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

Whcre IL VIII emu, Tor tnere are Sill
unmarried Grants. And Miss Rose
mary Sartoris, the great General
granddaughter, is the latest to liv.
up to family traditions. She has hat
her love-making and her unannouncet
wedding a few days in New York
1t is just one more Grant romance
hard to explain in these prosaic days
OF formality and convention, but per
haps 1t Is best accounted for by heI
uncle, Gen. Frederick Dent Grant
MY nieces," he says, ARE quite
given to romantic affairs, and can
see that this unostentatious wedding
ut Calvary church would be to the
liking Of Miss Rosemary"
He didn't add that there have been
other rather unusual weddings In the
Grant family-that of his sister, Mel
lie Grant Sartoris, for instance, and
that OF his father, the great Union
commander and president The
Grants take to love just as much as
they take to war And II is whis-
pered that Mrs. Sartoris, the pretty
brides mother, is considering an
other surrender to the wiles OF Cupid,
even after her first rather unfortu-
nate experience.
Rosemary Sartoris Is the second
daughter OF Mrs. Nellie Grant Sar-
toris. She has repeatedly been re-
ported engaged to this sutton and
that, but 1t has remained for George
II. Woolston, AIN Englishman, who
has an orange plantation down In
Florida, to carry of the prize.
Miss Rosemary made her social
debut in Washington eight years ago.
Her beauty, her vivacity, her charm
OF manner, her important family con-
nections made her at once a belle.
It was freely predicted that this
beautiful girl OF eighteen would
marry before she had passed single
winter as debutante.
But Miss Rosemary was proof
against all the shafts that Cupid
could level at her heart Season
after season passed by. only to find
her still heart-whole and fancy.free.
Not that she had not plenty of ad-
mirers. even suitors. She was at one
time engaged to Lieut.. John Wright.
u. s. A., son OF Gen. Marcus J..
Wright, ohe OF the Confederate off,
GERS who kept Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
back In more than one hard.fought
battle.
But blood proved thicker than
water. The Grants could not endure
the thought of an alliance with a
Confederate family. and the Wrights
felt just as deeply as possible mar
riage with the descendant of one
who had made the lost cause impos-
sible
And so the two young people drift
ed apart. The engagement was
broken.
Met Him at st. Louis Fair.
Miss Sartoris went to St Louis for
the fair. There she met James M.
Nelson, jr.. rich young broker. He
was popular member OF st. Louis
society. a graduate of Exeter acad-
envy. well to do and of engaging man.
ners. They rode together. took long
automobile rides, and when the en-.
gagement was announced the II told
you SOS" were very much In evi.
dence. But once more poor little
Cupid got the cold shoulder.
The marriage that he tried so hard
to bring about never was. Mr.. Nell
son went his way and Miss Sartoris
went hers. Why no one TO this day
except the young people can tell, and
they won't.
Then George II. woolston came
into the life of Gen Grants grand.
daughter.
Like Mr.. Sartoris, the brides
father, Mr.. Woolston is an English.
man. In fact, his father and Mr..
Sartoris were neighbors once. lie
took up architecture and was with
Carrere 4 Hastings for some years.
Orange culture interested him, and
he bought a plantation down In HI.
hernia, Fla, twenty miles south OF
Jacksonville. 1t is quite an English
settlement there.
The disastrous freeze" In 1897
nearly wiped him out, but he re-
couped his losses and Is today rich
man. But though the woolstons and
Sartorises were neighbors in Eng
land. Miss Sartoris and Mr.. woolstor
did not meet until one day yeal
ago they CHANGED to be introduced
here in New York.
Again Miss Sartoris was engaged
But this time the engagement wa.
not announced, Only Mrs. Sartoris-
Nellie Grant that was&knew OF Il
or course, with her connections. Mis-.
Sartoris's wedding should have beer
n conventional one. with palms anS
flowers. ushers and bridesmaids. wed
ding cake. rice. old shoes and cham
payne.
Almost an Elopement.
But the Grant strain OF romance
was too strong. Miss Sartoris would
have meme of this conyentionality