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lyiveutieheatheAcor,resinnges. ut nd ; if m, et. en-l ofLOTTA'S LUCK,The Chaiming Actress Captures the Heart of an English Nobleman.ntofaetNow York Morning Journal.Little Lotta Crabtree, the dramatic cocktail, seems to have bad her heart hooked at last, uud this time the oir-emmtanees are even more romantic than the iminy entirely fictitious engagements that she has been every now and tben credited with. It has always been a mill ter of wonder that Lotta has not beeu married long before this. She is a pretty little thing, full of life and vivacity, and, what is not generally supposed, has a fortune estimated at about 5:500,000. This l'or-ou I tune has been securely invested, rnost-de- ]y in real estate, by her careful uudob. entirely frugal mother, Mrs. Crabtree, for It has no doubt generally been Busies- peeled that Mrs. Crabtree was the on cause of Lotta’s not marryiuguH these years. If this ever was theeause, that opposition seems now to have’ been withdrawn, possibly because Mrs. Crabtree bus at last found the suitor for her (humliter's hand who suited her as well. The gentleman is an *ay Englishman and the younger son of mt- one of the titled families. For this ind reason, we suppose; his uame has been , kept a-ecret/as such an alliance as j this to the daughter of the.stage might the excite his family uguinst him and de-arn prive him of the inheritance lie ex-lrn- pects. The gcutleman in question , made Lotta’a acquaintance in London when she was playing there. It will be remembered that on her first np-i us peurunee she was hissed bv a largerge portion of the audience. Her suitor that night occupied a box, and did his nce utmost to counteract the noiceof theild- gabble by applauding vociferously, ere, I lie subsequently wrote a letterto Miss uru Lotta deploring the brutality of her . audience, and hoping that she would late l|(jt h0|(j w hole English people rise responsible for tl is wretched exltibi-as- lion of a few. Night after night he the lt;t:cuP*e(i the same box at the theater.j Whether the audience wus good or „ri_ bad he wnsalways found tube present. r[ie This conduct naturally brought about iie an acquaintance, and then a friendship, but lie never by word or deed ,wn intimated that love hud anything to j,*.. do with his constant attentions. Whenc 0|- Lotta returned here and opened in are New York he was found once more in his familiar position in the right-hand ons I ',ox- Naturally enough, the friend-iru- fJhip was renewed. Lolta went to *00 Philadelphia, uud again he was there applauding as noisily as on the night rbe I of her disastrous first appearance in London. As she moved from town toling tow a, so did he move with her. When •ant 1 *,e mpt the little actress he was always J studiously polite and studiously ve-line I served. He never travelled with Lot-Imv taor her company, but usually arrived in the town where she appeared an rerv l10Ur or two before the performance, ini- Btcatly excited the curiosity oflQ^ the little actress, as wcli as her mother.•eas Indeed, the latter, for the first time in her life, advised her daughter to cul-ini_ tivate the assiduous stranger. She never went further, however, than avere maiden should, aud the Englishmantom remained cold, impassive aud noncommittal as ever, but always present. e,.ty At length Mrs. Crabtree’s curiosity Mr 8ot the best of ber.' 1 Sbe requested to meet the young are Englishman one niglit after the per-Qre_ formance in a western city, and opened the interview by asking him, point j,aa blank, wbat his inteutions were arge “My intentions,” said the stranger,,i uv ‘‘are to marry your daughter if she will have me.” idav The answer almost tlt;xk Mrs. Crab* pera tree’a CreutL away, but was pleasing ,v ia j to her from its very suddenness.“Why have you never said so before ?” she gasped.“Because I feared a refusal,” said he.Thereupon she toid him to plead bis owu suit, that he would have her support In it, aud that she would be entirely satisfied with him as a son-in-law. A few days after that the Englishman popped the question to the little actress and she quickly accepted. Tben he made two conditions: First, that she should leave the stage upon her marriage, and second, that she should turn over every penuy of ber fortune to her mother or whomever else she pleased, so that it should not be saul that he married her for her' moaev.“Under no circumstances.” said he, “shall I allow it to be said that I took one pound of it.”The latter condition, of course, raised the young suitor in both the eyes of Mrs. Crabtree and Lotta, but with the other there is some difficulty, as already the actress has engaged herself to appear in several cities next season. It is believed now that she will endeavor to cancel these dates and retire from the stage for good shortly after tbe beginning of next season, iu which case sbe will play her farewell engagement in Philadelphia, thecity she loves best, because through all the years she has been on tbe stage it has always given her the largest apprecla-ttcagi01ccciIIO!WfesotesiUclTtlPe.PtiO*P*Jr.ehIIilbaddFiita1I1aT0J€8iIiIhis it ofin aiboutgoodurne,randthissys-ly so :s, to iibad0 the it oc-vhile en of5 in•ote9teventhat6 our1 are law they mnty tromentiy \ tion. o. asvoca- The Longest Beard in Nebraska.
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Lincoln Daily Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Mar 29, 1885
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