Show 1 r rt rw t a w F I tr r diA f fj x daughters o f the Poor but r ru Clever American Very j I widow Astonish Sop by walking A t N Off with Two of b tc ry s d dt d fa 1 ry r rt t y yv v q k bf t XV 1 y r vM 91 England's Richs Rich's d e V f t P 4 e Most M t to I 9 Y Yf ks t ti rr r S I f It Jk i After Noblemen r r roe k Y e oe JI 1 S i E c 4 r rAs As a F i f fr A ri d F FA r i The R f t oung i 13 f w wt 1 t z arlof Earl arl of Car lr d Y c X i a narvon then yell a r f Z known as Lord sd sdi i r x f fib s s pe a his air ride on ont t x P ilie their s we u a u k r ry y M Map iv S dy ap S i i 2 I f t r rf I V VIT Y Y 5 v IT Th Mia Miss Catherine f w y rC r rr r Wendell now the r I proud Countess of t y I M 11 a I T IOU I 0 U S American society I inI A mammas who have hate failed in their strenuous efforts to find i titled English husbands for their mar mar- mar girls are regarding with even more envious s eyes than bc before ore their fel- fel fellow fel fellow low countrywomen Mrs Jacob Wendell and her two pretty daughters Catherino and Philippa And small wonder it is that their envy should be ba stirred still more deeply for fora a now instead of one brilliant Anglo Anglo- 10 love lose e match to the re credit of the Wendell Wen el fam family tere re ae aye two to of oft t em Two years ears ago Miss Hiss Catherine Wendell became the wife of tho the young man who was then Lord Portchester She soon became the Countess of Carnarvon through the death of her husbands husband's father the distinguished Earl of Car Car- Carnarvon Carnarvon narvon from a mysterious insect bite while opening the treasure filled treasure tomb of old King Tut-ankh-Amen Tut Now it is her sister Philippa's turn to astonish s clety society on both sides aides of the At- At Atlantic At Atlantic lantic and she does it through the an announcement of her engagement to marry the Earl of Gallo Galloway ay owner of historic Scottish acres and in every way one of the most desirable of young poble- poble noble noblemen men Two such romances as these in one family would be amazing even if that family counted its wealth w in m the but the Wendells are a long long way from the multi millionaire class When Mrs Wendell dies her daughters will ha hate hae e to divide with their brothers a for for- fortune fortune for fortune tune of only or In these days of Rockefellers and Henry Fords this is as everybody knows a competence hardly woith 01 th boasting about The romances of the Wendell sisters are h two 0 that cannot be ascribed as so 50 many quite justly are to the greed of up hard up European noblemen for Ameri Ameri- American American can ean dollars Both the Earl of Carnarvon and the Earl of Gallo Galloway ay are rich In their own right and have no financial r difficulties to make rich marriages im- im imperative im imperative Even if they were badly in need of money they could never get enough by marrying into the Wenedll family to pay payoff payoff off olf many mortgages on ancestral castles or great estates This is the very thing that makes males the love triumphs of the Wendell sisters so the amazing the fact that in achieving them they the had none nono of the assistance which bleh the possession of an Immense fortune fortuM would have given them Money can go a long way toward help help- helping ing mg an American girl to make a bril brilliant International marriage even en when It is not used as an actual luio luno for well wellborn wellborn born but hilt impecunious suitors Millions MIllion gIVe a IL young loung oung woman a which never invests the one in modest circum circum- circumstances circumstances V stances They enable her family to at- at attract attract at attract tract unusual attention to her by tho lavishness of their entertainments and by the rich je Jewels els and expensive gowns gown with which they provide her I r r The d e I l sisters hoses however had none of these e ad ant ages There were cre no il i-il il ilc c full of I money money bags to er one erne e asan as xian an alluring for their beauty and make their road to romance easier What they ha e achieve mist mist III Jot be d solely to their owr ar plus t tact and god e er r mohe has shown shon in ini 11 1 nia i in their social No other American family can boast any prouder more blue-blooded blue lineage than the Wendells At one time the had great great E wealth HaIth too but in recent gen gen gen- gen the family fortune has dwin dwin- d dwindled dwindled m- m dIed to insignificance The Wendells continue to maintain their place in m the highest circles of fashIOnable society solely through their aristocracy of birth and talent Probably there was as no one in m his generation of the Wendell family oho ho was less fortunate from a financial standpoint than the father of Catherine Cathenne and Philippa the late Jacob Wendell He left practically nothing and the modest fortune winch which was settled on Ills his widow and children came camo flom his fathers father's estate Tho The late Jacob Wendell was as a grad grad- graduate graduate of Harvard During his course there he tooka took a prominent part in ama ama- amateur amateur amateur theatricals and his passion for the stage continued as long as he ho lived I lIe He was known on Broadway as the mil actor but that was a misnomer as far as the millions were con concerned eel ned No Ko society production tion was thought complete without tal- tal talented tal talented Hr Wendell in the cast Winthrop Ames established his am ambitious but short hort lived New Kew Theater Mr Wendell endell went ent on the professional stage for a time appeasing appealing in m Bluebird orth s 's Strife and Twelfth Night It was through his interest in the stage that he Met net the woman he married Miss Marion Fendall of Baltimore a well well- well known known amateur actress and a descendant of the celebrated Washington and Lee families of Virginia Wendell Like so many other actors Mr Wen dell had no talent for making or saving money When he died in m 1911 he left so little that his family might have hate had to togo togo togo go to work for a living If it it had not foi for the provision made for them In the tha senior Wendel's will till Mrs Wendell promptly took her chil chil- children dren children to England Ingland to live Sho She did this because It costs less to live there and thought she would be better able to support and educate her boys bos bo s and girls m in the manner mannel In which they should be maintained according to their natural e and position in life The widow hada had a private income of 1600 1500 a year This added to what she he receIVed under her laws law's will gate ga her an annual income of no more than y- y r r 9 I lee 1 i r r z r Y IM rA The Carlof Carl Earl of alloway Galloway That is a ridiculously small sum on which to support a n family of five edu edu- educate edu- edu educate educate cate four children and maintain a po- po po position Simon in m the most fashionable English society It seems like actual poverty by comparison VI with Ith the a sear icar ear which Malian Hoffman has to spend on herself and the immense fortunes possessed by Miss liss Glace Giace Vanderbilt and other American Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican heiresses who ho figure prominently m in England's smal t set But tilts Mis Wendell has accomplished what almost almo t ever every other woman would ha hate hae e thought quite impossible on on- ona onIL a IL measly a year ear car The brilliant love Ive matches in m which her children are figuring are aie good proof that she knows how to make everyone every one of hems het limited number of dollars do more than double duty dut she could never have done doneas doneas doneas as well weli as she has If l it were not for the unusual attractiveness eness of her het daughters In Ia addition to their graceful girlish beauty they have a charm of personality that wins Ins everybody to them At the Placers Club in New York the girls father had a reputation as a aWit awit awit Wit that still lives and they inherited much of in this line It makes them sl sparkling conversationalists and wherever they go they are the life of the party And yet without discounting in the least the beauty and charm of the Wen Wen- Wendell Wen Wen- Wendell Wendell dell sisters it must be granted that their mothers mother's tactful skill sl at pia play playing log Ing the so- so social so social cial game has had a n great gleat deal to do with their love triumphs Evidently she started her family's so- so social so social cial cUll eer in England Ingland with some very J d dr db r r n b 4 i x a ty t S Sr r 4 SI I definite aims alms and the way ay she has gained her objectives es is the marvel of all who watched her maneuvers though she sho always s was by lack of money she managed to bring her lovely daugh daughters tens to the attention of some Borne of the most desirable of marriageable noble noble- noblemen noblemen men and end to keep leep them continually be- be before bo fore fOle their eyes in the most effective was way s What is most remarkable is that sho carried out her purpose without forcing her girls into loveless marriages and 1 without gaining gaming for herself the repute reputatIOn reputation tion of being a scheming matchmaker Thousands of ambitious mothers seeking ad m for their daughters will wish they might have hava the secret of tactful Mrs Wendells Wendell's success Even fashionable England where young oung women have far less liberty t tan an here seldom sees daughters under such strict control of thrum mother as the Wendell sisters In the ea case e of Catherine Cath Cath- Catherine Catherine erine this control seems to have relaxed little If it an any since her marriage to the Earl of Carnal von Only the other evening e it was as in m esi e dente dence at a party in m London's fashionable West End The Countess of placed a cigarette between her pretty lips and struck a match to light it My dear said Mrs Wendell if Ii I Iw were ere you i ou I wouldn't w smoke Like a frightened child the tho Countess promptly puffed out the match and laid asido the cigarette The others In in the drawing room were astonished to lo see neither b by look 1001 or word ord a hint of pro pro- protest protest pro protest test against obeying her mothers mother's wish nh The young oung Earl of Gallo Galloway ay tell fell In Inlove inlove inlove love with Philippa Wendell Vendell across the footlights Following rollo in hei hn patents footsteps sh she vas was appearing in an ama ama- amateur amateur theatrical performance The Tho Eal I Iwas was in the fashionable audience that she charmed and was it turned out the most charmed ono one of all His wooing began in earnest at the wedding of f Lord Carnegie and Princess Maud where he ho was best man and Miss Wendoll Wendall a guest But the Earl met strong competition and it was many months before belore his prize was as safely won it- it V r r s f fr r 1 r ti y t ti S tt f i 1 t 4 aR a SL S I 4 R L tP r rot r t w wr b brot r N dt s x J w wYL t 6 a a as s t alt 3 a p l t l a i il istl v t h hl Q t t r x tN l F Fa x 1 d rr t r a Yi tF c a f t pt o Z S f 4 f fy y t ts tf tt s f t 4 r i n r e S SN N aA 7 eb 3 E a h t p Y r rt y aa Miss Philippa Wendell tho by marrying the Earl of Galloway will add another title to her family's collection and without giving any fortune for it as so many other American do His Ills estate in Scotland is ib a romantic place It was hero that Sir Walter Scott laid the scene cene of his tragic Bride of the story that forms the theme themo of the tho famous opera Lucia Here also was as the tho th house where King Robel t Bruce slept the night when hen the spider pl er encouraged him to make male Ins Ills third U rd and successful try for fOJ the ero crown n The Tha mouth of the En Rn er en which runs through the estate was where whore mar mar- martyrs martyrs tyre Ole tied to stakes stales in C Covenanter days and drowned drowned ned b by the theorising tide ti Unlike many mothers who have time n only to lay lay plans for their their daughters m marriages clever Mrs Wend Wendell U 8 seems ems able to give considerable her s sons eons The Tho eldest Jacob acob Wendell last ear married Sear the daughter of ofa a rich London family and c cerv e Cr everybody erv body expects ets to tofee see well aswell wellA his Ins Li other do at at least as A notable record indeed for a II family that has no millions to back its ambitions I |