The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-01
10 MARRY 4 PIANIST
Is the Latest Gossip as to Mrs.
Jack Gardner.
is A SECOND PADEREWSKl
People Began to Talk When
She Banquetted Him.

Boston, March 31.-By Mrs. Jack Gard
ner. Bostons noted society leader, one ex-
poets to be surprised or one does not ap-
preciate her charm. Therefore there are
those who believe the rumor that she will
give her hand to George W. Proctor tai
ented young pianist. At all events-and
there is no one who doubts that this is
true-the young man has fallen in love
with the fascinating widow
! Every romance has a beginning, though
1t is not always that. the public is per-
mitted to share the secret of it. But Mrs
Gardner, as becomes a woman with &C.
! centricities, is fortunately not timid nor
secretive. Her courage has made her ia
nous. 1t perrssts her TO declare her likes
4 or dislikes with equal candor. Thus il
| has made her an unusual figure in society
This latest little romance Of which she
! is the heroine had its beginning uniquely
enough under the gaze of a thousand eyes
Mrs. Gardner. by all rights of an eccen-
trio woman, is a creature of impulse. She
has the charm of an intensely emotional
nature. Music moves her so that she will
journey to New York and back to Bos-
ton in single day in order that she may
hear some favorite artist.
1t has been said that Mrs. Jack Gard
ner that she is never lovelier that when
listening to a Git of melody that capti-
Yates her ear. Habitually she is pale,
colorless, one might say except for her
masses of reddish hair of the tint that
Titan loved to paint. She has complex
ion that is pale and eyes of blue that are
he
gestion of fragility, the willowy fragility
/ that today is in striking contrast with the
modern Diana.
Under the Influences of music Mrs. Gard
ener's eyes become dark, her cheeks glow
family, her breath comes quickly through
half-parted lips, her whole body becomes
animated. She is responsive to every note
Artists have declared that this feeling,
when it exists, communicates itself across
the barrier of footlights and upholstered
chairs to the stage itself. Be that as it
may, this romance began with some such
thrill of feeling in the artistic soul of Mrs.
Gardner. She expressed II openly, and
forthwith was started rumor that Mrs
Gardner would discard her widows weeds
to marry the gifted pianist, George w
Proctor. Psi
He had played one night at Steinert
Hall concerto by Paderewski-had play
ed it so that the master himself might
have rejoiced. HIS audience was reused
TO applaud as vigorously as Kid gloves
would permit. One among them was
moved TO expression more pronounced.
Mrs. Jack Gardner rose in her seat and
flung at the young mans feet bunch of
Enthusiastically her favorite flower.
It was enough. The next day, with the
news that Mrs. Jack Gardner, the only
society woman in New England who rails
es violets for her pleasure, had bestowed
a bunch of them upon the unknown plan
list, spread the rumor that he was a fav-
ored sutton.
The young mans denial that so much
happiness is in store for him or even
denial from the widow herself is not con-
sidered as final Mrs. Gardner has the
reputation of being capable of doing any
thing. She may if she choose bestow her
hand and her affections where her friends
would think it most unlikely.
1t is an open secret that it was Mrs.
Jack" herself who furnished the money
for Mr.. Proctor to go abroad and study
under the great LesehetisH himself.
When she returned from her villa in Flor
ence just before Christmas last year
among the Boston friends who welcomed
her at the pier was Gorge Proctor.
People are always prepared and yet IN
prepared for what Mrs. Gordner may do
next. They have known her to throw
them all completely aside to entertain in
charming bohemian fashion, artists. mu-
sicians. and rising literary persons in
whom she fancied she detected a degree
of talent. They have known her to Guido
in Lenten penance all the fasts and de-
privations that the bellies of Boston had
set themselves. 1t surprises no one to
hear that Mrs. Gardner. considering the /
of sweets and festivals abso- |
lutely inadequate TO express contrition. |
donned her oldest gown, borrowed an ap- |
ron and on her knees scrubbed the floor |
of Boston's most ritualistic Episcopacy, |
the Church of the Advent
She has set all sorts of examples in the |
Hub. as she has claimed all sorts OF priv !
ileges. She had the courage to be the |
first woman 10 make personal examina- |
ton of big Sandow's muscles She II was !
who started the fad for Carmencita by |
having her dance at her private house |
for a party of her most exclusive friends. |
Long before the day when she went to see
Corbett. because she wanted to-" and |
the day when she borrowed a lion from
the Boston Zoo to play with. Mrs. Gard /
ner had been quoted as extraordinary, /
unique fascinat ting
Nothing could be more natural than
that she should have captivated the heart 4
Of Mr.. Proctor. Has she given him hers? /
No one may say positively until Mrs. /
Gardner Acknowledges her engagement. |
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