchen. Some say that flat-irons were flung, others that fists were used unaided by irons and broom sticks. The cook 4 4 had the law" on her former

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Is Embarrassingly Close to the Cottage Where the Prince's True Romance Found Its Setting.

"Missus," and the judge ad Jod insult to injury by calling the Prince.s "'Mrs. Aragon." "They say" that thk marked the thinning of th nd of this "perfect romance." '"They say" that from that day the Prince spent his waking hours rebelling against hifate and his sleeping hours dp.-aming of the wealth of Midas and all that orc of thing. 'Thev sav" that his fraca with the armv captain is the logical outcorr.e of th everts that have "bumpfd" him since his marriage, and that this will prove to he the one bump too many I Bt this world is fall of qur happenings, and "They" may be mLstsken

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