The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
case of the girl at least, borne a rich
fruit of grace and sensuous beauty.
SHE WAS A BEAUTY.

case of the girl at least, borne a rich
fruit of grace and sensuous beauty.
SHE WAS A BEAUTY.
AS a child Delphine was widely her
aided as beauty. Her pictures, paint
ed by well known artists, were repro
duced in many periodicals, and she was
sought as a model by more than a half
dozen great painters. She was likewise
far famed even in childhood by reason
OF her abilities as a dancer, albeit
none had seen her dance outside of
ST. Louis drawing rooms.
The rumors regarding the young girl
were hushed, and from her tutors and
governesses she was sent to finishing
school, and after that came foreign
travel and tutors to perfect her in the
languages, of which she was eventually
to master some three or four In due
time Miss Love returned to St. Louis
heralded as a beauty and with a string
of suitors pressing close on her trail.
She was formally introduced to society,
and her debut is recalled to this day as
one of the social red letter days of st.
Louis history.
Meanwhile her father, young man
still, had been steadily rising in his
profession AS City Physician of ST.
Louis for five years he attained a ma
tional prominence as an authority upon
sanative and preventive medicine He
had also meantime founded the Medical
Mirror of which he was editor and
which he continued editing until his
death.
But Delphine Love was no sooner
launched into society than she became
enveloped once more in cloud of scan
dal, a scandal so great in fact that
the young debutante left her home
and went on a visit to friends in Louis
Vile until such time as, she hoped, II
would blow over and be forgotten.
But she had no sooner arrived in
Louisville. the place whittier she had
fed for safety, than she did another of
her madcap pranks.
CALLED BY PHONE.
That very evening. as she sat chat
ting with the family of her host, Colo
mel j. Moss Terry the telephone rang
for one OF the daughters of the house.
The person at the other end of the
phone was Charles Cohn, a son of
Colonel Charles Cohn. He was intro
duced over the telephone in a spirit of
youthful fun, to the newly arrived
guest, whom he had never before met
and had never so much as seen. In the
bantering conversation that would
naturally be an accompaniment to such
informal introduction, the young people
laughingly confessed their love for
each other and the gallant Kentuckian
made proposal of marriage.
Are you gamer quickly retorted
Delphine Love. and when Mr. Cohn re-
piled that he was they planned then
and there an elopement to take place
the next day. Not supposing for a
moment that there was anything seri-
Gus in this frank and open manner
Of courtship, the family of Colonel
Terry were amazed to discover in a day
that their guest had actually run away
with young Cohn to Jacksonville, Ind,
TO be married. The ceremony was per-
formed there by Justice of the Peace,
after which the couple Immediately re-
turned to Louisville.
Separating at the railroad station
upon their homecoming, young Cohn
went home to make explanations and
the bride returned 10 Colonel Terry's
house A few hours later the bride
groom came to claim his bride. but she
refused to even see him, declaring that
she never intended to live with him
and defending her position by the ex-
PLANTATION that she had only married
him ION a dare"
NEVER TOOK A DARE.
He dared me, and l never take
dare" she remarked significantly.
Miss Love, as she still chose to call
herself, returned to st. Louis, and on
December 16. 1899. Cohn obtained a di-
vorce after a sensational suit Miss
Love went to Europe to study singing