Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-03-05

ception of Miss Bertha Krupp.)
ding. In addition, however, she has
character and chart of happiness
by which she sails serenely past de-
cayed and degenerate princes, fop'
pish young earls, dukes and barous
who offer themselves for sale like
secondhand sofas at the auctioneer's
shop. Everybody gayes with wonder
at each announcement that Miss
Goelet will not marry another titled
sutton, says the Chicago Chronicle.
First, according to report, there
came his grace the duke of Manchester.
Hardly anybody will dispute the as
sertion that the young duke was
bad bargain even on the face Of
things. He had a complexion which,
to speak charitably, was an in
sigma of either ill-health or dis
sipation. 10 lay at the feet OF
this pure, white American girl.
his grace brought unhealthy youth
and a title, soiled reputation, an un-
attractive personality and long list
of debts. His escapades were the
talk of two continents. His financial
affairs were in such manifest disorder
that the young duke himself casual
ly remarked that he would either have
to marry an Astor or u Vanderbilt or
"throw up the SPONGE" These by n"
means rare qualities, taken in con-
nection with his violent predictions
for the stage and highly cultivated
tastes in chorus girls, made up the
sum total of his grace's attractions.
The duke announced that he came to
America to dispose of himself at the
highest figure. Although the late Og-
den Goelet gave his daughter her own
will in the matter, he remarked fer
vently: "Iwould rather see my daugh-
ter dead than duchess of Manchester"
1t required very little common sense
and certainly no self-denial on the
part of sensible young woman to
refuse the duke of Manchester.
1t is rumored that Miss Goelet's next
sutton was Prince Francis of Teck.
Prince Francis was not bad-looking,
but he was very much older than Miss
Goelet. He was SO poor that his fam
lily had to stoop to selling the ancestral
furniture to keep up appearances. he
was avowedly in search of helpmeet
who could drag him out of the slough
of poverty. He sued for Miss Goelet's
hand and fortune, but was rejected.
Prince Henry of Orleans has been ru-
~ ho thu no~f r0vo1 S11if in
line for the hand of Miss Goelet.
Prince Henry's weakness for the green
baize and the footlights is phenom-
email. His highness is not much of a
scholar and is nothing of converse
tionalist. The reports of his escapades
have been food for some of the richest
gossip of Paris. AS title Prince
Henry is attractive, but as a husband
he really doesn't qualify" and twas
folly to suppose that a clear-eyed
| American girl would overlook what
even a young Frenchwoman with the
European awe of his title and the
European belief in the marriage de
covenance could not accept. So Miss
! Goelet repealed his advances and he
| went back IT, Europe without his con,
eted bride.
Out of the long lists of triumphs
which have followed her all over the
world there have crept rumors of three
romances in the four short years of
her life in society. The hero of the
first was the young Viscount Crich-
ton, reported the handsomest man
in London. It was said tina:
Miss Goelet sent him to South
Africa with the pramise that i:
he returned with thu Victoria cross
she would marry hiiA. Then, gossip
had it that Capt. Anles, the tallest
and one of the bravest officers in the
british army, whoH Mss Goelet met
st a garden party, was in favor. The
last report was that young Craig
Wadsworth, attache at the American
legation in London, a popular cotillon
leader and an ex-rough rider, was head
and shoulders before all others. These
three men are very much of one type,
and, If rumor is true, it is easy to see
what sort of man Miss Goelet Ikea