The age-herald., 1898-07-24
By E. Richard Murphy Special Correspondent the Age-Head
Wants a Wife.

Astor was not ready to part with his daughter. He had just lost his wife, and he found his daughter a far too agreeable home companion. Any engagement would have to be an extremely long one, and this was not to the young dukes liking
 It must be said for him here that the young man is not, and never has been, mer- cenary, but like many another lad before him, he has a ready-made family on his hands. With an invalid mother and little sister for him to provide for, he is com- pelled to find money. It would be contrary to the laws of Englands nobility for him to go to work. All the trades are closed to him. He cannot enter into any mercantile pursuits; he would shock English society were he to go into hotel keeping or retail trades; tn ep rofessions are not for dukes and lords-they are for younger sons-so also is the church.
 An English duke must live up to his title and must support his family in keeping with the family blue china. The peach blow vase must be supported upon a pedes- tai in keeping with its 2s'SN6Ss, and the duke is poor duke indeed who cannot find the wherewthal to support his title.
 There is only one salvation for him-he must marry rich. And the matrimonial ar gument which he and his relatives make is this.
 The duke must support his wife well. An T rousseau and with jewels. She must have a town house in keeping with her title, and she must be able to receive nobility and be received by them If her husbands estates do not yield sufficient for all this, she must bring enough, for her own sup port, to her husband when she maTries. Lacking these, no girl can hope to be a duchess. Love is very well, but there also must be money.
 MANY FAIR GIRLS.
 The young Duke of Manchester firmly im- bued with these rinciples, began to look around. After Miss Astor had been taken from his sight his eyes fell upon Miss May Goecet, daughter of Ogden Goelet and she found favor in his sight. Miss Goelet also found the duke pleasing, and for while at Cannes-that ideal summer resort-there was played as pretty romance as ever adorned the middle pages of a Duchess novel. The duke, handsome in the pride of his manly youth, and the girl, sweet as an American rose in June basked in each oth- CTS smiles and 1oated out on the golden sea, living a golden summer of silver dreams.
 But there was an awakening. For some reason which will never be told the girls father objected to the suitor It might have been Ogden Goe!et's invalidism, the peevishness of his half we'll days. It might
  uing the girls money more than herself. It might have been hatred inborn in the Goelet family for international marriages. It might have been-but who knows the source of the darts that pierce poor Cu- pid's heart. Like bullets from Spanish smokeless guns they come, showing no trace of origin and bringing devastation.
 There was fearful parting and the duke withdrew, while the girl was hurried home. Then came the fathers death, and the news that he had left her in her own right one of the greatest fortunes ever gathered by the nimble fingers of American million- airc. Everyone suspected that the duke would renew his suit, and that Mrs. Goelet would yield to her daughters entreaties but the duke played manly part; he lived his life in London, and let her live her life in America.
 THE MOTHERS AMBITION.
 Then came another rumor. The invalid