Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-25
y ALTIMORE.-All American girls
lacking millions but possessing
j beauty and the grand manner,
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beauty and the grand manner,
take heart!
Dukes and lords and counts who WOO
and wed our bellies are nearly always
as poor as their brides are rich. Titles
and exalted social positions are bar
tered for the gold that brings luxury,
IL not happiness.
But the Due de Richelieu, half-Amer-
lean and heir to great fortune, is
unique. Love alone caused him to
make Elinor Douglas Wise his bride.
The Baltimore girl who is now on
her honeymoon with Richelieu is
wealthy only in her loneliness, in her
wit, in her sprightliness. It was the
lure of her personality, the cadence OF
her voice that caused the most elusive
catch in all the French nobility to fall
in love with her at sight
When the sparkling bride fairly
floated out of the century-old cathe-
dral in Baltimore, after Cardinal Glib
bons had performed the ceremony, the
newest American duchess bowed and
smiled happily to brilliant assem-
blage that included girls OF great for
tune, destined, perhaps, to gain titles
for themselves. But for none of them
will Cupid weave a truer romance.
Many gold-baited trap was set for
the Due de Richelieu by socially ambi-
tious mothers. But he avoided them
all, and was fancy free till, on fate
full night early last year In Paris,
when he attended a dinner given by
Mrs. Seth Barton French of New York
and Newport. Miss Wise was a guest
also. Later in the drawing room, lighted
by the mellow radiance of wax candles.
the Baltimore girl sang French chan
sons with such warmth OF voice and
with such style and force that her
hearers were stirred to enthusiasm.
Love at First Sight.
But the duke! He was entranced.
From that moment he was the singers
devoted cavalier. He did not leave
her side for the rest of the evening.
It was not long before he proposed to
tell her fortune. He swore that he
would be able to draw aside the veil
of the future and truly solve one great
mystery for her.
At a table in a secluded corner he
looked longingly into the dancing eyes
of the American girl as she laid the
palm of her left hand before him.
Everything that Is lovely in wom-
an" cried the duke. pointing to q
line.
"A love affair."" he smiled and
paused. "A probable marriage; sue
cess in love-" Then he seemed to be
lost in thought as he studied the
pretty palm.
Il see a change coming into your
life, a wonderful change he said.
Before long you will contract mar
r!age that the world will call brilliant.
And it will be for love!"
So began the romance of Miss Wise
and Marie Odet Jean Armand de Cha
'pelle de Jumilhac, Due de Richelieu
and De Fronsac.
The duke and the new American
duchess are not going to spend ali
their time in foreign social life. The
mansions of the Faubourg St German,
the most reserved and aristocratic in
all the world, are open to the Due de
Richelieu and his bride, and not many
American girls, even those who have
gained great French names by mar
riage, have the entree to that conserv-
alive society.
Will Live In New York.
Therefore, it is considered remarka-
BILE that the duke and his bride have
agreed to live in New York during
much of the year, and in consequence
they have leased luxurious apartments
in the Carlton Chambers, just north
of the Ritz-Carlton, on Madison ave-
nue. These are being furnished most
artistically and the rooms will be
notable for their fidelity to various
French periods.
1t will be a novelty for a duke and
duchess to entertain the Four Hun
dred in their own home in New York!
When Richelieu married Miss Wise
It was the second time that Balti-
more beauty had been won by men,
Der of the French nobility. On the
other occasion-it was in the early
part of the nineteenth century