The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23
DEFIED BY CUPID.
Quarantine Had No TerrOrs For
Emissary Of Love.
Prominent Couple Stricken
With Scarlet Fever.
THEY WERE Welded.
All Attendants We're Retained
i'm Quarantine.
Marriage Was fastened by the
Illness of Lovers.
THEY WE'RE Welded.

New York, March 23.-Love laughed
at quarantine last Saturday when Miss
Adelaide Fitzgerald and Eugene Sugay
ReynaI were married by the Rev. Fran
els J. Heaney in White Plains in TIA
presence only of their attending phvsi-
clan and trained nurses.
Bride and bridegroom We're stricken
with scarlet fever while guests Of How
ard Willets at Gedney Farm Manor. near
White Plains and when they learned
that mutual convalescence could not be
expected by April a. the date fixed for
their wedding originally, they decided on
the step which surprised the nurses
pleased their hospitable host and IS
bound to appoint society, which .x-
pected a fashionable ceremony and re-
cepti0n.
Miss Fitzgerald l. the second daughter
or Gen. Louis Fitzgerald and her hlIS-
band is tho son OF Mrs. Jules Reyral,
who was Miss Nathalie F. Higgins, a
cousin of Eugene Higgins and of Mrs.
Mortimer Brooks Young Reynal is a
noted whip polo player and an on
thusiastic in autOmobiling. He has bean
a conspicuous figure at the horse show
in New York and Westchester county
and is master Of the hounds Of the
Westminster Hunt club.
PLANNED ONLY SHORT VISIT.
1t was only a short visit that the be-
trotned couple planned to spend at Ged-
been arranged by their host. because after
a fortnight the young couple intended to
90 to Aiken. s c., to spend the remaining
time before the wedding. which was to
be celebrated in General Fitzgerald's home
Two weeks ago each of them fell i'll. and
DR.. Ernest Schmidt who was Summoned
dIagnosticated the cases as scarlet fever.
Mr.. Willets would not hear of their being
removed to their homes and two suites
were fitted up as hospitals in the roomy
Five trained nurses were engaged and
the house was put in the strictest quar-
antine- Mr. Willets even was not permit
ted to see his guests. and DR.. Schmidt and
Only one other was admitted on any pre-
text TO the sick rooms, and this favored
one was Cupid.
One Of the five trained nurses never will
forget her weeks experience She 1t was
who was selected to serve as Cupid's mes
senger. and her faithfulness is attested
by the success which eliminated in the
visit OF the clergyman Saturday. As
leave their beds. ali the arrangements foR
the wedding had to be made by CORE
spondence between the sick chambers
into the penciied notes, which lie wrote On
a board spread over the coverlid as he sat
bling fingers only may be conjectured.
The exact amount of hesitation and shy
ness, trepidition and bushes which the
bride must have put into her replies to
the lovers entreaties never will be known
DOCTOR WAS PUZZLED.
The nurse who acted as messenger trot-
ted her feet nearly or back and forth
between the two apartments. and DR..
puzzled many times when he found agita-
ton where he had prescribed absolute
THE case" had promised to be coming
well.
But Cupid's messenger. with her white
cap and apron. never Wearied. and she
was as pleased and proud any young
woman could be when she learned that
her work had not been in vain.
Perhaps the wedding might not have
come SO suddenly but for change for the
worse in Reynals condition On Friday
night his state was SO alarming that Drs.
JaneWay and Smith of New York and Dr.
J. r. Curtis were summoned. After a
patient that he was in grave danger.
Mr.. Reynal then wrote another note to
Miss Fitzgerald. The answer to this !
caused an improvement at once The |
Improvement was even more marked after
the ceremony had been performed.
and Miss Fitzgerald was placed on a |
couch and carried into his room as soon a s |
the clergyman arrived With the couch /
drawn close to the bedside and with hands /
clasped the two fever-stricken patients /
were made one Mr.. ReynaIs responses /
were firm, though his voice was weak. /
The bride did not falter.
NO PRESENTS, OF COURSE.
There were no flowers. no presents, no /
and old shoes, but DIR. Schmidt said after /
the ceremony that he thought both his !
patients showed Improvement
Immediately after the ceremony the rel Il
atives of the young couple were informed.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, the brides mother: Mrs /
Mrs E. c. Butler arrived at Gedney farm
after the wedding They were admitted /
and placed in quarantine. The party will |
not leave the house until the young cOu-
pie has recovered. General Fitzgerald.
the brides father. who is travelling in the
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