The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-16
CAPTURES BY CUPID.
,oMANTIC TALES OF CoNQUEsIs
IN WASHINGTON.

,,reso of Beauty Who Was Petted by
-ba Prince of Wales-A Six-Months
Engagement.
From the Near York World.
WASHINGTON, March 7.-Every season
Washington furnishes the materials for
- dozen three-volume novels. The
-onsnces of society here are stranger than
s.tiop. and the best Of them seldom get into
the newspapers.
T7e marriage last June of Miss Lena
caldwell to Baron Zedwitz, minister from
Germany to Mexico, was the happy culmi-
nation of q romance begun some years be-
fore in Washington. During the winter the
Misses Caldwell occupied the old Knapp
house. corner of Seventeenth and l streets.
Bsron Zedwitz figured prominently in So
ciafv as secretary of the German legation.
His infatuation for the younger of the two
sisters at once became apparent to all who
lnew them. Fired with that spirit Of re-
Gated endeavor which rendered the name
IF Robert Bruce of Scotland famous In all
aces. Baron Zedwitz persistently followed
tSe beautiful young object Of his affections
from one place to another. Whenever the
two girls appeared at summer resort the
musical secretary was certain to loom up on
The horizon and renew his protestations Of
uualterable love.
Welded IN THE UNIVERSITY.
Finally he was promoted by the home
office and sent as minister TO Mexico, while
Miss Cald well and her sister went abroad
for a long stay. Distance, however
seemed in no wise to have affected the
lovers ardor, fer several times q year he
regularly went abroad until at last his de-
votion was rewarded, AMI Miss Caldwell,
returning TO this country, was married to
him in the chapel of the new Roman Catho-
lie University, which her sisler Gwendolin
endowed with 100000.
The romance which first brought Miss
Adele Grant inlo 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
reside ce here several winters ago is unde-
niably due to the fame which now envelops
her as the American girl who had the good
sense to sever her engagement with the
Duke of Cairns, a real live duke, albeit
thoroughly unprincipled man. Acco ding
to report Miss Grant, upon whose beauty
the Prince Of Wales had set the royal seal
Of bis appreciation, consulted no less per-
sonage than His Highness on the momentous
subject Of her engagement, end upon his
august advice it was formally annulled.
SHE WAS TO PAY THE EXPENSES.
The titled lover, like many another before
and since, reckoned without his host, OF,
more properly speaking, appears to have
gone ahead without much attempt at anv
sort of reckoning, for no sooner was 1t
roised abroad that the engagement was
declared off than the bills began TO pour in
from every dil ection upon the astonished
young lady Not only was she expected to
psy for the jewels lavished upon her in
podigal profusion, but the caterers and
florists accounts for innumerable entertain
ments were also presented to her for liqui-
dation.
The first thing which appears to have
caused any approximations as to the disinter-
ested devotion of the duke was his action in
seeking TO borrow large sum Of money
from Miss Grants mother on the eve of an
entertainment at Nice. Miss Grant then re-
turned to this country, and it was scarcely
more than year thereafter that the duke,
falling heir to large fortune, Immediately
married an English girl.
MISS AUDENRIED AND THE NUNNERY.
Miss Florence Audenried, daughter of the
late Gen. Audenried, United 8 ates army,
who within the past few months has mar
red count, though one of the Youngest
4 OF Washington beauties has already had an
unusually eventful life, replete with ro-
nance and adventure. In the hight Of a
successful season, surrounded by admirers.
Miss Audenried suddenly became stated with
thegay world of fashion, and, deciding upon
venture of religious enthusiasm, without
warning, abjured the Episcopal faith to be
come en- ardent devotee of the church of
4 Rome.
Hardly had society recovered from this
sudden announcement before it was startled
a ~ the intelligence of a still more unac-
conntaole move on the part of the young
0eoutante. Renouncing the world, the
Hesh ana the devil, Miss Audenried under
cover of night HE'D her to a convent. leav-
ing behind as the sole clew to her action the
ume-honored note on the pin cushion. In
vain Mrs. Audenried wrote and implored
her daughter to come home. In vain she
applied for help to the mother superior of
tne convent, from both alike came the same
answer, namely, that the young glrl having
suffered OF her own accord and protesting a
ueaiFe 10 remain, she was not to be coerced
into leaving those walls within which she
had sought shelter.
STATE AND CHURCH IN CONFLICT,
Ilen 1t was that her mother decided upon
an equally bold plan of action, and accom-
panied by the family lawyer, proceeded di-
ecO 10 cardinal McCloskey in New York,
toImally demanded thai her daughter, as
'HCulu 10 dO ones QellV6F6u TO l6F
guardianship. At first it began to look as
!.nough Ihe church and state would enter
IhCo open conflict over the matter, which
was however, after Jew days successfully
compromised, there being considerable
ilohay at stake, and the mother departed,
dLappy once more in the possession of her
daughter. A romantic attachment next
engaged the young beauty's attention, and
ppon its termination a season of European
I6ye was decided npou.
Mss Audenreid appears to have found
anote IMAM the usual amount of favor in the
Eyes OF ms royal highness, for cablegrams
sssTed by the leading American journals
Fia thereafter chronicled accounts of a
iss'gg gwen at one Of the fashionable suburbs
=. ndon, at which the Prince of Wales
uuuuied her several times about the
SOUNDS IN wheelbarrow.
MAD CHASE FOR A STEAMER.
Mss Mary Letter, daughter of Mr.. L. q.
r rol.e!, the Chicago millionaire, has figured
III tIulnent!y in London society during the
t paS. season.. A beauty of the statuesqae
=! II she has face best seen to advantage
80, uuAet marlborough hat with wide, pict-
ISSUE brim and nodding plumes The
d e',ts OF those accredited by report as her
nr rso;ea admirers are legion. One Of the
tets.lest stories told is in regard TO the at.
tion. LOU 0o0A o'NiS 'A 4osa-
earning that Miss Letter and her father