The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-26
LOVE MAKING IN HIGH LIFE.
A Few Cases OF Romantic CourtShip
and Marriage Among People of
Fashion.
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NEW York, Sept. 22-While Seward
Webb was counting Miss Vanderbilt an ac.
quaintance of mine called to see the latter's
father AS he waited, who should enter the
drawing room but the lovers. Utterly ig-
noring the stranger, who tried all he de-
Gently could to keep them aware Of his
presence, they seated themselves ON a sofa
and plunged into conversation. They spoke
neither of bonds nor Pullman stocks; OF
life in old world palaces, nor hInted of the
suppo5ititious life in new world ones; but
billed and cooed in the most ordinary way
| and drifted at intervals into recitations Of
| Mother Goose, the transition from original
remarks to nurse. y rhymes being, if may
| trust my informant, very easy indeed and
rather an ascent than otherwise in the scale
| CT chronological intellgibility. Money
gods, it seems cannot attain to anything in
the way of love making better Than the
| poorest may have, for currency of the
government is not convertible into the coin
of lovers nor can an enhanced quality OF
| love be bought with it,
Take now the case of Mrs. William Van.
derbilts sister, Miss Minnie Smith. Going
abroad not long since she was there mar
ried to French baron. An account of the
| affair was Quiy ElklbR an 6AuCu
| description of the presents and the length
of the bridal train. The family were much
annoyed at the publicity givea to these
details but they ought to have been grateful
| for q story might have beol told
| that would have outdone the novelist and
that the public would have paid its highest
price to know. 1t might have been related
how this heroine fared across the watsr
with twenty-one trunks flied with
M,.@ LanIarhti%f- IaA
and jewels, gorgeous and costly
and worn scarcely at all, ostel-
sibly to visit friend but really 60 seek
| fortunes. that she first met the scion Of
nobility Wis a Wis at
permitted her hayward mind to
say that he was good catch, and oh, so
handsonsel that she made an exertiol to
compass her desire, which Is to sey sho
donned for his eve the most becoming of
the money queens costumes. How he made
fierce love, never wanting, if she had but
known it, the stimulus of Vanderbilt
wardrobe, the ambition to get near the
Vanderbilt money drawer, being q quite
sufficient incentive. How the novelty of
his fierce foreign moustache and manner
bewildered her senses. How she pictured
her improved position in New York society
as his wife. In short, it was a story of
marriage and subsequent discovery of the
scion's true character; of cooling off, hate,
and final villiany, with last tableau rep
resenting tho victim standing forlorn be-
tween the proffered solace OF the Roman
church, which she had embraced at the in
stigation of the scion and the frowns of
the wealthy family whose connection had
enabled her to place herself so uncomfort-
ably.
Think what romance was here, and, yet.
the public contented itself with counting
the presents. The public is not rapacious
after all.
There is mine of romance in the lives of
our beau monde into which no writer has
ever put spade. Perhaps no writer should,
but it cannot be wrong TO discover TO the
world that in New York society there are
hearts of tender flesh. and 50 for this cause
do hot read with bated breath the tale am
about to tell and afterward censure its mar
ration.
It is an episode in the Harper family and
concerns a lady who has been the wife of
two members Of that famous publishing
firm.
CHAP. I--Tacey Mcdonald was the lovely