The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-25

voice will not be hidden.
BOSTON, July ST became engaged
| by cable and am ready to marry by
cable If it should be necessary" Such
! is the announcement just made public
here from Paris by Miss Harriet God
| dard, a Boston girl. She left the United
States with little but beauty and a prom
| Using voice. She has gained with these
| a place among the highest musical cir
cles of Europe; she has won title OF
loneliness in d city where AL are reput-
ed beautiful" and as a climax she has
received a proposal of marriage by cable
from man of millions. who. by the
way, cut out an Italian count. And all
this she has done in a little over two
years.
In Italy enthusiastic natives, among
them countless counts, strove to win her
favor; in France and particularly in
Paris, ardent Frenchmen devoted them
selves to her; but over the heads of
them it was an American, Mr.. s. 4.
Wood, now engaged in law and the sugar
exporting business in Honolulu. who sue
ceeded in carrying off the prize.
And he did it in a manner so particu-
larry American that the heads of the
foreign suitors have not yet done swim
ming. Some of them. particularly one
Italian count, knew that Miss Goddard
and Mr.. Wood, who met each other at
Naples, We're very good friends. They
congratulated themselves when this
source of danger was removed, and Mr.
Wood was in far-off Honolulu making
sugar and money.
But one evening fell thunderbolt
Miss Goddard announced her recent en-
gagement to the American sugar mer-
chant
He had been making love as well as
money and sugar.
But how?" exclaimed the Italian count
and certain Frenchmen in their different
languages.
It was then that the young woman
made the statement which begins this
story and which threw the European cir
cles of, deyotees into confusion
She was like the Homeric Penelope SIT
ting among her suitors and waiting for
the One Man to come along. Il became
engaged by cable" she says, land I am
ready to marry by cable If il should be
necessary"
The Italian count retired with as much
grace as possible, which was not any too
much. but novelty loving Frenchmen
have worked themselves into quite a
frenzy of delight over this feat, which
they call a romance of the cable Never
before, they say, has the cable been put
to matrimonial use at anything like so
long range. And they are quite right
From New York to Naples. from San
Francisco to Florence and from Chicago
to Paris the sugar king kept the wires
humming The last to Rome, asked,
will you wed me?" The answer was
Yes"
So Miss Goddard has become heroine
of real romance and her apartments
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flowers sent in most part by old world
admiring cavaliers. who have been taught
lesson in love-making by an up-to-date
lover of the new world.
It was in Naples about six months ago
that Mr.. Wood met Miss Goddard. She
had just made her debut in opera in the
role of Elsa in Wagners "Lohengrin,' in
the Municipal Opera House in Modena,
and music-loving Italians had taken her
up with all the enthusiasm that is native
to Tuscany. They came with flowers and
attentions and any other but the sensi-
BILE. even if talented, American girl would
have had her head turned round COM
pletely.
Mrs. Clifford w. Goddard. who is chap
eroning her daughter, evidently feared
that there existed an apparent danger
that the young singer might be daZzled
by q title particularly as one count was
most assiduous in his attentions. The
mother said nothing, but there seems to
be little doubt that she hailed the ad
vent of an American with delight. That
American was Mr.. Wood, and he and
the songstress became great friends.
He is rich, stalwart, a lover of the
art to which Miss Goddard has devoted
her life, and altogether the match is
pleasing from every point of view. Miss
Goudard's sister, in Dorchester, and her
father, who is at present on a vacation
to Sydney n. S. W., have just received
word of the engagement.
Before Miss Goddard and her mother
left Italy pressing business matters call
ed Mr. Wood to Honolulu, and, although
nothing was said at the time the for
eigners are now convinced that the
American made more progress in his
wooing in a shorter space of time than
all of them together during all the period
of their attention. They also realize that
love laughs at distance in these days
of cable communication, and that all
American girls are not mad after titles.
Miss Goddard had been in Italy for
some two years or more and, while she
became known as a young woman of the
most promising voice some time ago. 1t
WIS not until her debut at the Modena
theatre that musical people realized that
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a Sw possession.
Size had been under the instruction of
Maestro annini, famous Italian teach
er, for ne; riy all the time she had been
abroad. sid as she became more and
more ski led. approaches about her debut
began to come from all sides.
She was asked to appear in Messina
in Aida as the leading soprano. at
Asst in 'tagliacci," and in ANDRE
Chenier;;'' at Nome In ''Trovatore," at
Venice in Tristan and Isolde" and in
other operas in other Italian cities. But
on the advice of her instructor she
chose to accept an offer to sing the part
of Elsa in 'Lohengrin," for which her
physical and facial beauty so well suited
her.
She appeared in this part In the Modena
Opera House On February 5th last and
the following day the papers were unan-
imous in her praise.
I'll Panaro, Modena paper, was
esnecialIy cofnulimentary in its criti-