The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-13
BRIDE LOVES DUKE
And NOT HIS GOLD
"We Are Very Happy, Aren' t
We, Baby" She Says.
GAVE HER SEVENTEEN HATS
Millionaire Tobacco King of Dur
ham, n. c., Whose Fourth Marriage
at 81 TO Young MiIIiner After
Many Episodes, Allows Her 10 Do
the Talking and He Acquiesees.

Mrs. Brodie l. Duke, the fourth, loves
her sixty-two-year-o husband Ito dis
traction doesn't care about his gold
and thinks she would rather stay here
than live on the Duke estate at Durham
n. c.
The pretty student of millinery and
dressmaking whom Duke chose 10 round
out his quartet of ventures in matri-
mony and wooed and won in a rather
tumultuous courtship, talked freely about
their future plans.
I'm very happy" she murmured, as
she gazed soulfully out of the window OF
The Ebbitt House drawing-room yester-
day afternoon. I've loved Brodie to dis
traction for 1--WE years, so why shouldn't
I be happy?"
Neither the sexagenarian nor his youth
full wife of a day showed the effects OF
the adventures that started when Duke
got a marriage license Friday morn
ing and eliminated in their marriage
before a Justice of the peace al Cam
den, n. J., Saturday.
Refers interviewer 10 Bride.
Dukes down home" whiskers were as
bristling as ever when newspaper wom-
an found him pacing up and down in
the Ebbitt lobby, waiting for flock OF
photographers who were on guard at the
door to dispense.
1--WE got nothing to say" Mr.. Duke
remarked belligerently. but he relented
and asked the reporter If she wanted TO
meet his wife.
Mrs Duke, who says she IS twenty
six. but looks younger. was sitting in
III gfr rta TNFDnpn
window
She wore a close-htting black dress,
unrelieved by trimming. Big diamonds
blazed in her earrings, and she wore
several expensive ringS-gifts from
''BTodie," she admitted.
Yes we are very happy, aren't we,
baby ?" she said. turning toward the ven
enable benedict.
4 wish you would say for me there is
positively nothing in all these taxieah
stories" said Mrs. Duke, turning 10 the
reporter. I'VE didn't have but three
taxis, and then only when it was neces-
sary. Did We Brodie?
VIII Remain In Capital
Il don't think we shall go TO Durham
vet. Mr.. Duke has some business matters
to arrange. and some of his family evil
IDENTIFY didn't want him 10 marry me. So
ii must all be arranged
we shall stay here for a few days
anyway. I like Washington. and socia
life here is so much nicer than down IN
Carolina l shouldn't wonder if we de-
cided TO live here for quite while.
"Oh. yes There is something else
want YOU 10 deny for me" and the lates
Mrs Dukes eyes flashed. I want yol
TO say I was not waiting al the church
for Mr. Duke The idea Why. he ha'
70 come after me two or three times
Didn't you, Brodie?''
Mr.. Duke admitted he did
1T must be kind Of nice 10 be married
10 a millionaire" the newspaper woman
remarked. wistfully, perhaps.
"Mr. Dukes money had nothing what
ever 10 do with IL" retorted Mrs, Duk
alphabetically. I should have married
him II he hadn't q penny, and If II wa
necessary I'd work for him
Mr.. Duke had ambled out OF the room
50 the reporter ventured 10 ask just VIVA
she had seen in him to attract her.
He has always been very kind to me.
she said, "and I think the reason h
diin't get along well with others was tina
they didn't really care for him. It.is DIFF
ferent this time"
Seventeen Hats Gifts.
Mrs. Duke said. among otheF thihsS
that her husband had given her seven
teen hats.
Both seemed to realize that they wer
going to have a little trouble with hi
family. Several kilograms from DurhaI
arrived for Duke during the day, and b
limited that his sister was on her way
Washington, presumably to talk matter
over.
While Duke was hunting for a frien
in the willard lobby yesterday. Han
Erninie Rives. the authoress. wife G
Post Wheeler, the secretary of the Amel
lean Embassy at St Petersburg, caugl
sight OF him. His family had known hi
ever since childhood, but he failed
recognize her, and. taking her for
newspaper woman. told her he had notl
ing to say before she could greet. him.
When he realized who she was, Dull
politely invited her to come over to II
Ebbitt and be introduced TO his wifi
Mrs Wheeler had read of his latest ma
riage. so she didn't ask him which one.
One reporter even interviewed him aho1
politics, falling TO get him to talk abo
anything else Mr. Duke praised Ia
and Roosevelt with enthusiasm, and sa
he had been a Republican since the wa