Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

PITTSBURG, SUNDAY ,
her face had gained lines OF sadness which
it has never lost The husband has neve
forgotten his wife's loyalty and devotion
and one of the prettiest sights at the Capita
is to see the patrician-looking Breckenridge
the "silver-tongued, walking with hi
sweet-faced wife, for they act like lovers.
HOW ELIJAH HALFoRD POPPED.
There is neat little romance hidden away
back in the lives of Private Secretary Elijah
n. Halford ana wife. Before she was
married Mrs. Halford was a great singer
She had an exceptional soprano voice, and
when she found it necessary to care for her
self she begged her father to let her go to
Indianapolis and accept an offer which had
been made to her to sing in church choir.
With some fear he consented, and off the
young girl, scarcely Is, started to make
fame and fortune. Standing next her in the
choir was young printer whom everybody
liked and called "Lige." He sung bass and
she sung soprano, and oftentimes there were
not books enough to go around and they
were forced to look on the same page. After
time "Lige" called incidentally on his
way to choir practice and often walked home
with her IN the early evening. In short
time they grew to be very good friends, and
never thought any more of singing from
different hymn books. One night they were
hopefully chanting the hopeless dirge, "The
Oil Ran Down Aaron's Beard" and when
the soprano blythesomely sung, ''The oil,
the oil, the oil ran down, ""Lige" peaked
over the hymn book and whispered, "Will
| you marry me"
The little soprano struggled pluckily on
until the bassos took up the heavy refrain
| down Aaron's beard, down Aaron's beard,
Aaron's beard, and then she whispered,
"Bark1s is willin'," and two voices dropped
out of the final winding-up of the old
anthem.
THREE DAYS ON BREAD AND WATER.
The acknowledged beauty of the dipIo-
matte corps is Madame Guzmah, wife of the
Nicaraguan Minister Her tale of love is
romance. She was the only daughter of
Mr.. Ewing, stern Quaker of ofPhiladelphia,
and when she was but 16 she met Horacio
Guzman, young Spaniard who was attend
ing college in the city of Brotherly Love.
They will both say that love at first sight is
not myth for "a hours after they met the
Spaniard was signing in true Castilian
fashion beneath her window The father
soon learned the state of affairs and when
the maiden refused to give up her lover he
forthwith locked her in her room himself
handing in the bread and water which was
her diet for three long days. The gallant
Nicaraguan, by means of a flying bit of
paper, discovered the plight of his lady love
and many were the consolatory messages
sent through the trim maid. The daughter
did not relent and the bread and water diet
continued for a week. At the end of that
time Mr.. Ewing accepted the situation after
the fashion of an outwitted Quaker and
made no war on his enemies. He con-
sented to their marriage, and it is said, grew
in time to admire his son-in-law.
MILLIONAIRE FLOWERS DAUGHTER.
There are two love affairs of this season
that are going to have sad effect on the
matrimonial question. Mothers never men
ton their own little romances to their
romantic daughters, but here we have two
most idyllic but totally impractical affairs
occurring in the height of the season-two
daughters OF millionaires marrying pennIless
young men, The girls heads are completely
turned by the sacrifice of ducats to romance.
and many similar affair may be expected
within the year.
First of all Is the idyl of the year 1889, the
marriage of Emma Gertrude Flower to John
Bayard Taylor, of WatertoWn, N. J.. Now
Miss Flower will one day have 81, 000, 900,
and her husband has only what he earns by
his own efforts, but all the marriages made
by American girls and foreign princes will
not turn out as happily as this. for it is
founded on genuine love. Miss Flower met
Mr.. Taylor white visiting a relative at
Watertown. It was a case of love at first
sight, When she went back &c New FORK
she told her father and mother, and they re-
monstrated, as she was only IS, had not even
made her debut and had beyond her the
seductive prospect oil O winter in Washing
ton. 1t was all in vain, and the father
acknowledged that his young daughter was
wiser than many older people when shesaid:
DIDN'T WANT A CLUB MAN.
"Of course, papa, I can marry club man,
but want to marry man whom 1 shall
see once in awhile, and who will love me
better than his club, his horses or his dogs"
the sweetest sentiment in the world. and it |
carried the day, for Mr.. Flower had not |
forgotten that he too started lie as a Door
man. January 2 they were married, and |
even the mothers said it was the prettiest
wedding ever seen at the capital, although |
beg you to believe that they still want |
their daughters to marry club men.
The second one that is turning the mar |
riage eonventionalities topsy-turvy is that
of Miss Eleanor Foster, the daughter of ex-
Minister John W. Foster. to Mr.. Lansing, a |
lawyer from the same favored village of |
Watertown. Miss Foster has been one of |
the most beautiful and courted of Washing.
toms society bellies, and not few epaul- |
letted dandies were chagriued that she ac-
cepted poor young lawyer IN preference to
one of them. She has had wonderful social
advantages, as her father was Minister to
three courts.
JULIUS CESAR SERVES THREE YEARS.
Mrs. Congressman Burrows, of Michigan.
tells pretty tale of how she met and loved
her husband. He was teaching school in
and among his pupils was dark
eyed Lizzie Peck, daughter of a wealthy
farmer who still lives II miles out of Kala-
mazoo. He fell in love with her and wanted
to marry at once, but her father heard of the
affair and sent her off to private school.
He was wise old fellow, this Farmer Peck.
and did not forbid the marriage, but quite
agreed to let it take place when
his daughter had finished her education.
She was away three years, and instead of
marrying the schoolgirl of IL, JC. Burrows
married the woman OF 20. He had in the
gone from school teaching to the
law, and Farmer Peck had much more re-
spect for the law than the beggarly school
teaching.
LOVE AFFAIR OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE.
Then there is the Chief Justice of the
United States. Who denies that he owes
MS high Office to his wife? When he met
Susan COolbaugh, the daughter OF a wealthy
Chicagoan, over 20 years ago, he was an
ambitious young politician caring more to
make political speech than to plead q case
1t law. He was flying around to all the
county conventions nominating this one and
the nomination of that one when
Miss Coolbaugh came across his path.
Would she marry him? Yes, if he would
rive up politics and stick to the law He