Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-16

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 counting
Rich? Yes, indeed; both earls are very wealthy
And oh, the family traditions that go with their
titlesi For the brides of the House of Carnarvon
always have to face at Briefly Hall the ghost of
Lady Chesterfield, an ancestress of the time OF
Charles II who visits them in the night and warns
them against the wes of men, And the brides of
the house OF Galloway always receive one visit
from that ancestress who no less than the
bride of Lammermoor, famed in song and story.
The story of the marriage of Ava Alice Muriel
AstOr to Prince Serge Platonovitch Obolenski Ne
ledinsk Meletski shames fiction. She is the great
great granddaughter Of the original John jacob
Astor (1763-1S48), with fortune Of ten or fifteen
Millions and relative by marriage of Lady Aston
He 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
Bariatinsks, daughter of Car Alexander II by his
second (and morganatic) wife, Catherine DOgOr
uki He married her After the revolution in Rus
STA they went to London, where Princess Obolensk
went on the concert stage to support them She
got divorce from him in London last spring
charging neglect infdelity and nonsupport."
Soon after her mother died, leaving estate Of
about $4,000, OOO-which was beyond the Princes
reach.
Nothing dautted the prince turned around and
married Alice .Astor. The fortune of the second
Princess Obolenski comes from her father, John
Jacob Aston " (18641912), who went down with
the Titanic. Her mother was Ava Lowle Willing
of Philadelphia, who is now Lady Ribblesdale, the
wife of an eccentric Briton who is seventy and
owns 1880 acres, The father and mother Of Alice
were divorced in 1902 Her father then married
Madelein Force, who is now Mrs. w. K. Dick and
the mother of John Jacob Aston V.
Mathilde Oser's marriage in 1923, which set
the international gossips f1uttering links the Stand
ard Oil and Harvester millions. Mathilde is the
daughter of Harold f. Mccormick and Mrs Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick and the granddaughter of
John d. Rockefeller. Her parents have been
divorced and Mccormick is now the husband of
Gamma Walska-De uigOrn-Fraenkel-C ochrane-Mc-
Cormick, Polish woman whose beauty, marriages
and prima donna aspirations have interested two
continents for several years. Mathilde, at six
teen, with her hair down her back announced that
she was going to marry Max Oser, proprietor of
riding school in Zurich, whose age vari0usly
stated to be between forty three and, dfty-seve
years And marry him she did. Her mother
never gave her consent. Her father made her
wait till she was eighteen. And Mathilde
Oser has daughter, presumably heiress to untold
Mccormick and Rockefeller millions
Mrs. William B. Leeds, widow of the "Tin-Plate
King, is said to have attained higher foreign rank
than any other American woman. In 1920 she
married Prince Christopher, brother of King Con-
stantine of Greece. George II is now king and
Princess Anastasia, who was originally Nonnie
May Stewart Of Cleveland Ohio, died last year
Her son, William B. Leeds, at nineteen married
Princess Ksenia Of Russia in 1921 She is daugh
ter of sister of the late King Constantine. Young
Leeds, who presumably retains much of the Leeds
fortune, is still an American citizen and says ne
intends to live in America.