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When In Broken English and Meaning to Be Polite Me
Called Her “Little Insect,” but When He Said Her “Lit
tle Toes Were Twinkling” She Married Him.
Baron hrolf von dewitz, of
Copenhagen, unlike* Prince Flelle de
Sagan and numberless other foreign
noblemen, did not come to America to win
e great heiress.
’nstead he was supremely happy In
marrying, a fortnight ago. In Boston, the
little toe dancer. Nina Pastorelll.
Miss Pastorelll has no fortune except
her toes.
It was. In fact, her twinkling toes that
the Baron fell In love with at first. After
ward be mado the psychological discover*-
that she had a mind.
Now the Baron and his dancing bride
are spending a happy honeymoon at the
Manhattan Square Hotel In New York
before going back to Copenhagen to brave
the wrath of the elder Baron Otto von
Dewitz, champerlaln to the Grand Duke
Meehllnburg-Strelltz.
Baron Otto had planned a brilliant match
for hl3 son. In fact, the bride had already
been selected —the daughter of an English
man, a South African raining king. But
when the young Baron saw her he fled to
America. For the heiress had a hare lip,
red hair and was as square built as an
English navvy.
Though the Baron had no money, he had
lofty Ideals on marriage and all other sub
jects. Moreover, he had been in the United
States before, and knew that th!« country
furnishes the prettiest girls on earth, and
he vowed he would rather have an undow
ered American girl than the wealthiest
trlde in Europe.
It was about two years ago when the
doughty Baron, ex-Lleutenant in the Dan
ish Navy, came to thlß country, resolved
♦o make a living as best he could and fall
In love at the first good opportunity.
When he saw Nina Pastorelll, the pretty
toe dancer, as one of the Dancing Daisies,
he thought she was a poem of motion. On
an auspicious occasion lie sought an Intro
duction to her at Mrs. Broughton Bran
denburg's studio In New York.
She was so very small and dainty, so
pink and white and blond, and took such
little mincing steps, that It seemed to the
BaroD’s romantic mind that she must have
risen, like an elf, new-born from the
chalice of o flower.
The Baron, casting about In his mind to
find some appropriate English term to de
scribe the girl that so appealed to his
fancy, called her “Little Insect.’*
The girl was furious.
“ ‘lnsect,’ sir! What do you mean by
calling me such a name?’*
Then the Baron, overwhelmed, fell on
his knees and begged her pardon, declaring
he menm that nothing hut an Insect could
t>e so exquisitely graceful.
The quarrel so dramatically started I**?
to explanations and counter-explanations.
The Baron, to his great amazement,
found that the “little Insect’’ had n bright,
keen mind. lie ventured the remark that
he had never before known a dancer to
have a mind.
This was almost as fatal a remark as
calling her ‘‘Little Insect,’’ and resulted
In further complications. The poor Baron
was almost beside himself. In despera
tion he declared she was the perfect
“Psyche type.’’
This so mollified the little dancer that
*he graciously forgave the bungling Baron.
Indeed, she really became Interested In
him, and confided to him that she was not
cn Italian and that her real name tbs not
I’astorelll. but something very m ich like
Fmitb, and that she came from Chicago.
Id these subtle ways love grew apace.
The Baron marvelled at the girl’s golden
hair and dark eyebrows. He said her type
of beauty was so rare thnt It would
create a sensation in his country.
There are mauy blond beauties In Den
mark, but they are mostly big and pon
derous. Think of that Teutonic type, six
feet tall, pivoting on a single toe!
How his country people would be en
raptured with this sweet coin ta&sle
beauty with black eyebrows!
At first his thoughts were purely senti
mental. Then be began to see dramatic
possibilities for his fiancee abroad—for 1*
was not lung before th«? “Little Insect '
had shown symptoms of accepting his suit.
He began negotiations with the roytil
theatre in Copenhagen with a view to in
ducing them to engage Nina I’astorelll as
premiere danseuse. In that event he
could return borne In a blaze of glory, the
proud husband of the leading toe dancer
•f the realm, and she could be raised
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by his noble rank to a baroness.
As titular chamberlain to the Brand
Duke Meehllnburg-Strelltz, he might even
make his “dancing daisy" a memlfcr of the
royal household.
In the meantime Miss Fastorelll went
on with her dramatic work. But she was
very lonely without her gallant Baron.
One day she received a letter that said:
“Dear Little Insect:
“What Is the use of being miserable
separated? We might as well be miserable
united. I can hardly puss the day for
thinking that your little toes are twlukliug
§o very fur away.”
At one time Nina Pastorelll would have
bceo provoked at such a proposal. But
she had learned from experience that the
Baron was incorrigible In his love-making.
In spite of all her protests he persisted
In adopting that hated term “Little In
sect” as his pet uame for her. Finally, to
settle all controversies, they were mar
ried.
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Baron Dewitz first came to America
fifteen years ago. when he was seventeen
y*ars old.
He was strong nnd square built from
his training In the Danish Navy. He had
no false pride of rank, nnd began to earn
a living by sawing wood down In Maine.
He went from house to botise with his
wood saw on his shoulder and sawed the
How Fate Is Making Monte Carlo’s Princely Gamester a Madman .
THE rumor that Prince Albert of
Monaco, ruler of the little princi
pality which holds within its bor
ders Monte Carlo, the world's greatest
gambling den, la suffering from serious
brain trouble Is confirmed by the fact that
two mental specialists have been hurriedly
cordwood piled up In the Fall at cottage
hack doors.
Tiring of this, In time, he weut to Bos
ton and took up literary work. He re
turned in throe years to Denmark and
opened up an ageucy for Amerlcau
bicycles.
When the bicycle business slumped he
returned to America and took up literary
work again, writing under the pen name
of Hrolf Wisby. lie became a member
of New York's crack Seventh Keglmeut.
THE BARON HROLF VON DEWITZ,
IN UNIFORM.
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Now the Hnron contemplates returning
to Ms native land with his pretty bride,
to follow a literary career there.
Hut hln greatest pride and ambition Is
thnt his little Dancing Daisy shall dazzle
the courts of Europe.
•Here she might have but a mediocre
career." says the Baron. “Over there
thev appreciate art and beauty/*
Kutnmonrfi from Purl, lo give fhelr opinion
on (ho disorder from which the Prince line
eufferod for dome time. Ilia Highness re
cently started on a sen voyage on hi, big
yncht, hut his doctor had to order his re
turn on account of his condition.
It Is singular that this grave mental
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malady should have overtaken the ruler
of the State which fatten, on the gam
hlers of all the world, and grnwa rich at
the eipenaa of recklesa men, who In many
coses go mad and aeek suicide aa the only
relief from their misery. The prince him
self derives Ida Income from the Casino
Tha Print* of Monaco.
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profith Ilf hi. leased ths Mont** Carlo
tables to the Itbuic syndicate, and con
tract Is worth over $250,000 a year for
him.
Monte Carlo (and Mont* Carlo Is, to all
Intent and purpose, Monaco) Is the earth <*
most beautiful and allurlr g plague spot.
Hltusted on the bins Mediterranean, be
tween the French find Italian frontiers, on
one of tho loveliest altos lu the world, It
Is nevertheless t.ie home of terrible tragedy.
Many a ruined gamester who has taken hta
life In U!« det pair has been bul led at tho
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Tho Casino Itaclf in th« Midst f What It “Perhaps, tho Moot beautiful
Spot In tho Whole World/’
IT Is not until n man renllxes thnt he Is
tired of a girl, and never really was
In love with her, thnt ha also realizes
how foolishly ho liiim acted. It amazes
him to find flint hn )i iih gone so for aa to
be considered the (lance of the maid,
whose whole attention lias been given him
for a long time for many of theso affairs
result In an “understanding" (hat Is III*
equivalent r;f in engagement.
Then, not knowing how to get out of
tho tangle In which h< has become In
voiced, he falls hack upon the unmanly
method of neglecting the girl lie lias
hit lertn courted mid fluttered True this
Ik little more foolish than the former rock
Iqsaneea of his conduct but It causes n
good deni of (Differing In n woman who
has loved Innocently and to*, well and Is
deserving of better treatment.
A man’s methods are often cowardly In
dealing with tho woman for whom he has
ceased to care, lie tries to force her to
break with him by giving her ample
grounds for complaint, hut a woman Is
usually too generous and too loving to lake
advantage or his devices. Her cry Is. Why
are you so changed?"
Hh»* cannot understand why the lover
who tins left her with a fond goodbye can
go H'vav nni put her out of Ills mind. Ml»o
writes him frank, open letters, then plead
lug imploring ones, begging all the time
Hut ||« Will l-ll her "Tint -tin Hk«
to v**» him He ffinnot tell her without
WHEN THE
BARON MET
HER FIR3T.
Casino's expense, and the management does
not troublo lo »mi(l In nny bill to the rein
live,. All imklc ori'urr.ncv, lh* Wont*
Curio (llr.rtori do tln-lr l>*«l >" I>u»h up.
tor nurli icrlm adv.rtl»eni«nt, »r« nnturnlly
not rrllntird. Kv.n whvn th* n.WK of k
tragedy l*»hK out lliv drlnllK rnrrly i.vcoiiik
known to the public.
It has been estimated thid In t.ie first
fifteen years of Monte CaMo s existence
H,OOO people committed suicide as the dl
re ft result of losses sustained at. the tables
From actual statistics kept. It Is said
that after that period suicides went on at
the rate of 200 a year there are Instances
where three hsvc occurred In s single day.
Any one Interested lu this subject will find
nearly a hundred pages of tabulated sul
cldes In the “iilstotre des Crimes et Hut
rides," giving mimes where possible- but
Can Love That Has Cooled Be MeKindled ?
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NINA PASTORELLI.
THE LITTLE TOE
DANCER, WHO IS
REALLY NOW A
BARONESS.
putting all the blame on himself, without
showing that he has not acted u innnly port.
But even If lie could, and Is not disposed
to, his conduct should show her that tile
love la dying. The signs are unmistakable.
Is there a woman w.io, being thm. treated,
does riot know the truth at the beginning?
Nile doe- , but she will not admit it. Y'et
all the time, from the moment when the
first doubt arose lu her mind, she has
known It.
There Is only one thing to do when a
man’s love Is dead, and that Is to let him
go. To ‘ win back his love" Is next to an
Irriposslblttv It Is a pathetic s|g,it to see
two people, one madly In love with ths
other, and the other unable to reciprocals
And vet, “Try to forget” Is tho only ad
vice that can l<e offered
A man shows It plainly enough when he
has ceased to love Appointments cease
to be sacred, lie cannot summon up cour
age so write letters, he Is moody and silent,
and shows In Ills maimer nil that his
tongue refuses to say.
If he can get an excuse to go off some
where away from Ills fiancee he seizes hold
of It, and gives her no explanation for his
conduct. #
The signs of s dead love are unmlatak
able, and no womao who values her self
respect will seek to keep n man by her
side who earns for tier no longer. Tbs
parting will he hard, hut afterward she
will he glad that she made her derision
before It was too late
there Is an appalling number of “unknowns”
nnd details
A famously typical esse Is that of
a newly married Herman couple
who had been travelling In Italy, partly
for their honeymoon and partly on ths hus
band's business 'Hie latter collected
IH.istu for hta firm, which he was taking
back to Herman) They formed the un
happy project of pay ing a flying visit to tbs
1(1 vlera. They stayed at Nice. The young
ii.an fearing lie might he tempted to gara
bb with Ida employer's money, handed It
to hIS wife for safety snd took only S2O to
Monte rarlo lo try his luck at the tables.
One evening he was dismayed to find that
his young wife was not at the Mrs hotel
Where they were staying. Hhs had disap
peared. together with tld* |k,ooo entrusted
to her keeping information was given te
the police, nnd their Inquiries naturally
drew them to flu gaming rooms, where It
was found that a young woman answering
flu* Herman lady's description had been
noticed gambling In tieiik notes at ths
tables When she came to the end of bsr
money she left the rooms In such a stats
of excitement flint one of the paid attend
ants of the Casino was told off so ste that
she did not harm herself He was, not
quick enough Hhe threw herself ovtr ths
terrace, and was picked up dead, and ths
distracted husband had only the sad anti*
faction of tnklng the body of hla young
bride back to Hermany for Interment-
The callousm v of the people counseled
with (In- csrabitalimsnt la shown by ths
following single Incident: A man rushed
from the table* exclaiming: “1 bar# loatl
There l« nothing for me but death I I have
'oat S4O/HH)!“ lie shot himself on the steps
of the Casino, Two or thrs# attendants
dragged the body sway, and othcra set to
work to scrub the blood off the stones, and
tho pluy was not Interrupted for tn Instant.
“Hleo ue va plus.” was the niorklag echo
that earns from ths terrible gaming Ukul