The Penn's Grove record., 1882-01-14
How a Poor Girl Captured a
Millionaire.

There is a very pretty romance about
the marriage of William II. Wander
bilt, Jr., to Miss Alva Smith, the
story of which is often told in upper
tendon.
While at school, Miss Smith sud-
denly received word that her father
had made an unlucky venture, that
his fortune had gone up in a balloon,
and that she and her sister must, at
the end of the term, then neal its
close, go at onee to the home of their
grandmother, in Virginia, there to re-
main until their father could summon
them North again.
This was not suited at ali to the
tastes of a 'demoiselle conscious of her
own attractions, and she determined
to make a venture on her own ac-
count. She borrowed some money
from her teacher, and made an ar
rangement with her to go to Richfield
Springs for a few weeks, 80 that when
she appeared there, she had as q duen-
ma, a well-known instructress, and
this piqued the curiosity of the young
men about the resort.
There was a coterie of New York
girls there, a Miss T, daughter of
a broker, a Miss O., daughter of a
rich brewer, and several others, who
knew of the misfortune 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
nouUeou richie, as her father had gone
up"
Mr.. William Vanderbilt, Jr., came
to the Springs to attend a ball, and
the New York girls were all in a aut-
ter, because each one desired to cap
ture the son of the millionaire. Miss
Smith took in the situation at glance,
but she had nothing to wear, and she
had only forty dollars in her purse.
She proposes to Miss t., to buy a
dress, and Miss T. having q big stock
of dresses, and but a small amount of
pin money, was ready to oblige her
She wasn't, however, inclined to part
with anything that would be becom-
ing to Miss Smith, and accordingly
she selected a yellow silk with a wine
spot in front, and offered to sell that
for Miss Smiths forty dollars, being
assured that Miss Smith, being more
of a blonde than a brunette, would
look 'horridn in yellow. But Miss
Smith paid the price, and the fair
dealer in secondhand clo' chuckled
over the bargain she made.
Her pleasure was changed to cha
grin, that evening, when Miss Smith
appeared upon the ball room floor, a
queen of beauty, and in that yellow
silk, too. Instead of putting white
upon her face she had made her COM
plexion brown, and, having borrowed
a lace mantilla from her teacher, and
a big black fan, she came out the pic
ture of a bewitehing senorita. Her
coy chances shot into the Vanderbilt
heart.
She tossed the soft ends of the man
tilla over her shoulder, as she strolled
the piazza, and used that fan most
bewitchingly. The New York girls
stood aghast, and Miss T. shed a tear
over the loss of her yellow silk, and
felt that she had been cheated, for she
neverthought that the dress looked 80
well.
The result was that Vanderbilt fell
desperately in love, pressed his suit,
became all the more ardent because of
the lady's studied h~esitancy, and was
the happiest young millionaire any
where, when he gained a kiss, and
the privilege of putting on the finger
of the senorita a diamond engagement
ring.
Mrs Vanderbilt at cnce visited
Richfield Springs, was charmed with
her prospective daughter-in-law, and
invited her to go and spend the sum-
mer with her. The smart young girl,
NOW CNSii piCducu. tAldt ShC lhu q uCdl,
sweet grandmamma in Virginia, to
whom she owed a duty visit, and she
must go there first.
Thither she went, and taking &C.
count of stock, improved her ward
robe, as a smart girl with a little
money only can, and then, she accept
the invitation of her prospective
mother in-law. She conided to her
the story of the bitterness of the fash
ionable New York girls, who were so
anxious to get her expected husband,
and the result was that the mother
had her pride touched, and she at
once cut the Us and O's, much to the
CONSERVATION of the families aforesaid.
Well, all went well. The millionaire
married the pretty girl of the yellow
silk and the black lace mantilla, and
they are now living happily upon the
avenue.