Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29
FOREIGN MARRIAGES.
Two Types of Titled Husbands
Present Content of Princess Sagan
Actual Life of Count Boni

tourist woman arriving in Paris wants
to see the palace which Anna Gould
built for Count Boni de Gastellane."
They are astonished and pleased to
learn that the lady still lives in it. very
happy. at last, with a titled husband
who makes her life as agreeable as it
was formerly less so.
These two successive husbands Of
Anna Gould are-quite apart from all
other eomparisons-types of two kinds
of ifrench mobiles whom American girls
have married. Most Parisians, at first
glance, might have placed them the
other way round and favored Count
Boni de castellane. We have only to
look at results. His cousin. the Duo de
Sagan. proved A husband better adapt
ed 10 Anna Gould and we must yield
to results. Adaptability is everything.
Helie, Due de Falleyrand and Duke
tHerZeg) of Sagan, serene highness.
last of the Grignols, heir of the Peri
cords, direct descendant of the reigning
house of Courlande peer of France.
and representative of the great Tale
rand, iss enormously beyond the Comte
de Castellane in rank. title and his
teric roots. Had he been a man of
force and ambition, he might have i'm
posed himself as a social power In
stead, he has always taken things easy
AT the Grand Cafe the walters used to
worship him. Affable, friendly, willing
to cnat with anybody. his great pleas
ure before his marriage was TO clutter
through the French countryside in a
ricitety little automobile He never
I.fl Z Il
his younger brother, Boson, Due de
Nalencay, owner of the wonderful cha
teau of that name.
Anna Could settled him in the pink
marble palace which she had built for
Count Bon. The life suited him per-
fectly. 1t suits Anna Gould equally.
They do not seek to dominate society
There is no strain to lead or astonish
They receive the people they like. They
live in rich luxury and ease. When
his duchess is willing to take little
automobile trip. Helie is delighted. AT
their Chateau du Marais he potters
about planting fruit trees and plan
ming gardens. They have one of the
best chefs in Paris, and both love
high-art cookery. The private theater
which Count Boni built in the house
is kept practically closed; no more of
those comic operas and ballets which
cost Count Boni fortune. Instead
they pay their seats in the regular
shows of Paris. Yet they receive
handsomely when they want to- For
example their first large entertainment
of the present season was a musical
attended by about 100 guests. There
Ia ii,
lecture upon the history OF that instru-
ment by Jean de Bonnefon, a we'll
Known writer. Among the guests We're
many prominent Americans. The
magnificent gardens We're thrown open
Both he and she are continually shop
ping-each buys presents for the other.
None of Anna Gould's money is being
wasted.
Adaptability is everything.
Hiss Shonts, during her brief honey
moon with the Duo de Chaulnes, was
completely happy. AS a lovely young
widow bringing up her son, the heir
of he title. she is cherished by the
great clans of the Luypes and Uzes
Wien Cousin Theodore arrives she is
welcomed by an enthusiastic lot of
young folks. near to her own age and
brightness.
The Due de la Rcchefoucauld-w
in old days was, like the Norfoiks
nearest royalty-could have had any
heiress in his own exalted class In
stead he chose Miss Matte Elizabeth
Mitchell, with her modest 5000. 000-a
true love match
AT Montmirai his seat, the lovely
American duchess Yields great infIu-
ence. She is friend to all girls who
want to marry their true love of the
country nobility, rich farmers daugh-
tiers, bourgeois girls cursed with am
bilious parents, peasant girls discour-
aged by small cash.
She has opened French eyes TO Amer
lean agricultural machinery, hygienie
plumbing. the check system, farmers
trolley lines, bath tubs, Indian corn
and outdoor life for girls.
She has never sought to push the
duke into his preponderating social
Paris place. A captain of Hussars, de-
voted to the army. easy going, lovable
and modest, he has held aloof from
social leading; and the duchess has
no wish to dominate.
Adaptability is everythingl
Miss Sperry of the Crecker family
married Prince Andre Poniatowski,