Show a W WI 6 9 F Fa FA A a How Hundreds of Unhappy Laws In-Laws With No Money or Jobs Made MadeA A iv Europe Quite Unbearable for the Young American ai ait t Millionaire G r I 4 A to- to t tot 1 I 6 e s o S it t arte Ij a v la 3 L rte I t q k t c 1 t t qt s I ya 1 L LL k i s 7 t i k kr A r r a b A t f 7 44 p y 4 LW r ry Y t t Y tId Id d o t a mw i f tf I f t S ig 4 yr fr 3 ya 3 OIk t p p to toN r Pl 1 Ge t N yA s r 1 ar v i G 1 4 k ks s n i 1 4 d A y Ar c i I YAe a rC t xAy r r r i r i r a a s a J oRv 4 r ti TY r r M t 3 t w 3 ra T w y yr r y e 4 L v r 3 k x a C ti i Twelve daughters and nieces of out kicked King Constantine of Greece And these are only a few of the titled girls who claim Billy SS a Wj 4 At first distracted young Mr Leeds k Ut 1 i i I IJ trIed t to be discriminating and hand out Y k t Y M t r a Z alp i k r checks and cash and nod letters of credd k tBt mY v s sr r f wS only only to the most deserving of his m- m me laws in-laws x h 4 11 e t s y ift laws But he soon soon t Billy Leeds on his wedding day with his bride Princess lv r y 1 saw that t this lS Xenia and the most mott important law in-law of all Xenias all Xenias Xenia's f 1 p A AJ J 1 w woul would d never do o mother Grand Duchess Marie Maria f rt vt L It Those to whom HY has young Billy Leeds de- de decided de decided WRY SHY ceded to settle down with his bride in the land where he was born and where his shrewd ld fathers father's millions were piled up t Billy himself says it is because both he and lis we wife pretty little Prin Prin- Princess Princess cess ress Xenia Xenia of R Russia a think the United States the best country in all this partly green earth and would rather live here bere than anywhere else But this sudden enthusiasm for Amer Amer- American American American ican life Me seems rather surprising m ln view of the fact that young Mr Leeds has passed so much of his young manhood In Europe and that his late mother got along very nicely there for many years both before and after lifter her marriage to Prince Christopher of Greece G And the gossips are whispering that while undoubtedly Billy is lS really very fond of America there is quite a differ different ent reason for his quitting Europe and coming here to make a home for tor himself and his bade According to the rumors that are m- m filtering fil filtering across the Atlantic from London and the other European capitals life m in Europe has been made quite unbearable for Billy Leeds by the out down down and condition of the swarm of titled laws m-laws in whom he acquired through his mothers mother's marriage and later augmented very considerably Jy through his Ius own love match Nobody has ever taken talen the trouble to count up these relations by marriage but the number must run high into the hundreds Neither m in Russia nor ln in Greece is there any tendency to race sun sui SUI- SUI SUIcIde suicide cide cede and m in both countries families of eight or ten or even more ch children dren are nothing unusual This little army of relations whom the Leeds mother and son fastened on them them- themselves themselves selves when they married is lS now scat scat- scattered scattered over the length and breadth of Europe There is hardly one of them who is not homeless homeless jobless and either elther quite destitute of money or perilously near so so The fortunes of war have swept away their positions m in the government then great estates and their ancestral jewels Jewel Their sounding high titles are all they have left left and these will not buy food or clothes or pay the rent The The- countries where they once cut such a grand figure have no more use for tor them In fact m many cases they are forbidden to r re return turn there on penalty of death What mat more natural than for tor these pov pov- pov- pov stricken erty unhappy exiles to turn to their rich Ameri American kinsman lansman by mar mar- marrIage mar mar- marriage marriage to relieve their poverty and dis distress tress Why should they not look to this young m millionaire when they need money to pay their hotel bills or get their furs out of pawn or buy the baby some shoes How could they fail to expect that this thia young hero from the landof land of plenty would tide them until over things are More favorable at homo or until they can establish themselves somewhere else This it lt is ia said is ia is exactly what what bat most r c r i ro G yf q be he a gave liberally of them do expect and andr l r f wanted m o 0 r e demand And their de- de dei de demands i 14 f 1 f jo f and tho those s e to mands maids are aro believed to X l- l ll f J whom he shut have bave become so per per- perit p per persistent er- er rt q vs it t l s 1 if ii R RJ rv l his pocketbook and md often so ox- ox ex exorbitant S 'S mado more fuss that BIlly Billy y yz yM M a f t p t t than if lf he be had z il tt t pv tt v r Leeds finally decided at atall S i r b nothing he just lust couldn't Ine ll ne m In i i all Also ho he found Europe a minute i ri riall 1 h hat a t th the J r f Ji 4 longer t of de- de de deter task W j It I v a try wasn't so bad badr t ter e r m i n m Anat Anar r t WJ 0 o withe while Princess Ana Ana- Ana stasia M i W with 1 t b any stasis the former fonner 9 l f fl HI J 4 t v F 1 lust Just Leeds was era j y R a I i who de deserted ened alive She took on an 3 f ft fl td t aid and how her own capable r V wL i ia f t a t tv much they shoulders the bur bur- burden I er r 4 7 d i f yet i des deserve e r v e den of dispensing I qt would be a 8 charity to the un- un unI un unfortunate I i 4 job lob to keep fortunate laws lO-laws in than t l m more 0 r e and her son had one man mar busy little idea what an 1 P Pr Prince r i in n c e for a lift lift- unbelievable number of Billys brother law brother law in-law who tIme them there were or how howa a 4 1 had bad to go The family much money they were to selling trees with which Billy Leeds everlastingly in m needa need H a wallpaper and his mother became linked of He found out j to support through their theU marriages are arc so 50 qUIckly enough after tt v his wife very iery old and so wide branching wide his mothers mother's death for forthe n Princess Nina that he be was as often perplexed to toon the whole lot of Greek Greek p on the left know lust JUst shat hat rel relationship those and Russian poor re- re reon re relations f who sought his aid bore to hIm lations promptly trans trans- transferred Jt and his w wife we e and his stepfather their attentions i Prince Christopher He lIe was conAs con con con- to him hun wor- wor As long as he remained re- re re remained era tied ried for fear mamed ip 1 in Europe there he would turn turndown was no escaping them v down own tt the e ap- ap ap appeal Every capital andall and all y peal of f s some me the leading summer 1 really c I 1 o a s e a r i and c tvA s sand winter resorts and deserving law swarmed with Ith them w wand 7 i a s law lD-law in law and a n d and when hen Billy tl u ua a f r 1 y tp hand over a afew afew Leeds tried to get a afew t 9 AP S few thousand few das dabs da s respite from I J Jd Jy d y a tl a n dollars to some t ta their importunities by d r a whoa ty y r t Impostor who hiding himself r v had bad no legitimate and hIs s sr fl r bride awed away 9 in m some i mate claim to obscure out out out-of ay y n k j jeven even the most place Borne of hard distant stunt rela rela- relationship acre v k i ir isA up in laws sA were ere sure r d U sv 7 to follow ollow there h Is Is Prince London where here n here young Ivan a third Leeds had bad planned to Dmitri the law in-law who refused to be left behind andor and or o 0 only n I 1 y a From left to right Mr Billy Mrs Mr Billy and Prince settle down with h his came ame to America with the Leeda fourth sous bride tride in in his marDI m in cent gray stone mansion in Mayfair was as full of them as every other largo large pity A n 1 city And among the most impecunious of those who have chosen this as theIr refuge are Billys mother mother-in law Grand Duchess Mane and his wife's sister the former Prince Princess s Nina The latter and her husband are so poor that thai in spite of the liberal IUd aid they are believed to have received from frum the Leeds pockets they have not yet been able to afford a home bome large enough to holda hold a quarter of the wedding gIfts they received But to the credit of Ninas Nina's young husband it should be said that he ho has had bad the courage and good to go to work At last ac accounts he was doing his best to keep leep the home fires burning on the meager salary and commissions he be i r-r r mss received as salesman for a II fashionable firm finn of Inter interior lor decorators The Die laws in-laws who were unable to put ut theIr demands for help to B Billy ly Leeds Le ds m in person pursued him by telephone and telegraph by wireless cable and mail Thele were ere appeals from Grand Duke for money to complete his chil chit children children dren s education from horn Grand Duchess who must have ha a few thousands to p pay for lor a needed operation or die and from this that and the other one for all sorts of purposes It is 13 said Bald that Billy Leeds's morning mail resembled t that lt of the head of some great charity relief organization Now all this was very embarrassing for the young millionaire Billy Leeds is 15 a generous hearted good fellow and he be was particularly anxious to do the right thing by his innumerable laws in since hIS mother had been so liberal with them In fact tact the gossips are whispering that a great many of the young mans maus dIfficulties are due to Princess Anastasia An havIng been overgenerous with her un- un unfortunate unfortunate un unfortunate fortunate relations It is hinted that she spoiled polled a good many of them long be- be before before be before fore the war brought them to ruin rum Billy L Leeds ds soon hoon i oon discovered that even the large income he be draws from the trust fund his late father established would not be enough nough to begin to satisfy the demands of this enormous collection of out down-and-out fun families Jes One great difficulty was the fact that although for the mo mot moat t part absolutely penniless a great many of them still insist upon liv- liv living liv living ing mg in much of the luxury they formerly enjoyed oyed it x Is Grand Duchess really rully your mothers mother's aunt or only a friend of the family How many nephews nephew and nieces has Prince Christopher when every nose Is counted Questions like these the young Ameri Ameri- American American American can is saId to have been continually ask ask- ask asking ing mg hS his w wife e But even Xenia was un- un unable un unable able to answer more than a few of them The forest of genealogical trees that her Greek and Russian relations present was too much for tor her ber and torn tarn between her duty to her husband and the duty she Ehe felt she owed her out down-and-out kins as- kin kinsfolk folk foIl she was vas still more perplexed d and dIstressed by the situation than he he What a complicated problem the com cor combined coro families present can be seen from the fact that through his ma marriage lage youn young Leeds is 18 related to the late late Czar of Rus Rus- Russia sia Sla the former royal house of Germany and the former crowned beads heads of Greece as well as to the reigning royalties of England Denmark and Rumania Of course the English Danish German and Rumanian connections are seeking no charIty but its it's a different story with the Greeks and Russians They are fast becoming the worlds world's most distinguished beggars V VAt At last Billy Leeds grew brain and heart weary of the impossible task of trying to keep all his impoverished in- in laws in-laws laws in m funds and reasonably happy Much as he likes Europe he decided It would never do for a permanent home home- home at least not until his poor relations eIther go to the poorhouse or get on their finan finan- finan- finan financial financial t cial feet l So he shut up his London mansion Spencer House wound up all his affaIrs and set out with his pretty young WIfe for his native America j But if Mr Leeds thought he was gOing to rid himself of all his bothersome m- m laws in-laws laws simply by crossing the Atlantic ho lie 3 M must have ha had a sad awakening Although the Leeds departure from England is lS saId said to have been very quick quick- quickly quick quick-ly ly and quietly arranged at least one of the numerous relations Prince Dmitri j managed to hear about it lt and to act accordingly ac- ac j cordingly cordingly When Billy and Xenia 1 went vent on board the liner on which they 3 i had engaged passage they found Dmitri J occupying a stateroom close to theirs and all set to see America along with them H HAnd And this was not all an According to reports received here here among the first T hT familiar faces Billy Leeds encountered when he be was introducing his wife we to New Yorks York's Fifth Avenue were those of Prince and Princess the n latter another of young Sirs Mrs Leeds's un- un unfortunate un unfortunate fortunate kinswomen The had come to America Amer- Amer America ica about the same time as the Leeds's to attempt to rehabilitate their theU fortunes fortune by disposing of valuable jewels and by trying to recover worth of paintings which the Prince pawned some sometime time ago to Joseph E Widener the Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia m millionaire and over whose final ownershIp a serious misunderstanding his holS arisen Many suspect that it may have been these two meetings which inspired Billy Leeds to make his stay in the United States proper a very brief one for the present At any rate after he and his wife had paid their respects to his American all relations relations all well-to-do well as he ashe must foci feel thankful to know they know they r JI hurried straight across the continent and over the Pacific c to Honolulu In far away Hawaii Mr Leeds an- an announces an announces flounces he and Xenia Xema wIn will pays pa a the WIn WIn- win ter winter There evidently he be thinks h he WIll be willbe able to find a measure of peace that even New York does not at present afford But will he find that peace Will not the appeals of the unhappy laws in-laws who are believed to have made life We in Eu- Eu rope Europe quite unendurable follow him um and t charming Xenia even across the Pacific and make their laments heard above the 5 wailing of the ukuleles Y Its It's a hard matter to escape sucha such a a large and persistent bunch of poor re- re re relations lations as Billy Leeds has I r |