The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-19
AS GOOD AS BEAUTIFUL
And as Rich as Good; That's
Mrs. ChaunCey.
POOR H0OSIER GIRL ONCE
Now Only One Paris Beauty
Can Rival Her.

New York, Jan. 1S.-The Journal says:
Because the name Of Mrs Samuel Sloan
Chauncey is destined to be on the lips
of the people of two continents Aer pic
ture is on this page.
She is beautiful, as he who has eyes
may see
She is young so that her future pro-
vokes prediction.
She Is a millionaire; therefore, II she
has ambitions they may be realized.
She is an American, and so she has
the courage to act upon her convictions.
Narrower. she is a widow! Apropos TO
this condition French girl once made
honest confession. IF I could be born
again." she said. I'D pray to be born
a widow"
The elimination of the French girls
desire has been attained by Mrs Chaun-
cey at the very beginning of her career.
She IS only twentw-four, heiress to
nearly two millions of dollars. and her
husband has been dead a year.
Her appearance recently in Paris has
threatened the dominion of Mrs George
Law, hitherto accounted the most beau
tiful widow Of the foreign American
colony.
Mrs. Law has eyes and hair of midnight
a complexion of milk, and money to
battle in champagne if she so desires.
She went to Europe a couple of years ago
and won the hearts of the Foubourg
with two accomplishments conspicuous
among a dozen. Shespoke their French
even as they themselves speak it, and
she was amiable beyond the need Of a
beautiful woman.
Mrs. Chauncey has outrivalled Mrs
Law in the same accomplishments Her
amiability was acquired during a child
hood of deprivation; her French by ap-
plication to her text book.
One of Mrs. Chauncey's most ardent
of the late Isabella Blanche Singer.
daughter of the New York inventor
The young Duke is handsome and very
rich. The Duchess Decazes, II will be
remembered. inherited from her father
about s7.0O000 When she died some
three years ago she left to her husband
the larger part OF her fortune
Alice Louise Carr Chauncey was born
on the barders Of Kentucky, in the little
town of Leavenworth, Indiana There
she spent the early years Of her child
hood. The neighbors recall her now, a
pretty, golden-haired child, who had A
way with her, as the saying IS. that won
Al hearts. They remember her in pin /.
azores and short frocks. with two littla /
pistails, that increased in SIZE with her
years. hanging down her pack. After (
all. 1t isr't very long ago since she was
NJ
les With TIE boys and girls That are suit
in Leavenworth. they all speak OF lit /
lie Alice Carr IS a remarkably PREF y 4
child no y as l. great fevOrite and very
studicus
Evidently she had ambitions then. as
though she foresaw that she must ~ /
herself for something besides being mere
y a beauty. II isn't an easy task for
a woman alone in the world to look az
ter millions, and that is what the little
Carr girl.'' who not more than ten years
ago was running about the highways and
oyways II L. venwOrth, has been now
called upon to do.
She is, one may easily understand. A
conspicuous figure IN Paris-z threaten
ng one 20 all other beauties as she
drives through The Bols IN marvellous
sreattons % black touched with shIse.
7r white shrouded with somhre back.
Her blond beauty IS well set Of BY the
The white vles with the
ieiicacy q her own coloTfng. and he
lack sets OF its glory - starting con
-sst.
Ars. Chaunoey nay rot be called
itrictiy a blonde. sfe Is more sptIy de-
'cri5e5 as chatsine- Her hair Is
'roEn. her eyes are blue. her cclorsng
1yId
Her Efe has not slzags been made up
Z the sunshine that rs present consi-
ions would seem 10 indicate. These
lave been attained after years o. hard
MP and 2-lvs:loa- As a ehll6 AZ Lesv-
nEorth she prooobly knew her happs~s,
aFs she mag have h8a Der sorrows-f
8 ali chittrea hsvs-ovsr del that Rad
osG is head ~ a ratscaeFto1s bay thar
az stolen her arpiez Bat nez SIC szs
moan what 4 Is - lose dear fathsr.
fsToT.te bTothsf. be5oTe1 hzsh1n6
Mrs.. Chsuacey has suffered Ens
hors RS tn her ssts. E.lg extremely
0Gng. no-s thar primarily 1eaEtssaL