The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-13

ingly. 'Insthsr West we would call this
spring We don't wear furs until the
mercury falls to 50 degrees below zero"
The New York girls teeth chartered like
castanets. her remark about Mum
chausen coming out of the West" was
lost to the rosy-cheeked Westerner. who
continued to air her RS as they pushed
along In the teeth of the wind.
why, | remember one winter In Min
nesota when the chickens froze stiff on
their perches. Rows of them, perfectly
petrihed. with all their feathers sticking
out, dead, quite dead. in the morning!
"Then we sometimes had mild freezes
and the chickens nearly lost their feet
| dropped off whole or in toes according to
| the severity of the cold. Roost3 Oh, no
| they couldn't roost without feet, but they
| hoped round on the stumps, and when
a very bad night came we let some of
! them sleep on the kitchen floor. l recall
| three generations of chickens whose feet
were frozen Off, and you may not be-
lieve 1t, but the fourth generation was
! Matched feetlessl 1t was cunning to see
| the little pun balls toddle around on their
! little pipe-stem stills"
The New York girl plunged her hands
| deeper into her nun and looked resigned
| Don't you think that was rather
| cute?' asked the Western girl.
Yes, but I'm surprised that the chick
ems had to go around on stumps. l had
an idea that ears and noses and feet and
such things grew again when they were
| frozen off in the West"
well. 1 never!' said the Western
girl.
The charms OF the American girl. says
| the New York Journal. are still playing
havoc with the hearts of titled foreigners.
Periodically this fact revives the ques-
| ton of international marriages. A whole
| list OF American girls who have succum-
| bed to the allurement of a title instantly
presents itself for consideration Three
more are to be added to 1t.
| Three barons have recently succumbed
| to the American heiress and won her. Two
| have announced their engagement, and
one has married within the past month.
An engagement is after all, the most
natural event in the world, yet, by some
| absurd anomaly, people. nine times out
of ten, are surprised when one is an
nounced.
The engagement, for instance, OF the
| beautiful daughter of Ex-Governor Frank
| Brown, of Maryland. came as a surprise
to every one. Now these same people are
wondering why they were not prepared.
All last summer, when May Brown was
| abroad with her father and brother, tax
| ports of a handsome, distinguished baron
| who was constantly at her side, fioated
| over. Baron Rudolph Lehman, veal
| thy Hollander and the Consul General for
| Greece to the Netherlands, had been in
troduced to Miss Brown by her father just
after their arrival in Paris. From that
moment he attached himself so to speak,
TO the wheels of her chariot.
There were rumors then, but nothing
came of them. They died out, and early
in the fall Miss Brown returned with her
| father and brother to her home I'm Balti-
| more
The Baron and the lovely brunette were
| separated just few months when he APP
| peared as a guest of the Ex-Governor.
Miss Browns friends expressed great sur
prise and wondered how it all came
| about.
May Brown is tall stately gracious and
well-bred. In a city renowned for its
| beauties, she stands as one of the great
est.
! While May Brown and the handsome
| Holander were inspecting the sights az
the Exposition. Maud Brice. of Philadel-
phia was lingering in Hamburg. A dash
ing officer of a regiment of Uhlans de-
tanned her. He was Baron Frederick
Frantz Won Corning
! This Boran, too has been for some
| weeks in America. He came to Philadel-
phia on a diplomatic mission; at least he
| says it required the tact and science of a
| diplomat.
He had been in Philadelphia only a
couple OF days when he became the guest
Of Maud Brice's sister, Mrs. Frederick
Turnbull.
Since the early days of November he
and Miss Brice have been driving and
walking together and talking in the way
lovers have when they don't care If all the
world observes them, so long as they have
one another.
Since Miss Brice's visit TO Hamburg the
| Baron has left his army I'm order to make
a home for his future wife. Evidently he
| believed he should win her, for he re-
signed from service before he came over
| to ask for her hand
He returned to Germany a few weeks
ago with his answer. and the wedding.
though not announced. is looked for early
| next summer
Lillian Langham, the daughter of
| Charles Langham, a mine owner of Idaho,
and one of the wsealthiest men in the
| West, surprised no one when she an
nounced that she was going to marry
Baron Herman Speck Won Sternberg.
Every one had suspected for months how
1t would all end. And nov ii has ended
just as they would have had it.
Lillian May Langham and Baron Stern
berg were married early last month at
st. Georges Church, Hanover Square,
London.
Most of her girlhood was spent by the
recently created Baroness in the Kentucky
Blue Grass region. She was brought up
in Louisville, with her unces family
Like every Louisville girl that is proud
of the title, she rides as well as a woman
may.
Last year she went abroad with her
mother, and on the trip over she was the
heroine of one of those remarkable cpl
sodes that always seem unreal in novels
Baron Won Sternberg was a passenger on
the same steamer.
According to all Miss Langham's
friends, 1t was case of love az first
sight.
The three new Baronesses will be three
new beauties to make the eyes of foreign
ers glad. Here the career OF each will be
watched with interest in her native town.
The following is told at the expense OF
an American gentleman who was recently
stopping with his wife at a big London
hotel. On their first evening there he hap
pened to retire somewhat later than his
spouse. Arriving at the door of what he
magined to be his room, and finding It
locked he tapped and called, Honey
No answer came, and he called again,
more loudly. Honey Still he got 70