The Washington times., 1919-03-09

who on her mothers side is all-Amer-
ican and on her fathers has right
to the Bavarian throne-unIess that seat of
the mighty is chopped up for kindling wood
by the revolutionists-has at last picked
the man she intends to marry. Long ago
her mother, the all-American Countess of
Pappenheim .snd heiress of the Philadel-
phia Wheeler iron millions, looking back
over her own brief and sorrowfuI matri
mohial career with Count Max Pappen-
helm, declared that she never wanted her
daughter to marry a foreign nobleman.
Despite her mammals shocking expert
ences with her noble husband and all her
advice, she has insisted upon trying her
luck with a Danish Count She has
pIighted her troth to Count Raben, of Den
mark.
Count Raben, it appears, is an extremely
gentlemanly nobleman connected with the
Swedish Embassy in London. He is very
well of in this worlds goods and very much
much in love with his youthful Countess,
who is somewhat younger than he.
How very courageous the young Count
ess Pauline has shown herself can only be
realized from a perusal of the shocking
experiences of her mother gathered from
those who know the whole sad story.
When Charles Wheeler, of Philadelphia,
died, back in the late eighties, he left a
fortune of some seven millions of dollars
in those days a far greater sum than the
same would be now. In spite of his wealth
the old iron manufacturer did not move
in the most exclusive circles After his
death his widow decided to travel on the
Continent, and at last settled down in the
Isle of Wight, where she built a palace
for herself and her daughter One day
this daughter, summering at Brighton, met
while strOlling on the sands, most charm
ing and coUrtly gentleman.
The meeting was informal, but before
they parted the courtly gentleman asked
leave to present himself to her mother.
And great was that mothers delight when
he turned out to be no less a persOnage
than the Count Max Pappenheim, ruling
member of one of the very proudest houses
of Bavaria.
The Count practically took up his quar-.
tiers at the Isle of Wight home, and his
wooing of Miss Mary was brief and tenn
pestuOus. Dazzled by the glamor OF the
title and the open sesame it seemed to
promise TO the courts and palaces OF the
continent, Mrs. Wheeler enthusiastically
gave her consent to the match.
But here the American woman ran up
against the very different point of view OF
the Continent upon such matters. AS the
head of his house. it appeared, the Count
Pappenheim must get the consent of his
family to his wedding. He could not, like
a simple American gentleman, wed whom
lie pleased. II was only a matter of form,
OF course he explained but still a formal
ity that had to be gone through. He de-
parted for Bavaria to lay his case before
the members of his clan.
When he returned a shadow of sadness
lay over him. His people were so old
fashioned OF course it was tremendous
descent for a man of his birth to wed a
plain American girl with no crest or quar-
terings. The family had thought So and
they had insisted that if he were deter
mined TO do this he must give up all his
rights and privileges and prerogatives as
the chief of the clan Of Pappenheim, must
give up his status as leader and his long
slumbering potential rights to the Bavar-
ian throne and take his place as simply a
plain nobleman!
This was indeed very sad-but still he
remained the Count Max Pappenheim and
Miss Wheeler would, Of course, have the
title of the Countess Pappenheim.
Oh, yes-but there was another little dif
hculty. The Counts income all came from
these same rights. privileges and so forth
that he was giving up. To make this great