The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-04
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| ing a scarf pin with his thumb.
"Irs yours. Pta," said the millionaire,
to the jeweler, and 70 the sports; Take
Come In Show Us your best" be said
TO the teweler, and to the sportsi Take
your pick, gentlemen
He paid the bill, $50. 900. without word.
This was the man who inherited 5000
oOo from his father. and a little later vas
| reformed by his marriage to Miss Smith.
George Law was fifty years old when he
met the lovely daughter Of Alfred Paraf.
It was at a magnificent Oriental recep-
ton ne gave In honor Of Miss Josephine
Mack, a young woman vino was living at
the Hollywood with her mother, and
whom society expected him TO marry.
The reception was given IN the Moorish
room Of the Hollywood hotel
Instead he married Miss Aga Smith at
The Gerard, the Rev. Arthur H. Judge,
assistant rector of the Church of the
Heavenly Rest, officiating. The wedding
occurred Sept.24, 1894. The marriage was
kept secret for some months. When 1t
was announced society gasped with as
the old family mansion, No. 259 Fifth
avenue. rom the moment of his marriage
he was a changed man.
His old haunts were never visited. His
old companions were welcome to kind
word and bow, for George Law, j., was
always democratic, but they had no more
of his society. His convivial habits were
forsaken. He cultivated dOmesicity.
He opened champagne only at his own
board. He bought diamonds only for his
young wife. the divinity and saving angel
of his later life.
The gentle influence Of the daughter Of
Alfred Paraf had transformed the son of
George Law, muiti-millionaire.
Had the gift of prophetic sight been
granted TO George Law he would have
prayed to live long in the society Of his
idolized young wife, but Nature gave no
warning of her grim design upon him.
He was stricken with cerebral meningitis
and died uncoscious of the blow.
Had the warning been granted it is be-
lieved that George Law would have be-
queathed his immense fortune to his wife.
He dying interstate, she received but a
widows dover, 100000. the remainder Of
the fortune being divided equally between
his three sisters.
The sisters contested Mrs. Laws right
to act as executrix, on the ground that
she was 90 young. A certificate of birth
proved that she was twenty-five, and her
right was maintained. The differences of
the sisters-in-law was adjusted AMIGA
bly, and Mrs. Law has often been the
guest of one Of them, Mrs. Haines, at the
villa on Lake Como, in Italy, in tbs two
years that have elapsed since her hus-
bands death.
For year George Laws widow mourn
ed his loss with every evidence of SINGER
ity and for a long time III !llnss. A year
ago she went to Paris and gradually min
gled with the best set of the gay city.
where she has become the leader of the
American colony.
She is rarely beautiful, has a roman
tic history that stirs to sentiment, she
is but twenty-four years old, and has a
fortune of sS,0O0,O0o
There is no mystery about the atten-
tons of three prominent New Workers,
French count or two, and the constant
Maharajah of Kapurthala OF all these
the Indian prince has been the favorite.