The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23

ssssrSHE Countess de Lasteyrie, who was
s Miss Constance Warren, daughter
81 - Of George Henry warren, and niece
= Of the late Mrs. Robert Goelet. OF Newport
ssand New York, is the hrst bride IN her
3. illtrafashionable set to have mule-pack
sfhoneymoon. With the Count, who 10 a
4 descendant of General Lafayette. and
every prominent young Frenchman himself.
nthe serstwh1le Miss Warren is hunting
= grizzlies, chasing wildcats and mountain
ss1ions and riding balky pack mules up the
a1nountain trails OF California and Colorado.
The ruling passion is strong even in
death; that It may be equally strong in
marriage. and that as the girl is, SO the
bride will be is being proved daily by the
former Newport belle and athlete.
AS girl the Countess had one ruling
passion-that OF outdoing every other girl.
and most men, in strenuous sports. She
!, .cutswam. outrode and outwalked every
>. girl in Newport except Miss Eleonora
& Sears. and few men were her supertors.
t Misc Warren and Count de Lasteyrie
Z were married in December. They had
perfectly conventional wedding ceremony.
!, and the brides trousseau was just exactly
: what any wealthy heiress OF fashionable
society would want and have. The brides
friends said:
( Nov that Connie Is married che will
g settle down and we will never have any
more fun; she will become true lady OF
the manor and Newport will miss her &C.
, centrcities."
Her delighted family smiled and said:
Z. Now that dear Constance fB married
{ TO the Count, she will surely settle down
: and become great lady; she will go to
France for her wedding trip and visit the
famous chateau belonging to the De Las
teyrie family, and soon we shall hear OF
!. her triumphs In Paris society"
:. The Counts family said
1.-THE young people will return to our
. home in France and devote themselves to
|. their tenantry and to bringing up their
!, children"
!. : But-the new Countess said something
: that differed widely from all these prog
.nostications
Lets go West on our wedding trip and
cut loose from all the horrid conventions
: that have bothered us ever since our en-
,Eagement was announced. Let's go
where can wear trousers and shoot
things THAT are Wild and where you can
learn just how our Wild West really
,io6ke."
And SO the mulepack wedding trip be.
gan just when every one supposed that
trip to Europe would be in order.
The bride was very canny. She did not
6ill her wedding trunks with the trousers
and other things that she knew she would
need, No, she felt some consideration for
her conventional mothers feelings, and
when the young couple left New York
they took with them just the usual going
away garments of the usual bride and
groom. But when they reached Chicago
the Countess spent two happy days shop
ping for her hunting outfit, and she also
tefegraphed the caretaker of her Newport
home to ship her athletic outfit already
packed, to San Francisco.
Gin order to carry out her cherished, but
y,1oy f1pn h-{d do 1aI do
some things that she did not want to.
For instance, she had to spend few
days on the Coast" Therefore the
Count and Countess went to San Fran
cisco, where they visited friends, and
from there they went to Los Angeles.
Now. Of course, the Countess knew very
little about the West; she had never be-
fore been in California. and neither had
the Count. When, therefore, they packed
for$Los Angeles the bride said:
HAh, now, at last Il shall be able to wear
these perfectly adorable trousers; they
At 80 beautifully, and they are such loves,
and here have never had them on except
in my boudoir. shall certainly year
them in Los Angeles" But, alas, the
Countess found that Los Angeles was just
as much OF a city as San Francisco, and
her adorable trousers had to be- left In
her trunk.
But the bride was not discourage d, and
began searching for the real West, where
she could get the grizzlies and the lions
and wear the trousers. And she found 1t,
too, In the widest part of the Sierras,
where the trails go straight up or straight
down and trousered girls are not jeered
at. OF this the real honeymoon. the de-
lighted Countess writes to her friends
fmoBt enthusiastically, and we have been
stallowed the privilege of looking otter the
! 'shonlder OF one of these friends while, she
reads, and here is what the Countess
thinks OF her mule-pack wedding trip: &
Z q Our pack consists OF four mules, mye
z dear j --7-.s II ride one and Guy one, anths
weSuses the other two for the supplies All sa
our extra trousers and things. Nd, Be'w
have no glide. We have maps, and VI Ehs