Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-05

Singer when he across his very hrst sweetheart
her in Virginia
For unexplained reason he married Mary
Eastwood under the name OF Merritt MS IniuoIe
name and she lived and died under that name. 1t
Is impossible to give detailed account OF isaacs
various romances. His nine wives presented him
with twentyfou children, but ARE concerned
chiefly with the three descendants which our tale
is founded. We must however devote little space
20 summing up the marital experiences OF the amor
When he had accumulated six made-n-America
wives unkind government called him to account
for alleged Irregularities in his several divorces and
the married gentleman betook himself to France
where speaking of love and matdmony, they do such
Taking his impetuous heart with him Mr.. Singer
speedily fell in love with pretty French girl whom
he married Unluckily she soon tired of her elderly
husband and away from him. In despair for
Mr. Singer more used to running away himself ne
called his wife's French maid to fnd the lady ana
bring her back to home and husband. During the
search fell that the chagrined and heartbroken
husband in love with the maid! Presto, she be
came the eighth Mrs. Singer!
She too, passes from story and her hus-
bands life and the next thing we know there is a
NINTH and, as it proved, final Mrs singer VINO was
destined become the grandmother or the Prince oe
Broglie, who figures in our present romance
The ninth wife was the daughter of small pen
sionkeeper in Paris When the shop-worn American
millionaire cast eyes the pretty French girl her
mother engineered marriage in very short order
He died shortly after the marriage leaving his
widow enormous fortune and steadily increasing
income and, incidentally, one daughter Before long
the widow showed signs of being the marrying kind by
sweetheart whom 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
daughter, Isabelle, who at the of twenty was
married the Due Decazes. nobleman of great
lineage but no money at ALL The brides mother paid
all of the Dues expenses and settled large fortune
her daughter 1t is said that she even paid for the
bridegrooms wedding clothes
1t was worth the money, however. to have the
daughter of Singer and the granddaughter of the
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 a way. the matrimonial adventures
of the Isaac and we now come to the present
generation and the present romances As Paris Singer
head OF the family (athough even he has never
been able to straghten out his fathers wives and
twentyfour ofspring) let us hear what society has
say of him. During the early of his first mar
rage he lavished fortune on his handsome wife, pro-
viding her with pink marble villa the shores of
the Adriatc and a 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
Isadora 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
Singer He married the Australian lady but kept
friendly interest in Miss Duncans estnetlc projects
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