The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-26
ROMANCE OF A SWEET FACE
How a Young Man Met His Fate in q
Magazine Picture

How Young Man Met His Fate in q
Magazine Picture.
New York, Dec. 25.-The Journal says:
Quite recently Mr.. Richard Harding Davis
discarded the theme Of winning a bride
through a chance photograph as unreal
In his Princess Aline, though he re-
tanned incident as a basis for the novel.
he revesed the order Of proceedings. His
hero fell in love with quite another per-
son.
If Mr.. Davis had read the romance
about to be unfolded here he would have
known that all things are possible, and
this one delightful besides.
He would have learned that the matri
| monial venture upon which Mr.. Archi-
| bald Jermain Mcclure and Miss Anna
Austin Cassin entred just a week ago,
was the direct result of beautiful bit
of paper.
| To nine observers out Of ten it might
have seemed but an ordinary magazine
cut.
But when the eyes Of young Mr.. Nc
Clure rested upon It it had become the
embodiment of grace and charm. 1t
formed the turning point Of his life.
One may speculate endlessly as to what
he might have done and what he might
have been if this exquisite representation
had not come upder his eyes. For US TO
enter upon any such imaginings would
be distressing, since they would but de-
lay the telling Of a romance which began
with every charm to commend it and
which ended. as every love story should,
with the sounds of wedding bells last
week in Albany.
There are no young people better known
in the town Of Albany than Archibald
| Mcclure and the beautiful Anna Cassin.
| He is a grandson of the late James B.
Jermain, the millionaire philanthropist.
She is the daughter OF the capitalist John
Cassin, of Rensselaer,.
Being wealth, without having had 10
work to make himself 50. young Mcclure
was able to enjoy himself and TO spend
what money he would. not on increasing
his fortune. but on widening his expert
| ence After leaving college he chose 10
see the world He went to Europe and
having somewhat exhausted the fields
there. returned TO the United States.
There came a day when he felt that he
knew their products and possibilities too
little. To be OF a country and ignorant
of it, seemed 70 young Mcclure crime.
and he started off, as he expressed IT,
| to learn things.
To this end he stopped at mining dis
tricts, questioned engineers, descended
shafts. studied assaying and entred deep
" into the physical geography Of MS
country.
He climbed mountains. crossed rivers.
studied the layout OF towns, inquired into
populations. estimated their growth and.
made up his mind finally that the West
was the place 10 live.
Many a man as venturesome and bound
Dv no ties Of deep-we1. let Us say it.
Of the only-love that counts. has decd
ed similarly.
Young Mcclure wrote his parents that
the new West seemed 20 him altogether
quit the place for a young man TO start
and build FOR himself a career. He went
to san Francisco and studied Their the
possibilities in every channel from real
estate 20 banking Incidentally ne re-
viewed the charming women that san
Francisco sends out annually much as
is as prolific They seem. as It were. 70
grow on evry stem.
Young Mcclure passed them al BY with
never q desire u PUCK one.
He had the reputation among his friends
who. after the manner o. friends vowed
they knew him well. OF being invulner-
a5le
l. was frequently predicted q him thst
he would never fsu in love he had
heen in the midst Of te1nptats11.the graf
est 50 otter. and he had never saoFu a
symptom even 90 weakness
he In the de-1unsire fashton 81 youth
vowed that 10 hin All girls were alike.
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tell which l. Tasch. Put a E.-i n Ealte
and she's Ike any other sir. isn't She
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