The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-06
MORAN AND CoLONNA.
FaciteOus Remarks Upon American
sDOrtswOmen's FOndness for Big
Game.

FaciteOus Remarks Upon American
SDOrtswOmen's FOndness for Big
Game.
From the London Telegraph.
Satiated with the destruction of English
peers, the American sportswoman is ap-
parently transferring her attention to the
matrimonial big game" of the European
continent An Italian prince has been
brought down already and as it would
SEEM by a "snap shot" in more senses
than one. That, at least, is the plausible
belief of society in Richmond, Va where
the rumor is current that Miss Eleanor
Bergen Moran has won the hand of a scion
of the ancient and noble house of Colon
ma. There has been no formal announce
ment OF the engagement of Prince Fabian,
out letters have passed. and the family
admit that an understanding exists be-
tween the young people" They are de-
scribed as related to each other, but, as
this, it appears, only means that Prince
Fabian's grandmother was first cousin
to Napoleon Bonaparte, and that the
niece of Nine Bonaparte of Baltimore
married Mrs. Morans first COUSIN" there
can be no objection to their union on the
ground of too close consanguinity. Five
steps, ascending and collateral are re-
quired to take us from the prospective
Miss Patterson, and as many more are
necessary to get from lady who was only
connected by marriage with the lovers
grandmOther's cousin to the mother of the
bride. In fact, if there is any drop of the
same blood in the veins of the TWO parties
it must be diluted with something like
thirty-two times its bulk of alien ingredi-
ents, which even the most fanatical be-
lever in heredity will probably regard as
sufficient to insure persons about to marry
against the danger of degeneracy in their
offspring. ii was not, however any UNI
conscious attraction of affinity which drew
the couple together, if such a phrase can
be used of two persons who have never
met. To this circumstance, indeed, it is
that the stuat lion owes its chief element of
romance. The Prince and Miss Moran
have never set eyes upon each other, and
for all that appears Miss Moran may new
er even have looked upon a counterfeit
presentment of the Prince. But through
certain persons, who are described as "mu-
tual" friends-as, of course, they must
have been If they reciprocated each 9TH
er's friendship-but who were evidently
also, common friends of the two young
people, the Prince saw a portrait of the
lady, and incontinently fell a victim to
her pictured charms. Caesars achieve
ment was divided between the three. It
came. he saw, and she conquered.
1t was at this point that the correspond
ence commenced and even an American
public must be content at such a juncture
to submit to a gap in the narrative The
letters which passed between the love-
sinitten Romeo and the transatlantic Ju>
liet would, of course, make priceless
copy" but they are not. or not at pres.
ent, procurable for publication. We do
not even know, so provoking is the reserve
which has been maintained on the subject
in what tongue the Prince opened his
communications with the fair original of
the portrait. Italian according to some
authorities, Is pre-eminently the language
of love; English, and especially its Amer
lean variety, is. perhaps, the language OF
business, and would thus be used in re
ply from the lady's parents rather than
in an answer from herself. doubt that