The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-02
UNIQUE AMONG FOUR HUNDRED
Miss Burke Roche Delights in Pas times Unusual With Her Associates.

The four hundred who supposed to com pose the exclusiv society of New, York are number. pretty, wealthy and aristocratic Cynthia Burke Roche. She is expected to cut
 quite a figure in the social gatherings of the
 metropolis the coming Winter. She Is called the most unusual girl in the set Of course
 she is pretty. No one could be a daughter of the beautiful Fanny Work and James Burke
 Roche. esteemed the handsomest man in Lon don twenty years ago. and not be the pos-
 sessor of good looks, but there are many girls in New York's 400 who pretty. An equally natural heritage from such father and such | a mother is an aristocratic air of good breed ing. but there are many girls in New York society who have the comme il faut air to an | equal extent The real reason is something entirely different and that its possesson makes girl of the highest position in the greatest of | American cities unique is a most distressing | situation. but it Is nevertheless a far too true | one.
 She is true blue American. That Is the se- J cret. She believes in America. in the insti- 1 tutions of the United States and that it Is the | best and greatest country in the world. These | beliefs, 1t Is qute true are only sucn as
 every American girl should hold, but unfor-
 members think there is nothing quite so good | in America and they are willing to do any
 thing to acquire one Miss Cynthia Burke | Roche will inherit one in her own right some | day, but she says she cares nothing about | it and will never use 1t. while as for marry
 ing a foreiener@: Never .. s. o,,,, | mother has something to do with her dect-
 sion in regard to matrimony, for as all the I | enchanting view of the British nobleman. She
 was the naughty. brilliant and beautiful
 daughter of Frank Work. the millionaire I broker and married about twenty-one or | twenty-two years ago James Burke Roche. | young Irishman, whose only assets were the facts that his eldest brother was Lord Fermoy, l and that he was considered the handsomest | man Of the London season. He had no money l and Frank Work strongly opposed his daugh- ters marriage, but without avail. Directly | they were married the young couple went to | London. where for the next six years Mrs | Burke Roche of the ladies in Lon 1 don's most exclusive sets. During this time l Cynthia and two twin brothers had been b' m l At the end of six years Mrs. Burke Roche l left her husband. returned to the United states and secured divorce, leaving her twins with
 the father and taking Cynthia with her. Dur
 ing the years from that day until now Mrs | figure in New York society. Her father 2 | enormous wealth. her circle of friends, which | all important in society and not one of whom 1 had she ever lost or estranged owing to hel | one of the most powerful women socially In l America and this power she has coveted and | guarded and loved simply for the benefit Il | would some time be to her daughter.
 | Now the time has arrived and this Winter l Miss Cynthia Burke Roche will make hel 1 formal bow to society, a little glimpse oi | which she had last Summer at Newport. and | in which glimpse society showed plainly its
 willingness to accept her at her mothers valu' | aton.
 | Like her mother, who still retains all of tht | beauty which has made her famous over two continents Miss Bu,ke Roche Is tall and sien der. but 1.-the and active. In her face Is com hined the rich beauty of her father and tht | patrician elegance of her mother. Although l rather taller than the average girl she car ] ries herself well. and the strength which ha' | made her one of the hest athletes in the rank. | of the 400 shows itself in every line of hel ! figure and in every movement she makes.
 | She was 8 years old on the 10th of las | April but three years ago she won the titl' | of Newports champion swimmer bv swimming
 one day from Bai!ey's beach to Hazards bay | a distance of over threc-quarters of a mile anc | arriving there as fresh apparently as though | she had swan only 100 yards.
 | At lawn tennis and at golf she is equally 1 expert. and. although she has never competed | in any toui naments. she has shown such ski
 in practice and friendly matches that she woul' | surely be q most formidable opponent in any 1 tournament There Is more finished or bet ter horseman in the country than her grand | father Frank Work and Miss Burke RoCh h' l inherits all his skill and fondness for horses She can drive anything from pony to l fnuy-in-hand with all the skill of pref S 1 sional whip and her courage has been provcC many time A couple of Summers ago sh'
 had particularly severe test of it. She anC l another girl were driving at Newport when storm overlook them and the lightning arr | thunder made their horse nearly frantic. lIt l holted and ran and 1t seemed If terrible 1 accident certain to result but hy the | most conc ummate cooln-sS and pluck Mis: ! Burke R-che pulled him down anl averted the | disaster