The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-11

Moncheur, the Belgian minister, VIII be
the best man.
| Major and Mrs. Campbell.
Maj. and Mrs. Colin Campbell who
were married last week Tuesday, with
| extreme simplicity and in the presence
| of only eight witnesses. came back
from their brief wedding trip on the
! following Saturday, to be the guests
! of Mamma Letter for short period.
They will spend a few days in Chi
cago at the Letter residence in Rush
street. The bride will meet all her Chi
| cago relatives at a family farewell
dinner, to be given by her aunt, Mrs
Victoria c. Thompson, who resides in
Dearborne avenue. Maj. and Mrs.
) Campbell will sail for England next
week, en- route to India, their home
for some years to come. Mrs. Levi
Letter is still in Washington, and so
seriously indisposed that she has made
no plans ahead.
OF course, being in the deep
est mourning, the family, now
narrowed to the widow and her young
est daughter, will take no part in
Washington society this winter, even
should they remain in the magnificent
white stone house on Dupont Circle.
1t is understood that Mrs. Letter is
trying to sell her Washington proper
~, with view to living permanently
abroad. Miss Daisy Letters well-known
preference for England, and the fact
that two of her daughters are already
British subjects" so to say, lends
color to the report.
The Earl of Suffolk, who is
now guest of the Letter
family and whose attentions to Miss
Daisy Letter have led to the common
belief that she will be the next Ameri-
can peeress, is the nineteenth Earl of
his name, which is one of the oldest in
England, the title dating from 1908
He was born in 1877 and came into
the title in 1898 on the death of his
father, who was the eighteenth Earl
He is a captain in the British army,
and as aid-de-camp to Lord Curzon in
India during the visit of the Misses
Letter to that country, he naturally
saw much of the American heiresses,
and, like Maj. Campbell, has been
long and persistent sutton, for whom it
is confidently predicted success will
not be much longer delayed.
International Marriages.
Speaking of international marriages
the troubles of some of our girls who
would wed titled foreigners certainly
bear out Shakespeare's statement
anent the course of true love-" Miss
Elizabeth Howe of Pittsburg, for ex-
ample, has had considera BILE difficulty
in the purchase of her future coronet
and arrangements are not yet safely
concluded. Count Cini Of Italy, the So
called man" in the case, demands an
exorbitant price, altogether out of pro-
portion to his true value. from the
American point of view. He came
over TO this country with Miss Howe
and her family several weeks ago to
make definite arrangements for the
payment of his vast debts, and the set
Element of a liberal sum upon himself
before he would consent to a betrothal
announcement. There was a breezy
discussion whether the count should be
allowed his modest demand of $4,000
cash with which to pay his debts and
$4,000 year for pin money" or sub
nit to Miss Howes figures of $50 900
down and $4,000 a year. The Count
declared he couldn't exist on so penu-
rious sum, and finally left the council
in huff. imagining that the glitter
of receding coronet would bring the
would-be bride after him in a hurry.
But he was mistaken. Fortunately the
Pittsburg heiress has a mind of her
own, and she decided that, though
counts come high we don't really have
to have them, and that their market
price should be decidedly under that
demanded for dukes and earls and the
larger fry generally. So she turned
her back on the Italian title and pre-
pared for two years trip around the
world, with a party which should not
include Count Cinci. Finding himself
thus practically ignored and realizing
that his matrimonial prospects for any
future wealthy alliance in this land Of
heiresses might be seriously impaired
-shop-worn. so to say-he FASTENED
back to Miss Howe's side and submit
ted to her figures with what grace he
could summon. 1t is now announced