The Washington times., 1919-09-14

Singer when he ran across his first sweetheart
in New York, ten years after becoming engaged 70
her in Virginia.
For some unexplained reason he married Mary
Eastwood under the name Of Merritt, his middle
name and she lived and died under that name II
is impossible to give detailed account OF lsaaC
various romances His nine wives presented MIN.
with twenty-four children, but we are concerned
chiefly with the three descendants on which our tae
is founded. We must however devote little space
to summing up the marital experiences Of the amor
Gus Observation-Disclosures.
When he had accumulated six madein-America
wives IN unkind government called him to account
for alleged irregularities in his several divorces and
the much married gentleman betook himself to France,
where speaking of love and matrimony they do such
things much better. -
speedily fell in with a pretty French girl whom
he married Unluckily she soon tired OF her elderly
husband and ran away from him. In despair; Lor m
Mr. Singer was used to running away himself, ne
called on his wife's French maid to find the lazy ana
bring her back to home and husband. During the
search it fell out that the chagrined and heart6roken
husband fell in love with the maid! PresCo' she De-
came the eighth Mrs Singer!
She. too passes from our story and her hus-
bands life and the next thing We know there is
ninth and it proved, final Mrs. Singer, VINO was
destined become the grandmother OF the Prince DE
Broglie, who figures in our present romance
The ninth wife the daughter OF small pen
sionkeeper in Paris When the shOp-wOrn American
millionaire cast eyes at the pretty French girl her
mother engineered marriage in very short orGer.
He died shortly after the marriage leaving his
widow an fortune and steadily increasing
income and. incidentally, one daughter BEFORE long
the widow showed signs Of being the marrying kind by
taking as husband young singer in cafe, former
sweetheart whom she had discarded for the American
He too, died. and almost overnight the widow mar
ried Jean Paul SOhege, from whom she got very
sudden divorce.
In passing this lady very beautiful. and at the
height of her beauty noted French sculptor used her
for the model Of a statue which is in the Capitol at
Washington. Fortunately, her beauty descended to
her daughter, Isabelle, who at the Of twenty was
married to the Due DecaZes nObleman OF great
lineage but money at all. The brides mother paid
all of the Dues expenses and settled large fortune
on her daughter 1t is said that she paid for the
bridegroom's wedding clothes!
It was worth the money, however, to have the
daughter of Isaac Singer and the granddaughter OF the
French pensionkeeper made real duchess of France
The Dowager Queen Isabella of Spain and her two
daughters present at the wedding and so was
all the high nobility of France.
Here finished in way, the matrimonial adventures
of the Isaac, and come to the present
generation and the present rOmances AS Paris Singer
the head Of the family CalthOugh he has never
been able to stTaighten out his fathers wives and
twenty-four ofspring) let us hear what society has
to say Of him. During the early years of his first
rage he lavished fortune his handsome wife, pro-
vidng her with pink marble villa the shores Of
the AdriatiC and white marble castle in the south of
England. Her jewels equaled those of an Egyptian
queen.
Society said that all these gifts were to make his
wife forget how deeply in love he had been with
IsadoTa Duncan. Well, there denying the
fact that he had long worshipped at the dancers
shrine and that he had begged and pleaded with her
to marry him. He backed her in several Of her
dancing enterprises solely because of his interest
in art, because all the time he wanted her io- his
wife,
All her world knows Miss Duncans theories
to love and marriage and even Mr.. Singer came to
realize finally that she would not then become Mrs.
friendly interest in Miss Duncans esthetic projects
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