East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-26
LITTLE LOVE GOD
STILL ON HIS JOB
CUPID WATCHES OVER
ABRUZZI-ELKINS ROMANCE
Francois de Tessan Calls Love Match
Charming Bit OF Life Interest of
Two Continents. Europe and AM
erica.

Paris-The love romance of the
Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Katherine
Elkins, daughter of United States
Senator Blkns is attracting increas-
Ing attention in Paris due to recent
developments that indicate that Cupid
is strictly in the job.
And strange to behold the COM
ments on the subject are unusually
friendly toward the probable union
or the two. Usually, in similar af-
fairs this isn't so. The Frenchman
usually scorns the Amreican: he hates
the English and he loaths the Ger
man; but he scorns the American.
The thick necl1ed cab driver, who
beats his poor horse to death cheats
the eye teeth out OF his fare, and
then goes home to salt HIS money
down and choke his wife insensible.
calls the American a pig. The Am
erican only fares for dollars; he has
no refinement.
So usually when Paris and France
comments upon the marriage of a red
faced, dissipated, bankrupt and disso-
lutte nobleman OF Europe, with an
American heiress, 1t is with some
such remark as HE would have done
better to marry his mothers cook"
The Duke of Abruzzi Is we'll thought
of in Europe. He appears to be an
uncommonly clever sort of chap. And
when one takes his good qualities in
to consideration. 1t is all the more
wonderful that France should take
such a really keen delight in the re-
te n 1T
Francois de Tessan has written an
article on the subject for LaLiberta.
He says:
1T is charming, this romance, and
exquisite in its varying phases. II
takes us from the shores OF flowery
Florida to the Himalayas: through the
court OF Italy and into the balm Of
Turin. It is interesting all the way.
THE most varied people mix in
this story which has for its chief
characters a really likable prince and
a decidedly charming American.
There is a king and count OF Turin.
a queen and without doubt collection
OF grand danes fussing and fuming
for and against the match. There are
two camps: The old fashioned folk
nobility, and the more modern ones
who see nothing out OF place in the
marriage with an American. Rome
and Washington have become two
seething centers of news; almost daily
one hears that the engagement is off
or that the marriage is imminent; or
that the pretty girl is affianced to an
other and the duke Is in exile.
But love Watches. The romance
IA not broken and the mysterious de-
noument is preparing in the shadow.
Today we know that the lovers are
always in correspondence with one
another and are only awaiting a
more favorable time. Only the last
chapter 'Constancy triumphs over all
Obstacles needs to be written. The
king of italy has withdrawn his OBJ
jections, which were never more than
protocolary.
1.-THE duke will go to Washington
in November as the guest of the Ital-
ian ambassador. He will deliver
some lectures on. his travels. But he
is soon to be promoted to a rear ad-
miralcy and II is then understood that
he will then formally ask his cousin
the king, for permission to wed his
sweetheart for whom he has been
waiting for two years. Everywhere
everyone seems willing that the Am
erican girl shall come into the italian
court as full royal princess.
"As to Miss Elklns herself, she has