| Show R Rr r M U bb x t Society Puzzled t Understand Why wp the Fashionable Widow Should i Yf J 1 ds G a a ra i Hare Felt Compelled to i i a t a Marry Y t i o Aa a r ct yr 3 1 F at r Whirlwind u r n h fi a k z ve N Very Peculiar Way Wayt t a i tY M st sta t She 4 l A Mo w y u r v i i 1 a y ya 4 rI I wv e a aI 1 w wu wb u b kip b r v r ri i 1 n a t j jl t v r i atM s k y P j p f fP P o h p pr r M i i d s se sa e a y u r Pi t wt x i b W r x rv w gyp a s sy y a aIva Iva t a s sj j 7 a MS A T dal 1 v if 1 S f i y I ts w r t tA tt a ay y x 63 y Yd v E J S p pE pv E v 3 F d dc c 4 A A o a t 8 eRt t L aw awS eR 3 aMb y o t a yys i r F Y e efA f A un A t ae yn n Y R xa t L LP M t y A r t r e ef f d 4 g Q w a a w a o r r r 0 r C a yi t y Yi a w r w M j r t t w y yr r rb t tN N r r i bra Ct CtR f 1 R t a v 8 y Y t d a h u uy y F Y i if id f d b Z i L isawA Az shy H F a jf w 4 yr t q dr t k 1 S The farmer fonner Mrs William Duston widow of i the multi millionaire Philadelphia manu manu- manufacturer manufacture facture t d SECRET wedding is 3 something A that rarely occurs within the limits of the most fashionable so- so society society so society arid and when hen vi hen it does the bride involved s usually some woman too young and inexperienced of life to hale haie proper reo re- regard re regard gard for the conventions with which tho world orld hedges marriage This is one reason why hy the smart set was as so genuinely amazed the other morn morn- morning morning ing to learn from the tho newspapers that Mrs William Disston had quietly slipped from her hotel home in New York to an obscure parsonage in m New Jersey and had been married in the tho utmost secrecy to James a society man al- al already already al already ready once divorced The secrecy of the former Mrs Diss Diss- Disston's tons ton's tons ton's wedding cannot be excused or ex- ex explained ex explained on the ground gr nd of the headstrong impetuosity of a romantic young girl girlIn In tho the marriage license she admitted I to being forty eight fort years old She Sheds is a mother and a grandmother and in the years since the tho death of tier her er first husband hus- hus husband husband band the wealthy Ph Philadelphia saw manufacturer she the has haa had a broad enough social experience to malte make her understand that a secret wedding is not considered quite quito the thing for a woman of f her age wealth and position Yet Yc Ye the former Mrs Disston seems seem to have been so BO deeply moved by love or other considerations that she plunged into her second matrimonial experience with all aU the secrecy and careless Infer informalIty malIty of some eloping doping stenographer tremblIng in fear of parental wrath There were no invitations not even n by word of mouth Her lIer most Intimate friends knew nothing about the nuptials s until long after they were over and the brides bride's trunks had been hurriedly moved from her suite in the Hotel Ambassador to her new husbands husband's rooms in theRit Carlton She walked to the altar in a plain street gown unattended by her daugh- daugh daughter daughter ter Mrs John Wanamaker jr or any arother iy other member of her family The Tho 3 dating clergyman may well have been n chosen at random from a Jersey City dl- dl directory rectory For witnesses there were two humbly dressed strangers whose services the minister managed to beg bee in the tho neighborhood And what amazed the former Mrs friends even more than the suddenness the secrecy and tho the informality informalIty ir- ir malIty that marked her wedding was the fact that it came Just when her daughters daughter's family was In mourning over the death of the senior John Wanamaker r the distinguished merchant prince phil phil- philanthropist and former Postmaster Gen Gen- General General G Geral eral The secret wedding in Jersey City took place than twenty-four twenty hours after Mr Wanamakers Wanamaker's body was car eal- r- r red ried to the grave Before the funeral bells that sorrowed the whole nation were fairly through their tolling the he pealing of the Disston Disston wed w ding chimes was heard Is it any wonder that the news left I the smart circle in F s which the bride is i p ry v such a prominent fig figure fig fig- 1 Sa s l lw w ro R fir ure uro fairly gasping t ta a with amazement Can Cant t A j anyone any one blame the Y P r z t for gossips finding this 0 extraordInarily A- A timed marriage a tOpiC that will furnish J them food for a long James dames the New York t a tIme to come society man who won Mrs Diu- Diu But with all the tons ton's heart in record record g s b bt s r rY rea Y r ea t speculation nobody time and before hardly anybody v f f has hils yet offered any knew he was in the running a tion of the necessity which impelled the thi wealthy widow to rush rash into a second marriage In this unconventional way wa just at the time when the family of her daughters daughter's husband was in deep be- be bereavement bereavement be It is particularly hard to understand in m view of tho the general belief that the former Mrs Disston owes much of the rapid social progress which has marked her widowhood to her daughter Paulines Pauline's a marriage alliance with one of the e wealthy and powerful Wanamaker fern fan fam- fam family ily fly Mr who is forty years year old and describes himself as being in the oil business downtown left his office at noon the day of the we wedding After a hasty luncheon alone he met Mrs Diss DIs ton and the couple drove rove across the tho Hu Hud Hud- Hudson Hudson son Eon River to Jersey City In her motor motorcar motorcar car No one except the tho liveried chau chauffeur accompanied them The application for the tha marriage license was made the very day John Wanamaker died and while his hugo huge stores in New York and Philadelphia were vere closed in fn respect to his memory The license was issued tho the day before and the wedding took place the day aft after Mr Wanamakers Wanamaker's funeral In reply to reporters who pressed him hi for reasons for the great secrecy with which the tho marriage was shrouded Mr explained that he and his bride had been anxious to avoid all the tha gossip and conversation as he termed It ft inevitable which they be bo ble If they had a ceremony of the sort usual In their social set And then the happy went wenton wenton nt on to give some lome facts which make it plain that his courtship and wooing of the wealthy widow were quite as headlong quite as precipitately pr unconventional as their secret wedding Within less lee than six elx months after their first meeting they were w were re man and wife and the actual courtship covered only about six weeks 11 I Some speed 1 I the as younger genei genera genera- generation tion would speed say tay speed of which any up- up to-date to flapper and her lover might well be proud I met Mrs loin Disston last June said Mr at dinner a party given gli by a friend oW on 01 Long Island She went wi L l t tf f abro abroad d shortly afterward I did s i ii inot i not see sea her again until her return r In October None lift s k ra v of my friends or hers knew Mr first we wife wire one of the seltzer bromo were engaged or heiresses from whom he vas was divorced under even evenI I interested rather sensational circumstances in each other Some time ago I ago I cant can't say just when we we decided to be married We took the members of our immediate familIes into our confidence but no one else elso You Y may be sure that there isn't the slIght slIght- slIghtest est eat opposition on the part of anyone any one to our marriage But if it the relatives of these middle middle- aged but not at all leisurely lovers knew all about the marriage they were either er not invited to the ceremony or if it they were they felt in no mood to attend J Jany At any rate no friendly eye saw the knot tied Even the family chauffeur was left sitting outside in the cold Mr was divorced from his first wife Mrs Daisy Emerson Horner in 1915 1918 after she eho had figured prominently in a sensational divorce proceeding brought by Mrs Cora L Hanson Hanlon against Major J Fletcher Pletcher Han hIan son Bon a prominent citizen of Atlanta Ga Ca Mrs Horner Homer was the daughter of Isaac E IsaacE Emerson of Baltimore the millIon millIon- millIonaire acre aire seltzer bromo manufacturer She had already been divorced from her first husband T J Horner Her Her sister was the first wife of the late Alfred Vanderbilt and Is now Mrs Raymond T Baker The Tho former Mrs Disston's friends have for a long time felt sure that she would JamesM some day marry again but James M wae never Included among the possible love mates m nates tes whom the gossips were continually suggesting In fact fact hardly anybody knew that the tha two were w even acquainted On the death of Mr Disston eight years ago Mrs Disston was left with a fortune of many many millions With this and her own charms as her lien chief ch assets asset she set Bet out to attain by way of New York Newport and London the socia soda po position which she Bhe had always alway alwi been beer denied through the jealousy of ot car eer- c tamo powers in Philadelphia's smart set Since her husbands husband's death Philadel phia tho the city elty where the Disston fortune was piled plIed up out of the saws taws he made mac famous has seen little of her In the tt winter she made her home llomo in one ono of New NewYork's NewYork's Ne Yorks York's most fashionable hotels and the summers she divided betWeen Newport and Mrs Disston obtained her first lIft li up tho the social ladder whose hose uppermost rounds she vas was so eager to see through the friendship she and anel her daughter formed with Mrs 0 O II H P Belmont Belmon But even with this backing tho Diss- Diss Disston ton progress was slow until Mrs Disston enlisted the aid of socially wise and tact tact- tactful tactful ful Miss Marie de do Barril since dead What happened then is still the marvel of those who know the inside history of the tho smartest New York and Newport set Within an amazingly short time Mrs Disston was on terms of pleasant with such sueh commanding figures as TessIe Oelrichs And Birdie Va Van At Newport the following summer there were still more signal triumphs triumphs for the 8 saw roans mans widow At the Casino Casil one morning the late Mrs Ogden Mills went went out of her her way to greet Mrs Diss Diss- ton ton-an an honor she seldom conferred on anyone any one hot not corn born to her exclusive circle All AIl that was wae needed to clinch Mrs claim to an assured place In Inthe inthe the uppermost circle of society was the tho tl marriage of her beautiful daughter to John Wanamaker jr son of Mr and Mrs Hodman Rodman Wanamaker and grandson of the original John Wanamaker r This brilliant wedding the wedding the outstanding event of the tha Newport summer of com 1917 1917 the humiliating defeat of the Philadelphia society leaders leader who had tried to treat Mrs Disston social as- as aspirations aspirations with such contempt IS S 7 r rr r 1 t E t i ir r f 9 C Crl rl s A Sj N 4 t is y A 7 L K r t i iA tJi t d t St 1St 1 a if I b Sa s ii t FR y r 3 g I I 1 i ea l 3 f 4 F t t b 1 Y l t A 41 I I t tM M y o The former Mrs Mr Disston only daughter Pauline now the wife of john Johno Wanamaker jr and the most notable of the absentees when hr r mother was secretly married Mrs Disston's Disston now husband Is a man manof manof of unquestioned wraith wealth breeding and social prominence His family is one of New Yorks York's oldest and most substantial il Yet with all his prestige he is hardly to to o be bo compared with some of of the other men who have been suggested as a probable able ble husband for this wealthy still youthful and charming widow One of z Q i these thesa was E C Drexel and another was a multi-millionaire multi widower even better knO known knOn n to the public pubic But the former Mrs ns n's heart seems to have remained quite whole I i Mr hir came until along and began bogan the tho rapid fire and irresistIble which ended in the secret w Wooing Jersey City the wedding in other day dllY |
