Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-18

WN ALTIMORE.-All American girls
lacking millions but possessing
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,
ii not happiness.
But the Due de Richelieu, halfAmer-
lean and heir to a great fortune, is
unique. Love alone caused him 10
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. 1t 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
fioated 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 a 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 tfuer romance
Many a 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 a fate
full night early last year in Paris,
when he attended dinner given by
Mrs. Seth Barton French of New York
and Newport. Miss Wise was 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, lie was entranced
From that moment he was the singers
devoted cavalier. He did not leave
her side for the rest of the evening
1t was not long before he proposed to
would be able to draw aside the vel
of the future and truly solve one great
mystery for her,
At table in a secluded corner he
looked longingly into the dancing eye:
of the American girl as she laid the
palm of her left hand before him.
Everything that is lovely in WON
an" cried the duke. pointing to {
line.
"A love affair" he smiled ant
paused "A probable marriage; sue
cess in love" Then he seemed tc b,
lost in thought as he studied th'
pretty palm.
81 see a change coming into you
life, wonderful change" he said
Before long you will contract mar
rlage that the world will call brilliant
And II will be for love!"
So began the romance of Miss Wis
and Marie Odet Jean Armand de Cha
pelle de Jumilhac, Duo de Richelie
and De Fronsac
The duke and the new America
duchess are not going to spend a
their time in foreign social life Tn
: mansions OF the Faubourg St. German
E the most reserved and aristocratic /
all the world, are open to the Due d
Richelieu and his bride, and not man
: American girls, even those who hav
e gained great French names by ma
riage. have the entree to that conser'
;. alive society.
Will Live in New York.
e The, efore, it is considered remarks
@ BILE that the duke and his bride bay
agreed to live In New York durin
much of the year, and in cohsequeno
e they have leased luxurious apartment
e In the Carlton Chambers, just mort
-. of the Ritz-Carlton. on Madison av
= nue.. These are being furnished mo
artistically and the rooms will
II notable for their fidelity to warrior
French periods.
- 1t will be a novelty for duke al
e duchess to entertain the Four HUI
re dred in their own home in New Yorl
When Richelieu married Miss VIII
1t was the second time that a Bal
D. more beauty had been won by a mel
III Der OF the French nobility. On Il
- other occasion lit was in the ear
~ part OF the nineteenth century
J Jerome PoRaparte. the dashing brot