The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-17
HANNA'S DAUGHTER MARRIED.
STORY or A LOVE MATCH IN
WHICH THE GIRL WON OUT.


When Harry Parsons Asked for
Her Hand the Senator's Remarks
Were Sulphurous-Ihen He Went
Home and Saw His Daughter and
She Brought Him to Terms.
Cleveland. O., June 16.-The mar
riage of Miss Mabel Hanna. eldest
daughter of Senator and Mrs. NJ A.
Hanna, to Mr.. Harry Parsons of this
city, took place this afternoon at the
Hanna residence on Lake avenue.
Bishop Leonard of the Episcopal
Church performed the ceremony. Only
the closest friends of the Hanna and
Parsons families were present.
Harry Parsons. is Senator Hanna's
private secretary. Young Parsons
has quite a reputation locally as an
artist. He has never amounted to
much socially, and his wealth could
be counted with two or three ciphers.
On the other hand Miss Mabel has
always occupied one of the highest
social positions in both Cleveland
and Washington. She has been court
ed by men with titles, millionnaires
and the Beau Brummels of Washing
ton, but none of them interested her.
1t remained for this unassuming
young painter to step in and win her
affections without even dreaming that
he was doing so. He looked upon the
dashing daughter of the multimil-
lionnaire as a rare flower far beyond
his reach. He sighed for her and then
reproached his inner self for having
such mad aspirations.
But all this while the flower which
young Parsons worshipped was being
tossed about by romantic zephyrs, and
it was ever nodding approvingly at
him. Many months passed before he
discovered that, after all, his love was
not a hopeless one.
Picture started the Romance.
This romance had it's beginning in a
picture. One day at a local art exhibit
ton in Cleveland she saw a picture
which interested her. 1t was nothing
much, according to the critics-a river
and some lofty mountain peaks that
made a landscape.
But it pleased Mabel Hannas fancy,
and the painter pleased her still more,
for a mutual friend, who knew of her
great liking for the picture, took the
trouble to introduce him. That was
how their acquaintance began.
Next day the young artist received
an Invita- ton to call at the Hanna
mansion. He called again, and a third
time, and a fourth time, and ere long
he had come to know that the society
favorite, apparently as far out of his
reach as the stars above, was the one
woman in the world to him, though he
scarcely dared dream that he might
some day wed her.
But the fates that direct the destnies
of mortals had sent Cupid with a mes
sage straight to Mabel Hanna's heart.
She found in course of time that she
greatly liked the artist, whose visits
she had come to look forward to- Not
long after that she discovered that she
loved him.
When Mabel Hanna let him find out
this important state of her feelings he
was the happiest man in Cleveland
But both young people knew very well
that the course of their true love was
not likley to run smoothly. Papa Han
ma doomed up in the distance as the
rock on which their hopes were in dan
| ger of being dashed to pieces
What could be done about it? The
young man wasn't at all afraid He
would willingly have bearded the mill
| lionaire in the latter's office and asked
at once for the girls hand. But would
this be the wisest way?
Got Position as Secretary.
The girl herself insisted that 1t
wouldn't She would have her sweet
heart appointed as her fathers private
secretary. Then he could be always
near her and the senator could have
the opportunity to become better ac-
quainted with the youths good quail
ties.
Then, by and by, the situation could
be explained to the family and perhaps
things could be more easily managed
That was the girls ingenious idea, and
she worked it out practically even as
she had planned it.
What was done was that Harry Par
sons received the very position which
his sweethert had schemed so cleverly
to give him.
And Mark Hanna, up to his eyes in
stocks and politics, was blind to the
game that was being played on him.
Meanwhile the Senator came to be
very dependent on the secretary, whom
he found in every way a model and eX
emplary young man.
Courtship Lacked n Year.
Things couldn't have been better ar
ranged. 1t came about in the most
natural way that the Senator's secre-
tary saw much of the Senator's daugh-
ter. But the courtship couldn't 60 on
in this way forever. 1t lasted for more
than a year, and then one day it was
decided that the final crisis must be
met.
Senator, Hanna, in his pri-
vate office with its hand
some furnishings, heard his 7ecre-
tary speak out with frankness and
conclude with a request for Mabel's
hand.
81 love your daughter, SIR" said
young Parsons. "She loves me. May
I have her for my wife?"
The senator only stared in response.
Was the boy mad? He might easily
have asked for a million dollars. It
would have been more readily grant
ed
When Mark Hanna finally managed
to recover his equilibrium he gave
voice to his emotions. All the vials
of his wrath he poured forth on the de-
voted suppliant's head. The secretary
had not been hired to make love to the
employers daughter, he was informed.
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