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Show IT $ L R T I ' A How tke Widow o: tke Duke de Ckaulnes Was m I f Wooed and Won ky Her Huskand s Jr I i TepkeWc, Himself tke Possessor of I V, if One of France's Most Ancient Ducal Titles I Miniature ci the Duchess Painted by a Noted Artist A DDCHB8A always has ben mp-LX mp-LX 0 d tb be a peculiarly happy liv dividual, proud and disdainful, auto-frailr auto-frailr and the mistress, not only of all tho smaller fry flint rerotte within the orbit of fuch a noble personaj.-e, but mistress of herself and all her Impulses as v.-r-li No one over thinks a duchess would permit per-mit herself to be denied anyihlng at all not even the heart of the man she might fall In love with But now. from Paris, comes news that proves that when a duchess falls la luv. ehe Is confronted with troubles nn l heartaches and pitfalls whi h even the iimst romantic American girl could neer dream of as ever coming to her. The news from Par s Is that Theodora, Duche 'a J-- fhaulnes. daughter of the late Thocdoro P. Shoots, the traci lon magnate of New York and one of th builders of the Panafa Canal, has announced her thgage-ment thgage-ment to the young Duke de Creusot. scion of one of the most famous famines of tho French nobility and one of tho Imporiant lenders among the royalist ei which still hope for the erentue return to power of the BombOU in the person of tho Due d'Orleans. pretender to the throne Thcodor.i'x marriage in New York, in 190S. to the Due de fhaulnes, was the seem- of one of the moil t-xciting "society scrambles" ever staged in America, with uch as Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Stuyvo-ent Stuyvo-ent Fiah and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs standing, '"packed like sardines," in the hall- end on the stairways in the Shonts honie for hours Inst to catch a glimpse of the ducal bride and have it konwn that k 1 .. .- !,.. n llli VI. A. J I I ...... . . . B ding InvituTlona. fl Six weeks later the bridegroom died H from a sudden attack of hearl failure In H a ParlF hotel. The young duchess WaM B prostrated with erlef. Hoi Hister-ln-law. H the prominent Du hoys d'l'zcs. said at the H time: "We neTor knew how much an H American girl could love, and we never B luspected that Mule Theodcia loved H Emnnuel so deeply. We .-hall take her H Into the family, end adopt her us one of us." B And right there, with that conferring of H a great honor and a greet true! upon tho H American duchess, widowed at the height H of her honeymocn. the trouble that lle- In being a duchess a beautiful widowed H duchess, that heenn to pile up for her. B In France, anion: at families th..t B are bound up In traditions of the past, memori. the golden da; of the I.uiih B and the First and Second Empires, there B Is nn Institution known as the "Cornell de B Painllle " v. hich Is the French way of sa- B Ing "the family council Bo powerful Is this family council among the nobility that H th. reach courts almost lnvurlably sus- B tain its tilling! If they are questioned H Thus the head" of a family really are the H rulers of the whole familv and tuny at wiM H dlcta'e what each Individual member may H do with his or her money or time or heart Hj There was a posthumous child. It was a BBBBBYi ton Bone are verv important in the d u.il I set of any European nation And this little lit-tle son of Theodora Shonts was very Important Im-portant Indeed, for he not only was destined de-stined to become tho Due de Chaulnes, as hi- f At her w as known, but ilco the Due de Ohe 1 ease, the Due de Montfort, tho Due de Plrcjulgny. the Due d'Anxeau and the Prince de Gnllltiln. and maybe the Due de Luyne- All thee iltlo-. except the last. 1 had ccsne doun to his father through Intermarriage- between noble families associated asso-ciated wiih Uottlo XIV. and XV.. and the son of course would Inherit them The pro id' it of these tftttM wes that of de Cheolnee, because the DM de Chaulnes always wea. since Charles the Seventh down to the Republic. Grand Constable of France snd First Chamberlutn of ths King's household. Tho present Duke d Luynes. one of the leaders in French social lit, a very wealthy nobleman Whore title dates back to 1 harlemngne. Is titular head of the de Chaulnes family. Should hi only son. v ho I- very sickly, die. the young son of Theodora would become Due de Luynes also, and would inherit the great castle of Damplerro, now Theodora's French heme, and all the rich de Luynes estates. When the family council, headed by th aristocratic Due de Luynes met. shortly after the dea'h of the ivi- de rhaulns. and decided, after serious conference, that the young American duchess would be accepted ac-cepted as a member of the de Luynes family In her own right, ehe became really more of a duchess than she would hare been If her hu-b.ni 1 h .d 1 ! But. the familv roui-H warned her. as the acknowledged and accepted Duchess de Chaulnes. she bore great ret. pons. bllltles. She wej to become the mother of a Due de ! . Chaulnes and PU-qulgnv and Montford end de Chevreuse and d'Angeau etc., etc, end of all the th na she mud be most jojrtlul about, falling In love again we the Cirnpierre, the Historic Seat of fho ' '' .. dc Chaulnes "Family Council" and the French Home of the American A. Duchers. Here She Will Spend Her V ):.,;' o. Second Honeymoon With Her Ne' Duke. At the Left Is the Duchers qPff.'; With Her Little Son, Emanuel, Who Will Inherit Dompierre and Half a Doren CX'ner Castlea and Dukedoms Well. He la Beinsr Br-,,ht Up at ft Lampirre Now. It W?.s to This Jj& Beautiful Chateau the Due de Chaul- H x nes Took The- KCW- X'V' U r?JEte?- doraShor,'. f "VPRw When 5h ' Wetf-' M most tmportant. Never, said the fam'ly council, must she fall in love with anyone who would not be fit to become the utop-father utop-father and guardian of the family heir the young Due do CIbBMJbV - The young duche iie lured he would spend her life in devotional memory of her husband, ami in reading the history of his noble ancestors, and never think of another man. After a while, though, there came a t mo when she thought the thoughts of youth and wondered . It wes then she asked Just wha that order of family council meant about her never falling In love unl"M with one who would be acceptable as a guardian of tho young Duo de Chaulnes. now fast growing into a promising boyhood The order was duly interpreted U could not prevent her. of cours. from marrying anyono whom she might select But if that new husbo.n l did n l up to the standards tmpoaed by the "con-sell "con-sell de famllle." then the little due. her son. would be taken from her and sho would be banished from the ducal circle which meant from all noble Prencii society. Few homes would dare receive a Duchess de Chaulnes who had been ostra-slaed ostra-slaed by her family council. "And If I defy tho council to take my child away from me" the American duchess asked. "That would not serve you at all." the answer was. "The courts of France alway sustain the findings of a family council In -such a matter, and would make the order a formal degree of, court upon application by the Due de Luynes. You might steal your son away to America, but If you did that vou never could land In France aga'n without being mad to suer th penalty for kidnaping, and the Due couhi never come to bis native land again without being at or.co taken Info legnl custody and restored re-stored to the keeping of his ducal relatives." rela-tives." "But am I never to marry again?" the dnchetl asked plaintively. "Oh. there is no bar to that," the oracle of the family council assured her "But yon nn ' remember, that your son is thee heir to not only one but several dukedoms, and he would be much embarrassed, as would his family. If his mother wero anything any-thing less than a duchess, or. indeed, if hl mother were a duchess ranking be-neuth. be-neuth. in the ducal scale, the Due de Chaulnes him If But," cried Theodora. there are almcsi no dU' s at all. in all France, and none abroad eXOOp) those with royal blood, who rank as high as my son will when hi comes Into all his titles. Of course, 1 don t think I shall ever want to marry airaln. for there hardly can be a man in (he world a noble and good as was the Due. but suppose i should, must I remain single all my life because there are so few men of rank equal to mine and my son's?" Vou must answer that question your own way. my dear." said the spokesman for the family council "That Is your problem prob-lem In being a duchesa." Lo twelve years went by During all this time tbe young duchess thought very little. It la true, of her "problem in being a ducheas." because she could never tor-gel tor-gel the wonderful husband she had had for so short a time and the heart breaking that camo with bis tragic death She never put aside her mourning In all these ears. although after a time she began gradually to take her proper place In French society and to entertain and be entertained in the beautiful chateaux of old France Whenever she went, though. She went In -ombre hlack. She devoted C 4r: latrraatMMtft Faii.r terU - The Due de Creusot (at the Right), Who Has Won the nmcncTn Duchess, and His Chum in the Tranches, the Famous Comtc de Snint Leon, Wh- Cumr Over lo A 1 1101" i I 0 to Help the Due Woo the Duchesa. 7hr- Cg.h;. Will Be the Due's Beat Man at ih. ng. her years to the bringing up of her little son Although her husband. In the gaiety of his youth had spent he generous fortnn -ne Inherited from his grandmother, the Duchess de Chevreeus, the great castle A Damplerre. where the de Luynes liva. and where tho family council of the de Chaulnes family siu was thrown open to her. and here he mace her homo. Her dement friend always baa been the proud Duchess d'l'fte. the actual leae:e of French society, and her slster-ln-lsw One after another of the most desirable oung men of France. Eccland and Spain hate paid court to the young duchess And one after another each one of these baa been dlvmlsssed by tb family council. Some of them might have made the m t satisfactory husbands except that they would have taken from the mother of the Due de Chaulnes her title and estate, and she no longer would have been a duchesa. Then 'here came to Damplerre. to recover re-cover from wounds earned In battle the U.i -bin oung Dec do Creuat. a nephctr. wrwat Hr lim BiM I ""- j; - through her marriage, of the Duchesa do Chaulne-. The Due had won many medals in the trenches, and had added new lustre to his family name. Imr ng his convalescence on the great green lawns of Damplerre. tho Due began to lake more than a nephew's Interest In the wldow-ducbeia. She bad been his nurse, and now he asked her. In that blunt, stralcbtforwar J am) .hat soldiers Iutd to use m their wooing, if she would not change her blsck for a wedding gown, and her title to that of Duchesa de creusot She said she wouldn't He said. " bleb only means that you will. some. day. be-CnaU be-CnaU 111 '-r -top bothering you" She replied to this that she was atr-M to fall in love because she could not tell what the family council would aey to any one who wanted to marry her. and that If It should dlsmUs a suitor whom she really would beam ad over again. And abe didn't i m fainer at the Duchess. Mr Shoots, Theodora, Ducheas de Chaulnes, Daughter of T. P. Shonts, the Lite Traction Magnate, Who Wes Forbidden For-bidden by the Council of Her Dead Husband's Family to Marry Again Unlcs Her Heart Could Pick Out Another Duke. At Last a Real Duke Followed Her Across the Atlantic and, Establishing Himself in Hr Home Over Here, Wooed and Won Her. And Won, Too. the Haughty "Family Council." died, and she came to America. The cir-rumstancea cir-rumstancea under which Mr. Shonts died Mere so distressing to the Duchess that the wrote back to Franco of her double M rrlef The viuinir Hue hearing from hla Vl i infferlngi ef 'he ' Jm Duehe-, aped to America to be close tc WK j her If fhe needed him. LEaU Gaby Deslys came to America on the uner end, elweyi on the arf foi B lllsh ths notorlel W I tig bed k. lined as the favorite of royalty J I abe caused It to be announced that the distinguished younc Due de, Creusot hod ' come to America In pursuit of her. She know that a de Creusot would never die DUto a woman's hoastlnas i al It was vory embarrassing for the pestled m Due, and i' came about that though he came I ifi America to help the Duchess.lt was she 1 Aho helped him. Newspaper reporters, set upon his trail by the jlquant Gaby, would 1 not le' him alone There was no place for B him to hide until the Duchess opened her home to him and took him Into hiding H there as the guest of her mother, Mrs H Shonts. B Propinquity always has been the sesame B to love The Due's closest chum, his com panlon of the trenches U A Oleed for him The amlabU Mrs Hhonts took la the Com' do Saint Leon al- The Mile Duchess could not withstand the both them She agreed to put aside her mourning for laWsm a n'w wedding gown IF' RVl That "if conjured, up the spectre of thf LH They riled awsy to Franee on tho BLH tbe LM Du de Luyne. and asked consent for hit aH marri.no to Theodora Ducheas de Chaulnes I The Due de Luynes st once assembled VaH the family council The Ducheas d I ties. the Duchesa de Luynes. the Cosate de Dion LH p.nd lie other member. flrM cajjed tb Luc de Cresjeot before these. He made aVfl hla plea end measured his love for Theo LVfl dora that all of them mighf know u,t nWv,nU ' &r. it was He promised Lwfl - t 1 i r. r h a famllr wo ji MS r- ; i'-e nf a husband for the mother of the swfl Tbon Theodora was summonsd into the sWaV gieet council chamber at Damplerre Bht aVjT f-embled Sho did not r.ow what n I verdl-( waa to he U wea h- Ducheas LVfl (TUcees who told bar. ""JV , ,r rthy of yon BV yid be. y.j will stiil rcaieLl |