Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-04
BRIDE WON FORGIVENESS.
Happy Outcome of a Secret Interna
tional Marriage.

Love may be blind, but it car be
| diplomatic and even strategic at
! times, as the romance of Frank Van
Anden of IS Pierrepont street, Brock
Iyn, will prove. This young man is
! the petted son of a rich family. Since
! his childhood. which was not so very
| many years ago, his father and mo-
ther nave denied him nothing. Last
year he accompanied his father and
mother and two sisters on a tour
through Europe. Upon the plea that
fe wished to study the German lam
guage thoroughly he decided to re-
1la1n in Berlin, while the rest of the
family continued on their tour of
sightseeing. While studying in the
German capital Frank contracted a
secret marriage with a pretty young
German girl named Ida Kessberg.
Fearing his parents disapproval when
they learned of the fact, the young
husband evolved a novel scheme 10
WIN their approval to the match. He
returned home last spring, after sew
eral months absence, and it was
wonderful to hear him speak Ger
II an. His listers who were prize
scholars at Vassar, were almost at a
loss to keep pace with him. But in
MS eagerness to acquire colloquial
familiarity with the language Frank
had omitted to learn how to write it.
He had a good position in the Realty
on Int 4,
promotion to the head of the German
department if ne could direct the cor
poration's correspondence in that
tongue. Would Papa Van Anden
advertise for a competent teacher?
Mr.. Van Anden advertised for an
Instructor in German rhetoric Nat
urally he expected an answer from a
man-from many men. But to his
surprise when he got home that even
ing he found that his daughters had
engaged a charming young woman.
She was a treasure. Of course, her
good looks were against her, but then
she was so talented and so refined
and so we'll bred. One could see at
glance that she was a lady. Mr..
Van Anden was almost bored by his
daughters enthusiastic praise of the
lew teacher. And she was so kind.
She mad promised to help them in
their German; to let them study with
Frank.
The new teacher was quite as young
and pretty as the Misses Van Anden
described her. Moreover, she was an
excellent instructor. Mr.. and Mrs.
Van Anden were almost tempted to
take up German too. The teacher
vas Miss Ida Kessberg, recently ar
rived from Berlin. Young Van Anden
accepted in a bored fashion his Sis
ers' suggestion that he sf1lld escort
Miss Kessberg home every evening
He pretended not to care for that
privilege, but his sisters threatened
to boycott him if he did not show
Miss kessberg proper attention. The
lessons and all the rest Of it might
have been going on yet if Frank Van
Anden had not moved to Bay Shore
When his parents and sisters went to
the family home at Islip, L. l., in the
summer
A nelghbor congratulated Papa Van
Anden one day on his sons lovely
wife, and the cid gentleman began to
wonder At the first opportunity he
asked Frank when the family might
have the pleasure of meeting Mrs.
Van Anden, Jr.
ooh, you know her we'll enough
as Miss Kessberg," replied the young
nan.
There was reunion at the Van
Anden's that evening that was more
Like bit of a stage play than a scene
II real life. Already prepossessed in
f2vor of Miss Kessberg, the family
welcomed her gladly as sister-in-law
and daughter-in-law. Frank admitted
that he had married her in Berlin
last sping, and that he had chosen
that ingenious plan of having her
n eet his family through an adver-
tisement, so that they migst fall in
love with her as thoroughly as he
lad done.
William M. Van Anden, the father,
is vice president of the Eagle Ware
h>use and Storage company, at %
Fulton street, Brooklyn, and has an
Office il the Franklin building, at
Montague and Clinton streets, of the
same city.
Frank Van Anden is an athlete and
a graduate of Cornell university
T w TAYLOR chief Justice of Mani