The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
CUPID FINALLY SMILES
... ON MINISTER COREA
Rejected by One Southern Woman Because of Run1or
That He Had Negro Blood, He Gets After
All a Southern Bride
All a Southern, Bride

The luck of Senior Luis F. Corea,
Nicaraguan minister to the United
States, has finally brought him a bride.
This is all that lacked to complete
his success in Washington.
Since the time he came here as rep
, resentative and protege of President
Zelaya, he has enjoyed the most amaz-
ing good fortune. The president of the
United States and John Hay, secretary
of state, no doubt for good reasons,
made a favorite of him, that is in as
far as it was proper for them to do
without giving offense to other mem
, bers of the diplomatic corps.
Society, won by his handsome face,
courtly bearing and romantic manners,
idolized him, and steadfastly declined
to believe i'll things that were persis-
tently whispered of him shortly after
his arrival in Washington.
He suffered only one rebuff, that was
when the handsome Georgia widow,
formerly Mrs. 1lah Dunlap Jordan, now
Mrs. John D. Little, broke off her en-
gagement with him, partly because OF
the persistent rumor that he had negro
blood in his veins. AS a true South
erner, she was credited with fearing
that where such a doubt existed she
could not be happy with Corea, and
hence gave him up, though it is known
that the separation cost her dearly at
the time, for the swarthy minister
had won his way deeply into her atfec-
tons.
This incident would have ended the
career of the majority Of diplomats,
and for time seemed destined to put
period to Corea's Washington march
of triumph, but in the end he remained
at his post, and society continued to
pet him, and now that he has got an
heiress for q bride, even the memory
of the Jordan incident has been pretty
well wiped out
AS if to add balm to the wounded
feelings of the sutton who was rejected
by Southern girl, she who became
the bride of Corea on Feb. ~, is her
self a daughter of the South, Miss In
dia Bell Fleming, whose father, Col.
Robert I. Fleming, was a gallant sol
der in the Confederate army. y
Miss Fleming is a debutante of this
season, and is wealthy in her own
right.
Thus abandoned by one Southern
woman, Corea got another for WIFE.
which clearly indicates that he must
have conclusively proved his pure
Caucasian blood.
1t must be said of the Nicaraguan
that in the Jordan incident he acted
very creditably.
She was the daughter of wealthy
Georgian, and the man she married
was a millionaire. He did not long
survive, and Mrs. Jordan, beautiful
and immensely wealthy, came to
Washington just at the time that Sen
or Corea was on the top crest or MS
popularity.
From the first it was in evidence
that he was in love with the young
widow, and when it came apparent
that she preferred his company to that
CTS, Washington approved, for such a
match seemed entirely fitting.
A good part of the courtship took
place in Paris. In fact the wedding
preparations had gone to point that
while in the French capital she bought
a gOodly part of her trousseau.
Returning to Macon from Europe,
Mrs. Jordan freely admitted her COM
ing marriage, and nothing seemed TO
menace the happiness in store for the
minister
Just at this time came the thrilling