The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-08

Mr.. Westacott was naturally indig-
nant at being the recipient of such a
letter.
persons with titles to sell need not
expect to make the United States con-
sulate a clearing house." he said. II
should like it understood I resent such
a proposition as a deliberate and deep
insult to my countrywomen."
Yes said Mr.. Morse. a well-known
lawyer of Boston, who was present.
1T is certainly a grievous insult. You
violate no confidence in publishing ii.
1 am father of four daughters. and
personally / feel If could get the or
iginator OF such a proposition by the
neck 1 should take great pleasure in
wringing it,
The Boston Transcript is responsible
for the following:
Kitty-So you have managed to get
Fred to propose at last? How did you
bring it about?
Bertha-I borrowed Mamie's engage
ment ring and had II on the third fin
ger of my left hand when Fred called
last evening.
Kitty-And what did he say?
Bertha-He saw it the lnoment he
got into the room. He looked as though
he'd go through the floor. Finally he
mustered up courage to ask if it was
an engagement ring, and 1 said Yes"
That was no lie, you know. 1t was an
engagement ring--Mamie's you know.
kitty-And then?
Bertha-Then he gasped, and L
thought he would faint But the up
shot of it was he proposed.
There is in San Francisco a typical
| bachelor girl of the modern sort who
/ prafaPS har ipdapendaOCa m anU Ixiud
| of a husband.
/ She has had all sorts offered her,
and she has demonstrated that her
/ sentiments on the question are some
thing more than idle words by refus-
I ing every one of them. And instead
| of keeping house for a sman she is
keeping house for a salary, having
| charge of one of the fashionable FAM
| lily hotels of San Francisco.
| She hasn't always worked for a liv-
! ing. Her father was wealthy. But
he lost his money and he took a sec
! ond wife. both of which events she
/ deemed good and sufficient reason why
I she should leave the paternal roof and
set out on her own career
! Brought up amid surroundings CT
luxury and refinement. this girl, Miss
Frances Richie, had every advantage.
| She was beautiful and accomplished
1
skirts men began laying their hearts
and their fortunes a her feet. She
| has been kept busy ever since refus-
| ing them. She hasn't been disappoint-
| ed in love, and the marriage question
! certainly with her isn't in the "sour
grapes" class. She simply hasn't want
ed a husband. and she has had to be
very insistent in the matter to con-
vince the men of her acquaintance
| N1,aA
| one.
She has refused more offers-ex-
| tremely eligible officers, too--than most
women have the good luck to get in
| a lifetime. Noblemen and millionaires,
and mine owners and cattle kings, and
bankers and capitalists, and army Of
ficers are numbered among her reject
ed suitors.
There was a $40, 900, 900 mine owner of
San Francisco to whom she said mo"
first. II wouldn't have married him
if he'd had twenty times twenty mil
lions" she assured her friends who ex-
postulated with her for losing such a
| chance.
Once she met young prince of Bat
Z tenberg, brother to Prince Henry, the
| favorite son-in-law of the late Queen
| Victoria. 1t was in Honolulu. when
he was making a tour of the world.
All the rest of femininity sued for the
| favor of his smiles, but this American
girl, enjoying a vacation on the island
with her chaperon, paid him not the
least attention.
| 1t piqued him, prince, not to be no
ticed by the prettiest girl at the ho-
| tel. He sent cards to her and her
chaperon expressing a desire to meet
them. He got back the reply that it
was not convenient for them to see
him, as the young lady was having her
hair washed and the elder lady was
| writing letter. He did, however man
age to meet her a great reception Civ
en- in his honor, and he herewith
| laughingly christened her Miss Amer
lean Independence"
When the week of his stay was over
he went away signing that a prince
! can't marry where he will, and he car
red with him a lock of Miss Ritchie's
glorious hair.
Mis- American Independence she has
been ever since, and people have come
to believe that she will be so to the
end.
"Ah, Evans! That is the most beauti-
full girl l have ever seem"
This, it is now known, was the en-
| thusiastic exclamation which Prince
| Henry of Prussia made in German To
| Admiral Robley D. Evans when he be-
| held Miss Gene Dolan, of Milwaukee.
Those who behold Miss Dolan's por-
| trait will agree that there is occasion
| Prince Henry, says the New York
| World, carried away distinct impress
| sion that the Milwaukee women were