The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-03
Refused a Khedive
Interesting Romance of a
Beautiful American GIRL.
And in the end love won.


New York Journal
1t followed the announcement Of Cora
Randolph's engagement to ''Trimble
Richard, treas, 81 Pine, h. IS E. 25."-as
the directory puts it.
She had been dubbed the idol of the
-Four Hundred and her titled suitors
have been more than she could count on
her fingers. They are more numerous
than the countries through which she
has passed and wherein she has lived.
She might have been, spite the
traditions of his religion and his country,
the only wife Of the only brother Of the
Khedive Of Egypt.
She might have welded an Indian Ra-
jah and owned the most magnificent
black pearl ever the property OF woman
Her hand has been sought by a prince
of the house Of Bourbon, by noblemen
Of Russia, by a duke in England by men
Of lesser title IN many lands, and by
Americans of intelligence, Of wealth. Of
position.
Cora Randolph, the idol Of the -Four
Hundred" has perplexed them all BY an
nouncing within the week her engage
ment to Mr.. Richard Trimble.
The society which Mrs. stuyvesant Fish
astonds cleyerly, which Mrs. John jacob
Astor adorns charmingly. which Mrs.
Ogden Mills amuses Willingly, Is asking
with abated breath, who is hep
Who is this Richard Trimble whom Sle
beautiful. the witty, the graceful Cora
Randolph has selected after scorning
peers OF the realm and the matches Of
America?
Richard TrimbIe is the secretary and
treasurer Of the Federal Steel company,
al No "a Pine street. He is g man Of
about forty. having been at Harvard as
a member Of the class Of 50. He is tail
straight. OF type somewhat pronounced,
recalling John Drew when that actor
wore mustache. To an old Quaker fam
uy Richard Trimble belongs. He could
neither be described as wealthy nor So
ciety man. Indeed, gossips predict unless
some strange decree Of fate interposes,
that he viii for many years be known as
Cora Randolph's husband"
The lady who has decided to confer
upon him this honor is the second daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph.
OF Mount St. Vincent. on the Hudson,
and also a daughter Of the gods, divinely
fair
At Mrs. stuyvesant Fish's, where peo-
pie are frank. some one asked one oven
ing. What's the greatest charm in wo-
MANI"
And it was answered. cora Ran
dolph's amiability!" cried the crowd OF
guesSers.
Cora Randolph is not only amiable; she
IS also witty The combination has given
10 her the pseudonym Of the Idol Of the
-Four Hundred"
At that annual festival known as the
Portrait Show, Richard Trimble first
came into her life, or. more properly
speaking. she came into his Had one
known him as Cora Randolphs fance he
might have been remarked wandering
- slowly among beautiful women immortal
tied by the hands OF noble artists.
Gazing with critical eyes at one and
then at another he moved through the
great halls of the Academy OF Design
Curiously his eyes strayed from living
forms that moved gracefully in and out.
welcoming guests, guiding strangers. TO
the painted beauties who looked down
upon them from gilded frames. Exqui-
size women were there. Mrs. Burke
Roche. never to be forgotten in white
half turned toward him; Mrs Clarence
AIackay. glowing vividIy under the mas
ter hand Of Chartran, smiled upon him
Miss Schermermorn, delicate in a pastel
whose deepest tone was a. faintpink;
looked at him gravely. He turned from
them all. suddenly transixed
Richard Trimble stood euraptured be
fore painting which recalled family
the celebrated "Girl with a Muf," by
Madame Vigee Lebrun.
only this one had eyes that beneath
cu-ls OF brown captivated him.
Her lips were moulded 10 enthraA him
The turn OF her head chained him where
he stood.
Her brow. her throat, her figure riv-
cited his eyes But he was only one Ct
crowd He stood unnoticed. A thousand
Others had admired the girl with the
muff.
In less time than it takes 10 write the
fact Richard Trimble had learned name
he has never forgotten
Cora Randolph sounded in his ears Ike
the sweetest music.
Somehow. somewhere. two days later
they met Was it accident The sod of
love. who is as strategic as the sod q
war. had discovered TO Richard Trimo,e
thar his old familiar friend Edmund
Randolph was own brother 10 The he
vitching Cora
The conQuests Of Cora Randolph had
made her a figure in society. At ths
reiterated Bradley Martin bail she is re
called enchaniing,y in saHles and cloth ri