The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-24


OF the other through all their Difficult
ties' ana SO quietly was the legal enc
OF the matter conducted that not z
Whisper Of the suit or decree was eve1
made public. This was three year.
ago Even Mr.. Chapin's business as,
socrates did not know what had taker
place
1t was then that Bessie Chaplin show.
ed her sympathy and love for the rich
cousin who had always been so kind
to her and her sisters. She came East
more often with her mother. No en-
| tertainment that Mr.. Chaplin gave
| could be complete without her pres
! ence
When he launched his newest yacht,
| the Azara, a year ago last summer. il
| was Miss Chaplin who broke the bottle
/ of wine on her bow at Shooters Island.
| Mr.. Chaplin made no secret that he
was immensely proud of his handsome
cousin. She was tall, decided blonde,
with deep blue eyes and a mass of
wavy hair; broad-shouldered athletic,
| nthe-Ilmbed She had complexion in
which roses and lilies were mingled
and dainty little retrousse nose which
accentuated the cherrylike lips be-
meath it.
MISS Chaplin was at home on the vast
estate at Lebanon Lake in Sullivan
County. She could fish and hunt, and
she loved the sport, too But her one
pet diversion was to tool Mr. Chapin's
four-in-hand, which she did to perfec-
ton. while he sat on the box beside
her in open admiration of her pluck
and skill.
In fact, SO ill-concealed was Mr. Cha
pins admiration that many supposed
them uncle and niece from the fact
that their names were the same But
as time healed the rift in his life that
the divorce had made Mr. Chaplin grew
more and more to realize that the clev-
er Chicago girl was something more |
to him than a mere pretty cousin, |
whose girlish whims he liked to please |
Not another soul guessed as much
not even the family. That Chester w. |
Chaplin, man of sixty-ffve, and di- |
vorced, could fall in love with a girl
beside whom he seemed a grandfather,
was the height of impossibility. But |
it wasn't.
Mr.. Chaplin, the cousin, went to Chi
cago and saw Mr.. Chaplin, the father.
OF course, it meant much for the girl.
Her father was an assistant in a bank
and had little beyond his salary and
his home. Here was a man of millions
asking for her hand. There was moth
ing to do but to leave it to the girl.
And she said "Yes!'
To her, too, had come the realizingl
sense that it meant more to her than
he mere companionship of young girl
md elderly man. With the way clearI
% her, she had let her feelings run
heir course unchecked, and the rest
vas so easy that she found herself a
bride before she even guess
ID what had happened.
But the fact that she was to be the ,
wife of man immensely rich didn't
urn the girls head. 1t was then that
he announced she proposed to have
he quietest of weddings and the sim
lest of wedding gowns, as befitted her
ather's means. Though as Mrs. Cha s
lin now she can wear the richest silks !
nd satins that money can buy or fan
Y devise, as Miss Chaplin she wore just
vhat she would have worn had her :
hoice fallen upon some poor young
nan.
Immediate family and a few intimate
riends We're hidden to the modest
ONE in Fullerton avenue. Chicago.
here had been no previous formal an L
of the engagement. So
hen the Chaplin connections and 4
lends received these announcement
ards a few days ago they came as a
reat surprise:
If. and Mrs. Charles Henry Chaplin
announce the marriage of their 81
daughter, -
Elizabeth Jenison,
to
Mr.. Charles Williams Chaplin, G
n Tuesday, the twenty-first of No
Vember,
ne thousand nine hundred and five,
Chicago.
The handsome bride started off on -
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