Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-06

sweetheart married another man:
his second did not return his love
But in handsome Julia Dent, his
classmates sister, Lieut. Grant found
his affinity.
| Mr.. Dent, ST., took little interest in
the young lieutenant. Mrs. Dent. on
the contrary, liked young Grant at
once. And Miss Julia, who was the
most concerned of all, was wholly
committed to the young officer.
Hamlin Garland tells how the
young officer proposed, his regiment
having been ordered to Mexico for
the war. They were driving together
and a heavy rain had swollen to abb
normal size a creek over which they
must cross.
"As they approached it," says Mr..
Garland, Miss Dent grew apprehen-
sive and said:
Are you sure it's all right?
"'Oh yes, it's all right he replied,
man-fashion to womankind.
We'll, now, Ulysses, I'm going to
cling to you IL we go down, Miss
Dent said.
we won't go down, he replied,
and drove resolutely across while
the scared girl chung to his arm.
"She released her hold as they
reached the other side of the bridge,
and he drove on in thoughtful silence
for some distance. At length he
cleared his throat.
How the Future President Proposed.
Julia, you spoke just now of
clinging to me, no matter what hap
pened. / wonder If you would cling
me all my nfers
The answer was favorable. And
yet there were those who said it
was a bad match for Julia Dent.
A very modest marriage notice ap-
peared in the newspapers of st.
Louis on Aug. %, 1848, and that " as
the only public recognition of an
event that was to make the pretty
Missourian first lady in the land,
twenty-five years later. His friends
declared that the shy young soldier
trembled more at his modest wedding
that he did at Monterey or Cerro
Gordo.
There were children born, who in
herited the romance of their father.
And one of them was beautiful Nellie
Grant, idol Of the nation. Her IA
Their had been made General, Secre-
tary of War and finally President for
two terms. She was nineteen, and
Algernon Sartoris, the handsome
young Englishman, twenty-three.
There in the East Room of the
White House President Grant saw
his only daughter married on May
81, 1874
low. He had been educated In Eng
land and Germany, and was a son of
Edward Sartoris, of Hampshire, Eng
land, and Adelaide Kemble, sister of
Fannie Kemble, the great actress.
Mr.. Sartoris and Mr. Woolston's
father, as chance would have It, were
neighbors.
Nellie Grant had led an exception
ally happy life. Even as a little
girl in short skirts she had been the
recipient of distinguished attentions.
She was the delight of her father,
now at the zenith of his fame.
She met young Mr.. Sartoris on the
steamship Russia when she was a girl
of seventeen. not even then a de-
butante. Both were desperately in
love. Though it meant sending his
daughter abroad. Gen. Grant gave
his consent. and they were married
1t was the most brilliant Wedding
the White House has ever seen, and
the seventh of them. The East Room
was a garden of flowers. The cream
of officialdom was present, just as it
was thirty-two years later at Miss
Roos svelt's wedding.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is a
beautiful woman still. And official
society asks:
Is there to be another Grant ro-
nance now that Rosemary is so hap
PLY married?