Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-02

"A GAIN youthful love trlumphs over
n social conventions and the demands of
a determined parent!
Miss Ulrica Dahlgren, the third daughter
of the very wealthy Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren,
was deeply, ardently in love with John
Flavel Hubbard, a youth to fortune and to
fame unknown, but a most charming dancer
and ever 30 good looking. Realizing that
her mother would never consent to the mar
riage, Miss Dahlgren, running true to the
form she long ago established for doing the
unexpected, went off to Arizona and married
her man. And that is all there is to it,
says the pretty but independent bride.
But there is more to this romance and it
will be many long days before society ceases
wondering how it will all end. Judging from
past performances, the bride will not sue for
socicty's forgiveness, but will go on her way
waiting for society to see the whole affair
from her viewpoint. According to society,
New York, is still undecided whether TO for
give her daughter and increase her dress
allowance or to let the young hot-heads find
for themselves.
q From the wealth and sumptuousncss of a
New York S smartest section to small army
house in an Arizona village or New York
fat is staggering change even for n girl
noted for her dislike and defiance Of all set
rules Of conduct.
From her childhood Ulrica Dahlgren could
always be counted on 10 DO tie unexpected.
In way she comes honestly by her tenn
permanent, for the members Of the Drexel
family have ever been defiant of their own
and the worlds opinion, going their own
way regardless of petty social laws and reg
ulations And when they married they mar
ricd the men they loved, not those their sis
tiers, their cousins or their cunts chose for
them.
In marrying Jack Hubbard who, by the
way, is just appointed second lieutenant
with the usual pay-ffteen hundred dollars
a year-Miss Dahlgrcn was but following
the example set by her aunt, Mrs Harry
Ilehr, who married Mr. Lehr despite the
most rabid objections of the entire Drexel
and Dahlgren connection. Mrs. Lehr was
born Drexel and married Dahlgren for
her first husband. Both families were nat
urally interested in her second selection and
Philadelphians still smile over the family
popular New York cotllon leader Incl
cidentally the Lehrs have lived happily ever
since.
Miss Ulrica's mother the oldest daughter
of the late Joseph w. Drexel, of Philadel-
phla, partner of the late j. Pierpont Nor
gan, was the one member Of her family to
marry man picked out by her parents The
year of her debut she was wed to Eric Dahl
gren son of the late Admiral John Dahlgren,
u. S. N, and lived unhappiIy practically
aver after. Undoubtedly when Jack Hub
bard urged the girl he loved to break away
from her mother, the girl compared her
aunt marriage with that of her own Darents
and decided to brave maternal wrath
Perhaps, too, Miss Dahgren thought Of
another aunt who, thwarted by her father
IN her desire to marry an impecunious young
Philadelphia, entered convent, taking the
veil for life Perhaps she thought of her
cousin, Jack Dahlgren, the only son of Mrs
Lehr by her first marriage, who stcadfastly
refuses to marry because he still loves the
pretty manicure lady of Cambridge, Mass
And, again, Miss Ulrica may have thought
OF her older sister, Lucy, who, two years ago,
being hopelesy in love with an undesirable
bond clerk, socially unimportant entered a
convent burying her broken heart under the
flowing robes Of Sister of the Blessed Sac
rament. Studying over these family TRACE
dies was 1t any wonder that Miss Dahlgren
decided in favor Of the man she loved?
Of course Mrs. Dahgren may refuse to
forgive the bride, al cventuality that in
spite of love and kisses might give matri
mony less delightful aspect. For, be it
known that Miss Dahlgren's fortune is
something over twenty millions, and being
one Of nine children Ulrica would naturally