The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-12
NOES OF 4 DUKELNG
How His Young Grace of
Manchester Falls in Love.
THEN FALLS OUT AGAIN
Always Under Compulsion of
His Prudent KinSfoIk.


Cleo de Merode, the French dancer with
the sanity face, is the latest OF a long
list Of young women TO whom he has been
engaged.
All of them have been beautiful or fab
ulously rich or otherwise interesting.
would probably be impossible to find
young man of twenty-five who has q
wider acquaintance with feminine charms
than His Grace of Manchester.
He sued for the hand of Miss May Goe-
let, daughter of the late Ogden Goelet. OF
New York. and it was published in the
London Daily Telegraph that he was 60
ing TO marry her, With Miss Goelet he
would have won 600
When Mr.. Goelet absolutely forbade the
match the Duke, in despair. offered his
hand to a charming young woman of the
Gaiety Theatre popularity known as Miss
Gladys Hree his mother interviewed and
rescued him.
Next he proposed TO Miss Ethel Barry
more, the beautiful young American act
ress and niece of John Drew. She politely
declined his offer. We can imagine her say
ing:
mo thank you sir; do not care to be a
duchess"
Then he really became engaged to Miss
Joan Wilson, daughter 70 Charles Henry
wilson, who IS a brother of the famous
baccarat Wilson's, of Tranby Croft. Miss
Wilson is very a handsome girle of the
pure English type and is a sister of Mss
Enid Wilson, who has recently been de-
clared to be the most beautiful in Eng
land
Mr.. Wilson is a very rich man, but all
he proposed 10 hand over as the dowry for
his daughter was s15, 900 year. The Dukes
relatives considered this scandulous and
insisted on breaking off the match.
What the Duke may have done in the
intervals Of these engagements we connot
pretend to asy. There may have been sew
eral minor engagements.
Cleo de Merode figures in the latest,
whichis also one OF the most interesting
of the series.
The young Duke went to Paris three
weeks 40. He saw Cleo de Merode. He
obtained an introduction, and with mis-
customary impetuosity he fell in love. He
took her to suppers to dinner and to break
fast. He sent her Srmfuls Of flowers. He
wooed her ardently, but all his wooings
were carried on under the watchful 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 a
magnificent Burmah ruby surrounded with
diamonds. He obtained It from a great
firm of jewellers, Guy ct Fills. in the Rue
de la Paix He opened an account with
them on which the bracelet figured for So
Co., Other jewelers. followed as presents to
the danseuse.
One fine afternoon. It Is said, he pro-
posed TO her, while her mother, knitting,
looked discreetly out of the window. Cleo
shyly accepted him.
The Duke hurried eff to the Marie Of the
ACCOMPLISHMENT and arranged the formal
ties Of the civil marriage. From this point
word was sent to the British Embassy
and somebody there. remembering that the
Duke was only year out of his minority,
sent word to his grandmama and his mo-
Their.
His mother, you will remember, was the
pretty Consuelo Iznaga. OF New York.
His grandmother is the Duchess OF De
vonsire.
She went posthaste 10 Paris to Paris and
succeeded in wrenching her only son away
from the object OF his affections by main
force. As marriage could not have taken
place legally in France against the Ouch
ess' wishes, there was really nothing to be
done.
Cleo de Merode was bitterly disappointed
by this event. She was so overcome with
emotion that she concealed herself from
public view for several days.
The Paris correspondent for the Journal
cables that It was with difficult ne could
persuade Mademoiselle de Merode to speak
She refused TO Discus certain features Of
the episode which have been made public.
All she would say was:
yes. the Duke Of Manchester and have
parted. I am not heart broken. The Duke
is a charming young nobleman, but I only
regarded his proposal as a complimentary
one. It is the way. that emperors. kings.
princes and dukes have OF showing their
appreciation Of art. American artists ike
Sibyl Sanderson know this well
The Dukes lovemaking was extremely
ardent picturesque and well bred. No
royal lover could have improved upon II.
His parents were magnificent and IN ex-
cellent atste. Il would not be proper for
ne to 90 into further details on this point
Il am not n the matrimonial market.
do not want 20 mary the Duke % Man
chester or anybody else. am welded 20
M art"
Her mother. who was mare expensive,
said among other things.
Tt "a cruel 20 lacerate TIE heart % a
trusting young woman n this way. what
Z . was a nob,e2 ne Won the heart q ny
dauhtar He pledged Re word and he has
no righht q break &. Does Re tAIak TIA,
because ny daughter Is an actress she has /
no heart?
"Ah. how c-ue! IFS frieods u1us; be % /
take hin away,
Y do not believe TIA; ny daughter wi I
ever Be the same Joyful. light hearted girl /
that she hss been.~
Another crrel blox awaited Geo = +
threatened 20 take away from her whas +
sale consolation remained after the Duke 4
had heea torn swsy
He vas CARED OF - hardly rat hs 4
terEo, III about ne account - mad opened /
z1ta .he teEeleT. Thss ws~say began % 4
be alarmed about his property. BE aegaa 4
u b alarmed about h3s property Re De-
mznde5 IRE return from Geo - tie brace
let ard other tr-uka-s shs bad re1stved.
she saw 10 sentimental o. other resa9n
Tor giving faern I'D. TIE feze-er shreatsr-
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Az th.= polzt 0ard Eas sent - S1s
Dukes relatives that - Was la danger q
aal-E scesssd u es1n1l5nE- The Freuch
= y ioosas seversly za8a q Eeatlsgaa $40
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