Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-06
NOW DEFINITELY STATED THAT
MISS THEODORE sHONTs WILL
FULFILL HER MOTHERS AMBI-
TON AND WE'D HER FRENCH
DUKE.
PATERNAL PROTEST STOPS
The Duke Who Scattered His Patri-
mony Will Soon Be Making Free
With American Eagles Furnished
With His Bride.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-According
to friends of the family, it is now
definitely decided that Miss Theodore
Shonts, younger daughter of Theo-
dore P. Shonts, railroad magnate and
former chairman of the Panama
canal commission, is to wed EN-
manuel Theodore Bernard Marie
d'Albert de Luynes daily, ninth Due
de Chaulnes ct de Pioquigny, a
previously a similar announcement
has been made, and as many times it
has been denied, with considerable
heat and much torrid language, by
Papa Shonts Now it is understood
that he has finally given his reluc-
tant consent to the marriage, which
has been tentatively set for Christ
mas week.
That the report is true is borne
out, in a way, by Papa Shonts him
self. Time was when he declared,
brapely and so that all the world
should ever wed a worthless and dis
sipated noble, and least of all a
French one. "Other parts of the
world have monkeys, Europe has
Frenchmen." said Schopenhauer, and
in this statement the stern and re-
lentless Papa Shonts soIemnly con-
Cured. But the way of maid with
a man-especially when that man is
her fond father--is past understand
ing. and Papa Shonts no longer wax
es ferocious when the subject of the
marriage of his daughter is men
toned Instead, he assumes a sui
len air, as one who has been beaten.
Therefore, it appears that within
less than a month after Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt has become the Countess
Szachenyi, America will have anoth-
er international wedding. It is stat
ed on good authority that the cere-
mony which will make Miss Theo-
dora duchess of the French reDub-
lie will be performed in Washington,
where the young woman is a leader
in society
1t is known that Mrs. Shonts has
been a steadfast ally of her daugh-
ter and the duke in the matter of
their marriage, and perhaps to her
is due the CREDITOR otherwise-of
convincing the obdurate Papa Shonts
that the alliance is necessary to the
happiness of the young people and
the maintenance of peace in the
Shonts household. Mrs. Shonts has
1nnur nhorfchnI
daughters might wed titles, and to
this end gave them an European
training, eliminating in a reception
by King Edward and Queen Alexan-
dra and meteoric career in the
''best society of Europe. The fit
ting end of such a social conquest
is an alliance with the European no.
bility, and the Due de Chaulnes de
ct Ceteran, dissipated and penniless
that he is, mas been given glad re-
ception by Mamma Shonts.
The duke is the ninth of his line,
and is a cousin of the Due de Luynes,
the head of the house The Chaul-
mes title was created in 1921 and
was revived in 1869 in favor of the
present dukes father, who was
personal friend of Napoleon III. The
historic castle of the family is the
Chateau de Dampierre, which is now
in possession of the dukes aunt The
duke was left a considerable patri-
mony, which he scattered among
chorus girls and other less reputable
folks in a manner hardly consistent
with the divinity that is supposed to
hedge about those of noble blood.