The Washington herald., 1917-05-16
YOUR WEDDING DAY
And the Famous Men and Women WI,
Have Shared 1t.
By MARY MARSHALL.

Have Shared II.
BY MARY MARSHALL.
May 16-Guy Carleton and Lady Maria
Howard.
The reason why Guy Carleton-Lord
Dorchester-did not marry till he was S
was simply that when a young man-at
the age when most men choose their life
partner-he had been disappointed. He
was very much in love with his cousin.
who for some reason or other, preferred
another So Carleton found forgetfJ!-
ness in his duties as a soldier and so
engrossed was he in his career that 1t
was many years before he again Thought
CT winning a wife. To say that he e'imi-
mated the element of romance and went
about the matter in a more business
like way on this second occasion would
not be far from the truth.
An old friend of his-a man Of his own
age-was Lord Howard, who had two
comely daughters, Lady Ann and Lady
Maria. For many years these girls had
been used to seeing Carleton as an oc-
casional visitor at their fathers home
and they had never thought Of him in
the light of a possible wooer. Apparently
Carleton had, for one day he came and
asked to interview Lord Howard alone.
Lady Anne and Lady Maria with their
companion, Miss Seymour, sat in another
room and wondered on what errand their
old friend had come, when presently
Lord Howard sent for his daughter
Anne. When Anne returned, her eyes
were swollen and red from crying. Nat
urally the sister and companion asked her
the trouble and Anne is reported as say
ing:
Your eyes would be red if you had
earth"
Neither Maria nor Miss Seymour needed
to know the reason: for Lady Anne was
already in love with a young officer, a
nephew, oddly enough, of Carleton's
However, Maria was indignant with heI
sister.
THE more fool you," quoth she. 81
only wish he had given me the chance" !"
In the meantime the twice-rejected lord
ha6 gone away determined nevere again
TO woo a fair maiden. But Miss Seymour
had not forgotten Maria's remark and
few weeks later recounted 1t to Lord
Howard, who tactfully told It to his
friend. And so Guy Carleton called
again, proposed for the hand of Lady
Maria, who was less than half his age,
was enthusiastically accepted and then
counted himself fhe happiest of men. II
had not even entered his mind that this
youngest and most bewitching of mis-
friends daughters would accept him.
Shortly after their marriage, which took
place in England. May 16, 1T74, Guy Carle-
ton returned to mis- duties in this country
and, as every one knows, became gov
ernor OF New York. After the Revolution
he. with his young wife, repaired to
Quebec, where he was governor for many
years, and where long after his death
Lady Maria continued to preside over a
miniature court in her Canadian home.
She had been a petite. sprightly girl and
in her old age she was little and very
pompous. She always carried an ebony
cane and in 1890 wore her hair in the nigh
fashion, built up with lace, that had beer
in vogue in her youth. She wore scarlet
ribbons on her hair and scarlet shoes,
with enormously high heels and gold but
tons-as happy to the death IS she had
been on the day she, became engaged, in
the fact that ''the best man on earth
had chosen her for a wife.
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