Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-24

Miss Aver Figuring in Paris-French
Matrimonial Customs.

/ speaking OF love and marriage reminds
me that | must tell you about the sensa-
I ton which Miss Leslie Aver. daughter
and heiress of the late Dr. James Aver.
OF patent medicine fame, has been giving
US. Inasmuch as Miss Aver has a fortune
OF about S5,0OO,000, all the fortune hunters
OF France have been fixing longing ewes
upon her for some time. This young lady
and her pile have received no little
attention in the aristOcratic and
fashionable circles Of Paris. particu-
larry from that boss matchmaker.
the Princess de Sagen wicked
| aristocrat, she gave ball last night, and
this IS Monday in whose matrimonial
bOok' are recOrded.sOme of the most aris-
tocratic names in the peerage as aspiring
to the hand and fortune of the heiress Of
the great American patent medicine man.
If Dame Gossip speaks the truth. this
young American girl was very near be-
| coming, through the aid Of the aforesaid
Princess, Royal Highness and a kins-
woman of the same royal family, which
has given us the sweet mOrsel of scandal
in Spain that / have already related
when Miss Aver arrived in France this
year she came accompanied by the pres
tlge OF most romantic adventure. The
story goes that young Lieutenant i'm
the Italian army, the Count Bettini. a
handsome young fellow only TWENTY-FIVE
years of age, had last winter sent bullet
! through his heart on the doorstep of the
American lady's residence. A letter was
found on him in which he declared he had
been driven to this rash act bv the refu-
sal OF the beautiful young American TO
accept the heart. hand and brOken-down
title which he had offered her. 1t seems
that Miss Aver had only seen this titled
suItor four times, and had not discovered
that the flame she had kindled in the
nGArr OF the Of
nature. Bettini had tal-nn The
precautiOn to warn her of
the extremity to which her GOODNESS was
driving him, and the letter was accom-
panied by three photographs, illustrating
the probable appearance of the writer af-
Ter ne had made the acquaintance of the
contents OF Colts revolver. If this way
OF wOoing had the merit of originality II
was entirely too soft for the practical
good sense of Miss Ave, who very DrODer-
ly handed the letter and the photographs
to her brother, and the Italian Count was
invited to make himself scarce. This he
dId by carrying out his threat. There is
going Italian.
The moral of all this is that when ones
papa has made an hciress Of a pretty and
sensible American girl she had better
| stay at home and allow herself to be
WoOed and won by one of her fellow
c0untrymen just in the same common
place way as MOllie or Jenny, who have
no other dot than pretty faces. If she
comes over to ''Paree'; in search of n
ducal coronet, a coat of arms and admis-
sion into the circle of aristOcracV. She
may possibly have her ambition satisfied.
DuJ she must hang on to this DOsitiVn
Iact-that the man who will give her all
this does so in exchange for her fortune
and II he is still good for anything as a
husband it is apt to be among the
IRAN ones OF the cOrpeS de ballet of the
opera ana In the cabinet particulars of
tne all-nlght restaurants that he will pass
ms Tune and spend her money. In this
country marriage for money on the
part OF the male party to the contract is
not looked upon in the same light as il is
with us. l know French lady who was
an heIress to magnificent fortune, but
VINO had too much good sense to exchange
IL Tor a Title. When she made her debut
In society she was the object of more
oilers of marriage from Princes. Dukes.
counts and BarOns than you could shake
stick at. She declined them all. and
married gentleman whose fortune was
equal to her own and who loved her
Tor herself Long afterwards. when
she was happy wife and
mother, she renewed her acquaintance
with SchOOlmate who also had entered
ed herself to ducal cOrOnet in exchange
Tor her DOT. The Duchess and the bour-
geoise compared notes, and they discov-
cred that they had both during the same
season received no less than twenty offers
from as many men of rank and title. and
that in both cases pretty much all these
wOoers, including the Duke who was
the successful one had been the same
persons. There is nothing tinickv about
your titled fOrtune-hunter, and the Young
girl who has gone wrong, and even a vete-
ran of the yieilie garde, all SCARED over
with the wounds received during her LONG
years Of service in the battalions of We.
nus, Will find favor in his sight, provided
the figure Of the dot ends with a respect
able number of ZerOs. So well is this I'M
derstood that the daily papers are filled
with such advertisements as the follow
ing, which | translate from those of this
morning by way of a sample:
A YOUNG LADY u YEARS OF AGEAND
IA handsome, with blot on her character
and dot of 100000 francs wishes to get mar
RED; the marriage must he celebrated with
out delay. Addres3 etc.
4 LADY WHO HAS A BLOT ON HER
"A character and large dot will marry an
honorable gentleman, even il he has no for
tune. Address, etc.