Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-01-29
RIcHEsT YANKEE MAID.
Miss May Goelet, Handsome, Twenty
Five Years of Age and Worth
Twenty Millions.

There is one American heiress for
whom a noble title, coupled to an ig-
noble man, possesses no attractions.
A dozen times Miss May Goelet, of
New York, might have welded, each
time the sutton for her hand being a
prince of royal blood, but she has pre-
ferred to retain her liberty. Miss Goe-
let is a very attractive young woman
personally, besides being the possessor
of millions. Her face is a sweet one,
with sunny eyes, sunny hair, a pretty
feminine mouth and a strong chin.
1t is a face worth putting on anyas
When she is 25 she will have a for
tune estimated at $50, 100000. Every
body knew of these two facts several
years ago, when, as a young school.
girl, she first appeared as brides
maid at Consuelo .Vanderbi1t's we'd
ding. In addition. however, she has
character and a 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 auctloneer's
shop. Everybody gayes with wonder
at each announcement that Miss
Goelet will not marry another titled
sutton. says the Chicago Chronicle.
4 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 a complexion which,
to speak charitably, was an in
sigma of either ill-health or dis
sipation. To lay at the feet Of
this pure, white American girl.
his grace brought unhealthy youth
and a title, a soiled reputation, an IN
attractive personality and a 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
" remarked that he would either have
to marry an Astor or a Vanderbilt or
throw up the sponge" These by no
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 wv
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 tho
part of a 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 a 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 sutton in
line for the hand of Miss Goelet.
Prince Henry's weakness for the green
baize and the f%ootlights is phenom.
email. His highness is not much of a
scholar and is nothing of a conversa-
tionalist. The reports of his escapades