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Announce a Date — Then Get Married Vri-
HJately Tt&o or Three Wee fa r Sooner ,
and Sa*Ve the Wedding
Ejcparser.
EXCLUSIVE society circles In Denver,
Colo., hare received several unex
lieeted Jolts of late, so well directed
as to produce Innumerable gasps for breath
and groplugs about for objects of support.
The Western girl did it.
Nothing scandalous! My, no!
It's simply a case of certain leaders of
the social circle among the younger mem
bers showing their independence of and
utter disregard for certain customs and
established precedents with respect to wed
ding ceremonies.
Within the last three or four months
society has been disappointed half a dozen
times. The disappointments came about
through sudden and unexpected changes in
the dates of the wedding of certalu society
belles, who had led their friends to believe
that elaborate ceremonies, followed by
more elaborate and brilliant receptions,
would mark their entry into the married
state.
Without any apparent concerted action
although with singular unanimity, the
daughters of half a dozen of Denver's
multi-millionaires have slipped away from
their friends and were married so quietly
that In at least one instance the parents of
the principals were in total ignorance of
the fact until Informed after the ceremony.
Evelyn Walsh, the beautiful daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Walsh, of Wash
ington and Colorado, the multi-millionaire,
left her father’s country home at Wolhurst
In company with Mr. Edward McLean, the
son of J. R. McLean, the wealthy news
paper publisher of Washington and Cincin
nati, ostensibly for a spin across country in
one of the Walsh touring cars.
In an hour Dr. Foster, of St. Mark's Epis
copal Church, had made them man and
wife. Papa Walsh was in the East at the
time and Mamma Walsh only ten miles
away, with telephone communication es
tablished, though neither knew of the sud
den culmination of the engagement which
had but a short time previously been an
nounced.
It was a genuine shock to the society
folk, Who had been led to expect a brilliant
wedding, with pomp and ceremony, the
cost of which was forecasted into the hun
dreds of thousands.
••I didn’t want papa to spend all that
money for so silly a purpose,” explained
the bride later, and “papa” announced by
telegraph from Kansas City that he was
‘‘tickled to death."
Mrs: McLean’s objection to her father
spending money unnecessarily recalls her
remark at a tea given by her future moth
er-in-law:
“Princes and things may be all very well
It their way, but not for me. If I cannot
find a plain, true, good American who
wants mo for myself, I will remain a bach
elor girl. In fact, I rather incline to be
a bachelor girl.”
It was at the same tea that young Mr.
McLean made his way to Miss Walsh’s
Bide and said something patronizing, which
brought from her a rebuke
"Do you know, Eddie McLean, that you
arc a very Irritating little boy?”
••Why?”
"Why? Well, for several reasons. You
are so irritatingly self-satisfied, when really
you have no reason to be.”
“No reason to be? Why not?"
“Recausc you haven’t demonstrated your
right to live at all. If I were a boy, I
Here At Last Are the Real
“Seven-League Boots.”
LEARNED persons are declaring that
modern science in the llepartment of
mechanical inventions is proving
that the old authors of fairy tales, as
well as the seers who wrote portions of
the Bihle, were not only talented story
tellers, but prophets. They foresaw what
the age of steam and electricity was to
bring forth.
Thus the railway locomotive, the auto
mobile and the more recent flying ma
chine give reality to visions of the
prophets of the Scriptures. And lately a re
markable, though simple invention, is
claimed to have duplicated the feat of the
fabled "Seven-League Boots."
It was a very pretty fancy, those fairy
boats which had only to be drawn on to
carry the wearer seven leagues at a single
“stride. Of course, the teller of fairy tales
may be nllowed to exaggerate—the mod
ern, real seven-league boots gives their
wearer no such tremendous advantage,
though they are claimed to double his
stride and speed.
A good Idea of this Invention can be
gained by a glance at the accompanying
illustration. This type of foot gear is called
"curve shoe." It resembles a small bicycle
wheel, slightly ellotlcal in shape, with a
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Walkers Doubling Their Ordinary Speed with the New “Curve-Shoe.”
would show that I could earn my own liv
ing."
“How?"
"Well, why don’t you go to work in your
father's office? If I were you I would be
gin at the bottom and learn the newspaper
business. Why, I would learn it myself if
papa would let me. I think it the most
fascinating work in the world. I have a
friend on a Denver paper who is going to
take me to the next murder trial she
writes up."
It was a curious coincidence that Edward
Reale McLean afterward took the witness
stand at a famous murder trial in \Y ush
ington.
"I am a newspaper reporter," he testified.
"Yea, l might he called a cub reporter, I
suppose. 1 have ouly been at it a yea-.
I was sent by the city editor to Intel view
this woman at the police station. It vru
my opinion that she talked irrationally.
Then came the announcement of the en
gagement of Miss Gladys Cheesman to Mr.
John Evans. Miss Cheesman is the heiress
to the $15,000,000 estate left by tlie late
Waiter S. Cheesman, president of the Den
ver Union Water Company and owner of
more city real estate than any other Den
ver citizen
Mr. Evans Is the son of William G.
Evans, president of the Denver City Tram
way Company, right-hand mail of David
H. Moffat, the banker and railroad builder,
and is a grandson of the late John Evans,
one of Colorado’s earliest Governors.
Society again expected an opportunity
for briliant display. The Cheesmans had
but recently completed a beautiful mansion
In the nristociatlc section of Capitol Hill,
aud there seemed to be no good reason for
avoiding a truly great society event.
Not so, however. Instead of awaiting
the arrival of the previously announced
date, the social world awoke one morning
last month to learn that in the presence
of a few Immediate relatives tlie couple
were married the evening before, and were
even then speeding toward California in
the private car of Mrs. George M. Pullman,
an aunt of the bride, who hud been quietly
"tipped" of the changed date and hurried
to Denver from Chicago for the occasion.
“I didn't want any furbelows and vul
gar show,” said Miss Cheesman to a friend,
and another bitter disappointment was
scored by those who enjoy display and
animation on such occasions.
Only a few weeks ago Miss “Betty”
Shcarn, the daughter df the millionaire
Texan, John Shcarn, slipped away quietly
to New York and there married T. A. D.
(Tad) Jones, the famous Yale football
coach, and then telegraphed her Denver
friends about it.
This was the hardest blow of all, for it
had been announced earlier in the season
that Tad Jones would come WeSt and claim
his bride under somewhat more brilliant
circumstances.
On December 9 Miss Laurene Porter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Porter, a
wealthy family, was married to Harold
Strother Walker, youngest son of John
Brisheu Walker, the former magazine pub
lisher and a large real estate owner. No
body was present except immediate rela
tives, and the date was slipped back front
some time next January to last week.
Nell Singleton, the beautiful niece of
John W. Springer, president of the Conti
nental Trust Company, took a little trip
foot fastening at the top and a sort of
semi-circular sleigh-runner attachment at
the bottom side. There is also a rigid rod
to support the leg to the kuee, which has
a joint at the ankle.
The contrivance is the result of much
experimenting and of many modifications
and designs. The new “walk” is said to
take less time to learn than skating, and
the weight of the shoes Is not more than
that of skates.
Fitted with a broad sole, the curve-shoe
provides, it is claimed, the best means for
travelling over a sandy soil. It is fastened
to the foot aud calf by three hooked
buckles.
The wearer of the shoe uses the ordinary
movements of walking, in place of the
heel touching the ground, the curve is set
down, and the step is completed by a for
ward rolling motion of the sole.
When the sole rolls forward a spring is
tightened, and this swings the shoe for
ward when it is raised in readiness for
auother step.
Models for children have been made at
the cost of two or three dollars, and are
said to be in considerable demand in
Loudon, where the inventor has made pub
lic demonstrations of the value of his
device.
to Chicago recently, ostensibly to visit
friends. James Quigg Newton bad occa
sion to visit the Lake City about the same
time. Result: Instead of two, they came
back .as one.
Miss Barbara Fisher, daughter of the
late founder of the wealthy dry goods firm
of Daniels & Fisher, at a Southern house
party, fell in love with James Randolph
Walker, and capped the climax by marry
ing him in a hurry. Another big surprise,
for the Fishers live in a beautiful Capitol
Hill castle, through the doors of which
society matrons are always eager to yti ss.
Thus, instances might be still frirther
enumerated indicating a unanimity of pur
pose on the part of the younger social
leaders to break away from hitherto deep
seated customs and revolutionize wedding
ceremony procedure. The movement has
acquired the impetus of a fad.
“Why should we not get married pri
vately?” said one of the pretty young
millionaire brides. “It’s so much more
fun that way, and then it was so much
more considerate of poor papa when the
times were so hard.
“It saved so much expense In the way
of flowers for decorating the church, and
an utterly useless wedding gown that could
never be worn again, aud a thousand and
one other expenses that go to make a
society wedding a mere show for the
guests, but only embarrass the young
couple.
“So, why shouldn’t we set a new fash
ion?”
The Strangest of All Causes for a Womans Headache
ONK of the strangest causes for per
sistent headache In a woman ever
heard of—namely a worm nearly
two inches long which had made It* habita
tion In nn upper nasal cavity close to the
poor woman's brain—ia reported In a recent
issue of the London Lancet.
A farmer’* wife, twenty-eight, years of
age, residing in the neighborhood of Metz,
bad for a long time been affected with nn
nnpleasant Itching sensation In the nose,
to which symptom* violent headache suc
ceeded, so that she was at length obliged
to apply for medical aid.
The headache was irregularly Intermit
tent. and generally began at the root of the
nose and the middle of the forehead, or at
the right frontal region, extending thence
first to the right side, and then over the
whole head. The attack was accompanied
by a great discharge of tear*, and some
times even nausea and vomiting: the fea
ture* were forcibly distorted, the Jaws
firmly closed, and the eyes and ears so very
sensitive, that she could not bear the least
light or any noise.
At other times she became delirious,
pressed the head between her hands and
~~ J Now Mrs. Edward McLean.
England’s College of Fuss and Feathers
HOWEVER busy and noisy the trnffU
In Queen Victoria stroet, Londol*
it never disturbs the restful ntnioo
phci’e that always surrounds that dignified
old red brick mansion which is the homfr
of the College of Arms. As one enters the
old panelled hall, It Is as If we had stepped
back into the Middle Ages. Heraldry wa»
then held tho most honorable of sciences
and heralds ranked in real truth next if
importance to emperors and kings.
Pugeantiy was then no mere nrtlflcla
product, hut an instinctive expression 01
the national life. No royal or public cere
monial could take place without tlie pres
ence of heralds and pursuivants; they
were tlie ambassadors between sovereign
and sovereign; they, It was, who declared
war and announced peace. Now their
functions have sadly declined in splendor.
They still figure at coronations; they pro
claim tlie accession of new soveielgns;
but in the Intervals they are largely oc
cupied with nothing more important than
the tracing of pedigrees, tho preparation
. Mrs. Tad Jones, Who Was Mis
Betty Shearn.
Mr*. John Evans, Formerly
Miss Gladys Cheesman.
mu about in a state of distraction. The
pain was, according to her statement, like
the strokes of a hammer, or as If some
thing was perforating the skull, and the
fits generally returned about twelve times
in twenty four hours; sometimes the head
ache continued uninterruptedly for several
days. Luring this whole period there were
discharges from the nose mixed with
blood.
Home medicines were employed, but no
regular plan of treatment whs followed,
arid It was not lief ore a twelve-month’s
suffering that this singular affection ter
minated, after the expulsion of a worm
from the nose, which moved with rapidity,
and when placed in water remained alive
for several days; It was afterward killed
by being put In alcohol, and sent to M.
MnrecbaJ, who reported the case to the
Medical Society.
He found the worm to be more than
two inches in length, and one line in
breadth; It had two antennae, was of yel
lowish color, flat, and consisted of sixty
fnatr rings, on each of which were two
legs. M. Mareehal subsequently trans
of coats of arms, and the decision of diffi
cult questions of precedence.
It was In flic ehivalrlc days of Edward
111. that heraldry in England seems to
have been first organized and regulated as
a State Institution. But though Edward
111. fouitolod the Order of the Harter, the
Institution of the office of Garter Klng-at-
Arms was duo to a later hut equally chival
rous sovereign, King Henry V. Garter
Klngat-Arms Is tin* highest authority in
the College of Arms under the sovereign
aud the Earl Marshal of England, and he
enjoys many privileges. Tho other two
kings are called provincial kings, tho Cla
rencteux King controlling all of England
from tin 1 River Trent southwards, while
Norroy King-at-Arms controls all from the
Trent northwards.
The heralds number six Lancaster,
Somerset, Richmond, Windsor, York aud
Chester, besides Surrey Extraordinary and
Maltravers Extraordinary; while there are
font* pursuivants Rouge Croix, Bluemantle,
Portcullis aud Rouge Dragpu.
Mrs. Tad Jones, Who Was Mis 3
Betty Shearn.
mitted the insect to MM. Hollandre and
Loussol, who ascertained that It was a
scolopetidra electrics.
The report does not state how this
dreadful worm probably discovered that
the poor woman’s head was a pleasant
place to live In, nor how other women
may avoid a similar affliction.
All newspaper readers are familiar with
stories of persons who firmly believe that
some internal disorder from which they
suffer Is caused by some living thing
swallowed In drinking from a running
stream usually a lizard —which reptile con
tinues to live and disport himself in his new
and unnatural habitat.
Htich a case was reported In France not
long ago. The victim was a peasant
woman. In spite of her doctor's assur
ance that no lizard could live In her
stomach, and that nothing really was the
matter with her. her health steadily de
clined. Presently she declared that s
brood of little lizards had come to bless
their parent In her living prison and the
woman had to go to a hospital.
There she doubtless would have died,
but for the wit of a distinguished profes
sor of medicine from Paris. He pretended
to extract from the stomach a whole fam
ily of lizards which he had brought with
him to the hospital and the patient
promptly recovered 1
One of the most important duties of the
heralds in earlier days was the holding of
courts of honor. These were presided over
by the Earl Marshal.
Disputes about the right to carry ar
morial bearings were settled there; but the
courts also took upon themselves to punish
Ibels or other words that re flee fed on the
character of the nobility. Thus the farpoue
Sir Richard Grenville always a man of
blunt, speech—was heavily lined for calllug
the Duke of Suffolk a base lord.
Courts of honor could also degrade
knights for serious misdemeanors; but
when the character of some of those who
have held the honorable office of herald
1h remembered, such a proceeding must
have appeared rather grotesque. For In
stance, Cook Clareneleiix Klng-at-Arms
under Queen Elisabeth—stole a number of
looks out of the college library, while
llnlph Brooke, the York herald, committed
similar thefts so rashly that he eventually
came to Newgate, where ho was burned in
the iiand.
In the flays of the Hanoverian kings it
Is sold that the Tory nobles took advantage
of the Heralds' College to provide for
their discarded butlers nnd/vnlets.
The granting of armoriul bearings has
always been regulated by the Heralds’ Col
lege, and In earlier days the parvenu who
sported a coat of arms without permission
was likely to suffer for It; his earring#
might even be stopped by the Earl Mar
shal's men and the arms forcibly defaced.
Coals of Arms for Sale.
It would bo Interesting to ascertain
whether there are any records in the Her
alds’ College which would show at what
dale the chlvalrle sovereigns or their astute
Ministers, thought of turning the “foun
tain of honor” Into a fountain of pecu
niary profit. One of the charges against
Cook, the Clnroneleux King-at-Arms, al
ready referred to, who stole the books out
of the college library, was that be also
granted arms to any one who applied and
was willing to pay n largo fee. Still, It
must be admitted that In this reprehen
sible practice he was only following the
example of his betters. King Henry VIII.,
It appears, being desirous of creating a
new order of gentry to lessen the power of
Ihe older nobility, was in the habit of sell
ing “arms.” The fees sound modest: they
varied from £5 t> £<l 13s. fid., but of
course the Immensely greater value of
money at the period must be taken into
account.
The original Heralds’ College, wfolch was
founded by Richard 11., stood In Pountney
lane. Driven from this by Henry VII.,
who wished to give the house to somebody
else, the Heralds retired to ttonceval Priory
ut Charing Cross. Queen Mary, however,
lu 1555, gave them Derby House, which
had formerly belonged to the first Karl of
Derby, on the site of the present college,
that they “might at their liking dwell to
gether and at meet times congregate,
speak, confer and agree among themselves
for the good government of the faculty.”
Treasures of Real Interest.
Derby House was entirely swept away In
the great fire, but fortunately all the rec
ords and books wore preserved. The pres
ein building was completed In 1088; but the
two escutcheons, showing the arms of the
Die of Man and the eagle’s claw, ensigns
of the house of Stanley, remain ns a me
mento of Derby House. The apartments of
barter King at Arms were built by Sir
William D'igdalc, one of the most
distinguished of the Garter Kings, at his
own expense.
The library ot the Hern Ids’ College is
lull of nooks and manuscripts and oiner
treasures of the greatest Interest. Among
them are the sword and dagger of that uu*
tortimate monarch, .lames iv. of ftcotlaml,
who tell fighting at Floddeu; and the fatal
turquoise ring sent him by the Queen of
France when she charged him
••To strike three strokes with Scottish
brand,
And march three miles on Houthron land.
And bid the banners of his band
In English breezes dance."
It Is of some interest to note that sev
eral or the most famous members of the
college have belonged by birth to the class
not entitled to bear arms. Camden, for In
stance, the author of the “Britannia,” was
the son of a painter In the Old Halley.
The famous antiquary, Kilns Ash uiole,
Windsor Herald, was the son of a saddler
of Lichfield.
The college bn* more reason to be proud
to have counted among Its members Sir
John Vanbrugh, the dramatist, though it IS
true he treated the “honorable science’ with
arrant respect. Eventually he sold his office
of Clarencleux Klng-at-Arm* for $2,000, al
leging in excuse his own Ignorance of her
aldry and his constant neglect of bln official
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