Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-15
THE SECRET OF AN ElopEMENr.

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A New York correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Dispatch says that it Is
now an old story how few weeks ago
pretty Kitty Kernochan and young
Herbert PeH got married on the sly, 80
that not a soul besides themselves
knew a work about il until they shad
started on their wedding tour-exeept,
of course, the minister and the "best
man." 1t Is also an old story how It
scapdallzed MISREPRESENTATION, that
most exclusively ultramarine- bloeded
circle OF. aristocracy Of which Miss
Kitty had been the undisputed belle,
because, forsooth, the man Of her choice
although rich, was, oh, horrors! actual
ly a business man, earning money TOT
himself. Aud worse still-oh tell 1t not
in Gath The had no coat of arms or
family crest, nor was he descended
from one of the Patrons. Or course,
society unanimously voted that her
parents had been just right in opposing
The match, and that her offence in run
ming off with him was unpardonable;
and society voted, too, to fr0wn the
Young people down reientlessly-which
really didn't break the young peoples
heats. ....
Well, low it has turned out that
kitty Took the sudden step,
she did to escape the unwelcome at
tpntiOns of another man, whom her
parents wanted her to marry. And
The other man was-who do you sup
pose, of all the world? Why, that in
significant, simpering little rat, the
Due de Morny, son of Napoleon HIS
notorious minister of the same name.
Last year, it will be remembered, he
BETRAYED and then abandoned Julia
Feyghine, a beautiful actress in Paris
and she committed suicide in his house
Well, he had seen Kitty Kernochan
in Paris, and admired her, and was
fascinated with her fathers wealth. So
when be heard that poor Feyghine's
brother was on his way from Hungary
TO Paris with revenge in his heart and
4 revolver in his pocket, the gallant
duke made haste to come To New York,
where, with the actress blood still Grim.
son on his hands, he renewed his at
NJ ISIS Kitty. lie WAS welcomed to the
house that Pell had been forbidden to
enter, and
Kitty Was worried
and persocuted into receiving him gra-
sno,5ly until she could stand il nolonger
so She quietly slipped out Of the house
one day, and within an hour was Mrs.
Peu; and the happy pair went off on
haunt for week or two, and then came
back and are livinga regular turtle-dOve
life. Meeting the bride at reception
the other day, | founa her looking
bright and happy as can be. Had she
been to see her parents? No. Why,
were't they willing to "accept the stu
ation"' Guess not; they don't act so.
And Is il really true that they have
made their wills and literally cut the
disObedient daughter off with ashilling?
M.m-m. Who cares? Herbert's worth
Il, 5uO, 900 now, and he made 5000, 900
last year.
And notice that Mrs. Pell has just
a. many friends as Miss kernOchan
had, and | guess she did just about as
sensible a thing aS she could, anyway.
But TO think Of the tOp-lOfty knicker-
hockers preGering that little cad of De
Morny to Herbert Pell! For of such is
the kingdom of-Knickerbocker.
Another Romance
now comes to light, and this time it is
the Young man who feels the weight OF
parental wrath. The scene is laid in
BROOKLYN. The bridegroom is 10 and
the bride Leach just a year older than
what Buchanan Read called "the love-
lest figures on life's young pages"
They met at school, and her big blue
ewes and lily-white face played havoc
with his susceptible young heart; and
then she rather thought lie was nice.
So the upshOt of it was, they got mar
riGd, q few days ago, without letting
any body else know a word about it.
When the truth was made known, his
father-Mr FOugera, the manufacture
ing chemist and milliOnaire-was in a
terrible rage. al don't know or care a
cent about the girl or her folks he
exclaimed, amor do | know or care
where the two are, nor what they are
going To do. My son has acted very
fuoli>hly. for he has left good position
i'm my office, and he won't soon get
another rs good. This isn't n good
country for living on bread and cheese
and kisses"
The young man had been receiving
the princclv income Of II week. The
Girl he married is poor, aud so are all hel
relatives. BIT mall other rerpects they
are the peers of the best society in the
city. II is hardly likely that the young
couple will starve, for L hear that he
has secured a position where he will get
lust three times what his father paid