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Unimpressed by Fortune,
Miss Angell Remains
Just Nermal Girl
SINCE fortunes have been Inherited heiresses have eloped with chauf
. feurs and coachmen or have traded their dowries for distinguished
titles, but It remained for Dellera Angell, youthful mistress of $38,000,000,
te set a precedent.
Dellera has announced her engagement te Lester Nerrls, son of Cal
Norris, the village undertaker at St. Charles, 111., one of her schoolmates
at grammar school. She, who could buy the Kohlneor diamond and pay
no mere attention te the price than If she had bought an all-day sucker,
displays proudly en her engagement finger the modest diamond her fiance
placed there.
tijns te the young heiress started! of his daughter and of being go
rumors of an engagement. This , iLM X Wcnd8 "
time Dellera was whisked off te. Held. he baa n wife and three
1 Honolulu. children, maintained that the letter
1 There was one outstanding incident '' Jn'lnTlnhichTer
tn thnt Irln In the elrl's tiinnttnti i ".V t,lc "'" te n frlcn,l n WMCU Uer
te tnat trip, in inn girl .estimation. r,.f.nPe te field was tint he was
"iim paper in ijoneniu printed my , , r. . ,; , " , ..", i,n
Pictures, and ft didn't say one word 1avlm, her father's employment te her
nbe.it money," she -aid. reK ,,, rc,mrtpd te have
Exit Yeitna Sttraeen stated that Miss Angell wan Jn a quan
and Hospital Dream
On her return, newspapers all ever
the country cnrrlrd "columns about Miss
Dellera Angell's plans for the disposal
of her fortune by murrylng ome peer
jeung surgeon and founding and main
taining a hospital for the peer. be
the young burgeon was te be (die never "" ; XTn,l n h? flnwr
announced, and new. apparently, she We'L &. J'MTg,,?," ?,, te
has forgotten her altruistic plan in the . " '"ft "7, ..hl,.W.,."i
Dcllera's friends and the friends
ef her father, Rebert P. Angell, and
the thousands who knew her ns
heiress te the estate of Jehn (Beta-Milleon)
Gates, nrc aghast. Had
Delloie, with her youth, her beauty
and the possession of one of the
largest fortunes in the country wen
a prince they would have taken It as
a matter of course. Even if Del
lera, with her dashing carelessness
of consequences, had eloped with one
of the chaufTcurs who care for her
cars, they would hardly have been
surprised. But this small-town son
of the small-town undertaker, with
the engagement nnneunced In a per
fectly regular fashion well, one
doesn't expect anything se normal
from heiresses.
Dellera Tells Chums
of Her Engagement
The engagement was announced,
net at the handsome Lake Ferest
mansion of the nineteen-year-old
millionaire, but nt the modest little
home of her aunt, Mrs. E. J. Baker,
In St. Charles, a few miles away.
There were no liveried butlers, no
shinned quartet, no admittances
through the pages of the social reg
ister. The pnrty was just an old-fashioned
gathering of the chums of
Dellera when she went te the public
school in St. Charles, before she was
mistress of the millions.
They played guessing games, and
t the close of the evening Dellera
slipped the diamond en her finger,
whistled down the basement stair
and dragged up her fiance, his father
and his mother.
Interviewed after the announce
ment, the boy who draws pictures
for n living and the girl who is bored
with the million-dollar collection of
foreign pictures locked up in her
Lake Ferest mansion, told of the
romance that dates back eleven
years, and that was net Interfered
with by the periodical trips en which
lMlera's father took her te Hono
lulu, te England, te France, te
Oheranimergau.
"I always liked Lcs," she said,
"AtfAV! W.VlAM t knllt M . J h .. ill I
vvit nucii iiu ucab jiic in u swim
ming contest. When we were In the
sixth grade at school I liked him,
and I remember the ether kids used
te tease me and call me Mrs. Nor Ner
rls. Even then I rather liked It."
Dellera, the girl with the million millien million
lellar jewel collection, with a town
"use In Lake Ferest, a winter home
in Pasadena, a summer ledge in the
Wisconsin weeds, with a fleck of
motorcars, always was "folksy" and
a favorite of "Main street," her
friends say. They recall the fate
of a young Lnke Ferest suitor who
remonstrated with the heiress be
cause she once dismissed the nurse
and wheeled Reberta, her young sis
ter, ' up and down the aristocratic
paths of Lake Ferest. She kept en
pushing the perambulator, and when
her snobbish young suitor objected
te her playing nurse-girl and ex
pected him te accompany her she
dismissed him summarily.
Thus the arrangement her school
friends arc making for an old-fashioned
"shower" te present the bride
with aluminum kettles, cheese
dishes, guest towels and kitchen
utensils is quite suited te Dellera's
tastes.
"I don't want a fancy wedding,"
she said. "I guess Les and I will
be married very quietly. Of course,
I want my family there, and his,
and the boys and girls in our home
town. I'll have Wilda Blanchaid
play the wedding march. She's one
of my best friends. Ne church wed
ding and ushers for me."
Dellera's plans for her domestic
life are as simple as her wishes re
garding the ceremony.
"We'll build a bungalow," she
said.
"Will you live In St. Charles?"
she was asked.
The heiress turned te her fiance.
"Yes, won't we, Les?"
"We will," answered that young
man in nn nuthnrltntlve fnne
nA1lin HA. J..-1. 1 lif I
nr .. cuut wuius just one rauiu, um i
L,es Will ue 0088," i Chezty," ns she affectionately calls
That' 8 All Settled , a Swedish servitor who has hcen in
Dellera looked satisfied with his i the family for many yean.
assumption of authority. ' "I don't want a chauffeur. I want
"Lea will be the boss," she nodded te drive my own car. But I guess
affirmatively. we'll have te have a man for the
rotate dream1 for her new life
Dellera achieved newspaper public
ity, tee, when the family chauffeur filed
a suit against her father, charging thnt
Angell pern gave him u severe beating
when he discovered n friendship be
tween his daughter mid the chauffeur.
The story was that Held, the chauffeur,
drove the big town car back te the
family residence In Pasadena and pur
urised a family "row." He is said
Lester Norris, childhood
sweetheart, from
whom Dellera
has never
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new that Reld was leaving."
Finally came wmptems that Del Del
eora's affair with "Les" Nerrls, of St.
Charlep, was bereiiiing serious, and
again Dellera whs whiHked off. TliM
time the Atlantic Ocean was put be
tween the bclrcM and her boy aweei
heart, but net before "Les" bad man
Ne retinue of servants is te be
included in the Angell-Norris men
age, according te the plan of the
girl who, according te her aunt, "can
come Inte any kitchen and cook a
dinner, serve It and wash the dishes
as well as any one in this town
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l "rrih rejuKe wim ievb mn. nr. nemi is tne village undertaker, but Drllera'a millions and dad's tev.
ert make no diffcrence te the young couple, seated between the parents- in-Iaw-to-be
for which "Les," had done art work.
"Loek at all these. Aren't they
,'oed?" sln continued. "I've cot
Mr AilCi'll iletected tlii eliniifTeur's
presence and metlinid him te cet out.
Mien, u moment later, &he followed i
iiim .inn (.itleii linn te .ill. hiii out of
fy:. linniy(i loving,
Dellera aai LmUt thlak thm te little 1m wwth whiU JtMt new
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i ,;; ." ."" ..n.very lera iw- wm nwny almost con- Deen taken away from his vicinity te have hraid Mr
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tic," she flnihhPd proudly. , ,, cenimcnt rwal,ed the many "Everything will be all right when
ana produced from n drawer n occasions en which the young heiress you come back in the sprini-.' the
- ,., v" ... '. : ,uu urK""i has been whKed away when shu letter reaU.
hiul shown hvnintems of fnllintr in "Thnt doesn't cnnn.i OJ r i i....
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love, hver since the wife of Jehn taken away se I wouldn't ee him." ' l'1' Ims-hand's blclit ami benruii:,
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nitm uru inu.iinued.
"Les," a handsome young man of
twenty-one, whose countenance Is a
composite of that of the handsomest
of the motion-picture actors, but who
is a manly chap withal, spoke up for
the first time.
"Our courtship hns largely been
en of letten," he laugktd, "Del-
leave the country unless "I.es" wer
invited te f.pend two weeks at her Wis
een.sin ledge. Yeung Norris, who waa
doing commercial art work for a liv
lug. was duly Invited, and Dellera her
self, accompanied by her unele, E. J.
Baker, drove forty miles te the station
te meet him at 4 o'clock In the morn
Ing.
Fear Robbers Might
Get That Precious Ring
Dellera, with her father and her
stepmother, toured ten countries, nnd
In each country letters were received
nnd sent by the sweethearts. England,
Franre. Belgium, Helland, Germany,
and letters in every one from "Les.
When the heires enteied Germany,
having heard tales of the robberies et
foreign travelers, she took her preeleut
dlamund from her linger and concealed
It en her person.
"I wasn't going te risk having that
stolen," she eald. "It belonged te
Les' grandmother, and even if It
hadn't, the fact that he gave it te me
made It tee precious te risk losing."
Although Dellera watt taken te all
the places of interest throughout Eu
rope, she received the greatest thrill of
all at Oheranimergau, where she taw
the l'asslen l'luy.
The thrill was net due te the grent
dramatic spectacle, however, but te the
fart that the name of her fiance was
linked te an Incident that occurred.
"I wanted a pirture of the man who
plajed the rele of the Christ," said
MNs Angell. "There was only ene
photograph left, and the mnn in charge
of the photographs gave that te me.
lie tlinibt it into an envelope, and I
paid him. Then I saw a name written
n the envelope. The name waa 'Ner-
.-,' Lester's name. Wasn't that
range? I have never been able te
jure it out, but it impressed me very
nuch."
Dellera brought back from abroad a
candy box full of photographs nnd
snapshots, just as any ether girl trav
eler would, and impressions of a plcnu
ant time, except for being dreadfully
seasick.
These photographs she gleefully
showed te "Les" upon her return.
"I did one marvelous thing with my
eamera." she ald. displaying a picture
of a tall, straight tower. "I took u
picture of the leuning tower of Pisa,
and it rnme out straight. Evry ether
tower I photographed was wobbly, but
I straightened the leaning toner. I
guess I'm geed."
"I guess you ere," echoed Lester,
looking net at the photograph, but
ei.iluating the work of another art
M, in her countenance.
Dellera has a round, girlish coun
tenance, with n glowing color, eyet that
are a deep brown and that glow with
animation, looking out from under
dearly marked, arched brews. She
uenrs simple, nlain clothes, likes out-
oer .lxirts. and gives little evidence.
In her simplicity, that M00 a day has
been spent en her for years.
Despite Simple Tastes,
She Costs $300 a Day
An neenuiuing filed in 1021 showed
that SlTtl.OOO was spent en her in th
two preceding jears, or ..100 a day.
When she was eighteen, Miss Angell
came into control of $.'00,000 of her
.S3S.000.000 e-tate. The $300,000 win
a separate bequest of Mr. and Mrs.
Jehn W. Gates and their feii, the lat
Charles Gates. When Dellera Is twenty-one,
which will be next month, hhe
will hae full charge of the Income,
which is new in the hands of her father,
who was named by the court as busi
ness manager of his daughter's million t.
Mi's Angell was a favorite of tlifl
late .Tehn W Gates and the niece and
nanies.ike of Ins wife. Jehn Gntes,
widely known steel king, financier and
market plunger, for whom the "sky
was the limit" in poker as in any
ether kind of speculation, died in Paris,
He claimed St. Charles, the town In
Illinois whrie his heiress cheese t
Mve in preference te any ether pl.ie
in the world, was the home of nil
parents, and in between his spectaculai
Meck transactions lie paid frequent vis
its te tlie town. lie married a St,
Charles girl. Miss Dellera It. Hsker,
who received the greater nart of bin
i fortune at his death, and who In turn
mane 1'cnera uer Heiress.
Dellera wi nt te New Yerk with bin
father and stepmother te attend tht
funeral, and came b.irk te Lnke Ferest,
entirelj unimpressed by her newly nc
quired wealth
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"n im, nrci i nnsnnas alter tht
bequest that made her one of the richeiii
girls in the world, Dellern, when in,
terviewed by reporters as te her nicest
Christmas present, interrupted tbi
story of T'etcr Tan she was telling hel
jeung sister te reply;
it was tiw pretty nrabrella fsthei
te have henid Mr. Angell cundn- him l 7 V . '.Kuy nmuteila fsthei
r..,mlU i his f a t lrV afeiil IS '?," mc' V,",.'hen F,w "M"1' ""
I'M" vsith punishment when I," ,cu '? '"U' ''tee mnm,nB a " wal
encountered him. i ii ,, ' !?
wuiiein inn nnspeuea, may called
ier. She taught a Sunday school clam
a the 1 lrt I'resbyti-rlan Chnrch
have been rumors of engagements
There was Randelph Gib
ley, I.nke Ferest youth, en
count it was said Dellera
denly packed off te Pasadena
lera and her family later
rumors of an engagement,
lera produced a letter signed
paper In her hand, m-ierdlng te Held,
one, .mil im hcatini It. wild:
remiiinug
In
In
Lake Ferest.
She no longer teaches the Rundai
school class, but she still is "Dellurl
the unspoiled," lier "Main street3
friends at St. Charles, where Mil
spends each week. end when she Is ij
te marry nn
, ..mi itiiuu out nern Ii.v.-iiise I Memi'lliim; Inw imiiimia.1 v
son Ows- "anted te." - . M bra is such a tuniiy g.rl. , ,be eld-fashiiine . he u of "& " g
whose ac- Then she dashed out into a .pecd-, e. but nothing hat ' e', knew a I .Mether , h " ! hoei'i'rr ,""
was aud- ster waiting in front of the doer.1 ! !!" '"?! ''" w,m..,i uu. ..Drive! net tr .rWa.., sell hi?! 7Z
. Del- with an immaculate blend man at "' Id ,. as". " "'" 7 I:' ,., '"T. .'!"' frlenda--ha.U ni Vh
denied the wheel, who was ccrtnlnlv net '",,1 was preparing e leave ', he tnZl " "' ' ,?' . " T .Tl "IEI,,5-M."1' '
nnd Del-! young Mr. Owsley, of Lake Fe.est. :!Vhc.n V,r- Angell -aiight him. Ac- around" with Ua"g,n,
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