| Show queer actions of count gizycki recalled N IN W washington ASHINGTON society is keenly interested te to in the contemplated divorce proceedings between the alio count and nd countess and Is recalling the unusual conditions under which the engagement of the count and the fermer eleanor patterson Pat torson of chicago was made known when the parents of miss patterson became convinced that their daughter was serious in her attachment for or the polish nobleman every effort was mado made to put an end to tho the affair this was in 1903 soon eoon atter after tiles patterson had returned from st petersburg where she eho had bad been visiting nor her aunt mrs mccormick wife of the then american ambassador to russia ono one day without tho the slightest warn ing ine the count appeared in Wa washington Ahing society was startled at the unexpected visit but much more so when bliss patterson made a round of visits to her particular friends and announced her engagement to the count bount her parents aro are said to have been keenly annoyed by their daughtery daugh tera action and some moans means of making the engagement formally known then was decided upon mr patterson was waa go genuinely provoked and insisted that the engagement should bo be announced merely without the formula stating that tho the parents ot of tho the prospective bride authorized it 11 mrs mra patterson Patte raon it la Is said seeing that hor her daughter was fully determined to become the countess gizycki persuaded her husband to make the announcement in the regular way the wedding followed soon boon in hla his visit to washington count gizycki was waa not invited to be a guest at the patterson Patte raon home but remained at the new willard Wll lard where he bo occupied a room on ono of the upper floors and am in the least desirably desirable section of at the house lie he was attended by a man servant who came to the hotel when needed t after the wedding the count left tho the patterson home and returned to the hotel to gei his luggage and it was currently rumored that he be did not go back to the patterson Patte raon mansion for his bride but telephoned that he be would meet her at the station and aad that the now new countess left her home in company with her parents and her brother |
