The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-06
MRS. FRANK LESLIE
The Famous Widow is Finally
Married.
CIRCULAR LETTERS OF REFUSAL
She Was Compelled to Use Them In Answer to
Oilers of Marriage-Her Husband is
Oscar Wilde's Brother

Especial to TIE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Mrs. Frank Leslie
became Mrs. William Wilde last evening.
The wedding was reserved as surprise to
her friends, and although IL was not alto
gether unexpected a surprise it really was.
The ceremony was performed at the
Church Of the Strangers, of which the Rev.
Charles S. Deems, ID. D., is pastor. The
Presbyterian service was read and the
wedding was private. Deems is warm
personal friend of Mrs. Wilde. He it was
who got out the first number of Frank Les
hes Sunday Magazine. Said Mrs. Wilde:
Il could not endure the thought Of being
married by anybody else, SO We postponed
the event until MIR. Wilde could come to
this country
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Cramer and Marshal
p. Wilder were the only guests. The
bride was attired in pearl gray cashmere,
Worth costume with satin skirt en-
broldered. She wore a hat of the same
color with lace. She also wore diamonds.
The groom wore Prince Albert coat, with
checked trousers and patent leather shoes.
A rose was in his button hole.
After the ceremony the bridal party
drove to Delmonico's where a wedding
announcements that were sent out
bore congratulations TO the journalistic
friends OF the bride and groom and good
will. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilde have apart
ments at the Gerlach. They leave tonight
Tor Niagara Falls and the west They will
receive on Thursday at the Garlach on
their return.
The couple became acquainted in London
eight years ago, and since that time they
have regularly correspond. After Mr..
Wide arrived here on Thursday he fastened
TO see her. 1t was only on Friday that she
consented to have the wedding last night
Quite while ago Mrs. Leslie was re-
ported as saying that she was welded to
her profession; that the proudest position
she ever hoped TO aspire to was the propri-
etorshlp OF Frank LeSlie's Illustrated NetCs-
Paper. She also said she appreciated the
honor conferred upon her when marriage
was proposed, as she believed the highest
compliment man could pay woman was
to ask her TO become his wife. So many
offers Of marriage came to the energetic
business woman that she found it impossi-
bic TO reply personally to them all To
meet this emergency she is said to have
prepared a circular letter acknowledging
the honor aud decling it with thanks. How
many of these circulars have been sent
through the mails no one will probably
ever know.
In March, $780, Mrs. Leslie was booked
for the second time to wed the Marquis de
Leuville, that is, in the newspapers. Five
years previous all Europe and America had
1t that the match had been made; it was
admitted by the marquis, but denied
by Mrs. Leslie. When in 1890 rumors be-
gan 10 fly thick and fast Mrs. Leslie ad-
mitted she had loved the marquis five years
ago, but she denied very positively that
there was any truth in the three repeated
rumors. The marquis was second time
readily induced TO admit that this time
there would be 8 wedding sure. Closely
following this admission Mrs. Leslie grew
less positive in her denials, and finally thew
began to be accepted as an admission One
day, however, she announced very firmly
that the talk was all bosh and there it
ended again. Mrs. Leslie being a very
vlvacious woman as well as q very wealthy
one, was the heroine of many similar ru-
mors. She has faculty of captivating the
nobility, as she did everyone else for that
matter. In an interview with a reporter
on southern newspaper at the time of her
visit to New Orleans several years ago,
Mrs Leslie in speaking of the women there
and notably several creoles, said she was
creole born.
Mrs. Leslie at the time of her husbands
death took a VOW never to dance again and
never to wear colors in her dress. To this
VOW shs has always adhered. Mrs. Leslie
as an author wields racy pen, writes only
when she has something to say and then
expresses herself brilliantly in excellent
English. The expenses of her immense
establishments prior to the sale to Mr.
Arkell and Russell Harrison we're over
$1,000, GOO a year. Mrs. Leslie always en-
joyed good health. She never misses a cold
plunge in the morning, winter or summer
and then follows fifteen minutes exercise
with the dumbells, A gleat source of
pride, too, has always been her feet She
wears No. boot. She is about forty years
old.
MIR. Wilde is the eldest son of Sir William
and Lady Wilde, and was born in Dublin
about forty years ago. Oscar Wilde, who
set society circles agog when he visited
this country in 1884, is the groom's brother.
MIR. Wilde was graduated from Trinity
college, Dublin, in 1873, with honors as
senior moderator aud gold medallist of his
class. In 1879 he was called to the Irish
bar and practiced with success in the north
east circuit. Then he entered the Jour
nslistic profession and became quite sue
cessful. Mr.. Wilde is tall, with fine pres
ence. He has dark hair and piercing bright
eyes, and wears closely cropped beard.
He is a capital story teller and has an in
exhaustible fund of anecdote. In all pro.
liability he will take his wife's place in the
management of her interests In the sew.
ersl journals with which she is identified
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