New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-02-25

u Kiss ELIZABETH FRANCES DU
MI POINT, the charming heiress
AVA daughter of the immensely
wealthy Philip du Points of Wilmington,
Delaware, handed fashionable society
big surprise when she let it be known
that she had fallen in love with Richard
Dorsey Morgan, a humble clerk in
telephone company's Office and was go
ing to marry him as soon as ever she
could.
And now, just when she was expected
to be promising to love, honor and per-
haps obey her adoring clerk sweetheart,
she furnishes another surprise and per-
picking mystery as well by announcing
that the wedding is postponed-indefi-
nitely postponed!
Have the lovers who seemed so de-
voted had serious quarrel?
Have the masculine charms that were
so irresistible to Miss Elizabeth only
few weeks ago lost their appeal for her?
Has young Mr.. Morgan perhaps de-
cided that the task of making million
heiress happy is too much for a man
to undertake on salary of $35 a
week.
Or has the proud du Point family sue
ceeded in convincing the young woman
that tits mistake for her, one of the
richest and most charming heiresses in
America, to marry so far outside the
exclusive circle of wealth and fashion
in which she has always lived?
Which of these possibilities holds the
key to the mystery of the interrupted
romance none of the most astute gossips
of which society can boast-or feel
ashamed-has yet been able to say with
certainty. The recent brief statement
in which Miss du Pont admitted that
her wedding plans had faded away into
the indefinite future does not help them
any in their guesses. On the contrary,
her words only make the puzzle all the
more perplexing.
The surprise brought by the announce
ment of Miss du Points engagement was
not because the man she was going to
marry was only small salaried clerk,
the son of an insurance agent, man
whose family is not wealthy and is quite
unknown to the pages of the Social
Register. No, indeed! Society is quite
accustomed to the spectacle of a du
Pont marrying far beneath the family's
wealth and social position. Both men
and women Of the clan have gone a long
way outside the ranks of fashionable
society for their love mates, sometimes
with good results and sometimes with
very unhappy ones.
The real surpr; Sc in the case of Eliza
beth du Points love match lay in the
fact that until the announcement of her
engagement to Richard Morgan society
had no inkling Of the romance that
was on. 1t all came about very sud-
denly and secretly with even many of
the heiress' closest friends not suspect
ing that she was losing her heart.
Miss Elizabeth is only nineteen years
old and everybody thought her almost
too young to be having serious love
affair. But she was not too young, it
seems, to inspire and be tremendously
pleased with the love which the tele-
phone clerk laid at her feet. He rushed
in, and before even her parents sus-
pected his serious intentions, carried off
the love prize which everybody thought
would be won by some European noble
man or some fashionable young Ameri-
can millionaire.
If young Mr.. Morgan does his Office
work with the speed and efficiency which
he showed in his wooing of the du Pont
heiress, he seems destined to go far in
the telephone business. 1t is believed
to have been only few weeks after he
met Miss du Pont at a charity affair
that he had won her heart and was being
announced asher future husband.
Richard Morgan has lived nearly all
his life in modest cottage just across
the road from the stately entrance to
the splendid estate of the Philip du
Points. He and Elizabeth grew up with
in a stones throw of each other, but
so wide is the social and financial gulf