The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-01


scenes the New York Herald's Sun
day edition of February 26 had the
following about the Gould-Graham
wedding, which took place last Satur-
day.
In faraway Hawaii, the wave kissed
islands of the South Pacific, there is
a folk song which tells how a young
prince wooed and won a princess by
placing garlands of wild blooms at
her window and singing to her in the
language of flowers. When the prince
finally brought wreath of her favor
tie flowers and their perfume was
waited to her she appeared at the
easement and kissed her hand. The
rest was easy.
OF course, Jay Gould didn't know
at first that the pretty maid in the
flower booth at the Actors Fund Fair
was a little princess. He wasn't
bothering his head about that, but
he did know right away that her
black eyes snapped roguishly, that she
smiled sweetly and that her voice
was like music in his ears when she
asked; Who'll buy my roses?" He
very promptly assured her that he'd
buy 'em. Thereupon he became
regular, almost persistent cash GUS
toner. He purchased boutonnieres,
bouquets and baskets. singly and in
lunches, sent them to the hospitals
and returned for more-for an entire
week he lived in the perfume of that
one booth. That wasn't all-he fell
head over heels in love.
So the third romance among
George Gould's children began among
flowers, like the Kanaka romance
which the old.time Hawaiians Groom
in song.
The pretty maid of the flower booth
was Annie Douglas Graham, a prin-
cess-according to the royal who's who
of Hawaii-of the last reigning fam
lily. Liliuokalani the last Queen of
Hawaii, is her remote cousin. She is
the daughter of Princess Kaikilani. Her
father was Douglas Graham. The
marriage of Graham and the princess
was something of a college romance
Young Graham was a student at
Princeton and among his classmates
was a Hawaiian prince who was NOV
ing toward the theological field. The
elder Graham, who was junior part
ner in Hartley e Graham, the famous
firm of gunsmiths, took an interest in
the young Hawaiian and arranged
with him to become a companion of
his classmate in a tour of the world.
Naturally the tourists visited Honolu-
III where the youth was received by
the royal family. He was presented
to his classmates sister, the young
and beautiful Princess Kaikilani, and
they fell in love with each other. Be
fore another year had passed the
Princeton youth had proposed to the
Hawaiian maiden and. she accepted
him.
"How are you going to arrange it?"
asked one of Graham's college chums
''She is a princess, and you
"And I am Princetonian," he inr
terrupted. "That makes it all right.
Any Princetonian ought to be able TO
marry a princess"
Following the marriage, which was
attended by representatives of the
royal family of Hawaii, Graham and
his island princess came to New York
to live. Their home for some years
was in the fashionable old part of
West Twelfth street Whenever Ha-
waiian dignitaries came to New York
they were Hospitality entertained
there, and ON several occasions Mrs.
Graham gave little parties modelled
after native celebrations, to which
many polite New Workers were bid
den.
In the early nineties a domestic
shadow fell athwart the Graham
home Mrs. Graham found it neces-
sary to ask the courts to intervene
in her behalf When she had OBJ
tanned a divorce she lived for several
years in comparative retirement, de-
voting herself to the education of her
children. About ten years ago Mrs.
Graham married Hubert Vos, the Dutch
portrait painter. Mrs. Vos's portrait
in her Hawaiian costume is familiar
in exhibitions of the painters can
vases
Miss Graham who, on April 81, in
st. Thomas's Church, will become the
wife of Jay Gould, is, like her mother,
of the exotic type of beauty. She IS
finely educated and possesses a mod
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