, 1880-09-12
THAT MATCH.

Bartlett and His Prospective Bride.
Olire Lo7nn's London Letter.
Tout est pettlu, }ors plEonncs&rl So sghs-or
else Dame Rumor is q lying jade-the cast-on
Earl Of Dublin, no longer tho nffanced OF tho
lovely and pccunious Miss Vanderbilt. Que
roulez- pous5 Nice looking young fellow, noble
man, ami all that, but still papa is not converted
to tho theory that q reformed rake makes the
best husband. and SO enacts the role OF Capulet
to tho new Juliet and her Romeo, But let the
lady not despair. sAii those Government bonds
will buy any sort OF husband in the European
market, oven q virtuous one. Mr.. Ashmead-
Bartlett is d virtuous man, and in his case has
not virtue proved its rich reward? saw the
young cx-American and his aged dulcinea driy-
Ing together day OR two ago. What coll
trastl He, a fresh. blooming youth OF. eight
and-twenty, erect, gay, the full sap OF life bound
tnE freely through his veins, attested by his
sparkling eye, his peachy check, his moist and
ruby lip; she, shrfveled unto decrepitude,
d ressed sensibIy. as BELTS her age, III a black
poke bonnet, beside whose eombre lack of style
e1travaeant in form and color; her shouldcra
cnwtapped In q dark WOODEN shawl. Who would
think, to look at her, that Durdett-Coutts Is the
mother, and this sharp young fellow has been
speak TO her IN such a way that, sho has tapped
him with her wand and decreed that diamonds
aud rubcs shall henceforth tall from his lips
Do SOU know what certnin sdt In society are
saytng7 That after the marriage they will cut
Mr.. Ashmead- Bartlett md leave him, like Sir
John Moore in paraphrasc. alone with his money.
Some strict religionlsts coutend that the mar
riage should be legally fnterfered with, US the j
injunction against man marrying his grand
mother does not exclusively refer to the ties of
blood. ...
= The person who next to Mr.. Bartlett, will ben
eft most BY the marriage is the Baroness SIS
ter, whose name, oddly enough, ia Mrs. Money.
1t is Mrs. Money who. when her elder sister be-
comes the W(fc of an alten,' will occupy that
Grandiose home in Piccadilly which We residents
always point out to our American visitors as an
object ut interest. Lady Courts home has not,
except TOR its size, striking e1terior Tho en-
trance door is far from imposing. being up q |
side street and not on the great thoroughfare.
But how shall describe its interior? Tie whole |
frontage Of four or five stories curves
outward, in horseshoe shape. and from baso-
ment to top floor the rooms are loaded with |
every thing that art eau offer or money buy,
Part OF tho house is kept closed, being express
ly arranged for entertaining large companies, !
while the mingled coziness and luxury Of the |
rest Is something really enchanting. 1t Is the |
Of the house far more than the en- |
forced nhandonmenI Of her interest In CouttS' |
bank that pains the nged Baroness. When one |
has passed forty years In home, however hum |
BILE, one grows to think it the dearest place on I
Garth. Whnt, then, must be the feeling OF
woman of 86 forced to depart from a mansion I
ifled almoss to overhowfnX with exquisit works
II art. every one Of which is associated with |
'ome interesting souvenir?