Omaha daily bee., 1912-03-17

w How tar the well-known song on that
subject has Influenced fashion 1t is hard to say Some
where Oscar Wide Cor no, was 1t WhistlerD said
that Nature loved TO initiate Art The quotation would
have fine high-brow application to the, present Eng
lish fitting system II 1t we're not that, nowadays IL
is the groom and not the bride, who is left waiting
at the church This takes the point out of the chorus
my Wife Won't Let Mel"
The new chorus to the song evidently must be- "A
Woman Has Right to Change Her Mindl That, at
least is what Gabrielle Ray thought
Gabrielle Ray is a professional beauty the Smash
INCEST" Of George Edwardess corps q nsnensrmers
novned for its pretty women To qualify as Gaiety
girl one has to have. besides good looks, one thou
sand dollars for admission fee. Next comes an auto
mobile and dainty pink-and-god apartment In May
fair Kensingon. some equally fashionable London
district
Gabrielle had all these. and more; for her APP
pearanee behind the footghts brought her sutors BY
the score Score? Yes hundrsds Gabrielle kept most
of the Johnnies and Agies and Freddes In town
jumping through her hoop.
Lord Dalmeny was after her, coronet In hand SO
was the Marquis of Anglesey, hot-foot No European
actresses reputation is complete, of course, without
numbering ex-King Manuels affection. Gabrielle Ray
claimed His Majesty too and with brigade Of lesser
known peers pntocrats and such prosecuting her with
bouquets and notes and Jewels II not long before
she shut her eyes and picked Eric Loder out Of the
grab-bag young grandson Of Sir Edmund Loder. one
OF the wealhiest knights Of the realm.
Eric Loder made good; II was regular Robert
Chambers courtship Eric presented her, 1t is said
with diamond every morning-so. for some months
when at last she named the day." the wedding
was stage-managed by an expert press agent The
ceremony was TO be the most gorgorious Eric Loders
s100000O0 could produce. He bought the most
pensye Archbishop In the country he hired the most
exclusive Windsor Roman Catholic church Eric hat
brand-new suit OF wedding clothes made with braid
two inches WIDE ana spent most Of the remainder OF
his fortune for music and flowers He bought all the
orchids In the world.
Groom and groomsmen, bridesmaids. friends OF the
family. priest yerger. sexton and choir all ready
and all dressed up Thursday. February %. It was
an unfortunate date-leap day. No knowing what
women may dol
The organist played on. while the grinning groom
with his top hat waited in the chance Fifteen min.
utes passed and young Eric Ioder began grow pale
thirty minutes and he was stii anxiousy feeling Of
his necktie behind The orgaust began all over again
the dowagers began to yavn every person IN the
church from the pew-opener to The parson knew that
something was up" hurried consultation OF ushers
ensued; the magnificent honeymoon automobile was
dispatched to Mayfair. At Miss Hays apartment the
maid informed the messengers that Gabrielle was IN
But WHY had Gabrielle not notified the guestsf
curtain to be actually rung up on the CEREMONY No
one knows but Gabrielle RAY She. spoiled darling
doesn't have to tell
The groom FRUSTRATED was taken 10 bis home
biting Aprcek n his enld-handled cane The enr,
psny after much whispering departed from the church
That the popular avorte Of the English comedy stare
had Tilted millionaire not SO remarkable. INT
that she had publicly insulted and Inundated him A.
the last moment inexplica5le It was not sport
ing IS they saw In London.
sun, II was not the FIRST time II had been done "a
London.
Tess than year ago Lady Constance Foljamb..