Show L LV V YI Y 14 i Y r Dashing Suitors From Foreign 1 4 Lands in for Their Brides i Still St ll More lore or of orr Fashionable r 01 j rw I Society's Most Sought Sou ht 1 After Young Beauties j i ij t t Jt NJ ir irY Y I I n f K t A I v vI N S r rN c f q vao tn J i 4 i J r kf S l J t The T h he e former Js Miss Allison Roebling re- re recently re rey married to Baron Van der Elst it y t i member of the Belgian embassy in Washington and scion acion- i s i a Miss Eliza Eliza- of one of Belgian nobility's proudest families 1 F Yx beth Hitt he he VENa VEN a per cent American EVEN EVENa E reading the society new news news of Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington D C lately must admit there is one form of international com com- competition competition competition petition between young men in which the highly touted American male does es not outshine his foreign competitor tor It is the mysterious and greatly be desired knack of wooing and winning inning a pretty girl Always Always active active in of Cupid pid the secretaries and attaches and whatnot of the foreign diplomatic set have been out outdoing doing themselves during the past few Cew months They have been conducting a regular raid on the fashionable drawing drawing- rooms drawing rooms and have and have claimed some of the prettiest and wittiest and wealthiest belles in in American society as their prize The list of international engagements is quite the largest ever and by the time the last June wedding has been run oil olf the ranks of ot the debutantes will be round found woefully thinned and there will willbe willbe willbe be many an aching heart among th the Washington bachelors Again the boosters for home products and the who believe in American husbands for tor American girls are trying to figure it out To date no remarkable discoveries tending to explain tho the apparently Irre irre- Irresistible irresistible charm of ot European and South American wooers has been announced to the world Maybe say some keen observers the born born alien male of the upper or leisure class has more time than the American business or professional man to under stand women Maybe the polished manner of thes these foreign suitors which while it may be only skin deep makes a great hit with the ladies lades explains their success in the tournament of ot love Or perhaps they owe their numerous triumphs to the he he facile compliments and thrilling little speeches which are part of their social equipment and so out out- outdistance outdistance outdistance distance the matter fact young Amer Amer- American lean ican who Is afraid of ot being thought overly sentimental and privately consid consid- considers considers considers ers the soft nothings that constitute the immemorial language of ot the tho amorous as asso asso so 60 much applesauce Whatever their trade secret they guard It well and the rout of the home home- homegrown homegrown home grown grown males during recent months is positively heartrending Baron Van der Elst of ot the Belgian embassy has demonstrated the superior superior- superiorIty superiority superiority ity of ot the foreign diplomat In the court court- courtIng courting ing log art by winning the tho heart of ot Miss Allison Roebling a few weeks ago Miss Roebling is u the daughter of Cap Captain tain taro and Mrs Arthur OBrien O'Brien and had no need to go all the way to Belgium to find a fiance Scores of ot perfectly good young Americans Americana possessed ot of breeding looks wealth an and social peel position tion were anxious to function and stub stubbornly contested tho the suit of the suave young Belgian every foot of ot the way Not long afterward Was Washington h I n g ton society learned that Miss Anita Henry had become en- en engaged engaged en to Dr Edward von of the German em embassy em- em embassy bassy who isn't even a anoble a noble nobleman man 1 Then Miss Elizabeth HItt administered a solar plexus bl the hopes of haIr haIra half hair a score of ot young Yankees by announcing an- an announcing that she was en- en engaged en engaged to Andor de of the Hungarian legation The three young women mentioned have been among the most the most run-after run belles of of Washington society society society- All have looks position brains and means None Non of ot of them is the type to marry a title and nothing else elso All AlJ are enthusiastically in inlove inlove ilove love with their born alien-born young men and confident they will live happily ever afterward It is all alJ very barring baffling and disturbing to the spread-eagle spread philosophers and the girls refuse to enlighten their their critics as asto asto a to why they couldn't have stayed right t picked to home and picked out some nice healthy American boys They set forth that love lo is a mysterious ous thing not subject to national boun boun- boun boundaries daries or racial differences and that a girl must follow the dictates of her heart even though it led her into the arms of a or a or perhaps an Eye Many other girls not so prominent In Washington sO society ety have blotted Out na- na national national national lines and chosen husbands from abroad in the last few months one ot of othe the more recent being b ing Miss Josephine Matteson of ot Berkeley Ca Cal and the cap cap- capital capital capital ital whose marriage to Dr Santiago de Bedoya of the Peruvian embassy embassy called the attention of ot American swains to t danger from a new the quarter quarter th i wealthy cultured and fascinating young men of ot Spanish descent who represent the South American governments Of course propinquity accounts for a certain percentage of ot these international romances Secretaries and attaches and special I envoys are thicker in Washington than lobbyists or bootleggers and they are constantly thrown into the society of othe the eligible maidens of the capital capita roe For Foran Foan roean an unattached young man a B long way wa from his home in Budapest or Vienna o or r Bucharest to find the blonde or brun brun- brunette brunetto ette beauty of ot Washington's daughters daughter s alluring is natural Another factor is fa that old age-old feml nine curiosity concerning the unknown or the exotic Budapest or Bucharest seen through the haze that distance lends and from a Washington drawing room seem very colorful and glamorous and far more desirable perhaps than Keokuk or Kansas City There la is the further fact that most European diplomats are career men men G r Dr Santiago de the i iI I 1 wealthy sacra secre secretary i tary tary- of the Peruvian em em- embassy embassy embassy bassy to the United States and his Amer Amer- American American American ican bride the former farmer Mis M i is s s se e J Josephine 0 s e phi phin n c Matteson of Wr B Be Berkeley rk e r k ke i e ley California and plan to spend their lives jaunting from capital to capital meeting fascinating ing jog people perhaps ps having a finger in continental intrigue intrigue To a romantic young oung woman that must seem ever so 80 much mere more interesting than being the wife wiCe of the tho leading manufacturer of oC Providence or the leading lawyer of Painted Post Then too as one olle cynical young man who was more than usually cut up by the defection of Miss Roebling Hoebling put it those birds surd sur sure do wear line ear fine feathers A class third class of a n fourth-class fourth em-bassy em em bassy can sport more gold braid and brass buttons and tinsel on his uniform at a function than the grand exalted potentate of the Sons and Daughters of I Will Arise and the fe- fe female female male of the species was vas ever susceptible to the appeal of ot clothes Miss Roebling's engagement was not only a blow to various home grown suit suit- suitors suitors ors but a great surprise to all her friends She Sho is very young In fact the announcement of her betrothal was made two weeks before her formal debut Her lIer entrance to society in full Cull cere- cere ceremonial form had been awaited with im Im- Im Impatience patience by matrons who predicted a glorious social career for tor her and ex her to have her fling for tor two or three seasons before marrying marring andset and set settling down The Belgian is young and ambitious and is said to have a bright future In Inthe inthe the diplomatic corps By the tIme lime these lines appear they will be married Baron Daron Emmanuel van der Elst brother of the bridegroom came all ell the way to Amer ica lea to act as best man Some pf of the capitals capital's most popular debutantes prom prom- promised iced to be bridesmaids As Van der Elst is attached to the I embassy and seems likely to remain I there for some time they will live Inthe in I Ithe the brides bride's home city indefinitely Some Someday 1 day of course they will be e shifted to some other capital I Of the seasons season's crop of International t engagements the most picturesque is that of Anita Anila Henry and Dr von t of the German Carman embassy t Unlike most girls of ot her class Miss t nn c e Jobe ji I 1 9 4 s e A AF Atc F tc i is s s Anita who will be behe he June bride of Dr Edward on secretary of the German Germs n found the tho social whirl tiring and two or three years ago and looking about for a career She ook a secretarial course and shortly y was engaged as social secre secre- ary of the German embassy I r t X kL r v M nJ k 1 g I r v This is a position far more trying mor-trying i trying than that of oC social secretary to say a climber or a dowager The enter of ot the lives of other countries is a avery very large part of a diplo diplo- diplomat's mats mat's life and sometimes sometime overshadows actual affairs ot of state To Miss Henry Dr von the wise men f fand and women omen of Washington give credit for tor restoring the th prestige and popularity of othe the German diplomats in the capital Placed in a trying position she sho managed to t order the embassy affairs with such consummate con sum mat e shrewdness and tact as tomake to tomake make her worth her weight in gold to her employers It Ii came to be known that precedent pre pre- precedent was always meticulously meticulously observed and rank always considered in affairs affair i at the embassy palace Representatives Rep Rep- Representatives of or little powers found themselves flattered and representatives of great powers found themselves soothed will Good toward Germany returned in quarters quarters from which it it had been missing since the war After a round of teas and dancing and theaters Miss Henry found it all very ery ex- ex exciting ex ez exciting citing she came to feel that she was actually doing a very real and cry ery important work and to have an inti inti- intimate intimate intimate mate concern in il the of the Teutonic envoys who had placed themselves under her social chaperonage Among the most enthusiastic enthusiastic tic and appreciative apparently apparently apparently DF was DF Dr von for he began going about with her months ago and nona none of her ber her many American suitors suit- suit suitors IPA ors has had much ofa of offe fe- fe feA A I a chance hance since then While she will raJ rea relinquish re- re relinquish J a linquish her post when she marries the capable Anita embassy will continue to ad ad- ad vise her German Wash friends In the art of ot getting on in Wash ington and keeping everybody happy and therefore friendly Perhaps it is not to be wondered at that to a romantic and at the same time capable girl the 1 life te of a diplomats diplomat's diplomats diplomat's wife u ui i z Washington soc society so- so h soh ety c ety belle who is soon to become the wife of Andor de Herte Herte- Hertelendy lendy of the Hungarian legation I h has s more appeal than that of wife to an American millionaire re of whose business she would know little and to whom she could be of ot little help Elizabeth Hitts Hitt's decision to marry a foreigner came after two gay seasons in the course of which she was con con con- constantly courted by some some of the most I eligible young bachelors in America A pretty and clever young woman sho gallants will leave a ft train of ot rueful native gal gal- gal lants behind her when she walks up the aisle with young Andor de Hertelendy of Hungary Among those supposed to have laid said their hearts and fortunes at ather ather ather her feet were a famous statesman now in middle age one of the richest young bachelors in the East a famous football star of ot ten years ears ago now prominent in society a naval commander who is of one of the oldest families of ot Rich Rich- Richmond mond mend Va Although they lost these American born American born suitors made things interesting for forthe forthe forthe the dark horse home from Hungary for awhile awhile a Q while Some months ago Elizabeth was P reported reported reported engaged to one of them them but the rumor tumor was denied E lI Mr r de do Hertelendy h lids has not been long at he ho JI legation and docs does not expect to be shifted soon Miss Hitt Ditt l need nt not look forward to an early do de de- de from tho the scene of her social triumphs and th the home of so many friends of long standing i Washington society is at all times hosI hospitable hos- hos I to foreign born and representatives and gets a class of foreigners quite un- un un like unlike the adventurers who seek New York in quest of wealthy wives and marriage dots dols Most of these young oung diplomats have taken up diplomacy seriously and mean to stick at it it Naturally they are respectable honor honor- honorable honorable honorable able and of ot good standing in their own countries Many of them arc are inde jade independently wealthy Some Sonie of ot them may by a Ii turn tu of ot the tho wheel of fate ate become outstanding statesmen at homo home over over over- night bight They are mostly young polished and worldly wise and the conditions are lor for the sprouting of romance While they remain in Washington at any rate their to brides-to-be are pretty rother sure to be bo happy if one may Judge by other international marriages that have bave long long enough to serve as examples Senor de Bedoya and his wife the former Josephine Matteson arc always together andare and are very devoted As the Senor remains In Washington her en- en environment environment en environment is almost the same as before she was married and aDd she is a living are ar- ar argument ar argument in favor of ot the proposition that interracial unions are not always failures |