Show ELKINS AND THE NEWSPAPERS Senator Elkins after some weeks of enforced and unpleasant publicity has asked aked the press to refrain retrain from further discussion of oC his daughters engage engagement engagement ment to the Duke DAbruzzi In al ai almost almost most pathetic tones he promises to give an authentic statement when any an announcement announcement announcement is to be made Whether the newspapers will Avill pay pa any an attention to the request or not will depend largely upon their decency and respect for the feelings of the senator sen tor torand and his family It may be true that Miss Elkins has no business giving her hand and fortune to an Italian prince when there are so many eligible Amer Arner American AmerIcan ican lean men but in a n nation that was founded on the individuals right to life liberty and the pursuit of happi happiness happiness ness the young woman can certainly plead her constitutional right to pur pursue pursue pursue sue what she thinks is happiness in Italy Ital or anywhere else on the globe where her fancy fanc and Cupid may lead her herIn In a way wa an international alliance such as is proposed by the duke is le legitimately legitimately legitimately a matter of public interest a proper subject for publicity but the eastern newspapers have treated the affair as though they the had some special commission from the people to expose the Elkins family to ridicule and make life Ilfe a burden to them Evidently the negotiations for the marriage have not reached the stage where an official an announcement announcement I is in order and an until the royal families on both sides are pre prepared prepared prepared pared to talk Pa Elkins has a right to the privacy which he so earnestly de sires Besides when there Is so much else of more importance it seems to burden the wires and disfigure the tle columns of the daily dally press with columns col columns columns of twaddle about the lovemaking ing lag of a pair pall of young folks As with the Gould family affair with De Dc there ought to be some limit to the at attention attention tenton given such episodes and the tho Elkins business has about abo t reached that limit |