The Dolores star., 1924-10-24

where she could live cheaply She also lived quiet
ly-and the two titled suitors had to come to the
country home to do their courting.
Rich? Yes, indeed both earls are very wealthy.
And oh, the family traditions that 20 with their
Titles! For the brides of the House of Carnarvon
always have to face nj Bretby Hall the ghost of
Lady Chesterfield nm anccsress of the time of
'hares ii VINO visits them in the night and warns
them against the wiles of men. And the brides of
the house of Galloway always receive one visit
from that ancestress who was no less than the
pride of Lammermoor. famed in song and story
The story of the marriage of Ava Alice Muriel
Astor to Prince Serge Platonovltch Obolenski Ne
ledinski Meetski shames fiction She Is the great
great granddaughter of the original John .Jacob
Astor GIG3-lS4S), with fortune of ten or fifteen
millions, and relative by marriage of Lady Astor
lie Is penniless member of an old Russian fam
lily. Badly wounded in the World war he was
nursed back TO health by the widowed Princess
Bariatinska daughter of Car Alexander II by his
second (and mOrganatic) wife Catherine DoIror-
uki He married her. After the revolution in Rus
sia they went to London, where Princess ObolensIj
went on the concert stage 10 support them She
got divorce from him in London last snring
charging neglect, iniideity and nonsupport {"
soon aIter her mother died leaving an estate of
about S3oOOooOO-which was beyond the Prince $
reach
Nothing daunted, the prince turned around and
married Alice Astor. The fortune of the second
Princess Obolenski comes from her father 1oLr
Jacob Asor " GSG4-l9l2) who went down viii
uie lIahic. Her mother was Ava Lowle Willing
OF Philadelphia who is now Lady KIbblesdaIa tho
WIFE of an eccentric Briton who is seventy and
OWLS 4,Soo acres. The father and mother of Alice
We're divorced in 1909. Her father then mnrrot
Madeein Force, who is now Mrs. W. K Dick and
the mother of John Jacob Astor V.
Mathilde Osers marriage in 1923 which set
t'e International gossips hutterng, links the Stand
ara On ana Harvester millions Mathilde is tho
oaushter OF Harold +. Mccormick and Mrs Editb
hocheleher McIormlck and The granddaughter ot
John U. Rockefeller. Her parents boye h.o-
divorced and Mccormick is now the hushond =,
Sahha Whiska-De Duigorn- Fraenkel II Cochrona ,rc
1orihck, Il Polish woman whose beauty morr,,,o
ana priiha donna aspirations have Interested ,y,
continents Tor several years. Mahde at six
'eeh' WIN iier hair down her back announced thu,
she was going TO marry Max Oser, proprIetor az n
iidhs schooi IN Iuricll whose age was vnriouo,,
''' W ne pet"eeh forty-three and fifty sevcr
Years And marry him she did Her not,,a.
S,'e her consent Her father made be,
wait TIL she was eighteen And now M,thus
oser has daughter, presumably beIrcss tn ,,',"
McCormick and Rockefeller millions
MIS- Wllllaip B. Leeds widow of tbo .,r, -,
hihs' Is sald 10 have aitaiDed higher fnro;,,, -
than any other American woman In ,eaa ,'h
marrleu fflhce Christopher, brother nf Xiv c
stahtihe OF Greece. George III is nos. I,, IN
iiHcess Ahastasia. who was original, ~ '
May stewart or Cleveland, Ohio died Io, ~ '
i,er son. william B. Leeds, at nnetean ~ se"'
Irihcess hsenia of Russia In 1921 She ,s a a.'',
Ter OF sister of the late King Constantine 1ausi
Leeus VINO presumably retains much NJ ~. lung
.ortune' Is still an American citizen ana Leea'
intends to live in America anu eays ne