The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-02

1 OpSdhIIlS VI IoNC diu "dIIldgc Ic
minds me that | must tell you abou,
the sensation which Miss Leslie Aver
daughter and heiress of the late DR..
James Aver of patent medicine fame.
has been giving us. Inasmuch al
Miss Aver has fortune of about 3d..
900, 600, all the fortune hunters OF
France have been fixing longing eye:
upon her for some time. This young
lady and her pile have received nt
little attention in the aristocratic and
fashionable circles of Paris, particu
larly from that boss match maker,
the Princess de Sagen wicked aristO-
cracy, she gave a ball last night and
this is Monday, in whose matrimO-
NAL book are recorded some of the
most aristocratIc names in the peerage
as aspiring to the hand and fortune of
the heiress of the great American pat.
ent medicine man. If Dame Gossip
speaks the truth, this young American
girl was very near becoming. through
the aid of the aforesaid princess, a
royal highness and a kinswoman of
the same royal family which has given
us the sweet morsel of scandal in
Spain that l have already related.
When Miss Aver arrived in France
this year she came accompanied by
the prestige of a most romantic adj
venture. The story goes that a young
lieutenant in the Italian army, the
Count Bettini, a handsome. young
fellow 25 years of age, had last winter
sent a bullet through his heart on the
doorstep of the American lady's resi-
dence. A letter was found on him in
which be declared that he had been
driven to this rash act by the refusal
of the beautiful young American to
accept the heart, hand and broken
down title which he bad offered her.
1t seems that Miss Aver had only seen
this titled sutton four times, and had
not discovered that the fame she had
kindled in the heart of the Italian
sutton was of SO violent a nature.
Bettina had taken the precaution to
warn her of the extremity to which
her GOODNESS was driving him, and the
letter was accompanied by three pho
tographs, illustrating the probable ap-
pearance of the writer after he had
made the acquaintance of the contents
of a Colts revolver. If this way of
wooing had the merit of originality,
it was entirely too soft for the practic
al good sense of Miss Aver, who very
properly handed the letter and the
photographs to her brother, and the
Italian count was invited to make
himself scarce. This he did by car
rying out his threat. There is moth
ing practical about your thorough-go-
ing Italian.
The moral of all this is that when
ones papa has made an heiress of
pretty and sensible American girl, she
had better stay at home and be wooed
and won by one of her fellow-country-
men just in the same commonplace
way as Mollie or Jenny, who have no
other dot than pretty faces. If she
c.mes over to "Paree" In search of
ducal coronet, coat of arms and ad-
mission into the circle OF aristocracy,
she may possibly have her ambition
satisfied. But she must hang on to
this positive fact-that the man who
will give her all this does so in ex-
change for her fortune, and if he is
still good for anything as husband it
is apt to be among the frail ones of the
corps de ballot of the opera and in the
cabinet particulars of the all-night res
taurants that he will pass his time and
spend her money. In this country a
marriage for money on the part of the
party to the contract is not looked up
on in the same light as it is with us. /
know French lady who was an heir
ess to a magnificent fortune, but who
had too much good sense to exchange
it for title. When she made her de-
but in society she Was the object of
more offers of "a marriage from priD
ces, dukes, counts and barons than
you could shake stick at. She de-
clined them all and married gentle
man whose fortune was equal 10 her
own, and who Lowell her ior herself. |
Long atterward, when she was happy
wife and mother, she renewed her &C. |
quaintance with a schoolmate who
also had entered society as an heiress, |
and who had treated herself to a ducal
,oropet in exchange for her dot. The
duchess and the bourgeoise compared
notes, and they discovered that they
had both during the same season re-
,eived no less than twenty offers Of
from as many men of rank
and title, and that in both cases pref
~ much all of these wooers, including
he duke, who was the successful one,