The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-12-19

mother and sister TO call on mine. and he
gave a box party one night that his
parents might hear me sing. Unthinking-
~ 4 wore my engagement ring The elder
MI Wheele- seeing It said; Bert. Il ap-
pears Miss Caristedt 10 engaged, anc II
wouldn't be hard 90 guess 90 whom" TIA
ing revealed the secret We were or the
verge o. DISCLOSING
was playing the next week IN Scranton
The elder Mr.. Galiatin came over 10 Gee
me He said.
Miss Carlstedt, am willing you should
marry my son. believe YOU would maze
him good wife. But feel that II is nv
duty to warn YOU lie is fadoist He
won't stick"
IN the confidence of youth answered.:
20. Mr.. Wheeler! You don't know yodr
SON"
The smile with which the elder Mr.
Wheeler greeted this speech was a proph
ecy, had ! but known.
My parents went back to Chicago for
a few weeks. Thus the actual obstacle TO
our marriage was removed. and the mar
rage took place In the apartments OF the
elder Wheelers. I'm March. following the
Nay in which we met.
Mamma Wheeler az once took me under
her wing. II was an ample wing she
weighing $50 pounds. But accommodated
my proportions happily 10 a. for she was
the mother OF my adored bridegroom, the
man whom called MY Angel from
Heaven"
Mamma Wheeler wanted me 10 become
domestic. ] was more than willing She
wished us 10 be installed at once In a
home. She said. Unless you have the
common interest OF a home you will not
be as close 10 each other as a husband
ana wife should" ! agreed. The day after
our wedding we went house hunting We
decided upon a furnished fiat somewhere
In the Eighties. Mother Wheeler bought
whole mountain Of table linen. and
hemmed and embroidered a. That kept
me busy for three months When. sum
MGR came We went with the elders TO
Lake Champlain
We stopped a. a hotel There Il was
that the campaign OF criticism began. I
was Identified In many minds with the
song. 20. Love Divine" which Mr. Her.
bert had written for me When ! would
pass through the great hail leading 70
the dining room the orchestra would stiike
up the strains % 20. Love Divine"
This annoyed Mamma Wheeler She
would say. 20. Claudia. I am 30 sorry YOU
were an actress. People look at you 90
Please come Into the dining room through
che piazza window"
When we came back 10 town Mamma
Wheeler's complaints grew louder She
said. II hate 10 20 10 Shcrry'a with Bert
and bis wife Claudia BE- 30 conspicuous"
~ me opera she complained that people
stared al be- because ! was conspicuous
My education in d0mesticity continued
Mamma Wheeler taught me to darn table
linen. Being n Pennsylvania Dutch woman
she was frugal When Albert and ! bought
a country place. Fairfield. On Connecticut
Just across the line from New York. We had
fourteen servants but ] hemmed and ar
ranged at The curtains for our huge house
Three hundred yards Of SILK ] made into
curtains. and one thousand yards % other
SILK for draporics. couch covers and 20 on
I worked for weeks turning the new satin
finished brass mantels and fixtures into
properly old vcrdigris tinted ones ~ ap
plying mixtures ! even mounted the
scanoldirg and painted panels
Why Because The shadow that lies
upon 20 many multimlilionairos' homes had
already fallen upon mine. tho shadow Of
iany Great Britain RIGHTS noaerved