Sharp County record., 1878-10-10

So things went on for a month. Miss
Yznaga was always entertaining, and he
was ever at her side.
Finally, when the leaves began to turn
red in the park, it began to be whisper
ed around that another young lady was
about to throw herself away on titled
EngliShman.
~ know he's "a fraud-this Lord
Mandevillei" was often said impetu-
ously by young ladies not up in the
peerage.
Later in the fall, when the red leaves
began to tumble off in the park, the en-
gagement between Miss Yznaga and
Lord Vaudeville was announced. The
young Lord was fairly caught by the
beautiful Cuban, and to let him return
to England to meet his father, the
naughty Duke of Manchester, would be
foolish thing indeed, So it was ar
ranged that the wedding should come
off within a month. In the meantime
coaching and polo parties kept Lord
Vaudeville and Miss Yznaga almost con-
stantly together and he the most devoted
of lovers.
1t was a great thing to be the fancee
of the second son of the great Duke OF
Manchester, and the newspapers teem-
ed with saucy paragraphs about the
good fortune of the beautiful Cuban.
About this time, when Miss Yznaga
was wearing 1.-The engagement ring, tinan-
cial troubles arose.
The young lady's parents were poor.
They lived in plain house in an un-
fashionable street. They did not even
have money enough to make an ordina-
ry fashionable wedding, much less a
wedding grand enough for the duke.
"What shall we do?" they said, and
then they went to Mrs. Paran Stevens to
consult Mrs. Stevens, having occnpied
every position in life, from keeping a
hotel in Boston, to leading society at
Newport, knew just what to do. Any one
who knows how to keep hotel can
command an army.
So, when they came to Mrs. Stevens,
told her about the modest little house
down Oh Eleventh Street, and asked her
what they should do, the shrewd socie-
ty woman said:
"Why, take a furnished house on
Fifth Avenue for thirty days. Didn't
Mrs. Honore take furnished house in
Chicago in which to celebrate the mar
riage of her daughter and Col. Fred.
Grant?n
The furnished house was soon hunted
up and taken for month. 1t was nice
lv furnished brown-stOne opposite the
Knickerbocker Club. And from this
house the wedding invitations were sent
out, and in this house the warm court
ship continued till the ceremony was
performed which made the poor but
beautiful and accomplished Miss Yznaga
the wife of lord, and the present pet
of the English ariStOcracy, and which in
q few wears will make her the Duchess
of Manchester.
The wedding presents were rare and
elegant. In the Herald and San the
next mnrnirQa,so olumns were taken to
That morn1ts, -stieer -tne 'wRieuaing, 1
saw Lord and Lady Vaudeville riding
up Fifth Avenue on the top of Willie
Gray's four-in-hand coach. There was
a grand breakfast at Jerome Park with
Bennett and Belmont and Jerome and
Travers and young Jay, and then the
happy bride and groom rode on out to
one of the quiet country sears in West
chester County to spend the honey
moon.
Two days afterward l walked down
Fifth Avenue to see the furnished house
of the Yznagas closed up; the quiet
father and mother had already returned
to Eleventh Street. The bird had flown
and why keep the cage?
-Four weeks afterward Lord Mande-
vile and his lovely wife went TO Europe.
The Duke of Manchester stormed lit
tie at first, but when he saw the beauti.
full bride his son had brought he could
not help forgiving him. He took the
lovely Yznaga home, introduced her to
all his friends, paid his sons debts, and
now the young people are as happy as
Claude and Pauline, with this extra, that
the Prince of Wales dimes with them
every Friday evening and won't accept
invitations TO dine anywhere else unless
the young American wife-the future
duchess-is to occupy seat at his right.
ELI PERKINS.