Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-25
4 MiIltOnaire's Romance.

There is a very pretty romance about
the marriage of William II. Vanderbilt
Jr., and Miss Alva Smith, the story of
which is often told in uppertendom.
the young lady and her sister were at
school at Pennington, Mass, in Miss
Porters academy, whence Nellie Grant
was expelled for INSTRUMENTATION. Nellie
Grant had counted little too much upon
the power of the name of her father, whom
she always called Ulysses, and Miss Smith
first gained a reputation by being
one of the spirited girls who recognized
the difference between her father, very
smart speculator IN New York, and the
Galena tanner, and she was the recog-
niZed leader in the agitation which re-
suited in Miss Grants retirement, and
there has been ever since between the
two such feud as very charming
women are capable of. While at school
Miss Smith suddenly received word that
her father had made an I'M
lucky venture, that his for
tune had gone up in a balloon, and
that she and her sister must, at the end
of the term, then near its close, go at
once to the home of their grandmother in
Virginia, there to remain until their
father could summon them North again.
This was not suited at all to a demoiselle
conscious of her own attractions, and
she determined to make venture on her
own account. She borrowed some
money from her teacher, and made an
arrangement with her to 60 to Richfield
Springs for few weeks, so that
when she appeared there she had as a
duenna a we'll known instructress, and
this piqued the curiosity of the young
men about the resort. There was coterie
of New York girls there. A Miss T,
daughter OF a broker, Miss o.,
daughter of rich brewer, and several
others, who knew of the misfortunes of
the Smiths, and who also tried to make
it appear that the young Miss Smith no
longer deserved a place IN the ranks of
the nouveau richie, as her father had
gone up.
Mr. William Vanderbilt, Jr., came to
the Springs to attend ball, and the New
Y DIRK girls were all in flutter, because
each one desired to capture the son of
the great millionaire. Miss Smith took
in the situation at a glance, but she had
nothing to wear, and she had only $40 in
her purse. She proposes to Miss T. to
buy q dress, and Miss T. having a big
stock of dresses and small amount of
pin money, was ready to oblige her. She
was not, however, inclined to part with
anything that would be becoming to Miss
Smith, and accordingly she selected
yellow silk, with a wine spot in front,
and offered to sell that for Miss
Smiths $40, being assured that Miss
Smith. being more of blonde than a
brunei, would look ''horrid'' in yellow.
But Miss Smith paid the price, and the
fair dealer in secondhand clo' chuckled
over the bargain she made. Her pleasure
was turned to chagrin that evening when
Miss Smith appeared upon the ballroom
floor queen of beauty, and in that yell
low silk, too. Instead of putting white
upon her face, she made her complexion
brown, and, having borrowed a lace man
tilla from her teacher, and big black fan,
she came out the picture of bewitching
senorita. Her coy glances shot into
ends of the mantilla over her shoulder, as
she strolled the piazza, and used the fan
most bewitchingly. The New York girls
over the loss of her yellow silk, and felt
that she had been cheated, for She never
thought that dress looked so well. The
ately in love, pressed his suit, became all
the more ardent because of the lady's
studied hesitancy, and was the happiest
millionaire anywhere when he gained
kiss and the privilege of putting on the
finger of the Sonora diamond engage
ment ring
Mrs. Vanderbilt at once visited Rich
field Springs, was charmed by her pros
pectlve daughter-in-law, and invited her
to spend the summer with her. The
smart young girl, however, pleaded that
she had dear, sweet grandmamma in
Virginia to whom she owed duty-visit.
and she said she must go there first.
Thither she went, and, taking an account
of stock, improved her wardrobe as
smart glrl with little money only can.
and then she accepted the invita-
ton of her prospective mother
in-law. She confided to her the story of
the bitterness of the fashionable New
York girls who were so anxious to get
her expected husband, and the result was
that the mother had her pride touched.