The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-26
MISS mAoKAy.s PRINCE.
The Billing and Cooling OF a Golden Girl
and Prince With Pedigree.

The Billing and Cooling OF a Golden Girl
and Prince With a Pedigree.
Thousands of persons are doomed to
great disappointment, for the wedding
of Miss Evelyne Bryant Mackay to Don
Fernando Colonna, Prince di Galatro, is
going to be very private affair. Miss
Eva, as she is called, is only a daughter
bv adoption of Mr.. Mackay. Her
father, DR.. Bryant, was her mothers
first husband. He lived for many years
in California. Miss Bryant Mackay was
born in the Golden state some two and
twenty years ago. She came abroad
with her mother and has
lived in Paris ever since.
The full name and title of the gentle
man to whom our young and charming
compatriot is to be united is Don Fer
nando Julien Colonna, Prince oil Gala
tro. He was born in 1858, and on the |
death of his uncle, Don Marc Antoine |
Colonna, will succeed to the titles, prop |
erty and palace of this, one OF the Oldest |
houses in Italy. The Colonnas, who |
have always been powerful, noble
family, have four lines reaching out
fiom the ancestral tree. One branch is
the famous Roman family, immensely
wealthy and widely known. As old as
the Colonpa.S igilano line, to which our
young prince belongs, the Roman
branch is, however, of less royal blood
than is the Neapolitan house. The resi-
dence of Don Fernandos uncle is in Ma
pies, as has been that of his ancestors
for many centuries. He and his are
relatives of the royal bourbons of Ma
Piles and the two Sicilies.
The match seems to be purely love
one. / am very glad of this, for the days
of youth are like the spring of the year
% anuinlr n the GnQHQ OI hQnni-
ness. Don Fernando and Miss Eva met
for the first time last winter, and the
lives of both date from that day. Their
original meeting was in Rome, at the
house of friend with whom she and
her aunt, the Countess Tellener were
staying. They liked each other from
the start, and her heart used to flutter
more than was its wont when, along
about 4 o'clock tea the gallant young
prince presented himself before the fair
one who had so deeply wounded him
with her tender glances. What followed
is the same old story that you married
people know of from experience. Some
times it was only glances and some
times signs; then one day, when she was
seated at the piano and he stood by her
side, turning the music, their fingers
touched, ana that settled it.
The Msckeys returned to Paris and
in the summer went out to their couu-
try palace not Tar from the capital. The
prince followed them, and so, too, did a
certain other one who hoped to build
real castles in Spain by means of an al.
lance with the rich Americana. He
succeeded in making a TOOL of himself
and mon prince very jealous. A due
was talked of and then Mrs. Mackay
and her daughter departed for othel
shines. When certain steamships hac
been launched and baptized, Madame
and Miss Eva came back to this city
Very soon arrived letter from Maple!
that called for prompt answer from
the occupant of the mansion in the Ru'
Tilsit. A lieutenant in the Italian army
cannot have conges as often as he wants
them any more than can officers in 9th
or armies. His duty as soldier de
tanned Don Fernando at Verona, bu
his uncle, Prince di GalatrO, came t
the assistance of the brave younj
man whom Cupid had thu
dared to wound. The old Prime
wrote letter in which h
asked formally and frankly the hand O
Mrs. Macl1ay's daughter for his nephew
To this madame replied that while
was true that Mr.. Mackay was not Mis-
Eva's father, he had long since take
that paternal place in her young and in
nocent heart, and as her husband love
Eva very much, she had forwarded tn
substance of the princes letter to hir
for his personal consideration. Sh
added, however, that she, her husban
and her daughter were all Americans
who loved their country, its institution
and especially its matrimonial customs
Therefore, said she, it would be quit
out of the question to think of arrang
ing hot or any other sort of weddin
portion in advance, as is customary !
Italy and other continental countries
In other words, so she observed, IL N
nephew, Don Fernando, persisted
marrying her daughter it would have
be la Americana, and he must M
have any 'great expectations
To this the uncle prince r
piled that neither he nor h
nephew asked for a single centissimo
tho way of dot; that the daughter
hand and heart were quite enough. /
also wrote, in answer TO Mrs. Mackay
observation as to obtaining the consel
of Mr.. Mackay, that if Miss Eva 10
one father she would gain another; tn
he would be TO her all that a faith
should be; that his palace, the palace
his ancestors, should be her home, al
that all possible efforts would be MAJ
TO make her as happy as the day W
long, and her life as bright and ioyol
as the sunny sky of Italy has ev
shone over.
In due course of time q letter ear
from America containing Mr.. Mackal
consent to this marriage This go
news was forwarded to the prince, w
soon got leave of absence from his rel
ment, and hurried up to Paris to thrC
himself at the feet of Miss Mackay
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