Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-11

unwelcome heiress by marriage. to
raise her In rank and put things in
order for her seat on the throne be-
side her husband.
Sacrifice All for Love.
The Archduke Charles Louis, infat-
uated with the daughter of Prof. Gu
Der, of the Vienna university, vows
he will never wed any other woman;
and even the women of the race show
the same determined spirit in paying
whatever bitter price the sweet kisses
of love may require
The most sensational scandal
Europe's courts knew for years was
the elopement of Louise, sister OF
Archduke Leopold and crown pr1n>
cess of Saxony, who eloped from her
royal palace with Giron, the tutor OF
her children, and is now plain Nine.
ToseIli, lost to all the friends and
grandeurs of her former high estate.
The Portuguese throne, which young
Manuel lost for a few kisses from a
French Coincidence, might possibly
have gone to the duke of Braganza,
who was recognized at the court OF
Austria as legitimate pretender to
the Portuguese crown. But the charm
ing face-and, perhaps, the more
|
her millions flashed into his view the
golden aureole that is SO binding to
princes as well as common mortals.
Francis Joseph, who has no poor taste
himself in pretty women, has always
been the bar to Cupid in the realm,
with Cupid either sneaking under or
| boldly vaulting over to make the
matches he has set his heart on
| Braganza was given the alternative,
| by the emperor, of formally renounc-
| ing his claims to the Portuguese
| throne or of abandoning his marriage
| with the dainty and wealthy Anita
| 1t was the throne that was sacrificed
| when the choice had to be made.
Then Anita also paid dearly because
she had to stand for about a million
of the princes debts.
Vanderbilt Put Love First
Precisely the same remuneration OF
heirship was made to the full extent
or proud position and immense wealth
that is possible in America, by that
brilliant and frm-natured son of his
fatLer, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., when
he married Grace Wilson and told his
father that he might do as he pleased
with the s4O,0OO,OO0 of the Vanderbilt
fortune-which was exactly what
stern old Cornelius did Alfred
Gwynne got the bulk of the fortune
and the headship of the family, so fal
as the fathers dictum could convey
them.
While the dictum worked practical
ly with the cash, it has failed with
the leadership. Cornelius is recog
nized, socially, as the chief of the Van
derbilts. here and abroad, and he has
earned S25, 900, 600 on his own account
since his father died and cut him of
with the 100000 a Vanderbilt wa!
| supposed to need to keep him from
| starving.
The price that w. e. Corey is be
lieved to have paid to escape from the
bonds that held him to the wife VIII,
stood by him until he made his fortune
in steel in order to enjoy the kisses o
gorgeous Maybelle Gilman, is general
ly put at 100000. H. M Flagler
the Florida magnate, whose first wifi
became insane, and who wanted t.
wed Miss Mary Lily KEENAN,, of WI
mington, N. c., spent 81 100000, frs
| and last, before he could place the bri
DIAL kiss on the new Mrs. F1agler'
| lips
James b Dukes first bridal oscu
! | lation for his second wife cost hir
r 81 500 900, in the form of the magnif
cent new residence he had built t
content her with her lot
: The kings and queens OF earle
!. times may have paid as much; bu
5 the market value of kisses has Gel
3 tainly risen for the proletariat of tn
4 present The two sexes offer diffel
3 ent explanations, each, equally cree
table to the human race.
The women think it is because tn
men have more to give for them; tn
men believe the kisses are worth NOR
than they used to be.
Perhaps both are right