The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-08
LOVE AT THE CAPITAL
The Romances Of. Washington
City Society Bellies.
ADVENTURES WITH NosLeMEN.
Coed Advice From the Prince Of wales
- = -Courtship According
20 Plato.

0ood Advice From the Prince or wales
- . Girl-Courtship According
60 Plato.
Correspondence. Every season Washing
ton City furnishes the materials for half
dozen three-volume novels. The romances
Of society here are stranger than fiction,
and the best Of them seldom get into the
newspapers. The marriage last June OF
Miss Lena Caldwell to Baron Zedwitz,
!. minister from Germany to Mexico, was
the happy elimination of romance be-
gun some years before in Washington City.
During the winter the Misses Caldwell
occupied the old Knapp house, corner of
Seventeenth and streets, Baron Zedwitz
figured prominently in society as
secretary Of the German legation. His
infatuation for the younger of the two sis
tiers ct once became apparent to all who
knew them. Fired with that spirit of re-
peated endeavor, which rendered the name
of Robert Bruce of Scotland famous in all
ages, Baron Zedwitz persistently followed
the beautiful young object Of his affections
from one place to another. Whenever the
two young girls appeared at summer re-
sort, the musical secretary was certain to
loom up on the horizon and renew his
protestations of unalterable love. Finally
he was promoted by the home Office and
sent as minister to Mexico, while
Miss Caldwell and her sister went
abroad for long stay. Distance, how
ever, seemed in no wise to have affected
the lovers ardor for several times year
he regularly went abroad until at last his
devotion was rewarded, and Miss Caldwell,
returning to this country, was married to
HIM in the chapel of the new Roman
Catholic university which her sister
Gwendolin endowed with 100000. 1t was
. fitting distinction that the first bride to
enter the walls should have been the most
rcgally beautiful of all those upon whom
Washington society has looked for several
decades past.
STORY OF THE DUKE OF CAIRNS.
The romance which first brought Miss
Adele Grant into public notice as beauty
was enacted abroad. Yet it is in MANY
ways allied to her life in Washington, as
the sensation which her appearance in any
assemblage invariably created during her
residence here several winters since, is un-
tleniably due to the fame which now en-
vSiVitSo iiSl do titC Atoh gill W'Io hod
the good sense to sever her engagement
with the Duke Of Cairns, a real live duke,
albeit thoroughly unprinciplcd man.
According to report Miss Grant, upon
; whose beauty the Prince of Wales has set
the royal seal Of his appreciation, con-
suited no less parsonage than his high
ness on the momentous subject of her en-
gagement, and upon his august advice it
was formally annulled. The titled lover,
like many another before and since,
reckoned without his host. or more prop
erly speaking, appears TO have gone
ahead without much attempt at any sort
of reckoning, for no sooner was it noised
abroad that the engagement was declared
off, than bills began to pour in from every
direction upon the astonished young
lady. Not only was she expected
to pay for the jewels lavishcd
upon her in prodigal profusion.
but the caterers and florists accounts for
innumerable entertainments were also pre-
scented to her for liquidation. The first
thing which appears to have caused appre-
tensions as to the disinterested devotion
of the duke was his action in seeking to
borrow large sum Of money from Miss
Grants mother on the eve of an entertain
ment at Nice. Miss Grant then returned
to this country, and it was scarcely more
than year thereafter that the duke, fall
ing heir to a large fortune, Immediately
married an English girl.
MISS AUpENREIp AND THE NUNNERY
Miss Florence Audenreid, daughter of
the late General Audenreid, United States
army, who within the past few months
has married a count, though one of the
youngest of Washington beauties, has al
ready had an unusually eventful life, re-
plete with romance and adventure. In
the height Of a successful season, sur
rounded by admirers, Miss Audenreid sud-
denly became stated with the gay world of
fashion and. deciding upon a venture of
religious enthusiasm, without warning alb
iured the Episcopal faith to become an
ardent devotee of the Church of Rome
Hardly had society recovered from
this sudden announcement before
it was startled by the intelligence
of a still more unaccountable move on the
part of the young debutante. Renouncing
the world. the flesh and the devil, Miss
Audenried, under cover of night, hied her
to q convent, leaving behind, as the sole
clue to her action, the time-honored note
on the pin-cushion. In vain Mrs Auden-
ricd wrote and implored her daughter to
rome home. In vain she applied FOR help
to the mother superior of the convent
namely. that the young girl having entered
of her own accord, and protesting desire
10 remain, she was not to be coerced into
leaving those walls within which she had
sought shelter. Then it was that the mother
decided upon an equally bold plan of ac-
ton, and accompanied by the family law
ger proceeded direct 10 Cardinal McClos-
key in New York and formally demanded
that her daughter as a minor should be at
once delivered to her guardianship At
first il began to look as though the church
and state would enter into open conflict
over the matter, which was, however,
after few days. successfully compromised,
there being considerable money at stake,
and the mother departed, happy once more
in the possession of her daughter.
A romantic attachment next engaged
the young beautys attention, and
upon its termination, a season of European
travel was decided upon. Miss Audenreid
appears to have found more than the usual
amount of favor in the eyes of his royal
highness, for cablegrams received by the
leading American journals shortly there
after chronicled accounts Of fete given at
one of the fashionable suburbs of London
at which the Prince of Wales trundled
her several times about the grounds in a
Wheelbarrow.
THE WRONG BOX.
Miss Mary Letter. daughter of Mr.. l.. T..
Letter, the Chicago millionaire. has figured
prominently in London society during the
past season. a beauty of the statuesaue
type, she has face best seen TO advantage
,p1er a Gain shorcuCh hat With mid