Show I t If fIn fInA A- A J WI lh 1 u 3 Remarkably Successful Love Match of f the I t 9 rN ij ti r A Worlds World s Richest Young u a Wife moire I Who Wears a Gingham Dress and Does Her Own Housework in Humble T Town Horne Home own i w t. t I Y TC It b n I 1 expected at atan an announce announcement N ment party they I Mrs all pretended to be Lester f surprised too But that Lester Norris and his wife the former Dellora Angell and t Norris Morris who lf was merely pretense No heiress to the estate of the late John W W. w married the vil vii village village Dellora could not have as Gates of bet a million m fame lage undertakers undertaker's son romantic a love lovo affair as hers instead of any of the fashionable millionaires without having all St. St Charles interested t J tYr I woman in the tho s Yr z she might have had and continues to be glad and predicting results woman in the tho HE lIE richest young inI TilE I world who from the number of her millions and her youth and beauty one would expect to find winter winter- wintering wintering wintering ing at Cannes moving with the seasons from one smart watering place to an an- another another another other and filling her wardrobe with Parisian gowns and jewels lives quietly in Middle a Western town wears ging- ging gingham gingham ham lam dresses as she does docs her own house house- housework housework housework work and looks after her two babies herself And the only jewel she wears is the he sized moderate-sized diamond solitaire that was an engagement ring from the home hometown hometown hometown town boy bo she married She is Mrs Lester Norris of St. St Charles who vho as Dellora Angell heiress to the estate of John W. W Gates of bet a million fame proved that love can laugh at legacies as well as locksmiths when she married the son of Cal Norris the village undertaker and settled down to a career of town small wife and mother Dellora lives so quietly that despite the vast ast fortune that is hers in her own right the only excuse the newspapers have to print anything about her is in connection with her babies and even they wont won't have any more publicity if their mother can help it There are two of the children now the second having haying been born bor shortly birth birth- birthday birthday birthday after the mothers mother's twenty-second twenty day and the most excitement there has been in the household since the marriage of the childhood friends Was vas when the little girl LaVerne Ger Ger- Gertrude Gertrude Gertrude trude won tho the second prize in the baby show at the Aurora state fair When the tic baby was entered in the show along with other babies from rural communities Mr and Mrs Norris asked that her Identity be bo kept a secret Wed like to enter her in the baby show like all the other mothers are arc doing with their babies the pretty heiress told tho the baby show manager but we dont don't want people to know who she is because we have found that it causes too much public interest and notoriety Please keep it a 11 secret The manager tried tried but but see what happened LaVerne Gertrude Norris eight months old was duly entered on the top line of the score card Born December 20 1023 at St St. Charles Illinois Weight Weis at birth eight pounds Breast fed Later fed on cows cow's milk and No ailments And in the space left for a 11 description description description tion of the mothers mother's status pretty Mrs Norris wrote TOte meekly housewife The baby was duly examined and graded along alons- with the other COO chil chil- dren She came through with a score M of and was awarded the second prize This eight months old heiress to toone toone toone one of the tho largest fortunes in the world o S 4 fir The for- for former former former 4 mer Abby Rockefeller who promises to start her married life very inexpensively but will probably spend more in a month than Mrs Norris does in a year came through the various tests teats as fol fol- follows follows lows Mental Menial test Physical teat teat Dental test teat 80 Eye Weight measure 80 Special examination Total Tota Scoring was vas conducted on tho the basis of ofa a thousand and the baby missed perfection perfection perfection tion by twenty points And then it leaked out that tho the pretty little child with the tho golden curls and the hazel eyes was Dellora Angells Angell's baby and heiress to the tho Gates' Gates millions At onto once the baby show was nearly wrecked by women eager to get a look at one ono of the richest babies in the world and a n prize winner at that Hundreds of them rushed to the tho glass house in which the Better Babies contest was waa being beins- held They pushed and fought for a vantage point and end the tho wrecking of ef the tho house was imminent Photographers saw the melee and un- un unlimbering unlimbering limbering Jering their tripods began taking flashlight photos Tho booming of the powder startled the women who began to scream Nurses and doctors lost their calm and tried to shoo tho the crowd away Babies started to howl One of the doctors was wasso wasso so BO wrought up that he turned in alarms to the fair ground police Then he be de- de This is the sort of home young Mrs Norris orriS prefers for herself and her prize babies instead of the th imposing mansions and fine country estates they can canso 3 so easily afford tided these bluecoats were not numerous enough and called out the Aurora city police Meanwhile Mrs Norris had run to her baby crying vehemently ve hemen Oh this horrible publicity pub pub- publicity publicity she cried frightened my baby into hys hys- A nurse handed her a fleecy shawl and the young mother picked up her fright fright- frightened frightened ened child and quieting its cries hurried it off to a place of calm and safety When the second baby was vas born last April to Mr and Mrs Norris the young parents solemnly vowed that they'd never enter him in n a baby show No never It had been too much excitement for or such a quiet folk as they are Young Mr Norris who in lieu of a permanent name name n me is called Skeezix shared his sisters sister's birthplace the tho mater mater- maternity maternity maternity ward of tho the Fox River city hospital hero Thero was for him no more than for his sister no expensive retinue of doc doe doctors doctors tors and nurses Dellora DeHorn went to tho the hospital at the appointed time and had her baby with no more moro fuss than the wife of the tho grocer from whom she buys her vegetables The Tho second baby was born just a fortnight after the tho second wedding anniversary of his parents And now Dellora who might have Jave been a duchess or the tho wife of a society millionaire who has a n vault in a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York bank packed as tight as a pirates pirate's chest with jewels that belonged to her er aunt Mrs Dellora DeHorn Gates beams as if shed she'd received the worlds world's most precious gift when her ber handsome young husband says looking at her affectionately a n wonderful mother Of course Im I'm bringing up my babies myself says young Mrs Norris I X haven't any special rules for their upbringing Im I'm Just trying to bring t em up like normal healthy chil chil- children children children dren and I wish the world would let me alone alono Even if I had any special recipes for bringing up babies I wouldn't talk about about them At least Id I'd wait until my babies grew up and saw how they turned out before Id I'd toll tell them Neighbors and friends in the little littletown littletown town of St. St Charles where both Dellora and her husband were born testify to the normality with which the tho Norris babies are brought up Dellora who did id not permit a fortune to prevent her h It 4 J t L y I IY Y t d 0 f R J Fifi Widener Leidy who tried t r i e d the love in love cottage cottage scheme of life but didn't stick to it very long from marrying the man she loved nor from leading the kind of n a life lifo she prefers pre pre- prefers prefers fers also has not it to alienate her from her small town neighbors a beautiful housekeeper and awfully interested in her home says a ayoung ayoung ayoung young matron who lives nearby And she never has changed not changed not since the days we all went to school here hero in St. St Charles and before she was left eft all that money You'd never nov know she had it crazy about her husband and her babies The only thing that makes her unhappy is publicity and notoriety Her lIer babies arc are treated just like any an 1129 1124 by JOM Intuit UI Inc S other babies She nursed them herself and sho she takes care of them She is just justas j st stas as practical as any of us us about their clothes and their bringing bring ins ins- up The layette of both babies was ample but not in the tho least unusual in quality or design When LaVerne Ger Gertrude Gertrudo trude trudo was brought to the tho baby show she was wrapped in a white t blanket and her little coatee coa yee was blue and white a little 1 Knitted jacket like most of tho other babies wore Young Norris is a cartoonist and his wife wICe who owns the vault ault of jewels and n famous gallery of beau beau- beautiful beautiful beautiful pictures holds among her chief treasures the letters written to her by her boyhood sweetheart embellished with drawings and caricatures He lie always could draw raw sho she explains enthusiastically and she sho produces some back numbers of magazines and exhibits samples of his work worIc And look at these cartoons pointing to a pile of copies of the Batavia Ill daily paper for which young oung Norris has drawn Dellora was left the Gates millions because she was a n favorite of the late John W. W Gates and a namesake of his wife wiCe When she returned from the East after attending the funeral of her fairy godmother aunt in 1018 1918 she brought back with her out of all that her Iler aunt bequeathed her not her not any of the family jewels or heirlooms but a pair of canaries Aunt Dellora was awfully fond of ot them she explained I took them to tobe tobe tobe be sure they were well taken care of When Dellora's family saw she was falling in love with young Les Los Norris whom she sho had known since the sixth grade and who was vas the son of the town undertaker er they took her on n a trip to Europe But Dut after three months under the careful chaperonage of her father Robert P. P 10 Angell Dellora returned still as much in love lovo with Les as ever Finally the engagement was an- an announced announced announced at the St. St Charles home of Dellora's aunt Mrs E. E E J. J Baker No liveried butlers no stringed quartette no admittance through the pages of tho the social socia register Dellora always preferred St. St Charles where she sho grew up to the handsome homo home of her father and step-mother step in Lake Forest the tho millionaire Chicago suburb It was pointed out Tho The an an- announcement announcement party was just a n get to gether party of a n dozen of the heiress's school girl friends They played guess guess- guessing guessing ing games and at the end of the tho eve eve- evening evening ning the tho year old girl slipped on her sized medium-sized diamond engage engage- engagement engagement ment ring whistled down the basement stairs and anti dragged up her fiance his mother and his father The Tho guests all shrieked with delight which they really felt and because it is i Everybody began bes-an to remember how years and years ago when Lester lister and i Dellora were only school children they I had been bren sweethearts There was Vas hardly i ia a beech tree around St. St Charles that did not have engraved on its parchment like bark two overlapping and pierced arrow-pierced hearts bearing the initials D D. D A. A A and andL L. L N. N They also remembered how sorry they had been for Lester when they thought the inheritance of the Gates millions would stand in the tho way of his winning Dellora for n wife Poor Lester had thought so too at that time and if he hadn't put his artistic talent to the very clever use he did he might really have lost Dellora There had been one summer summt r when Dellora came back to St. St Charles after being beins- at school in the East and Lester had come back from art school that year too lIe He had found Dellora more adorable than ever ev r and Dellora had found Lester and his cartoons for which he had become rather well known quite interesting too It was following this vacation together ether that Lester had had his Ilis wonderful idea for winning Dellora Those other suitors of Dellora which all the rest of St. St Charles thought were so wonderful Lester naturally viewed with hatred lIe He decided not to give up the tho fight to them but to fight on his own ground While they th y wooed Dellora with expensive gifts and courtly attention he would woo her with pictures Let them say it with flowers he would say it with cartoons So one morning Dellora was surprised to find in her mail mall a n pelt pert and ink sketch of a small boy trying to scale a mountain moun moun- mountain tain of gold in an attempt to reach a I. I little girl cirl perched on its summit The mountain was slippery but the tho boy clung bravely to its side with the help of a n pointed diamond diamond pointed pen The sketch was not signed but Del Dellora lora bra knew very well who had sent it If it had been of the two entwined hearts with the initials on them she would not have YC been more sure Others followed it Somo Some were were more tenderly sentimental senti senti- sentimental mental some pathetic some reproach reproachful ful fu some mocking But Deora Dellora grew to expect them every day just as she shedid shedid shedid did her breakfast The Tho individuality and the tho romance of the cartoon courtship did take the edge off the tho suits of the other admirers of Dellora and even when she was being beins- taken from one place to another in Europe in her family's attempt to separate tho the lovers layers the pictures some some-i how found their way to her That is why they were not surprised at the tho announcement party and m why they were so glad that despite all aU tho the Gates millions St. St Charles was Charles was to keep both Lester and nd Dellora Dollora They were quietly married the follow following ing spring and settled down to to- tl the tho mar mar- married married ried life lifo that is typical of a small town GI 1 |