"WHAT LOVE DOES FOR YOU"
HEIRESS WEDS EX-NEWS BOY
A beautiful and wealthy heiress, Miss Vivienne Huntington, has married, in England, the newsboy who used to come to the door "of her palatial mansion delivering the daily paper, says an overseas paper.
The bridegroom used to sell newspapers outside Folkestone Central Railway Station. The bride is the pretty daughter and wealthy heiress of tho late Mr. Charles.Pratt Hnntington, a Now York architect, who was created, by the King of Spain, Knight of 'the Order oj Isabel the Catholic* in recognition of his architectural work in connection with the Hispaie Society in. America. . ■ Tho bride is a cousin of Mi. .Archer Huntington, one of tho richest men in America. Ho was left £6,000,000 by his mother, widow of Mr. Collis P. Huntington, the Californiau railway builder, and he has made munificent gifts of art collections to Yale Uni. versity Museum and to the Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco. Among the bequests of Mr. Collis P. Huntington was one to his foster daughter, Clara Augusta Prentice, afterwards Princess Hatzfeldt, which was said to amount to £15,000,000. She died in 1928. • .
Mr. Durban is 21. His wife is 27. They- are starting a,; new life in Toronto, Canada. ..;:' Before they. lef^ ;^ngland they lived at Embrook Manor, a palatial old mansion standing in its own grounds at Cheriton, on the outskirts of Folkestone, where the bride and her mother, came to iive about 18 months ago.' , ■ ;
"I have known my husband for some months. I met him. in a business sense, you see,". Mrs. Durban said soon after her marriage. ' " ■•■■
"He used to deliver'papers to our house, and after a time we began paving occasional chats at the door of the
manor. "Later on I got to admire him. I could see he was very fond of me. "I am not really class-conscious, but I had always said I would never marry a man beneath my station in life. But you see what love does for you!
"We walked out very secretly a number of times, and Had much fun in dodg ing peoplo whom wo knew would recogniso us. ■ '... . .
"Then he told mo that he loved me, and would liko to marry me. "I had by that time realised that he was the only man in i'te worl3 for me, and so ten days' afterwards, when my mother was away in SwitzerLind, we married secretly at the register office by special licence, and went, to Brighton for our honeymoon.
"No other man in the world could havo made me happier. He is most adorable—a perfect darling.
"We were married again at All Souls' Church, but it was a very quiet affair. Only intimate friends were present."
Mrs. Durban then spoke of her future. "Canada is a land of promise," she said. "My husband does not intend to begin a life of idleness. It is the last thing he would like. , He hopes to secure a post in an engineering business." - Mr. Charles Durban, the young man's father, who is described in the marriage certificate as a butcher's carman, lives with two of his sons in a small house in Albion road, Folkestone. He is blind. .
"I did not know the slightest thing about the wedding. It was kept entirely from any of us,'' he said. . "Yes, it's a wonderful thing that my sun should marry such a beautiful girl, and I wish them every happiness. They have not yet been to see me since they were married,,but I hope they will do so before they go away."
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