Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-12-04

WHO maTFlco MlSA oCnWcizcF Ot
New York-Their Life Is Happy,
but Papa schweizer Has Stopped
Paying the Annual Allowance and
the Nobleman Threatens TO Make
Trouble.
NEW YoRK.-All the Schweizers
IN were delighted.
Father beamed on everybody;
another went about her daily round of
shopping and calls with ill-concealed
satisfaction. And brother Albert
shook hands with himself morning,
noon and night.
And, of verify, why not?
Wasn't sister Blanche making the
match of the season? To be sure!
Here was Signor Conte Oberto Cha
como Giovanni Francesca Maria Gu
Hnelli, scion of an ancient Italian fam
lily of noble lineage, in love with Miss
;Echweizer and respectfully asking her
hand in marriage of her doting papa
No moth-eaten title his; no encum-
bered estate! No, indeed the count
had money Of his own and premier
position in Italian financial and indus
trial circles. He had quite as much to
offer as to ask; the alliance about to
be arranged was advantageous from ev-
cry American viewpoint, as papa
Schweizer we'll could see.
Denial Of Romance.
Romance? Well, hardly. The mat
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,one's heart to run away with ones
head No, indeed! Why, even the
fetching bride-to-be owned up to that.
There is nothing romantic about
our marriage" declared Miss Schwei-
yer, perfectly frankly, and smiling
archly as she said it. at is prosaic,
indeed l met the count, we became
engaged and we will be married
that's ALL"
There's frankness for you. But 1t
may be that Miss Schweizer was more
romantic than she thought. Things
weren't quite so commonplace as she
tried to make them out, because some
people really did see her fall into the
handsome counts arms when he step
ped off the steamer from Italy, to
marry her here in 1902, soon after
the death Of his father and his sue
ecession to the title and the estates.
But today-no, you're wrong, this
particular international marriage did
not turn out unhappily, as you well
might have inferred from the matter
gof-fact announcement Of the smart and
Of n
,cade ago-smart and level-headed yet.
No, indeed; the count proved himself
to be a model of husbands and they
, are very, very happy in their villa near
Bassano, Italy, where three beautiful
little children have been born to them
as pledges OF their affection.
But not SO fast.
Before the marriage, which took
place on January 20, 1902, there were
certain little formalities which had to
be attended to by Joseph Schweizer,
the father-in-law-to-be of an Italian
count, and Mrs. Ernestine Teresa
.Schweizer, his wife.
Old World Custom.
Catch an American papa signing
away half his estate for the benefit OF
a Yankee son-in-law? Not in a thou
sand years! But this was quite diner
sent, you see. Now, abroad, you know,
they have a different way of arrang-
ing marriages, and Americans, you I'M
derstand, must humor the old world
people Just little bit. And what diff
ference does marriage settlement
make, anyway, when you love your
daughter; and didn't the Vanderbilts
do the same when Miss Consuelo be-
came the Duchess of Marlborough, and
the Goulds when Miss Anna became
the Countess de Castellane, and didn't
hundreds of others? A fig for our mar
row-minded American customs about
-meum and teum and all that sort of
thing!
Well, the upshot of it was the regu-
iation visit of Papa and Mamma
aSchweizer to lawyers office in New
York Just as they would have gone to
n notary's abroad to sign the agree
ment for the dot. Mr.. Schweizer real
Sxed that 1t was merely matter of
form to suit the conventions of the
= Continent, and he gladly affixed his
signature to the marriage settlement,
rs did his wife and his smiling son-in-
/ taw-to-be, the Count Gulinelli.
Precious Document Signed.
There it is in black and white
,safd Mr.. Schweizer rather proudly, as
he gazed at the precious document
which cemented the matrimonial ALI
ance between his handsome daughter
and the foreign nobleman.
And Mrs. Schweizer gave little
! gasp of Joy as she realized that she
was now almost mother-in-law of a
nobleman, as indeed she really was
lust four days later.
No. 10 West Seventeen street, the
.Schweizer home in New York, was
decorated for the event. which was a