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Show S. Stallo and Her Sister Helen, Who Is to Marry Prince Michel Murat '. fabulous millions!" ex-: ex-: U claims Miss Helen Stallo, ' j Alexander McDonald's .Brand-KSets .Brand-KSets and heiresses. "Never!" rti the very beat kind of good t I have lost a huge fortune, of JSe but what care I? Have I Ml Von & prince -who loves me for ! Lu done and not for my golden tkili! I nave been loved before, AHA men have Bald that they .ELjjne, but that was In the days ;rt I WDB supposed to be a IfiMfiW heiress. Those men ?n In love with the Idea of ; itf77tng my fortune they did not f abiof me at all. In those days I M: m jot a human being; a girl with fU ijirre heart; I was merely a bank IB mount 'Ah, hoir different It all Is to-day. ua to marry the prince of my ry-tile days, the prince who jj mo and only me. What is beggarly 520,000 a year to iel Murat, favorit9 nephew of ,Emprea Eugenie? The veriest atelle. He spends that In a ath; It Is only a hundred thou-id thou-id francs. And how far will that la keeping up our position, in fo? It Is laughable. Why wb re never mentioned money. We i to love with each other and t uplaiDS everything, does it If TTbvam I so sure that my prluce tt no end not the remnants f of 30,000,0 00? Ah, easily. Belie Be-lie I von him in a fair fight from i peateit beauty of Paris, the dating and ever-so-loving kise Yane. and you, who know irParU, know what this means. I there I am too busy being ;py, too busy skating with my see, too busy being in love to 1 jou any more. But wait, who itteald, 'Oh, to be in Paris and bra?' W411, ho wan very rlghr. its In love in Paris la the most sterful thing in all tie world." PjIs romance of which Mies illo 6peakR so happily and girl-iris girl-iris the sensation of the day in ill end haB aroused a good deal isterest ia this country, where ) "fitallo Eleters" ere very wpll Their history reads lik b wonderfiil fairy tale. Their tttr.the oqly child of Alexander tDonsld, a Standard Oil magnate.. Itf'ben they were children, Jeav-ttiem Jeav-ttiem to her father. Naturally, 'Enndfether idoli9d them and 0 had everything in the world the?- wanted- They did not cj however, that some day they M m called the greatest Araer-o Araer-o tairesBcs of their dav. wr father, Edmund E. Stallo, ot live with thsm; ho spent his time in New York and and after Dan Hawia wa Mr. Stallo married Mr. After that roarriago th Jmtera sar very little of their J? elr big mansion. Dalvay JJ. Mar Cincinnati, these girls pat dreams of what the or them, they would 5 cuW afford ' ols was their keenest deeire. Mr. McDonald died and "" Wis found that thoy wen lth being worth $30,000,-JPice. $30,000,-JPice. They did not know how' Tu.7, wee ortu, or they S n kept in ignorance as to f Pro8pcctB( They bad 1Rtle wo value of money, and were given a aharo of to;. tber were most ox-as ox-as girls always will be VnWh conditions. ho fe the. heroine of this !,0Urte9a "wben her grand-fl2!ed; grand-fl2!ed; Immediately sho and wr sister began to live up" to &t "'r early ideals. Thoy W J?"48! months In New shopped, wont to the Wends gaVe parUeK for tbeir fi?Sre tausht n11' Paid i 4. KovernesHes and Anally caoo when they went to 5r!fl? eleu 8111,1 : "I shall i ninn. chtuan- H weed not . ' Vl1 he m,iBt be noble .nff tioWo history." S B.ee- devoured French Niilr I1?8 dayB o Marle An- tbave Ioved to have IJktP, V?B,?r even a Countess ?C A J,B' Hh0 wo say. Wca tJ17, wa8 1 om in e fril.h?'8 been' better l"6 frS&tfully commonplace 5h.fi wan0IJy bociarnQ hawy iil i resented with a DS nnfe03, b.er Bnardlan, rin PiCnt,for h(ir K?lly- fin niVQ nml SO about bar? .ab WaB e'Bbtoun her Bister were spoken of as the richest girls of their nge in America, and, naturally, they were beselged with invitations and suitors. Great wealth always draws forth a crowd of suitors, whether tho holder of the wealth be as homely a3 a hedgo fonco or as beautiful as an hourl. Now little Miss Helen had cnarm, as well as money, and tho result can be Imagined. Im-agined. Suitors hovered about her as bees about flowers. Because of her intense love for French history and her' interest In everything French, It was natural that this charming heiress should be just a bit distrait when she found herself beseiged by bustling young New York admirers. "They are not a bit like the. Frenchmen wo know and I do not understand them at nil," she would say. "But you are American and Western, too," her sister Laura would answer, bluntly. "You ought to be happier here with your own people than in Paris." Then Helen would shrug her shoulders in ft truly Parisian fashion, and say : "Well, if any man wants to make himself interesting to me he must talk to me In French." What a brushing up of French there was among the gilded youth who yearned to share Miss Stallo's millions! After a brilliant Winter in New York the sisters went to . Cincinnati. They opened their benutiful mansion and entertained in a delightful and, it miiBt bo confessed, con-fessed, an extravagant manner as well. But why not? Were they not worth something like thirty millions mill-ions apiece? At the close of their slay in Cincinnati Cin-cinnati the young bloods who had ' 'been devoting themselves to Helen were made most sad by the announcement an-nouncement that she would marry N11b Florman. And who is Nils Flor-man? Flor-man? asked her Homo frlendG. New Yorlc did not need to ask MM MissSttsIloS 'LUCKY- Bud Luck ' I W4WMW' 10-1' Mile. Heloise Yanc, the Beautiful French Actress, Who Lost the Prince W&fflfc'vA- WticheX Mui'at to Miss Stalio. t'l? this quesUou. for youug Mr. Flor- &&M'TMZ'$ V;' man was only too woll known. He HtI' . was a son of a Swedish lady of high 58& Itfi vM&M?J and a Swedish massevise. H f?lt?-' was also a warm friend of the lot WW$L Colonel John J. Astor, and before t'iipP the Colonel's marriage was sup- ;&aW$8$ nosed to be engaged to Katherlno F&!& -', Force. The announcement that bo WWtWtx " was to marry Helen Stallo wm Wm&k ' Hxereforn a surprise all around. Thr; WtmWk ' engagement lasted several weeks Mipil ' ' It was understood that Miss Stallo W&Mmi A' ' knew all about her (lance's parents, WM0ffl but her friends rould not undcr- W$$$& Btand why she was going back on W'tof , hor decision to marry a Frenchman -Prince of historic family. But Helen knew I Michel "18 is more like a French fM$i'$ ' nobleman than any man 1 have met m in America. He has the most ex- SW (julslte manners, the most distin- f?M4pi w.ootum gnisbed appearanco and he Is so 04$M? u "ilic in bin costuming. J just adore tbo way he ties his neckties. And WM&M' W then. Nils is so in love with the wt&S,- wore French. Ho adores Paris and says pt Wu that wo shall live there always Whc" when we are married." f0m$ He But a few weki5 aftor this glow- lMfmi 5S explanation Edmuud Stallo an- Wl?it Met nounced that his daughter had HS ' broken her engagement. He could S&jWiih'M Mirs ' ll0t ell why, because he did not wxkw& 1 ' kno,r Helen's reason. lWjflPl Stallo. "1 found that wo could never bo bnopy together. U was Impossible. Wfm'0ii Why. 3'ust Think, Nils told me that ilill ;-, ho thought Eugenie was the real WW-sl v cause oi! the fall of the Empire and WMklk, 'bat sho was only nn extravacant tP '- Uttle hussey. Of course 1 told him W$wM$i5$L ' that it was all ovrr between us.' p :'. -it was Jubt after this that rumors spread chick and fast concerning tho fortunes of the two sisters. Their father was rpmoved temporarily tem-porarily from bis executorship, and N then th"? rumors were confirmed. The sixty millions shrank to one. Yes, tho famous heiresses were worth but twenty,, thousand dollars yearly, It was simply another case .of a man's securities shrinking after his death. Their Iosb of fortuue did not iff art the sisters at all, apparently. They were as Hghthearted and a? fond of pleasure as ever. Helen, however, wn.s llrm In one thing. "1 am perfectly willing to be poor in Paris. We must make our hom; thrrr for the rest of our lives. It is not unfashlouabla to bo poor over there. Just think of the marquises and the duchesses who have to wear the same gowns season after season, yet they nro the most important im-portant womeu in all France." And so, with her lover lost, her fabled fortune lost, Helen still stuck to her guns. Back to Paris they went, where I heir apartment on the Rue Christopher Colombo was ready for them, and there they lived ever since. The American woman who aro so Importaut a part of the social life in Paris did not give up tho sisters when their fortune shrank. They have had just as many invitations as when they were supposed to have great wealth. A few weeks ago they, In cgmrnon with all tho fashionable folk of the gay city, atteuded the magnificent, costume hall given by half a dozen duchesses and marqulse3. The Cotillion Cotil-lion was ed by Mons, do Foucjuleres The Unusual Romance of the Standard Oil Heiress Who Lost the Millions She Thought She Had, hut Got a REAL Prince Who Actually Marries Her for Love and Not for Money assisted by tho Prince Michel Murat. When tho fair Helen entered the ball room and saw the prince dancing with the beautiful Heloels Yane she aid not dream that at last she was to meet her fate, that at laBt her girliBh dreams were to come true. The prince was presented to the little American girl. They looked Into each other's eyes. They sat out two dances together. Tho beautiful beau-tiful and seductive Heloise, unused to being neglected, sent couriers to tell the prince that sho was waiting wait-ing for him. The prince hesitated. That very beautiful young girl with whom you were dancing Is waiting for you? asked Helen (oh, wise Helen). Do not keep her x. K ii j i waiting any longer. I think that T have several partners somewhere who are waiting.. for mo sho finished, archly mc' snc "Let tlumi all wait,;' growled the prince. We are so happv here. Tell me, will you skate with ma tomorrow?" to-morrow?" v "Yes, perlmpR, but do go and; dance with tho beautiful Mile. ' Yane." But the prince would not go. and from that moment Helen knew that her prince had been found. "And just think," she happily said, tho day her engagement wan announced, 'T am really .narrying M a nobleman whose history la Inter- fl woven with that of France. What I dreamed of when a wee girl has 9 come true. For the history of tho i M.urats is the history of France. 1 My Michel is the nephew of the wonderful Eugenie, tho woman I have loved to read about, and his mother was a Russian Princess, and we will spend much time on her estates in Southern Russia. Oh, how blissfully happy I am." Miss Stallo might have said also that her prince was in part an American, for his grandmother wan Caroline Fraser, a Virginian, who declined several times to marry bo-cauao bo-cauao she did not consider that tho Murat family equalled her own. But tho history of the Murat family in New Jersey in o talo by itself, and has no place in this romance of tho girl who lost thirty millions and found a lover. The part of her prince's history that pleases hor most is tho fact that hd is directly descended from the Marshall Murat. |
