The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-04

| crown Jew 6lS dIS YET OlucI SAiNNCAA4A :
beauties, sea-green emeralds from Asiatic
| Russia, great tear-like pearls from Cey-
| lon and the Persian gulf. with occasion
! ally rare one in which dusky shadows
gather into murky darkness like the
| depths of her whom he terms the "beauti-
full black pearl of all the Americas"
There are cornfiower blue sappires from
Burmah and sky blue turquoises from
Persia and rich purple amethysists from
the Ural mountains.
"All these" the Prince OF India has
promised Mrs Alga Law, shall be yours
if you become the favorite princess Of
Kspurthala~"
1t is fact often noted. that princes Of
the South and East most admire fair
beauties of the purely Anglo-Saxon type.
They rave about the pearl-white skin and
limpid blue eyes of the goddesses of the
North, before whose charms the dark
beauty of the women Of their own land
pales. Not sot he Maharaja of Kapur-
thala. Mrs. Laws beauty is of the Or
iental type as to ooloring. Her eyes are
darker than those of any beauty of his
harem. The abundant masses of her
black hair seem to have caught the
plumes of night and held them there.
Her complexion is olive, her lips a slen-
der thread of dark crimson. In the rich
trailing draperies of the East and the
gorgeous setting Of the palace of the
Kapurthala she might easily be mistaken
for a daughter of the Orient.
When Mrs. Law sailed for France last
year. it was with the intention OF taking
up her permanent residence in Paris.
There accompanied her her 13-year old
sister Minnie, a percocious and beautiful
girl, already a skilled linguist, who is
being educated in a convent school in that
city. Mrs. Laws nearest living relatives,
except her sister, are Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Branbridge Smith, her grandparents.
Though Mrs. Smith is connected with the
immensely rich Ketaltases, of this city,
and with Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore.
Her mother is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith. The elder generation recall
the sensation caused by the eIopement
of the beautiful Miss Smith with Count
Alfred Paraf, brilliant but cratic Asa
tan chemist. Their marriage was a poig-
nant grief to more than one slender beau
OF that time who is now a portly OBJ
structionist on the floor of the Stock Ex-
change. Alga, their eldest daughter, was
born in San Francisco twenty-four years
ago. and her father died in the same city
twelve years ago. Their mother having
died, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith took their
daughters children to their hearts and
inc Of ba hA ho1 do
serted it for the handsome Alastain
twelve years before. Alga dropped the
name of Paraf in consideration of her
grandparents, to whom it was still OBJ
noXious, and she was known as Alga
Smith to the day of her marriage with
George Law Jr.
Miss Smith, like her mother, surprised
society by her marriage by her marriage.
She had inherited her fathers poverty
along with his not wholly enviable name.
True, her inhentace Of her mothers dark
beauty and her association with her
mothers fine old family, did much to re-
deem Miss Alga Smith in society's eyes,
and yet society has some narrow preju-
dices and an exceedingly retentive mem
DRY when the glitter of gold does not daz-
zle it into forgetfulness, and it was never
overland to the daughter of Count Alfred
Paraf.
1t was benignity itself to George Law.
ar, whose father owned the surface car
lines on Eighth and Ninth avenues and
otter properties. which constituted him
THAI favored thing, a multi-millionare.
George Law. Jr., graduated from Col
umbia college with Indifferent honors.
His father made him driver on a horse
car on the Eighth avenue line that ne
might learn the business from the
ground up" Young Law nominally fielled
the post, but has car was VIGOROUSLY be-
hind or ahead of time An even gait
was something incomprehensible to
George Law until his rollicking, generous
life was rounding to its close.
\ college friend of his once jumped on
the front platform of the car and asked
his chum of other days to stop at the
next corner and take a drink.
l know a trick worth two of that" said
George Law. JJr. Heswung the horses
off the track. whipped them vigorously
and then dragged the car off the track.
To abe amszement of the conductor and
the passengers the car bumped and iolted
over the cobblestones into Fifty-dfth
street and stopped at saloon midway
between Eighah and Ninth avenues. Here
Law stopped, invited the passengers to
have drink with him. and led the way
to the drinking resort, leaving the con-
ductor to exchange opinions with the
~
George Law. Jr.. was a shining example
of a type of rich New Workers now nearly
extinct.
He was a wine opener, a high roller"
q simon pure good fellow" with 4 heart
as large as the needs Of the HETEROGENEOUS
mass ne dubbed MS friends He was
good nature personihed. He looked upon
luxury IS the chief thing in life. He de-
sI%sed work He was past master Of
the reooco style Of dress He valued
money according 70 its purchasing power.
To a large proportion OF the population
% New York he was a great man. al
though neither philosopher. poet. politl-
clan nor preacher.
His hobby was pusiIism. He delighted
in talking with prize fighters and loved
10 test their muscle Harry HIll's was
favorite resort OF his. and he was often
seen al Dick" Darling's and Bill Ira
cey's. He had genial habit OF holding
hstSc encounters with pugilists who gath
ered there and giving them 500 or more
to salve their wounds.
He often treated a bsrToomfuI 70 cham
payne. and $l.o1o a night for wine vas
common item IL his expenses
He vas fond % wearing diamonds. AID
equally fond q giving them to his mis-