Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-04
SCIENTIFIC COURTSHlP
Russian Millionaire Has Twelve
Baby Fiancees.
WILL TRAIN ONE FOR PERFECT WIFE
Care, Education and Rearing of the
Little Ones to BE Paid For by Serge
Rostshuya, one of Russians Most
COurted NIen-WiII Choose His Bride
When Fiancees Are Seventeen.

Serge Rostshuya. one of the wealth
lest men in all Russia. will he married
IN 1920 or 1921 To the most beautiful.
the healthiest. the most perfect woman
in all the RussiaS. says the Chicago
Tribune His bride now is between
two and three years old. ana when she
is seventeen she will become the wife
of the millionaire. who has begun what
perhaps is the strangest and most
scientific courtshp the world ever has
known
Rostshuya. now twenty-eight years
old. has selected twelve girl babies aud
from among them. when they reach the
age Of seventeen. he viii choose his
bride. Meantime they Will he raised,
cared for. educated trained and made
beautiful with his money They will
remain under the care of their parents.
while Rostshuya supplies money.
clothes. food. nurses. doctors and care
takers. surrounds them with every ne
cessity and every care and all with the
object that one of them shall develop
into perfect wife-the most beautiful
specimen of womanly beauty. grace
and health in the world
The millionaire. who resides in Jaro-
slaw and who has palaces both in St
Petersburg and Moscow. has inherited
an estate of 90000.0O0 rubleS from his
father and that vast fortune added to
that of his mother. which already was
his. has made him one of the wealth
lest men of the ears domain. Despite
his immense wealth and the fact that
hn L.. Ir;II tI,-
educated and that in his fathers time
the st. Petersburg house was Il center
Of gayety among the gaycst set OF
mobiles and millionaires in the capital.
Rostshuya has cared but little for so
ciety and has, since coming into pos
session of his money. shown Il tend
ency toward the students life and Il
vast interest in the sciences When he
came into possession of his fathers
fortune. shortly after his twenty-fOurth
birthday. he was regarded as the best
catch outside of the nobility in Russia
because OF his excellent family con-
nections and his immense wealth. He
was popular. too, among his fellows ut
the university. The beauties of the
capital and of Moscow honored him
born daughters of the nobility. encour-
aged him. But after three years they
despaired, for Rostshuya seemed adj
amant. and it was whispered that the
family name would die with him and
the family treasure ana palaces would
go to the state and 10 charity.
Then, early this fall. the surprising
discovery was made that Serge Rost
shuya was engaged. One of his
friends announced that Serge had
taken him to call on his fiancee and
added the startling news that she was
one year and seven months old and the
daughter of professor of languages
in St Petersburg The announcement
was treated as joke until it was dis
covered that nurse, paid by the
young millionaire, and one of the best
physicians in st. Petersburg called
regularly upon the baby and that u
trained nursemaid was in charge of
a model nursery which had been built
in the house of the professor. Upon
this disclosure came another, and that
was that Serge was maintaining a
similar nursery establishment in the
house of an army officer, retired be- |
cause of wounds. and that in this
nursery was another baby-this one |
two years and four months old.
The young man was laughed at for |
going i'm for infant raising, and in ex-
PLANTATION he revealed his courtship, |
the strangest I'm the world. He had, he !
declared, decided to get married. feel |
ing it his duty to perpetuate tile family |
line. and TO this end he looked over |
the women OF his acquaintance and |
those he met. In each he found faults