The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
SAD LITTLE RICH. l
 GIRL GOES AWAY
| Not A Tear Shed Or A Friend
 Present To Bid Millicent < Rogers Farewell
By ~EsTsRook' rEsiER (leassd Wire ts Ths A1s. \ sratdl

NEW IORA, JdH. -O.---i uc Strsm- ship yeendam emitted n tbick whoap of her. whistle, east off from the little tugs that had yanked her ont into thesstream and set her prov for the tambling, gray North Atlantic. It was the coldest day of the year. yA.y
 For little American girl ina rather shabby stateroom on E deck it was the c6idest day that ever dawie.l. .Miliicente Rogers, late of New York's younger set, whose daddy. H. M. Rogers, the Stan dard Oil millionaire, had never refused to'giye UT forgive anything if she teased long enough, was sailing for Hol- land with Count Salm, the iinpecunious Austrian adventurer of rather vague no bility, whom she ma rried secretly q few weeks ago, At the same. time. Mfllicente thought her daddy would forgive in the same old way. and having forgiven would give more lavishly than ever.
 But us the last confused preparations were finishedrby the scurrying deck-f oii the wind swept fOreeastle of the Veendam, as the last, gear was made fast, as the last swing of the loading crane dropped the last basket of l,lmf bled baggage into the hungry jaw of the forward, hatch. AIillicente Rogers Salm ron HOogstraeten realized. with an extra chill. that, she was smiling away from her whole world. No Flowers To Cheer Her There was not so much as Il bunch of sweet peas to brighten the sti9gy little staterOOm. Not q telegram. Not even a. '.bon voyage" from one of the girls of the junior league, that sanstere, organ ization of high born daughters of the ex- tremely rich and equally snobbisR new l world aristocracy. kssrsa Millicente is, or had. expected to be. heiress to '4e, millions As she waited in the lobby of the Ritz-Carfton during the final hustle of departpfe, she saw her petulant. harrassed hubby treated with that artistic insOlence. which only well-trained hotel servants can eyince: because the count had been catalogned as porcelain nest egg 1h the finahcial l rating system by which belihops guage i the liberality of their customers.
 A three minute egg is allowed to pick up his walking stick if He drops I it. A ten-minute egg is allowed to wat l awhile when he rings for the morning | papers. But Il nest-egg is allowed to Dreah HIS pach hahN'e
 trunks. ,.,,
 Millicente seemed full of the chill thao comes from deep inside. She seemed oblivious of the little hindefin- | ties. She sat for time, waiting in the lobby. with her eyes clOseds Ter IDS fight her hands clenched on the handle | of her big pocketboOk which contained l such n little remnant of the affluence | that had been hers until she married Count Salm.
 Count Complains As Servants The count, q colossal man, fretted and complained of the inattentlon or l the servants who seemed unable to ap- preciate the privilege of anticipating noble Austrian's' little wants. He | fetched and carried for himself and once he popped into the elevator and shOf up to the now deserted Rogers Isuite to get a steamer rug that he'had forgotten. 'lFft fss h.. - :. .''. -'S' Si
 A few weeks ago, Aiillicente would have struck sanssimpericus; pose and called 40 eab-starters 1t0ssmanhandfe Eanyofie with the atldacify to- mention her private affairs. But she had be- come accustomed to tie i1asie candor of public curiosity by now s.s And so. when she was asked again. | for the fortieth time, whether her father and mother had decided % for give and give again, she merely shrug- ged, half-opened her eyes and whisp- cred on a breath of utter dejection': "Oh, I guess everything is the way 1t has been right along; I'm just going away; that's all. cant tell you any thing because don't even know why we're going, or where or when were coming back. | wonder whatihas' De- come of all my friends" %1
 Bound for Austria
 The Veendam will carry Millicent to Holland and eventually they will go to what the count calls his ancestral ,home in Regina. Austria. Although the antiquity of his family still shines with comparative newness. The title is not more than 100 years old and i there occurs not far back Tn the lam fly history serious deviation from the noble line at the point where one of his ancestors married n bOurgeoise German woman.
 For all that. Aiillicente appeared to know to the contrary, their future com fort and such few 1uxuries as the com ing years may youchsafe them. must be derived from the counts own ingenuity and efforts. Judged by his past. their future together might he said to have d gray appearance.
 When he vas merely an unattached and highly ornamental male. with his aristocratic manners and his, peculiar estimate . of his own importance, the count took his fun where he found it.
 He carried spear in movie spec tacle. He. rode horse in one of those free lance revolutions organized by the hat-broke officers who hoped to become court ornaments if they should succeed in bringing back, King Karl. He tam gOed He was not above turning. deal in secondhand parl0r chairs from the crumbling old castles of his impover- ished friends, although, of course, they were objects of art, and not mere fHrni- ture.
 The Count and Miliicent are to be married over again in Austria.