The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910, by the National News Service. N. Y.)

reported engagement to Mildred Sher
 man, the beautiful daughter of Will
 liam Watts Sherman. Lord Camoy.
 spoiled the pretty romance the gossip
 mongers have been weaving for him
 ever since he came here last winter
 to attend his chum Lord Decies at tk
 latter's wedding to Vivien Gould. Miss
 Sherman was one of the bridesmaids
 of Miss Gould and has been great
 favorite in society here ever since her
 coming out party a few years ago
 Camoys met her for the first time at
 the rehearsal of the nuptial ceremonies
 day or two prior to the Decies-Gould
 | wedding and it was subsequently,
 1 whispered about that he had taken
 | quite sh1ne to the young heiress,
 I who will some day have dot of a
 million or two in her own name. Fol
 lowing the wedding, His Lordship, in- l stead of returning home promptly as
 he had originally planned, fingered at
 the Waldorf-Astoria for several
 months with the Honorable Bobby 1 Beresford, the younger brother of
 Lord Decies. Ambitious mothers with eligible daughters and healthy bank
 accounts vied with one another in en- tertaining him, while the professional
 matrimonial forecasters of society
 proceeded to prophecy his early en-
 gagement to one and then another of
 the susceptible maidens, who for the | time seemed to command his favor.
 Through all this shifting of the l hymenal sands and resetting of the stage pictures, painted in fancy by
 the knowing ones the personality of
 Miss Sherman loomed always above
 the canvass. The young nobleman, un-
 consciously perhaps, strengthened the ! popular conviction that he was much
 snitten, by his frequent appeArances | in the company of the pretty heiress
 and his undisguised interest in her. | which became more and more appar- l ent as the weeks glided by. It was | generally understood that since his re- 1 turn to England they have been much | in correspondence, circumstance | that prepared the way for the prema- | ture announcement of their betrothal, l cabled from London last week AL | 1 though Carnoys has since disclaimed authorizing the announcement and | averred that no engagement existed, | it is the general belief that the cou- pie have reached an understanding | and that as soon as the father of the | bride is won over to the proposition, upon which it is said he does not at | the present time look with favor, a fc-n1al statement of the plans of the couple will be issued. The hitch is
 repdrted to be due to the stubborness
 of 1e pere Sherman, who is opposed on
 principle to making the marriage set | clement prescribed by precedent in
 marriages between wealthy American girls and foreigners of title. Those
 who recall the obduracy of other Am
 erican papas on this question and their
 subsequent abject exploitation to the importunities of their wives and F on such marriages, predict the ulti- mate acquiescence of the elder Sher-
 man in this now widely accepted us- age of New York society in such cases.
 The inventory taken recently of the a fo nf rk 1fyxvof n 11 13yrv, ict | disclosing its value at more than $50O- 600 is significant of the great change that has of late years marked the 1 financial status of the successful au- thor. No longer is the literary crafts man, who has made his mark depen- dent upon the bounty of an indulgent ; government, the charity of his pub- fisher or the patronage of those who think he should be encouraged as an interesting parsonage. lt
 The day of the spare-boned, / half starved, seedy, genius and the studio in the leaky, wind swept garret bed- l room has passed away with the tallow t candle and the packet ship and the writer of "beSt sellers" has come in l to his own.
 Twains revenues from his books it l c is estipated approximated $1,00O, 900 c during his life time. The bulk of this ! was swept away in the failure of a publishing house he was induced to t back and at the age of sixty he found c himself as penniless as the day he o was born and heavily in debt Had he t listened to the advice of some of his t friends he might have been freed p from liability for these debts by go- s ing through bankruptcy but the au- n thor of rom Sawyer" "Huckleberry c Finn'' and other best sellers insisted b upon turning over to his creditors the E revenues from his later writings, thusi Ii in time liquidating his entire indebt- a edness with interest.
 The fortune he left at his death, b the earnings of his last in ten years of his life, indicating the re popularity of his writings u ieath. Although he had the benefit h. If the advice of his friend, the late P Henry H. Rogers, Vice President of te he Standard Oil company, in the mat
 CT of investments. singularly enough ht he inventory of his estate showed in hat he had been literally loaded up DO with stocks of no market value H Ida Husted Harper took issue this w week. with Representative Kahn. who he roposed in Congress last week the tr imposition of a tax on the dowries ad f American Women who marry Eng
 ssh and other foreign noblemen The ostile attitude displayed toward gr yomen's suffrage by the majority of ot] american man, has not improved her Al piiliOI OI luclIl duu SH0 dVd1l6Q ner- elf of thir opportunity to make some ch unpleasant comparisons of them with br 1e, men of title, whose willingness to Ian sl themselves for a pot of Yankee th, old, excited the wrath of Representa- oh we Kahn. Wa "A heavy tax" said Representative Ne ahn in Congress, .should be impos- no on the dowries of American brides Ro
 international marriages, so uhat Ch le penurious but titled fortune hunt i'm might secure but small moiety of An the price the bride pays him for a def ime which he himself dishonors by en, us putting it up at auction to the ar1 ghest bidder" fir ''It is indeed" retorts Mrs. Harper. ! ETn 'xasperating to see millions of good cor merican dollars going to Europe to ove pply roofs and drains and bath tubs fer r decaying palaces and castles, but ron at is better use for them than ara cir squandering at Monte Carlo. and the her gambling resorts by our gilded ha ols of the masculine sex which goes at , yeal oie1i year. is From historic standpoint, it is Fra tier than the way they are left in an e jewellers" and other Rhops by Re, ose of the feminine gender who car the the money of their American hus. I1e oI,r %A