The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-08
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.


beginning to sit up and take notice of
| join the great majority of American
women who have married titles and
| lived to regret it in sackcloth and
ashes. Two international weddings
fare scheduled for the coming week,
one in this city and one in Paris.
Miss Theodore Shonts, daughter of
! the former Panama canal commits
sioner, will play the part of happy
bride next Saturday, unless Provi-
dence grants a further delay, when
she will acquire a half-interest in
the title of the Due de Chaulnes.
The consideration is not stated, but
there is little doubt that the strap
hangers who patronize Papa Shonts,
little traction system will have to
pay the freight.
Another wedding set for next
week, in which title and a fortune
are involved, will take place Tues
day in the American church in
Paris. Miss Alice Ney Wetherbee
beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Wetherbee, is the good thing" who
will rehabilitate the broken fortunes
of his highness, the Count Rudolph,
etc, Festetics de Tolna.
'Other parts of the world have
monkeys, Europe has Frenchmen,
said Schopenhauer. So far as the
nobility is concerned, this caustic
criticism apparently holds true to-
day. A dozen horrible examples
| might be pointed out, but to what
end? A woman in love whether with
man or title, is not to be deter
red by precedent nor example Let
them RIP until the rude awaken
ing
The dopesmith with the blue pen
Gil, the huge paper pad and the wor
ried countenance has been busy figur
ing out the risks involved in inter-
hdtIoiIdl mai Will Sollt Sldl u
ling but expected repults. Over 500
American girls have married titled
foreigners within the last half cen
fury, and fully 400 of these matches
have ended in the divorce courts.
Worse than this, over $500 900, 600
in good American money has been
taken across the seas during the
period mentioned and little of it has
ever come back.
Some recent instances of unhappy
endings of international alliances are
fresh in the public memory The
shameful experiences of Anna
Gould with the Count Boni de
Castellane, the unhappy fot of Con-
suelo Vanderbilt, who paid $40, 900
600 to become the Duchess of
Marlborough and the di-
vorce suit of Alice Thaw, sister of
Harry Thaw, against the Earl of Var
mouth-these and scores of other
recent instances are warnings that
may be seen by all women not blind
ed by the glare of a coronet
Alice Samee Happy New Year.
Those who remember the dis
graceful orgies with which thous-
ands of New Yorkers-leaders in
the society of this our christian
welcomed the arrival of 1908,
may find food for reflection in
comparison of that festival with the
New Year celebration held in China
town this week.
John Chinaman, the heather,
burned a great deal of ill-smelling
punk and incense, and had a great
many feasts, and otherwise compor-
ted himself in a somewhat hilarious
manner in greeting the good New
Year 1905. But not in all Chinatown
alien though it persistently Is to our
modern civilization, was there to be
witnessed a scene one-tenth SO dis
graceful as some enacted in New
York S leading restaurants and ho-
tells on the evening of December 81
and the early hours of January /.
The good people of New York
have many missions in Chinatown
and are making plans to enlarge the
scope of their efforts to bring John
to a knowledge of his deep and abid-
ing sinfulness. Would it not also be
well for the celest.a1s to build joss
house on upper Broadway?
Going to the Dogs.
Next week all fashionable New
York will go to the dogs There are
critics-such carping fellows as
Marse Henry Watterson of Louis
ville-who will say that metropoli-
tan society went to the bow vows
long ago and that the experience
will not be a novel one. But this Is
another matter-the annual exhibit
ton of the Westm minister Kennel