The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21
DO ROMANTIC MARRIAGES
 LEAD TO HAPPINESS?
orp VOTING 1ocHINvARs IN cUTAwAY COATS AND THEIR CHANCES OF wEDDED BLISS VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF REGENT EXAMPLES.

sort cut prominent figure. This is the l wedding of Mir. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Grace Wilson.
 No prettier setting could be imagined for this little love story than Newport,
 where the romance budded and reached full bloom ere the respective parents of these two young folk realized that the attachment meant anything more than college boys infatuation. Wise ones nodded and smiled indulgently at the in- teresting devotion on the part of young Vanderbilt
 Wait until the season is advanced and the older men appear on the scene. and then watch this youth fall to the rear." said they.
 But Miss Wilson was no weather vane, and the families of the two young lovers suddenly realized that this Romeo in immaculate linen and broadcloth instead of slashed doublet and hose meant 1t all as seriously as though he sighed and sang of his undying love.
 At this poin tin the romance, we are told, the father and mother of Cornelius called separately upon the Wilson's to plead and finally demand that the en- gagement, if such existed. be broken off and that the young folk see no more of each other.
 we are satisfied with our daughters
 choice" was the reply of Miss Wilson's parents, and they refused to put l obstacles in the way of her happiness.
 Then we will do it. was the mental, if not audible, resolution of the Wander bilts, and forthwith young Cornelius was | despatched to the South. His father and | mother based their objections on his ex- | treme youth and i'll health, for Miss Will | sons family is quite the equal of the Vanderbilts
 Developed in Virginia.
 Love laughs at good many more bar
 riers than those raised by locksmiths, and if 1t was thought that Cornelius | Vanderbilt needed the air and waters of | Virginia Hot Springs, so did Miss Will | son think that she might be benefited by them, and within few days after his arrival there she appeared on the scene l with a companion.
 The next act of this little play took l place In Europe. It is a matter of nation | al social pride that this pretty young wo-
 man, who had joined his sister for a | yachting cruise round the Mediterranean with party which included Cornelius
 Vanderbilt, was feted by princes and | potentates everywhere. Her sensible little head was not turned by court flat ! tery and royal attentions.
 Steaming in and about the Mediter-
 ranean putting in at beautiful old cities
 and picturesque ports. enhanced the TO- | mantle side of this love story and af-
 forded plenty of opportunities for ideal l love making. Shortly after this trip they returned
 home within a few days of each other,
 and later were married very quietly. Forty millions or more is reported to be i the price this young Romeo paid for the l girl' of his heart. but there Is probably | not single minute when the faintest shadow of regret for the loss of the great
 fortune crossed his mind
 He won his charming wife with love
 ana determination that defied opposition. | a love that accepted a sacrifice and
 never fiinched The charming couple took 1 their stand In the world and maintained
 1t firmly The two young people estab- hshed their little home and began to
 make their influence felt as they mount
 ca the social ladder, the top of which
 they have reached in very short time, l MT. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt have
 two dear little children. boy nearly six
 years and the youngest little more than
 TOUT. Time, too, has brought as 1t
 should. reconciliation.
 Of less national importance than tho Vanderbilt-Wilson marriage is the story
 or Miss May Livingston Strong and MT. 1 Harvey Spencer. Jr., but the same ele-
 ments Of romance are to be found in 1t.
 No Opposition Here. | It sometimes happens that when oppo-
 sition on the part of the parents does not exist and the course of true love
 runs too smoothly. then, just to give the | engagement a soupcon of mediaeval flavor the young folk take 1t upon them | selves to conduct their love affair on strictly original lines. Such was appa- l rently the case with young Algernon K.
 Boyesen, son of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
 a Norwegian poet and author, and Miss
 Adelaide Barclay, when last autumn both
 of these young people were spending the
 season at Southampton. where their
 respective parents had cottages.