The Forrest City times., 1903-01-30

tikiCUtSI I4Il III lIe W OTius H4tH tfe Lxs ception Of Miss Bertha krupp)
 ding. In addition, how yer. she has
 character and a chart of happiness l by which she sails serenely past de-
 cayed and degenerate princes, fop- l pish young earls, dukes and barous who offer themselves or sale like
 secondhand sofas at the auctioneer's shop. Everybody gayes With wonder
 at each announcement that Miss
 Goelet will not marry as other titled
 suitor, 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 a
 bad bargain even on the face Of
 things. He had complexion which, to speak charitably, was an in-
 signia of either ill-health or dis sipation. To lay at the feet of
 this pure, white American girl.
 his grace brought unhealthy youth l and title, a soiled reputation, an un- , attractive personality and a long list | VI dtDt>. IltS tSCdDdOeS were tuc l 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
 10 marry an Astor or Vanderbilt or
 throw up the sponge" These by Eo
 means rare qualities, taken in con- nection with his violent predilections
 for the stage and highly cultivated tastes in chorus girls, made up the sum total of his gracS's attractions. The duke announced u at he came to America to dispose of himself at the highest figure. Although the late Og den Goeiet gave bis da ghter her own 1 will in the matter. lie remarked fer ventlN: "I would rather see my dauoh- ter dead than duchess of Manchester" It required very little common sense and certainly no self-denial on the part of sensible young woman to
 refuse the duke of Manchester.
 It is rumored that Miss Goelet's next
 suitor 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 | fly had to stoop 10 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-
 mored to be the next royal suitor in l fp ha hapH of Mics Enalat | Prince Henry's weakness for the green | baze and the footlights is phenom- | enal. His highness is not much of a ] scholar and is nothing of a conversa- | tionalist. The reports of his escapades | have been food for some of the richest | gossip of Paris. AS a title Prince Henry is attractive, but as a husband
 he really doesn't qualify" and it was | folly to suppose that a clear-eyed | American girl would overlook what Ieven 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 repelled his L lvances snd he
 went back to Europe without lis GOV. 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 Niscount Crich- | ton, reported the handsomest man | in London. It was said tha. Miss Goelet sent him to South Africa with the promise that :: he returned with the Victoria eros she would marry him. Then, gossip had it that Capt. Ames, the tallest and one of the bravest officers In the
 British army, whom Miss Goelet met at a garden party, was in favor. The last report was that young Craig | Wadsworth. attache at the American | legation in London, 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 likes.