The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-13
MADE MAN Of HIM
NOW MRS. GERALD FITZGERALD
HAS DECIDED TO MARRY
PRINCE VICTOR,
Took Hold Of Affairs OF Austrian
NobIeman and Brought System
Out of Chaos--Says She
Loves Him.

| IL was not alone 'ut1Clent 1nQucemeut
| to Mrs. Gerald Fitzgerald to tempt
| fate again in second matrimonial
venture when Prince Victor of Ehurn
and TaXis, Of the Imperial family OF
| Austria, asked for her hand But Mrs.
| Fitzgerald, with an established repll
itation as clever business woman
and excellent manager, did not permit
her objections TO be an insurmountabl
impeachment to what she realized
might be made desirable alliance
SO with characteristic enterprise she
set about to make real man out of
the raw material of a prince. Her
two years work has had a successful
outcome, so her marriage will be an
event Of the near future.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was Miss Lide
Nicolls, Of Uniontown. Pa, by her
first marriage to Gen. Gerald Purcell,
Fitzgerald, nephew Of Fitzgerald of
Omar Khayam fame, was placed in
tle ranks of the Irish aristocracy.
Her forthcoming marriage with Prince
Victor will connect her with the
reigning imperial family of Austria.
courtship Most Unusual.
The story OF the courtship of this
royal sutton is most unusual. Mrs.
Fitzgerald met the prince at ninard
where she had heard of his reputa-
ton, and at first hesitated about adj
Uniting him to her drawing room; but
when she began to know the prince
she found he had been belied; he
worthy of better things, and beneath
he had been belied, that he was
all there were traits of character and
clements of noble manhood that had
been dwarfed and neglected in the
careless life with undesirable asso
iieties which his high position had
unwittinglgy drawn to him.
She found him not only harassed by
money lenders. but by blaclSmailers
who, having pulled him down as far
as possible, seemed determined never
to allow him to arise again. Mrs
Fitzgerald, in spite of all this, recog
nized in the prince the sterling quail
ties which only required liberation
from the serfdom of oppressed man
hood to develop.
So when he proposed she told him
that she loved him IN spite of all he
was, but she would never allow her
heart. TO run away with her head. She
explained that she would marry hin
il she could make out of him the mar
she thought he could be- She tols
her friends here that her princely
admirer was born, unfortunately, un
der the sign OF aquarius. and so haC
small chance Of ever accomplishing
anything for himself. She said:
You know he has never grown w
/, and while he is much older than
am, I cannot help but feel motherly
solicitude for him."
Mrs. Fitzgerald began her work by
successfully combating noted black
mailers. She silenced them and go
: her prince away from dangerous asso
ciates who were making use of hi
: name and position for their own ends
She undertook an adjustment of hi
, estates to prevent their being sacri
feed and SHIT got the prince coins
right.
a Prince Victor, with this new expe
a rience OF having someone to reall.
= look out for hs interests, became i'm
4 bued with the serious determination
!. to be the prince this American cir
o was striving to make. SO Mrs. Fit2
a gerald has the prince of her owl
heart which her cleserness has Great
ed and so loaded with royal title
that 1T will be an added household
duty to remember them.
: Mrs. Fitzgeralds family and friend
L are much opposed to her acceptin
, a morganatic marriage with tn
9 prince, but she answers:
y Loves the "Man."
Z 1T is not the prince am marrying
:. it is the man love-"
= However, there is every possibilit
that Emperor Francis Joseph will al
range for the acceptance of Mrs. Fit,
gerald at court, as ever since tn
If tragic death OF his son he has nc
o opposed true love matches. In fac
e the wife of the Archduke Ferdinand
1. his successor to the throne, was a
IS untitled lady in the dukes family.
IS Even il the emperor's approval
Q. withheld, the fact that Prince vi,
it tors father, for some family reason
!. maintained a title in Hungary wi
/. give loophole for the happy solutio
of the difficulty.
Prince Victor was born in 1872 an