A SILVER KING'S DAUGHTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 22 March 1884, Page 4

A SILVER KING'S DAUGHTER.

Trutlilatcly said:—l was shown a few days ago, in a hack issue of a San Francisco paper, a very droll " interview " with the only daughter of a Silver King, who had been jilted by the son of an illustrious American general of wide-world fame. In California there would be nothing in it;

but in Europe it would he outrageous. The young lady, according to the San Francisco papijr, received the reporter alone, and then called in her mother to fix the date on which she gave the inconstant lover" a pair of gig horses, that cost 15,000d01s each, with which he made off" in quitting the country. Qne of the questions put to her was. " Had you any pronounced sentiment of amativeness in the early stage of the courtship!" "No: ambition was stronger than love, There's nobody so rich as I shall bo on this side of the Rocky Mountains, and I made up my

mind that since the eldest son of the

Prince of Wales is too young to marry, I would at least aim at the son of tho first mac in tho United States." "When you were engaged, did a softer sentiment prevail 1"—" Yes, I admit that I felt k heaven when I had a dance or went out with him in the fiig'"

" Did he show appreciation of the feelings you expressed" Sometimes he did, and gazed on mo so fondly." " You were quite unprepared, I suppose, for the wheelabout and the march off!"—" No; not quite, I was warned by a friend that he called me behind ray back a freckled, Biddy, and said he could novertake me without blushing for my want of refine- 1 ment round the courts of Europe." " What did you do when you heard this?"—"l taxed him with it." " And what did he do!"—" He said he was not sorry that I heard it, for that I had no manners, and ought to go, to post myself up, to some convent in France, where the daughters of nobility were educated," " And then !"—" I cried trom pure vexation," "What happened next!"—"He put hi 3 arm round my waist and kissed me.

" And what did you do!"—" I told him to let me alone, and go back to his Kings and Queens in Europe." "And what did he say!"—"He said he would, becauso they were real good company. Wo then made up." "Areyou still ambitious!"—" Yes, very. Love flies out of the window, position remains. I'm tired of California, and of hearing people say they remember father as a whiskey slinger. If a lord don't come from England to court me, I'll go to England and court a lord and to become a titled lady. Imagine the daughter of a Baring or a Rothschild appearing in a dialogue of this kind.

In conclusion I have to announce the engagement of the Silver King's heiress to an English nobleman of aristocratic connections. He is not yet middle-aged tnd has served with social and military distinction in a crack regiment, His title is ancient, The bride elect was not, I am assured done justice to by the son of the illustrous American when he criticised her behind her back, She is a "Biddy," in the sense that she is Irish-looking. But what did Moore write about the daughters of Erin! And was there over more grace, beauty and wit united in any other woman than in Lady Blessington!