Show Y 4 EARL OF Y WINS WEALTHY GIRL GIR L V A dawm N raa 4 ed evv ae r W it VA 4 Y ya lit I 1 tat ell ON 1 k f na f jt t ca announcement Is made of the en ell ya Fa gement of the earl of yarmouth to miss mary thaw daughter of the late william thaw the millionaire of pittsburg but who has passed the winter in washington mrs airs mary thaw mother of the young woman makes the announcement mrs thaw however is stern in de bouncing noun cing the alliance and will cut miss thaw off from a few millions of dollars at her death however from almost no income at all to several million dollars the amount of miss thaw s personal fortune seems an alluring step to the earl and when it U is owned by a pretty and vivacious american girl it is doubly worth his long efforts to secure a wife in this country the earl of yarmouth went to washington from new I 1 lork orb some weeks ago as a guest of harry K thaw at his lafayette square house and almost immediately the attach ment between the earl and miss thaw became current talk the ru mor of their engagement gained rap idly in soc ety but was warmly de nied by mrs thaw after an evident failure to bring the earl earls s visit to a close because his suit was highly dav ored by mr air thaw miss thaw was gotten reada read on short notice and sent to her sister mrs george carnegie at sit cumberland Cum beiland belland island their home on the southern coast of flor ida the earl and harry thaw viewed the move with most amazing compla coney and expressed their pleasure at knowing miss thaw was to visit her herl charming sister at the island mrs airs thaw accompanied her daughter to the train and did not note the absence ot of the earl who was naturally ex pecked to be on hand at the parting miss thaw was cheerful and waved her tier mother goodby from the rear of the train after the train was well on the way out of washington a well dressed young englishman in the sleeper just ahead of the special car made some inquiries as to the identity of those in the special and a few minutes later the card of the earl of yarmouth was carried by a porter to miss thaw who expressed the greatest surprise at the coincidence the earl accompanied the party to fernandina Fernand lna ria where they were met by mrs george carnegie with the car V MIAMI the thaw mansion negie yacht the earl was presented and evidently was well received as he was a guest of the tho carnegles Larne Carne gies for the remainder of his stay in florida waters where tarpon fishing and other pastimes were provided in plenty mrs thaw learned of the earls earl is visit to the south and the manner of fals his going and forgetting the imbor P kant business affairs in pittsburg post ed to the south in her effort to head off the impending engagement from ithe the announcement just issued it is evident she failed the suit of the earl has all along been een encouraged by miss thaws thaw s brother harry who met the he earl on the continent and has been a close friend of his ever since it was harry thaw wh invited the i 4 wv aft british lord to meet his sister and who has been his social mentor on this side of the water will be s of hertford the earl of yarmouth who will some day be the marquis of hertford Is a descendant of the third marquis of hertford the nobleman who was damned to eternal fame by thail eray as the marquis of in vanity fair miss thaws fiance at present Is george francis alexander seymour earl of yarmouth but it if he survives his father he will hold the further titles of marquis of hertford earl of hertford and viscount beauchamp of hache in great britain baron con way of ragley in england and baron conway of county antrim in ireland these titular and pronominal glor ies leg indicate that he is allied by blood and by family connections to some of the most illustrious the wealthiest the most famous and the most noted members of the ancient british ans aris As a seymour he lie is de scented from the great edward sey mour duke of somerset lord krotec tor for in the reign of edward VI and from the hardly less distinguished sir edward seymour who was speaker of the long parliament in 1640 53 |