Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09
CONNIBIAIlTIEs.

II pretty girl doesn't know how to spell
correctly. she never ought to allow hersell
to get engaged to a young man who lives in
another town.
with wedding presents aggregating over
81 600 600 in value, pretty Virginia Fair and
Willie Vanderbilt are probably convinced at
the start that marriage is anything but
failure.
During the last few years 152 American
women have married European noblemen
BY this means the falling fortunes of the
aristocracy have been rehablitated to the
extent of about S20,000,000.
In Madagascar a tax has been levied upon
all women over 2l years old who are not
mothers, but as the babies are also taxed
the plan appears to be for the purpose OF
raising revenue rather than children.
Married men, according to a German in
vestigator live longer than bachelors and
are less likely to become insane. Another
argument for matrimony is found in the fact
that there ar thirty y-eight criminals among
every 1000 bachelors while among married
men the ratio is only eighteen per 1OO0
Mile. de Richeieu, whose engagement to
Count Edouard de la Rochefoucauld. de-
scendant of the epigrammatist has lust been
announced In Paris, Is, through her mother,
of Hebrew blood and great niece of lIeine.
Her father was direct descendant Of the
famous Due de Richeheu. The prospective
brides mother is now the princess of Mo-
rocco.
Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary,
who has been reported to be engaged 10
Prince George of Greece. is the second
daughter of the prince of Wales and is 80
years old 1t was rumored last wear that she
was to become engaged to John Barring,
Baron Revelstoke Prince George is thh
second son of King George of Greece. lie is
20 years old.
Miss Ann Russell Allen of ST. Louis.
whose engagement to Count Paul Festetcs
de Tolna of Buda Pesth, Hungary. had been
publicly announced. has broken off the
match because she learned that the count
had been making private inquiries through
commercial agencies as to the financial
standing of the Allen family and the proba-
bic share of his financee in the estate.
One of the nine-day wonders in st. Pet
ersburg just now is the marriage of the
widow of Count Nasilon. beautiful. accom-
plished and wealthy. TO the former valet or
her late husband. The marriage was per-
formed in Switzerland because in Russia
without the sanction of the czar-which. OF
course, would not have been given-it would
have been invalid. The bridegroom is
Frenchman and the couple are now in Paris.
The work Of the press agent is not dis
cernible in the story that Cleo de Merode
now in Paris, was about to marry the young
duke of Manchester, when his mother, the
Duchess Consuelo, heard of it and arrived
on the scene in time to prevent 1t. Then
Cleo took beautiful bracelet the duke had
given her to the jeweler who made it and
tried to sell it. The jeweer, not having been
paid for 1t, held on to 1t, and when Cleo
threatened to sue the dukes relatives paid
for it.
| A curious marriage has Just taken place
at Newcastle, England. For the third time
a woman named Makngs has been before
the altar in the character of bride, and
there has been something remarkable in
each Of her three engagements Her first
husband was Quaker her second Roman
Catholic and her present is Protestant.
Each husband was twice her age. At 16 she
married a man of 32 at 30 she took one of
| 60, and now, at AZ, she is united to a man
Of S4
A Russian countess, Wyanoff by name, and
conspicuous at court by reason of her wealth
has run off with her footman. 1t is touch
ing romance. The footman never told his
love except by daily placing on the countess
toilet table lovely bouquet. His secret did
not come out, however, until his mistress en-
tered her apartment one day to find him in
the act OF kissing her portrait. An elope-
ment and wedding soon followed and the
countess put the finishing touch to ths
| romance by buying a Bulgarian estate with
which goes the title of count.
The great granddaughter of Lord Byron
was married not long ago and forthwith en-
tered upon honeymoon quite romantic
| enough to have suited even her famous an
cesor himself. Miss Blunt-that was her
name-marred Mr.. Neville Lvtton at Cairo
and the couple then drove ten miles across
|
polls. They met by picturesque train
of Arab horsemen and Bedouln camel riders
under the leadership of the oldest shiek of
| the tribes. The villages were decorated,
! whole flock of sheep roasted and there
| was an Orientah cast to the occasion which
is not customary in English weddings
Three hundred illegal marriages are to be
made legal by bill which is now before
| the Ontario legislature and will pass in a
few days. 1t was recently decided that mar
| cd in Cor do I,ty oil ,a,,
who were residents in the United States We're
illegal. An inquiry showed that during the
last five years cergymen from Buffalo,
i &nester Tonawanda, Detroit and Chicago
had often performed wedding ceremonies in
Ontario and that as near could
be learned there were 400 children
the issue of such marriages. AS
soon as the illegality of the ceremonies
thus performed was asCertained the govern
ment took action, with the result that the
legislation referred to is about to be adopted.
Marriage is not failure, for the man. at
least, If a German investigator may be be-
leved. He has been interviewing insurance
companies and visiting hospitals and insane
asylums and he has now promulgated the
pleasing result OF his labors. He finds that
Of the men who die commit suicide or be-
come insane or seriously i'll in early life, the
greater number are bachelors. He says that
diseases of the digestive organs are the ones
which cause the most trouble TO unmarried
men. This is distinct compliment to the
' good cooking of the average wife. Among
matrimonial statistics the following French
ones are interesting Thirteen out OF 100
young women marry between the ages of
II and 2O' between 90 and % the average is
60 out of 100; between % and 30 20 out of
100; between 80 and 80, 12 ont OF 100; from
) 80 to 80, out of 100; from 40 to As, only 5.
and from 45 to so Just one solitary woman
out of the hundred
There exists in Japan, among some of the
classes, a certain custom of hiring a mid
woman, nakoda or professional matchmaker,
in order to make engagement between a
couple" says the Ladies' Home Journal.
1T often happens that family will desire
an alliance with another family with whom
they are not intimately acquainted. Then
are the services of the professional match
maker invaluable. To be successful in such
profession one must never be known as
such to the family she desires to court. Very
often nakodas and midwomen follow this
profession for years and yet are not known
as such save to those who have employed
them. Most of the matchmakers are very
honest and it is their duty to discover all
the good and bad points of the couple and,
point them out to the parents; they give
good advice and do everything possible to
promote the happiness of the pair. They
nd IN ha of ha