The Washington times., 1924-01-23
HEIRESS ENJOYS
HONEYMOON
IN CITY
Former MiIIicent Rogers, and
Her. Count, Smash All Old
Time Wedding Customs.
By HELEN FOX,
COsmOUOlitan News Service.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-If you
were an heiress to $4,000, 200
would you choose a honeymoon
like that of Millicent Rogers?
New York's Four Hundred has
not witnessed in> many years a
honeymoon to compare with that
which is being enjoyed today by
the Standard Oil heiress, who,
despite her parents wishes, chose
q poor Austrian count for her
husband.
The granddaughter of the late
H. H. Rogers, now became the
Countess Salm Won Hoogstraeten,
and her dashing, middle-aged
bridegroom have scarcely moved
from sight of Fifth avenue since
their secret and sudden marriage
by the city clerk in the municipal
building two weeks ago.
Drop Old Customs.
Unconventional In their marriage,
the couple have chosen to spend an
unconventional honeymoon. They
have not followed the age-old Gus
tom Of disappearing after the wed
ding ceremony, fleeing family and
friends, in search of some rare,
lovely spot. where cupid rules.
The Salm honeymoon has been a
calm reversal of convention. Re-
turning to the Ritz.Carlton Hotel
from their brief visit to CITY han
the Saims were installed in the
Rogers suite.
And while the disappearing act
was not missing, it was performed
oy tne brides mother and father,
rather than by the bridal couple.
On Honeymoon Program.
In addition to making calls and
playing golf, a movie. a weekend
trip and skiing match have been
part q the honeymoon prograkl.
Events hardly more exciting than
those that preceded January s, and
the sudden trip to the municipal
building which converted Millicent
Rogers into a countess.
Married on a Tuesday, the fol.
lowing Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday were largely taken up with
the opening of congratulatory tele.
grams and negotiating with, the
brides parents, Col. and Mrs. Henry
Huttleston Rogers, who were not
at all favorabIy disposed to Count
Ludwig Salm Won Hoogstraeten.
On Saturday the honeymooners
left the city for the first time.
Eluding reporters, they spent the
week end at a fashionable hotel in
the hills Of Westminster county.
DOdging Many Reporters.
On Sunday Countess Ludwig was
part of gay throng looking on at
skiing match. On Monday there
was some more lodging of reporters.
But the newlyweds ventured forth
again on Tuesday afternoon to go
a-calling, visiting among others Mrs
Charles H. Coster. mother-in-law of
Count Otto Salm Won Hoogstraeten,
Count Ludwig's brother.
The greater part of Wednesday
was again devoted to avoiding
newspapermen. On Thursday the
former Millicent Rogers had a real
honeymoon thrill, when she spent
an afternoon at a private showing
of movie" of her many sided
husband and the German Actress
Baroness Fern Andra in THE Red
Rider"
The countess congratulated her
husband and the baroness on the
| excellent portrayal of the love
scenes.
The next day, Friday, the countess
went out to pay a late afternoon
call, and on Saturday the pair
were seen to leave the Ritz in golf.
ing clothes.
On Sunday they stayed quietly
at home until almost 10 o'clock in
the evening when they went out
for brisk walk.
Such Is the honeymoon calendar
of an heiress and her count-hus-
band.
Real Honeymoon Later.
OF course the count and countess
do not consider the last :wo weeks
at the hotel. as thsir official honey
moon. which they plan to spend in
Europe.
But after all Homogeneous have
never been a question of time or
place. They have ever been a
state of mind. Time to the honey.
N oner lie nebulous. Place is vague
indefinite, nebulous, draped with
gossamer fancies.
Countess Millicent and Count
Ludwig are honeymooning at the
Ritz Carleton, but theirs, we are
told, Is a tale of love at first sight.
1t is safe to say that they are
paying their calls and playing golf
n fancy--somewhere off on the
nlOon