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HEN the North German Lloyd
Huer Kronprinzossln Ceceliu
brought to this country the
relatives of Count Laszlo
Szeehenyl for his marriage to Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt on Jan 27 the no
ble ship bore a heavy freight In the
way of titled aristocrats The counts
father Is dead He was Count Emerlch
Szeehenyl was long ambassador of
Austria Hungary at Berlin and was
held in high regard by Emperor Fran
cis Joseph But the groom has plenty
of relatives living and the party of
them which came over for the wedding
on the Cecelle included his eldest
brother Count Denes Szechenyi new
ly appointed minister to DeunarU and
tjiO Countess JSzeelrcmyl CPlut Anton
Sferay best auHJT Jwwttefau Sxe
clienyl Count b HSqriuuty Count
Stephan PrEOdKfBfej fW other rela
tives and friomia hp Ssecbenyl house
is quite an anclos cmo and Its mem
bers prldo tftetisares very much on
the fact Soma of Count Laszlos kin
have Intimated ttatS to was very con
descending In reaching down from the
heights of his undent Hiieage to take
up and unite with htm in the bond of
wedlock an untitled American girl
even though Bho be a Vanderbilt and
possessor In her own right of a for
tune of about 12000000 It has even
been said that bis bride would be re
ceived in court clreios In Vienna only
as a morganatic wtfo because of a lack
of quarterlnga tu tbo Vanderbilt coat
of arms but this has been as em
phatically denied
However the claim has been made
that when It conies to a showdown ad
to ancesti y tho brtda In this latest In
ternational match ta really of bluer
Wood than the grooat Her mother be
fore she married tho lata Cornelius Van
derbilt was Allco Ctaypoole Gwynne
Mrs Vanderbllfs grandmother on her
fathers side waa Allco Anne Clay
poole daughter of Captain Abraham
George Claypooio of tha Continental
gruiy He mw gjefcafcgrandsoo of
the James Claypeote vrtto was a Hos
friend of William Penn treasurer of
the Free Society of Traders of Penn
sylvania and founder of the Claypooio
family In this country ThiB Claypooio
was a son of Sir John Claypoole fol
lower of Cromwell by whom he was
knighted Carrying the line further
back various titled individuals are
reached some of them famous in Eng
lish history until In the thirteenth cen
tury Princess Elizabeth Plautaenet
daughter of King Edward I of Eng
land and Eleanor of Castile Is met
At this point the genealogical expert
Charles H Browning author of Amer
icans of Royal Descent tabes tho an
cestral lino away from England right
over into thetcountry of the Siseckeuyis
and following it up through Bavarian
and Swabian dukes and princes comes
to Bela the first king of tho Huss
from whom he pays the rich and beau
tiful brido of Count Lasrdo is twenty
sixth in descen He also says that
she is descended from Otto the Great
emperor of Germany 93G 973 who ac
cording to Gibbon defeated the Huns
including the Magyar tribe of tho
Szechenyis Otto kept the Huns In
subjection and organized them into a
petty tributary nation so that three
generations later they enjoyed their
lirst real king Bela who began his
reign in 10G1 A D There is a tradi
tion that it was Bela who civilized and
Christianized the wild ancestors of
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THE COUNT AND THE NEW YORK HOME OF
THE BRIDE
Count Laszlo At any rate according
to this genealogy the brides forbears
were kings of Hungary when the
grooms ancestors were only men-at-arms
Coining down to more recent times
it appears that in the matter of titles
at least the grooms family has some
what the best of it The men of the
Szechenyi family have borne the title
of count for at least 300 years That
is a little longer ago than the time
when Cromwell knighted old John
Clajpoolc Among the most celebrated
of the ancestors of Count Laszlo was
Count Nicholas Szechenyi companion
In arms of the famous Hungarian gen
eral Zrinyi who in the sixteenth cen
tury stood like a battlement between
tho encroachments of the Turks on the
south and the kingdoms of western
Europe It was a clerical member of
the Szechenyi family an archbishop
who was the mediator in bringing
rbout the peace between Emperor
and Rokoczy by which the lat
ter was recognized os the legitimate
Iriqce of Transylvania It was Count
J iszlos great uncle Istvan Stephen
Szechenyi who was prominent in
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The Count Whose Name Sounds
Like a Sneeze Is a Rich
Man Himself His
Castle
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suths time as patriot statesman and
philanthropist and who Is called Istvan
the Great He founded the famous
Hungarian Institution For Intellectual
Research recogniaed as the most in
fluential society of Its kind in Europe
and is sometimes called the greatest
Hungarian
At the present time as in the past
the Szechenyis are extensive landown
ers It has been estimated that Count
Laszlo is worth at the least J5000000
while In time he Avill come into posses
sion of a still greater estate He has
an Income of something like GO000
and is reputed to be anything but a
spendthrift His economical ideas
were illustrated in the cable dispatch
COONT BZnCHJIJriTB BRIDE
he sent his relntlvoa in Hungary an
nouuclng his engagement to Miss Van
derbilt and which was said to have con
tained but two worda Laszlo Gladys
and to have coat him 50 cents HI-
principal residence Is tho castle of Oc
mezo situated amid wild and romantl
scenery Whllo It may not compare In
elegance wfth Ttra Breflera at New
port or the splendid VanderbiM town
house at Fifth avenue and Fifty eighth
street New York the scone of tho
nuptials it will be likely to possess spe
cial fascination for tho young bride by
reason of its romantic surroundings
and historic associations
The count who is twenty eight and
rather dashing in appearance fought a
duel about three years ago with Aurel
Batonyl who marrlod Mrs Burke
Roche and has recently been sued by
her for divorce The counts life at
his castlo of Ormezo Is said to have
been a simplo and sedate one and it
is predicted ho will prove a loyal and
devoted husband thus doing some
thing toward counteracting the pre
vailing projudlco against International
marriages Tho castlo of Ormezo was
erected in tha flftoenth century and
rises from tho top of a crag In tho
mountainous county of Zempler a ten
hours trip from tho Hungarian capi
tal The count is a hereditary member
of the Hungarian parliament and has
the right to wear as part of his court
uniform as an imperial chamberlain a
golden key or tassel at the back of
his coat Little things like this often
count with a romantic girl of twenty
one the age which the bride reached
last summer when she came into her
fortune
It was a charity worker of New York
who in speaking of tho Szechenyi
Vanderbilt nuptials said
When this good and charming girl
goes to Hungary as the Countess Sze
chenyi I know of certain hospital
wards where she will be missed
He paused and smiled
But let me tell you he said of an
Incident that befell Miss Vanderbilt
last year
There was a childrens hospital
which she visited regularly bringing
fruit and lowers to the little patients
and in a certain ward a boy was point
ed out to her one day as a very bad
customer
Oh he is incorrigible sighed the
nurse
Miss Vanderbilt talked awhile with
the little chap and when she rose to
go she said
See here I have heard bad reports
about you Now I want you to prom
ise me to be good If you are good for
a whole week Ill give you a dollar
when I come again next Thursday
The boy promised to try to be good
This promise though he did not
keep On her next visit Miss Vander
bilt going to his cot said
I shall not ask the nurses how
you have behaved this last week 1
want you to tell me yourself Now
what do you think do you deserve
that dollar I promised you or not
The boy regarded Miss Vanderbilt
with a troubled frown then he said
in a low voice
Gimme a nickel
One should pronounce the name Sze
chenyi as if it were spelled
It has been suggested that it is
easier to pronounce when accompanied
with a sneeze
Bravery
Mrs Naggs reading In some parts
of Africa the more wives a man has
the greater his social importance
Naggs Well Isuppose the people there
admire a brave man Chicago News
Too Much Collection
Scottish gentleman paying a rlHlt
io ljondon was taken by his nephew to
a service la St Pauls cathedral no
had no acquaintance whatever with
the liturgy of the Church of England
He picked up a prayer book and be
came very much Interested but as he
turned over the leaves his face be
came clouded with a look of Intense
anxiety He placed the prayer book
carefully down looked cautiously
around picked up his hat and crept
stealthily to the door His nephew
followed him and said
Are you ill uncle What is the
matter
The uncle replied No But it Js
enough to make any man 111 to see the
number of collections made In this
kirk
Collections said the nephew in
surprise If there is any at all there
certainly wont be more than one
Well said the uncle they should
no mark so many in the book Theres
uaething but collect and bits of
prayer then collect and more prayers
and colled again And says I to my
sel If I bide here until all these col
lections are taen Ill no have a baw
bee in ma pocket London Tit Bits
How Indians Tan Deerskin
The skin dressing of the Indians
both buffalo and deer skins is general
ly very beautiful and soft Thoy
stretch the skin either on a fraino or
on the ground and after It lias remain
ed there for three or four days with
the bralnri spread over the ileshy sldo
they grain It with a sort of adz or
chiseL After the process of graining
though the skin is apparently beauti
fully finished it passes through an
other process that of smoking For
this they hang the skin on a frame
in a smoke proof house or tent The
fire is made at the bottom out of rot
ten wood which produces a strong and
peculiar smell The fire must be smoth
ered to inako the smoke Tho grained
skins must be kept in the smoke for
three or four days and after this the
skins will always remain tho same
even after being wet which does not
belong to the dressed skins In civilized
countries Life Among the Indians
The Partitionc of Poland
There hae been three partitions of
Poland The first was in 1772 when
PrusHla took tho palatinates of Mal
berg Pomerla and Warmia a part of
Culm and a part of Great Poland Aus
tria took Rod Russia or Galicla a
part of Podolla Saudouilr and Cracow
and Russia took White Russia with all
the part beyond tha Dnieper The sec
ond partition was fai 1703 by which
Prussia ncqufred the remainder of
Great and a portion of Little Poland
and the Russian boundary was ad
vanced to the center of Lithuania and
Volhynla In the third and final par
tition In 1705 Austria had Cracow
with the country between the Pllica
and the Vistula Prussia had the cap
ital with he territory as far as the
Niemeuswhile the rest went to Russia
New York American
A Dramatic Author
Like most actor managers Macready
was pestered by would bo dramatic au
thors An ambitious young fellow
brought him a five act tragedy one
morning to Drury Lane
My piece modestly explained the
author is a chef doouvre I will an
swer for ita success for I have con
sulted tho sanguinary tase of tho pub
lic My tragedy Is to tragic that ai
the characters are killed off at the end
of the third act
With whom then asked tho man
ager do you carry on the action of
the last two acts
With the ghosts of those who died
in the third Cornhill Magazine
Gray Versus Brown Csmolo
The length of a stago varies through
out Persia depending on the character
of the country and is reckoned in far
saks the od Greek parasaug The far
sat In a ost elastic and uncertain
measure au I as animals are paid for
per fmiit many as the credulity of
the I ekv will allow are crowded
inlj ev h How far I once
oA Kurdish muleteer is a
fuiL far s one can distin
j I a iry from a brown camel
wurf illy lilrtoivel answer They aver
age aiout four miles and the stage
aLot Lirsaks or twenty five lnileti
Aik
Thought Hd Couid Buy Them Chsap
ElCeili German ai he calls at a
lodging house door Gind lady I saw
yes dor advertisement in der evening
paper dat yoa have a pair of pajamas
to sell yes Boarding House Mistress
indignantly Pajamas You old fool
do you think this is a department
store Where is the advertisement
The German producing the advertise
ment and reading it aloud For sale
von almost new bedroom suit cheab
Gall and see it Bohemian
Eats Em Alive
Does this dog like strangers
Loves em maam
Well I must have a dog that does
not like strangers
As I was about to say maam
when you Interrupted me this dog
loves strangers an has eaten several
of em maam Yes maam thank
you Houston Post
Lingering Animosity
Those two families in the adjoining
flats who used to be at daggers drawn
have been reconciled havent they
I dont know They profess friend
ship but one family gave the little boy
in the other a big toy drum and tho
second family gave the first ones old
est boy a fiddle Baltimore American
life Is but a fleeting chow but It is
nevertheless the greatest show on
earth Atchlsoa Globe
As to Spring- Hats
Large bats will bo the fad Small
small hats will be largo small hats The
larger tho hat tho more stylish it will bo
The roalnift hats aro tho cerise
shades Blue hats including Alice blue
shades will also bo in stylo
Shapes of the new Easter bonnets in
cline principally to large Russian turban
styles with or without bandeaus and
plentifully decorated with ribbons
plumes small flowers largo ilowers
aigrettes dotted nots and lace
The hats have a decided roll at tho
leftside with brims standing out from
the back instead of drooping liko tho
present mushroom styles
Trimmed sailors will also bo popular
but all bats have largo brims of enor
mous size
Millinery trade starts early this year
although Lent does not begin until
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