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Show HEROINE OF PRETTY ROMANCE i V - Elizabeth Reid Rogers, a pretty southern south-ern girl who made her Washington debut two years ago, has come into a romance that reads like a story book, inasmuch as she is credited with being be-ing engaged to the nephew of the kaiser one Prince Christian of Germany, Ger-many, a captain in the imperial navy, on duty at present, on a man-of-war in the Kiel canal. The young folks met at Cairo, where Miss Rogers was stopping with her mother, who sets the pretty girl a difficult diffi-cult example to follow when it comes to looks. Mrs. Rogers was a Tennessee belle and beauty, Miss Eunice Tomlin of Jackson. She married a scion of the Blue Grass state, in young Reid Rogers Rog-ers of Mt. Sterling, Ky., a protege of the multimillionaire, Theodore P. Shonts of New York and Panama, largely through whose instrumentality Mr. Rogers, whose mother and Mrs. Shonts were Intimate friends, became general counsel of the Panama canal. The Rogerses are prominent in the utradiplsmatic set in Washington, where they have been spending the last few winters. Miss Rogers Is all vivacity and temperament and charm. She shows her Kentuckiness in her devotion to horses. She and her father ride together irequently. Mrs. Rogers and Miss Rogers are in Berlin. |