Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-08-28
Many Maids of Low Degree Raise,
TO Coronets and Wealth.


Cupid has not often been in a more
romantic mood than when, short time
ago, he made j. G. Phelps Stokes, a
young American millionaire and phil
anthropist, lay his heart and fortune
at the feet of Miss Pastor, says the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch; and seldom
has a heart been so lost and won in
such a strange environment, for it was
in the slums of New York, and when
bent on errands Of charity, that these
two lovers first met.
Mr.. Stokes is the son of millionaire
banker and springs from line of gov
errors of Massachusetts, while Miss
Pastor is a daughter of the Ghetto"
Lion Yard, Whitechapel, and earned
her living as a cigarmaker before she
became a social reformer and began to
work among the destitute in New York
slums. By such strangely opposite and
diverse paths these two young people
have met; and a few months ago the
child of the Ghetto'-who is q pretty
and charming lady-stood at the altar
with her bridegroom Croesus, and with
$4,000 pearl necklace-his gift
round her neck.
Without giving living examples Of
this kind of romance, one could easily
fill columns with stories of maids Of
low degree whom Cupid has raised to
coronets and wealth; indeed, in his
daring moods he has more than once
offered crown in exchange for low
" maiden's hand, as when he made
Peter the Great fall @ victim to the
bright eyes of Martha Skavrouska the
peasants daughter, and placed her by
his side on the throne Of Russia as
Catherine the empress
Sir Henry Parkes, three times pre-
mier of New South Wales, married his
cook; John Crossley, founder of the
| millionaire family of Halifax carpet
weavers, had for wife (and an excel
lent spouse, too) Martha Turner, a
| maid of all work; Thomas Coutts, the
millionaire banker, married his brothers
general" and Goblet and Robert
Phillips (brother of the poet) both ma
ted with servants, the latter after walt
ing sixty years for her.
Nearly seventy years ago George, fifth
earl of Essex, made a countess of Gath
crime Stephens, daughter of a carver
and glider, who as dowager countess
long survived her husband. Eliza
O'Neil, daughter of a strolling actor
"a pretty Irish girl, with a small touch
of the brogue on her tongue; she Is
very pretty, and so, in fact, is her
brogne," SO John Kemble described her
was woed and won by William Wrix.
on Becher, Esq, NJ. z. for Mallow, who
some years later was made a baro-
net
The first earl OF Craven offered cor
onet 20 Miss Louise Brunton, daughter
Of a provincial actor and manager, one
OF eight children, who was brought up
amid the poverty and hardships insep
arabic from a strolling actors life a
century ago; Miss Farren, who became
countess of Derby, was the daughter of
a poor Cork apothecary and passed
her early years after her fathers leath
in extreme poverty; Miss Mary Bolton,
the daughter of obscure parents who
lived in Long Acre, found a husband
IN the second Lord Thurlow, SON Of the
famous lord chancellor, and became the
mother of the third lord; while, to
give but one more out of many similar
romances, Aurora de Livry, who first
made Voltaire's acquaintance as
poor girl, as meanly clad as beggar,"
wore a coronet as Warehouses de Cow.
ernet for many years before she died.