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5ugday an SA1 Mintie 6n-5agemenf to 09illtam eAsfor (anler, Sreat I 0 (reat (arandson of pirst Msfor. Ifi.rtJTtS ran A ft OS KB Deidemona, who is not thrilled br talei of hairbreadth eicapea aa the Amarl can explorer may tell. At twentjr-one ba was graduated from Harvard College with honors. Every expected blm to become one of the younf society men of New York, where by birth y.1 and education-he would be welcomed any- where. But he turned bis back upon what'y might popularly be called his advantages and started off on a hunting trip througk -tbo Dark Continent Instead.

He sought, Tkoto' Coptwcmt portlona ot 1 BY TALK the untraveled, unexplored Africa. He has probably recounted to blue-eyed Miss Ashley how he lost twenty-seven me In the course of the trip, and all the Uvs, restock be had. THE ULSTER BAGS HIS 1 How the blue-eyed singer must have ad- mired the young millionaire when he said: "I started out with two horses, on which died soon after leaving the coast' at Iiameye; the other lasted for eleven months. After be died I footed It The heat, of course, was Intense. I had.tha -focr twice, cured myself with quinine, arsenic and action, and kept on." Mr.

Chanler fitted out two expeditions to Africa at his own expense, and thea wrote a most interesting book about them. He was a member of the Legislature when the Spanish War- broke out," and be signed so that he might go and fight for bls country at the front, where the dan- gcr was. he joined the Cuban insurgents, whore be was given a Colonel's rank, later he became a Captain on the staff of v' General Wheeler, with whom he served la tlit-brilliant Santiago campaign. At thirty-two, when he ran for Con-, gress, be bad behind him the record of explorer, author, legislator and soldier." Wbatcould a little blue-eyed maiden da against such a man? How could It be expected that she would hold out? It ls amazlbg that she didn't succumb at once' say, "As you please, my lord," tf But according to all accounts Miss Ash-i I ley is an unusual young woman. Beforw; I she became famous for her "Pagoda" song in "San Toy," she had been, very little heard of.

She was discovered br AM In lull accord with the jtt an(j from wondering he determined, Indent Spartan law which com- trepid as he Is, to find out. pelled a man to marry by the wag easy managed, Minnie Ashley time be attained the age of has hosts of friends and so has the scion ot thlrty-elx." the house of Astor. One of them was good 7 William Astor Chanler said this three enoueh t0 DreEent the caDtlvatlnK prima yean ago, when he was thirty-three. He donna t0 tne noted expi0rer. The rest nat- knew pretty Minnie Ashleythen and he urany followed, for, as many people know, knows her three years better now.

All the Miss ABhiey quite as captivating in her time she has been growing in loveliness. own nome as Blla la ln tne giare 0f the foot- This great-great-grandson of the first lights. Her blue eyes have the same little John Jacob accustomed to conduct- humorous twinkle, her voice Is as quaintly Ing hunting expeditions into the very characteristic, her gestures as Individual heart of Africa, intrepid as an explorer, a and ber charm as unmistakable, soldier, a politidan, with the reputation You see, she is very young not much never giving up until he had bagged hla more than twenty-three now. And when game, has followed the tour of "The a girl has youth the footlights do not add Country In hich little Miss Ashley very much to the brilliancy of her com- has been appearing all winter, persistent- Plcxion nor to the depth of her eyes. Miss ly, relentlessly, triumphantly.

Ashley's are as big and round, and deep and r.f Twr clear in the glare of the sunlight. mm mm ft mm Ka3 an wm i i n- ocn -rwuvwu uue vi yt kit- WM But there was a period, all' the theatre-going world must remember It, when her eyes threatened to give out. It was on anxious period for her admirers, for Miss Ashley was obliged to retire temporarily from the cast of San Toy." Oculists said concerned told some one, who told some oneand so the secret was out. William Astor Chanler will be thirty-six this year. Hia engagement to the charming little prima donna is said to be a certainty.

E. E. Rice from a photograph. It sented an adorable girl, little more than a child. Mr.

Rice was told that she' wasw an artist's model, and he determined that11 she should become an actress Instead. He engaged her to appear in "1492," and with that engagement her success began. Sho had only been on the stage a feir' months when she dipped Into matrimony, -t I'ho word "dip" is used advisedly. She. married William Sheldon, an actor, and' was -separated from him within a few mu "months.

Kwj All this winter she has been singing lntH "The Country Girl." The company's sea- son Is over. The lights are out' Minnie Ashley has retired to domesticity. A trlo of manaf era has offered to star her. She has refused them all, it is declared, to 'accept the offer to be the one particular 1 star of William Astor Chanler. fKoro Copyright By FAtK.

wm 'mm. mm. wmmm mm mm mm i i mi mm Once again the Intrepid explorer has that the tnat had showed her been successful. By all report his pursuit ofl e0 gloriously bad been too strong for has been as indefatigable as always. the nerves of her eyes.

It began when Minnie Ashley was sing- Sometimes In the midst of her songs she Ins; in "San Toy." Mr. Chanler bad been would seem- to be enveloped by a blurring elected to the New York Stats Legtslo- mist that would shut out even Captain Wil-ture; he was later a member of Con- Horn Astor Chanler, whom by that time she Cress; ha had been commended for special bad learned to distinguish from among her bravery during the Cuban war, where, he audience. erred with General Wheeler; he had THE II CJfTER KEEPS OJtnER Til AIU attracted wide attention with his book. Little MIbs Ashley's retirement called out "Through Jungle and Desert," ho had ob- much ral rnipathy. Every one calls her tained recognition ln both the scientific for some reason or other.

It must and geographical worlds of Europe. He be because 8he ls young. She Is certainly was' supposed to be Interested ln things rather more ln ihe style of the modish Gib-: which were indicative of nothing frivo- on glrl-qulet. dignified and even arlsto. loua.

when suddenly one night, st Daly'i. than cute or sma11' he beard a sweet voice singing "Rhoda Tbe 1UUe Mr mM of "San Toy" Khoda, ran a pagoda." WM orce(1 out ot the caBt for Bom vk8- Then came a glad day when the lime lights A ICEW FIELD FOB THE Hl'XTER. flared up more brilliantly than ever and The voice had a certain peculiar at- she stood without flinching ln the very traction for numbers of people. Some of ctntpr of them. them went back to hear it twice, and The intrepid hunter was there, of course, some went three and four times.

But one to wUneM her return and 10 lcme good looking, clean shaven, clear eyed wltb hands- Hls Per8latent courtship young man returned night after night. bad even then Wen remarke(' but MlM Every night young Captain Chanler sat AMer Ui entered upoD-a career' "nd one looking Into the most wonderful blue eyes Caa Dever tel1 hat womaa lie had ever seen. Every night he watched may 10 tne ay of t0 be 'the graceful maneuver, of the "modern a lads maid- In the lime light WlnDlDfC all tee time. Managers were asking to star Then presently-the conjecture is easy- her. Some one had proposed to make her be began to say to himself: "If is as a heroic of some Shakespearian play.

She attractive as that cn the stage, what may bad the good to refuse. Mr. Belaaco she not be off He began to wonder about wanted to sign five years' contract with mm '4 her. She shook her head. What was she waiting fort Just wba seems to be apparent to-day.

But ln those days the courtship was conducted so quietly and Mist Ashley denied so persistently that there Was anything in it that people came to the conclusion she was merely waiting tor something still better ln the way ot a starring engagement. While she was waiting she drove what may be called her first wedge into the midst of the aristocracy ot America. She fell In love with the beautiful suburb ot Long Island called Great Neck, where many wealthy property owners bearing ancient and honored names reside. She decided to spend her summers there, and leased from some condescending person the house known as H. A.

Forrest's, on the Shore road, near Udall's hill. She spent two delightful months there without realizing that all the neighbors were excessively cool to her. She was so absorbed in the beauties of theplace, ln the charming walks and drives. In the exquisite scenery, that she never observed that dainty creatures ln exquisite gowns drew them aside to let her pass on the walks and held their head, up high when she rat- William Astor Chanler, the Distinguished Hunter and Ex plorcr, and Photographs of Miss Minnie Ashley in Various Roles. mm r-mi mm Points 017 HouJ Hot to "flHijg Up" a Husbaijcl.

''Mm Her pale blue eyes became as black as night Just what' she said no one may ever know, but somehow after that interview it got bruited about that she might some day become Mrs. William Astor sister of Margaret Chanler and all the. other aristocratic Astor-Chanlers, daughters and sons of the late John Win-throp Chanler and a cousin to Colonel John Jacob Astor. By every evidence the courtship went on. Meanwhile The young people had time to learn all about each other.

Captain Chanler's career has been such as to interest any woman, for -there has very rarely been one, since the days of tied by In her cart "What! A dancer, a singer, a soubrette, right among themselves? She was charming on the stage, but Then came a day when Miss Ashley, still utterly unconscious of all this antagonism, made a bid for some property beautifully situated, commanding the view ot the sound which she best loved. Some sensible real estate owner let her have It at a tremendous price. The aristocrats at once arot en masse to bar out any actress, ajl actresses. They called on the real estate owner, and he In turn called on the special little actress who was giving so much trouble. There are plenty cf young girls without the beginning the foolish man gives la actual experience of life and never having rather-than croti afcr, which course em- i borne responsibility of any kind, who, nev- boD, btr t0 tetoni more and more ex- crtbeleas.

consider themselves competent Sheis taking the le0n to heart of other to "bring np" a husband. The result is women whose hubanTgo their Various often one of the most astonishing spects- and devioux ways, and she 1. determined cles the social life of human beings affords. bring he husband up tK keted and tagged A woman who starts out on her matrl- YtT The conse- tnonlal career with the one idea of man.g- ZVjtin 'nYtuVS T7 ft Ing her husband generally manages to make humors her onte too often, which encour- bcrself so abnormally disagreeable that ln ages htr to keep the upper' hand, snd from that time on be ls lost. The woman who has not the pride to restrain her temper, but who will make scenes ln the street, ls the woman who holds a lash over a husband's head.

And there are many such who. In resentment of the most trifling Infringement of what she considers her due, will gay or do the most extravagant things that mortify a man until he is pitiable. Such a one will ark his wocan friends what on earth he should do. "She is my wife, after all, and I can only submit i.