St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-10

lshness and generosity.
The place is magnificent one and
approaches as nearly to an English
country house as anything on this side
of the water. Miss Morosini has two
brothers and younger sister, but she
will doubtless receive more than her
share of her fathers fortune. Mr..
Morosini is not now associated with Mr..
Gould, but occupies an Office in Wall
street In common with Washington
Conner. He is very conservative in his,
SpeculatiOnS and very successful. AT
his house on the Hudson he has one of
the most magnificent collections of
bric-a-brac and curiOS of guns, swords
and armor that has ever been gotten
together by private collector in this
country. He has spent on it consider
ably more than 100000, so that some
portions of his house look like sections
OF European museum.
Judging from the history of heiresses
In New York, nearly
ALL THESE HEIRESSES WILL MARRY
before the end of their third social sea-
son, and they will marry men who have
not nearly as much money as they have.
The daughters of w. Ii. Vanderbilt, for
example, with one exception married
comparatively poor men. The daugh-
tiers of Mrs. William Astor married men
whose wealth compared with the AStor
wealth may be considered trifiing. A
Woodworking lawyer here married Miss
Croker with $4,000, 900, and there are a
dozen similar instances. Occasionally
beautiful girls who are heiresSeS do not
get married, and slowly grow up to old
maidenhO0d. but as may easily be i'm
agined, this is not very frequent.
The one notable case in New York
society is that of Miss Helen Beckwith,
whose father died the other day and left
her $750.000. Miss Beckwith must be
pretty nearly forty years of age. She
made her debut in society in 1867, now
twenty-five years ago. For years she
was known as the beautiful Miss Beck
with. and also on account of her rather
dlminutive stature as Baby Beckwith.
w. w. AStOr, who married Miss Paul,
of Philadelphia, and who is the repre-
sentative of the Astor family of the
present generation, was devoted to her
at one time, and everybody expected
the announcement of their engagement
but it never came.
Another beautiful girl in New York
Who has $4,000 or $4,000 year, and
who has passed more than the allotted
three seasons in New York society with
out meeting with her fate, is Miss
Marion LangdOn. Miss Langd0n is
about twenty-seven years old. and GER
tainly looks as beautiful as ever. She
has had scores of cavaliers. but is still
free. She was engaged during one sea-
son to Perry Belmont, but for some
reason or other the engagement was
broken off. Miss Langdon is the daugh-
ter of the beautiful Mrs. j. B. Schuyler,
and has sister, Miss Annie Langdon,
who is quite as wealthy as herself. They
inherit their money from Eugene Lang
don, of South Carolina, who was their
father.
1t is undoubtedly true that many
hefresses remain unmarried because of
their fear of fort une hunters. Miss
LangdOn's fortune, of course, is not so
large as to have tempted the cupidity
and sentimental attacks which other
rich girls have experienced. Miss
Jennie Flood, who is now thirty-two
years of age, remains single largely be-
cause she has no faith, in the proteSta-
tons eff the men who come to WOO her.
Not long ago she received fifty love let
tiers on fifty consecutive days from
young man whom she had only met two
or three times, bnt who insisted on say
ing how beautiful she was and how
much he was IN love with her. Finally,
she wrote back and told him his letters
had no effect, and that it would be bet
ter for him to discontinue them.
Miss Celeste Stauffer, of New Orleans,
to whom Samuel j. Tilden left 500, 600,
and who has been spending the sum-
mer at. Lenox, is another rich girl who
says she is not taking any chances of
matrimonial kind, because she does not
want to be married for her money. The
same thing is undoubtedly true of Miss
Gwendoline Caldwell, who is said to
have entered into an engagement with
Prince Murat, which engagement, at
last accounts, was broken Off. Miss
Huntingdon, the daughter of C. P.
Huntingdon, the Southern Pacific mag
nate, who is to be married to Prince
Hatzfeldt. is thirty-two years old, and
if Miss Tessie Fair. the daughter of
Senator Fair, of California, continues to-
harbOr her present suspicious against
men generally, and class them all as
fortune-hunters, she will probably reach
the age of thirty-two also before she
marrieS,