The Detroit times., 1909-03-19
BUYS F ANCEE OF
SON At RATE OF
$4,000 A YEAR
SHREWD RUSSIAN COUNTESS
ENDS Her 6oYS ROMANCE ON
a CASH 5ASiS--NEW FORM OF
GOLD CURE.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

sy MARQUIS DE cASTElLANE.
! PARIS. March 1.-THE romance Of
young Count Chireh cousin OF the
car, with Madame de Bruda. charm.
ING widow. OF whom Paris talked SO
much three years ago, has come 10 a
singular and sordid end thanks to the
count mother. the princess and no
less parsonage than NJ Lepine. The
! prefect OF police IN person
/ II may be remembered that the
count, then twenty-five years OF age
had come on his first visit 20 Paris
with his mother. and being bewitched
/ by the widow asked her hand In mar
rlage The princess. scandali1ed. tore
! the Young count away aud bore him
back 10 ST. Petersburg Count Chireff
continued 10 correspond for a time
\ with Madame de Broda, bat presently
she ceased TO answer him. and ne
then listened to his mother.
But returning To Paris recently, one
| day on the Boulevard he found himself
face 10 face with the woman he hal
loved though she was 50 changed thar
he afterward wondered how he had
recognized her Perhaps but for an in
stlpctiye movement she made he
would have passed her by. But when
he looked again he knew even in those
sunken sockets the eyes which had
once fascinated him. Separated from
him she loved. and ruined by the ras-
Caiity OF banker who had specialized
with all she owned, she had fallen into
the ranks OF the hopeless creatures OF
the street.
! Oefes His Mother.
| His heart torn by her story OF mis-
cry, the count offered her his hand
once again, and this time was ac-
| cepted.
The princess now interfered for the
second time. but less successfully than
before. The son refused either to re-
turn 10 Russia or 10 take back his
word Then the mother resorted ID
strategy IN which she invoked the
fasststaftrt.- ~ tire reject, ~ police.
Tell this person. said the princess,
tina, if my son marriss her, cut HIM
off without penny. ii she renounces
him. | assure her Of an annuity OF two
thousand dollars year
The widow accepted the annuity
without an instant's hesitation
The count has recovered from his
II ONE. and the grateful princess has
given NJ Lepine thirty thousand dol
lars 10 be used for resCuing young
gills from temptation.
Not all tales OF unequal matches end
as happily. But then. everybody has
not a wise and wealthy Russian prin
cess for a mother.
The death Of the Due de Mouchy, !
A.oaanAaI 80 ha
cient families Of France, and married,
in accordance with the wishes OF Nal
poleon III. To Anna Murat, the EN-
perors own niece, recalls that inter
esting period when the emperor of the !
French tried to fuse the old nobility !
v ith what was called the military no |
bility, or that created by Napoleon
The feeling stirred up at
that time was we'll illustrated at lay
own wedding, in 1866.
The aristocratic parents OF ms
bride. the. marquis and marquise de
Juigne, were To give the usual recep
ton for the signing OF the marriage
contract. but an upheaval came about
when the list of guests was drawn up.
For more than two weeks. visits. con-
situations, gratuitous advice and more
gratu'tous chickering's were exchanged /
Paris, while Old France
drawn up ready for battle
against Young France.
Gives UP Society for Stage.
Could the long and noble line OF De
Juignes place itself face To face with |
q pinchbeck nobility and on an equal
footing win II. let, couIu my near
est relatives, the Due and Duchess dc |
Mouchy be omitted because the |
duchess was Murat? Why, TO az !
tempt forcing two such different cur
rents into one same path meant ineY-
table clash!
But the duchess was finally invited, !
and was prevailed upon to come, and !
when she brought her radiant beauty |
across the threshold she had no rea-
son TO regret the olive branch she |
bore for. hard as 1t was TO believe,
she found many OF her clan there.
A young lady belonging to the most
exclusive circles has. with the con |
sent OF her family. cast social pre- !
judlce aside 70 appear OH the stage
Beautiful. and rich enough to be inde-
pendent OF pecuniary considerations
Nile DietzMonin yields 10 the I'm
pulse OF her enthusiasm, and calls
upon the public 10 Judge her talent.