The evening times., 1896-12-10
FOUND Her PRINCE KARL
Chicago Capitalists Widow Will
Marry an Italian Courier.
Mrs. John a. Kendig, n Leader Of
Society, and q Brilliant Woman.
She VIII Become Mrs. FARRELL.

Chicago, Dec. lO.-Mrs. John A. Kendig,
the widow of Il wealthy lawyer, who died
less than n year ago, proposes to marry,
as soon as her year OF mourning is up, AN
| gelo Parreli, her courier. Mrs. kendiS is
! In Rome, and she viii be married inc!e.
| Parre&i is also in Rome
He Is known as courier all over the
continent OF Europe. Mrs. kcnaig is MT )
eight and ParTeli is siXty-I%o years OF
ag-- las rNa:s uaJr Oh wusC.t Mrs. n rnuiE
VIII become Signora Angelo Parreli Is not
known. II WA u uniy - few months hence
at the most
so long as Angelo lives" Mrs. Kendig
has wnlJ.n 10 "a mend mere, II s.Gaii never
leave Rome"
Mrs Kendig has been for years leader
Of ,uica 70 sucir., ,a.sund-. .ISn mas Travelled
a great deal in the last twenty years. As
the wire OF Jonn A. J. kendIg, lawyer ami
capitalist, she had means to CRAFTY every
desire. Yet she was never society woman
as the term Is commonly understood. she
inclined more TO the intellectual life than
To the life OF fashion and function.
In the clubs where women OF brains
shine she was Conspicuous, particularly III
the Chicago Wouau's Club, the West End
Wumans Club, ana the FOUniGhuy. Her
papers Were events in the meetings OF
those bodies. Prof swing often said she
WAS one Of the most Brilliant women he
had ever met.
Angelo has been with Mrs. Kendig cigh-
teen years. She andhef late husband traV-
eled n.uGiI, so I courier was necessity.
Wnen Mr.. kcHdig died Angelo was retained.
Friends suggested to her that il would be.
better to let him go and employ maid,
hut She would not hear of il. Angelo is
worth more to me than all the maids III
the world she said. He understands
my wants, packs my trunks, and looks
after my personal affairs when travelling
better than any maid could. l shall keep
him.
Her friends had no thought then that
this travelling companiunSnip would end i'll
marriage, and The'tTuth came az a blow.
First, there was u cable message from
Mrs. kendig at Rome, aGd iD Il lew days
Il letter came which astuunded Mrs. Ken
digs small circle OF iHtiniaSes in Chicago.
My friends need not try to dssuade
me- she wrote. My MUD is made up.
l know l shall be happier
After all, the friends. argued, Mrs. Ken
dig was her own mistress 1t was not the
same as If she We're to become the victim
of a youthful adyenturer, OF as if both
were impu lsive children. Angelo has
Granddaughters, and one of his daughters
is married to a count. Mrs. Kendig is
childless. g
Mrs II. o. stone the leader OF Chicago's
most exclusive set IN slciety, said tonight,
speaking of Angelo. lie was courier de
place for my children last summer when
we Were in Europe. and, indeed, no one
would think Of treating him as a servant.
i remember going into Mrs Marshall
Fields room, in Paris-Mrs. Kendig and
Mrs. Fields had been travelling together
and seeing some one else there l started
to withdraw, fearing l intruded.
Don't CO. said Mrs Field. This is
Angelo, waiting for your Children
oh, he is a very superior surt of man,
educated and cultured, and speaking six
languages fluently. But Mrs. Kendig has
money, and, unfortunately, Angelo lost
his.
Her intention TO marry Angelo may be
an evidence of the true " womanliness of her
nature, as George Eliot said OF herself
when she remarked within a year of
Lewes' death. l was on the ONT of writ
ing to ask her to travel in Russia with me
next summer when her letter came. She
was in demand wherever bright minds
were gathered but she loved Rome, and
she is goingto marry Angelo"
Loneliness her friends say, is the key
word to this strange story Of Mrs. KeDlig.
Dread OF being alone in the world loomed
before her eyes constantly as spectral
horror, After Mr Kendg died she could
not endure her old home, at No, 2O7 South
Hoync avenue, to which she had clung
through thirty years, against temptation
to remove to more fashionable locality
she went abroad, and the old house, full
OF treasures personally dear, is for rent