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Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 7, 13 February 1914, Page 6

Passionate Kings (ere this) have wedded with large-eyed peasant girls, and Europe has in its- notebook the skeleton stories of the mesalliances of princesses *of the blood with ambitious tutors. The poets rusli to the rhyming dictionary on such occasions and maiden ladies sigh covertly* 6f the strange wiles of the small god Cupid. This tricksy divinity has been' at it again and the cable announces the fact with due gravity. The nephew of a multi-mil-lionairess has contracted a secret marriage in New York with the daughter of a plumber. Seductive details are added: "She (the bride) is a beautiful blonde, a.ged sixteen, and an artist's model.' 1 The impulsive nephew of the Vanderbilts has done a bold thing-, even in the home of sensations, the States. The money-queen is probably very angry, but consider the exhilaration of the plumber, who will, be a dull man an he did not recognise the advantage of being connected by marriage with millions. The bridegroom, : if remonstrated with, will be able to retort' that since his- cousins have been sold to impecunious and- doubtful "princes," why should not he speculate in the matrimonial and essay the track of life with a plumber's daughter. It may ibe that the story is only a "story" evolved by the imagination of a sensationmonger in a dull season. But surely ho man would so jest with Romance. However, the plumber '& daughter {who was also an artist's model). has landed a big fish—doubtless he will'take a lot of "playing.'' . % . -