The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-06
E|NGANDBEGGAR- MAID
Old Story RetoId in the Lives
of Hugh Norman
AND DOROTHY PRINDALL
With FINS" to be Written in
the Divorce Court,

New York, Oct. 5-The Journal has the
following:
The romance Of King Cophetua and the
Beggar Maid is not more strange than
the love story Of Hugh Norman. the
young millionaire Of Boston and Newport,
ana Dorthy Prindall, the f1shermaId Of
Gloucester. She was a freckled. bare
girl. but beautiful and graceful as fawn.
when Hugh Norman loafed about che salt
Old sea town, ostensihy looking after
some water works Of his rich, aristocratic
farther.
The strangeness Of the romance lies not
IN the fact that he loved her when he first
saw her, told ner the old. old story. and
made her his wife, but in the fact that
this wild little seaside girl won the love
Of al her husbands family along with
his. broke down all the social barriers of
exclusive Boston and purse-proud New
port. and became at once reigning fav
o-ite Of fashion and one Of its leaders
fitted into her new place as If she were
born and bred in a palace. she evolved
rs # by gic into a fine whip, a fine
yacltswoman. a brilliant hostess and
charming woman Of the world
Nowhere but in America could this
marvellous ransformation-a,mos al a
moments notce-from d fisher girl into
one Of the Four Hundred-take place.
The end Of this real romance of love Is
as sad as its beginning was joyous He fed
70 rle var. She 10 the divorce court.
Edgar Saltus writes the true story OF this
pastoral dream Of twelve years ago, and
lis bitter awakening only yesterday.
Edgar SaItus writes as follows:
Mrs. Hugh Norman, Of Newport, has
Instituted an action for divorce. Behind
The preceding is a romance of real Efe-a
story which, beginning in the pastoral
fashion of generations ago, promptly
takes on an entirely modern twist. In it
there IS a dream and an awakening. Il IS
9 tale Of honey and gall
IN the town Of Gloucester, Mass, a
dozen years since. there lived i girl named
T-othy PrndaU She WAS ne preJtiest
or the pretty girls Of the place, and she
was as good * She was pretty. She had
the sweet, eoouettish little ways of a
mouse. the daintness Of a Persian kitten,
great blue eyes a ripping lau-h and
as a lily had not the sun ard the salt sea
wind bitten it with freckles. Frecl1les
havo their charm, particularly when with
them is the freshness Of youth. Then
they attract the eye. Sometimes they in
wife the lips. Dorothy's freckles solicited
o7th. She was Just fsteen-the age Of
Juliet. the age Of Margurite.
IN the neighborhood their appeared a
young man who. though he looked like
Romeo. was mistaken for Faust. But
that was natural. The little girl was a
fsherman's daughter. The young man
was amillionalre's son. The name of the
latter was-and for for that matter still
is-Hugh X Norman. His home was at
Newport. It was 70 rthe purpose Of super
intending q system Of water works which
his father was constructing IN Gloucester
that he had come. Yet the purport Of
the visit, though obvious. presently was
misunderstood. Dorothy's freshness and
freckles attracted him, and ne, in his
quality Of stranger, necessarily attracted
her.
The most rapid entertainments which the
chronicles Of love recount have been &C
complizhed by those who have merely
passed and or WhOm tNat passing SOIIle-
times constituted the one and only attrac-
ton. Norman had others. About him
was the aroma Of wealth. in his bearing
an air Of collegiate. if dissipated, and on
h.s back a piccadilly coat. As a conse-
quence when through his Office window.
he first saw the freshness and freckles
which Dorothy wsP taking to school and
stared at them 80 different was he from
the young men Of the place that the girl
hooked back.
There was little harm in that. and there
was none in the acquaintance which fol-
lowed
A. first. undivined by either, each emo
tionalizel the other Meetings ensued
that were Puritan in sedst-ness. talks
spaced with silences more communicative
than words. There was the prelude. Then
the form invisible and underlined which &C
companies the thoughts Of the young.
and which is but the unincarnated soul
OF the one who is destined to reside there
in gradually took substance, As a weed