Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-31
JEW AND GENTLE.
A Daughter Of Rabbi Wise EIOpes
with a Member Of the Episcopal
Church, Cinclnnati-The TrI.
umph Of Love-

oANNS - otoNSk VI III 0uiub WISE Oh
this city, and a young lady enjoying high
social position and the esteem of the
community of which she is a worthy rep.
resentative:
When the Earl Roseberry recently won
and wed the w~ealthisst maiden in all
cable and wire, the world over,
burned in their eager desire to give the
details to the reading peoples Of all
climes. For in every land have the sons
and daughters of Judea grown prominent
IN their prosperity, and in all they have
resped the reward Of the genius OF in.
dustry and Of the foresight Of frugaIity;
have grown to be an important element
Of social life, even in its highest cur
rents. So when Miss Rothschild gave
her hand to the lordly Christian wooer
the nations wondered not as they would
have done one hundred years ago, but
rejoiced that at last the inbred preju.
dlces Of ages we're softeneS under the
advancement and enlightenment Of
the century, and that the days in
which 1.-The Jew" was as one accursed
to the Christian had at last passed
into oblivion hand in hand with the Gus.
tom of performing a public burial service
for the Hebrew maiden who 80 far forgot
her loyalty to her tribe and to the ancient
faith Of her fathers as to wed a Naza.
rene. And yet there was a marriage in
Cincinnati yesterday that threw Israel.
itish circles into a fever of excitement,
aud let loose a food of comment not al.
together favorable to the new theory that
Jew and Gentle we're to be no leuger oil
and water as Of old. And hungry gossip
grew the huugrier, when it was known
that the bride was a daughter of one of
the priests of Israel, and the groom a
widely known member Of the Cincinnati
bar, for the subject of our story, is the
wedding Of Miss Helen Wise, daughter
Of DR.. Isaac NJ. Wise, Rabbi Of the
Plum street Temple, and Mr.. James
Molony, late assistant prosecutor of
Hamilton county.
IT WAS A RUNAWAY MATCH,
one Of the good old.fashioned kind, that
ever since love first laughed at lock.
smiths md that was probably as soon
as the latter appeared on earth-have
been the hope and tie refuge of maiden
and gallant who loved wisely and we'll in
their on belief, but not so in that Of the
heads Of their respective households.
The engagement was of nearly four years
st nding, and the mutual affection and
intimacy OF Miss Wise aud her husband
of to day began when the latter was the
daily and often the nightly guest Of the
Wise mansion, welcomed there as the
bosom friend and boon companion of
n OF the sons Of the Rabbi. Two years
Fyo, as is proved by the card Of DR.. Wise
below, and it is said at the suggestion of
Mr.. May. a son. in.law of the latter, he
(Mr. Molony) was forbidden the house.
1t was too late, as the event proved. They
had net and they had loved.
Tuesday at about IL am Miss Wise
bid adieu to her p rental roof, ostensibly
TO visit her cousins, the Blochs, and With
them it is believed she spent a portion of
the day. Liter in the evening she
Joined her afianeed-afishced not with
the public ceremonial and rejoicing Tug
tomary among her people, not in the Sc
crecy of the whispered and scr ! VOWS
of man to womsn--nd took .rly tea
Then the couple quietly took a carriage
and we're driven to the residence of Rev.
Charles Wendte, No. 3J6 West Seventh
street, by whom they were married.
THE BRIDE.
Miss Helen Wise is the third daughte
and fifth child of DR.. Rabbi Wise, one o
the most learned and best beloved o.
the Hebrew clergy in this country. She
is Of medium height and slight though
full and graceful figure, and has eyes
that seemed &c q casual observer a dark
blue, in keeping with hair that marks her
as neither a decided brunette nor yet a
blonde. Her Hebrew type is not strong.
ly marked, and yet more so than that Of
her brothers, the family being of Bohe-
milan origin, aud handsome in the broad
est sense Of that word. She is pretty, if
not beautiful, and more than usually &C.
complished, being q pianist Of good at
%tainment, aud speaking German and
French, the former perfectly and the
latter huently. Probably she never
looked better in her lite than when seen
entering the diBing-room OF the Gait
House last evening. She wore a neat
gray walking dress, with close.itting
jacket, pearl pendants in her ears, and
a gold breast pin, seemingly a college
badge at her throat. This was her we'd
ding.dress, and as a bride of twenty-she
is just completing her twentieth year-it
became her we'll. She has been a favor.
lite in her home and On ornamept IA
her social circle, aud any man mlght he
proud to call her wife. 30 seemed to be
THE GROOM
who, sleek and like a bridegroom in
wedding garpents, too, was a picture Of
manly beauty. Whatever Mr.. Molony's
enemies may say Of him in this episode
OF his life, they all admit him to be a
handsome fellow, we'll calculated to turn
any glrls head, and il may turn out that,
with this new departure TO date from, the
runaway bride will have no cause to re.
greet the step taken, even though it causes
temporary arrangement from hOr family
and that social ostrseism which some.
times among orthodox IsraelitOS follows
the course she has takOa,
Tue FAMILIES,
Up to last night Mr.. Molony's family,
who live in the country, were in ignor.
ance of the course be had taken. They
had also objected to his choice on
grounds of sect, being, like himself, Of
Eplspopallap eHtFaetlan spi affiliations
II is not likely that they will be obdHrate,
however, ana it is probable that after o
weeks stay at the Gait the hehpymoon
will be ppppt among ihpm. Certainly il
will lapse in our lovely suburbs.
DR.. Wise's ipme' iate family consists
OF his second wife, whom he married
some two years ago, and infant child,
apd four sens end four daughters by hia