The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-16
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The young Duke of Manchester is a
man of many engagements Cleo de
Merode, the French dancer with tbs
sanity face, is the latest of long list
OF young women to whom he has been
engaged. says the New York Journal
All of them have been beautiful or fabu-
lousy rich or otherwise interesting II
would probably be impossible to find a
young man of twenty-five who has a
wider acquaintance with feminine charms
than his grace of Manchester. He sued
for the hand of Miss May Goelet, daugh-
ter OF the late Ogden Goelet, of New
York. and it was published in the Lon
don Daily Tel graph that he was going to
marry her. With Miss Goelet he would
have won $25.OO0 coo
When Mr.. Goelet absolutely forbade the.
match the duke, in despair, offered h S
hand to a charming young woman of the
Gaiety theater popularity known as Miss
Gladys. Here his mother interviewed and
rescued him. Next he proposed to Miss
Ethel Barrymore, the beautiful young
American actress and niece of John Drew
She politely declined his offer. We can
imagine her saying:
'No, thank you sir; do not care to be
duchess"
Then he really became engaged to Miss
Joan Wilson, daughter of Charles Henry
Wilson. who is brother of the famous
baccarat Wilson's, of Tranby Croft Miss
Wilson is very handsome girl of the
pure English type and is sister of Miss
Enid Wilson, who has recently been de-
cared to be the most beautiful woman in
England.
Mr.. Wilson is a very rich man, but all
he proposed to hand over as a dowry for
his daughter was $4,000 a year The
dukes relatives considered this simply
scandalous insisted on breaking off the
match.
What the duke may have done in the
intervals of these engagements we can
not pretend TO say. There may have been
several minor engagements
Cleo de Merode figures In the latest,
which is also one of the most Interesting
OF the series. The young duke went to
Paris three weeks ago. He saw Cleo de
Merode. He obtained an introduction
and with his customary impetuosity he
fell in love. He took her to supper to
dinner and to breakfast. He sent her
armfuls of flowers. He wooed her ar
IDENTIFY, but all his wooings were carried
on under the atchful eye of Madame de
Merode, mother of the dancer, whose
omnipresence is so well remembered by
many gentlemen in New York
To prove the depth of his love, he pre-
scented her with a bracelet containing
magnificent Burmah ruby surrounded
with diamonds. He obtained it from
great firm of jewelers., Guy ct Fills, in the
Rue de la PaiX. He opened an account
with them on which the bracelet figured
for $1,000 Other jewels followed as pre-
SentS to the danSeuse.
One fine afternoon, it is said, he pro.
posed to her, while her mother knitting,
looked diScretly out of the window. Cleo
shyly accepted him. The duke hurried
off to the marie of the reimbursement
and arranged the formalities of the civil
marriage From this point word was sent
to the British embassy and somebody
there remembering that the duke was
only a year out of his minority sent word
to his grandmamma and his mother
Ills mother, you will remember was the
pretty Consuelo Iznaga, of New York.
His grandma is the Duchess of Devon
shire She went posthaste to Paris and
succeeded in wrenching her only grand
son away from the object Of his affections
by main force. AS a marriage could not
have taken place legally in France
really nothing 10 be done.
Cleo de Merode was bitterly disappoint-
ed by this event. She was so overcome
with emotion that she concealed herself
from public view for several days The
Paris correspondent of the Sunday Jour
nal cables that it was with difficulty he