The St. Louis Republic., 1901-01-20

army is not wearing the willow to any ap-
preciable extent. Society. OF course. Is
locking on at all this little affair. and
seems to be about evenly divided as to how
it will eventually turn out When, some
weeks ago. the handsome Adjutant General
went to New York rather Unexpectedly. os-
rensibly to recover from an attack of grip.
society laughed behind its fans and wittily
remarked that It was because he had lost
his grip that the trip to New York was
made. At that time the bright particular
star on his horizon was, as all the fash
ionable world knows, Miss Edith Patten.
whose sisters SO strenuously opposed the
idea Of her marriage. in order to keep the
Patten millions intact in the family. that
the General was finally Informed by the
young lady that all things considered, she
would hold to her sisters and even as they
had done, would eschew matrimony.
Traced Up I'm True Military style.
This was undoubtedly due to the fact that
her two older sisters were SO urgently op-
posed to the idea Of their younger sisters
marriage as to have intimated TO the Adju-
tant General that they could no longer ac-
cord him the cordial welcome in their home
TO which for SO long he had become accus-
toned.
as the sequel proves, not to NOPE nor TO
waste his sghs and tears moon gazing.
Nothing of the kind. On the contrary, he
braced up In true military style and set
about face with good will.
Now 1t seems that instead of a bright.
particular star, a veritable meteor has
famed across the horizon OF the Adjutant
General of the Army, and with his accus-
toned determination he Is pushing bis
claims in that quarter with right good will.
Attentive to Miss Helen Gould.
This meteor is none other than Miss Hell
en- Gould, between whom and General Cor
bin there has existed a correspondence not
of few months, but of several years. 1t
is to be set down one of the romances Of
the Spanish-American War, for il dates
back to that time and was begun through
the formal correspondence in which at that
time Miss Gould not infrequently sought to
obtain necessary information in regard to
the condition of the soldiers in whose cause
she was so nobly interested. At the outset
of the correspondence the two had never
met. but after some little while, with the
letters going back and forth, 1t was not to
be wondered at that meeting should take
place and most pleasant acquaintance
followed The correspondence still kept up
and so, when, at the close of the war, 1t
was no longer absolutely necessitated by
business. 1t continued by mutual desire and
has since existed in this interesting fash |
ion. for Miss Gould is an unusually clever
and. moreover. from time to
time she has wished to consult the Adju-
tant General upon first one and then anoth- |
pr of her charitable projects in connection |
With the betterment of the soldiers csndi- |
ton. |
Iypon her arrival In Washington II was |
he Adiutant General who met Miss Gould |
and her party at the station and It was in |
his company that the fret days sight-see- |
ng was accomplished, and II was as his |
yuest that luncheon was enjoyed on that |
)ccas sion.
And so II Is because of all this that socie- |
" Is greatly exercised and pondering deep /
V on the ultimate outcome.