6 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. DECEMBER 21, 1919

How Marrying Out of Your Set Has Proved, in One Dreadful Case After Another, to Be a Risky Experiment, Especially, of Course, if It Is the Woman Who Does the Condescending.

BY BARBARA CRAYDON. out vigorous protest from her rela- wealthiest and proudest old families, In the movies and tives. Robert Connors had continued of Newport, never quite reconciled 7 -- HnsE FREQUENTLY brand of literature, to act as chauffeur and manager of himself to his daughter's elopement. jjf 5 Tak the Coppell estate after the death of But Julia's aunt, Mrs. French Vander-bll- t, the heroine is the millionaire's ?' Vuii-derbil- t, Mr. Coppell, Coppell ;' ; . K,, daughter, who, Impelled by what she and as Miss had the former wife of Alfred I Bl Hf& I known him for some years, she de- who her divorce married 1MKKrjjjwfc after t Hk mistook lor the great power of love, clared at the time of her marriage to a young officer in the navy, agreed steps out of her own fashionable him that this was not a whim of some with Mrs. French that Julia should 1 tT'jBfc, I circle to marry her father's lowly em- foolish girl, but that In the years she not be spurned by society because she ploye. had known him she had grown to had married the man of her choice. And always we are likely to be as- admire and respect him. At the time of her elopement with But in spite of this, her romance "handsome Jack Geraghty," son of a sured by the author of these pleasant has gone the way of many others, of Newport hack driver, the Independent romances that "they lived happy ever similar character. young woman spoke her mind after after." "I did not marry my wife for her learning the criticism she had pro But In spite of this cheerful opti- money," Connors announced after voked from her fashionable friends. mism, and in spite of humanity in gen- their marriage. I married her be- "I always hated society," she said eral, or any altruslc wish that all cause I love her. I can earn enough "The people in it are too vapid for JJrs. Jl ay Breitung Xlels to support us both." Mrs. Connors in- me. Real men are a rarity among r marriages might be nappy, many in- XJcAtfr, WJiose rirsffgrriigt herited a goodly fortune from her those I know. The masculine mind Wts teresting exceptions to this rule of father's estate. She sold out her in- as I had observed it was empty or to fordrnrr the playwright fill the records of cur- terest In the Towers, and built a else it was filled with schemes oi many daughters of the rich have in- rent life. beautiful home in Tenafly. Connors money making, and thick and tire- dulged In proved anew its failure. In fact, several spectacular ro- opened a garage and is said to be some for sociability. The Girl and the Gardener. SB HP Jl mances have ended most disastrously successful. "I am not very old," she explained Miss Juliet Breltung, daughter of Jioberr D Connors CAtuffeur, Just when the beautiful heiress re- at the time, "but T am old enough to the wealthy shipowner and banker, W&ommrd flizabrtn foopefl of late. pented her marriage to her father's know that such a life was no life for found she could not reconcile life with Many notable cases where the mil- employe Is not known, but so anxious me." a poor gardener, with whom she left him and for a time earned her lionaire's daughter wearied of her was she finally to put an end to this Referring to ber young husband, eloped, in preference to the sumptuous living on the stage. When her father hero after a few years of married life, romance, that she enlisted the local whom she contrasted with society's apartments of ber parents at the Ho- died he left her a considerable fortune. have come to light to jar the senti- police to help her do it, and one even- "vapid men," Mrs. Geraghty said: "He tel St. Regis. The beautiful Gutlla Moroslnl fur- ments of the optimist. ing when Connors returned to his was entirely different from the men Max Kleist, the humble gardener nished society with a sensation when ago home, a detective and the police re- I had met; so honest, so straightfor- and country boy, fell in love with the she married Arthur Werner, a New A few weeks society was request to pretty York policeman, by separation iterated Mrs. Connor's ward, so modest. Also he was good Juliet and this attraction also mounted whom she shocked the dramatic leave. He left. looking. I think he Is a real man. proved mutual, for unknown to Miss had occasion to thank one day when of what many regarded as a great What of this grand passion that It is the first time that I had felt Juliet's parents, they ran away from the horse she was riding attempted to and beautiful romance. slowly burns itself out In the grind myself in the presence of one." Marquette, Mich., where the Brel-tun- throw her on the speedway, a district Surprising Society. of household drudgery? Housekeep- Alas for her ideal! Time has shat- have a big summer place, and which Werner at the time patrolled. ing to most young is na- were This romance ended in the divorce The beginning of romance, brides the tered it. Several months intervened married. this tural result of romance; a desire to between the times Mrs. Geraghty met Mrs. Breltung, who was a familiar courts. when Elizabeth C. Coppell, daughter make a living where the fires figure in the most As instances of such mesalliances Coppell," altar "Handsome Jack Geraghty" and the exclusive circles of George a millionaire rail- of love may always be kept burning. day she went away with him to a lit- of New York society, was grieved. are legion, it would appear that two road builder and banker, eloped with But "doing her own work," in a tle Connecticut village and married Mr. Breitung was furious. The latter persons reared in different environ- son-in-la- w ments, the family chauffeur in. 1914, fur- modest home, with a small baby to him, so the question of marrying htm offered his a job In on bred In different tastes and mind, finally became a burden to had been pondered by her many days. of his mines in New Mexico. Young customs, are with no small amount of nished society with an equal surprise. certainty likely to strike a snag to The bride at that time defended Mrs. Julia French Geraghty, ths But the little farm to which the Kleist, pining for his bride, declared her young heiress who startled fashion- took was a horrible job one their romance. Rich men have mar- husband, D.- - chauffeur husband bis bride it and that chauffeur Robert Con- able Newport society six years ago while he tolled to make his garage constantly endangered ried poor girls to be sure, and throw- nors, his health. Mrs. Koberrp. In- to her brothers and sisters who by eloping with the handsome chauf- a success, did bring Then to matters worse, love's Connors, lYJiofftrned Jfe ing their protection of dollars and not happiness to make - f'Ar's them, them were cold to him, characterizing him feur, who had entered her life on the this young woman, accustomed to lux- young dream ended for the bride. It C22uffettx- fluence about have lifted t, plane. But with rich as "one possessing unusual intelli- day he came to demonstrate a new ury, had expected. She worked In the appeared that she began to tire of distasteful tocher. A short while later, millionaire banker, Giovanni P. to their social gence many car which given her young eloped men women who marry poor boys, it would and gentlemanly qual- her father had garden and often did her own house- her hero as ho became less of while engaged in canteen work for wi)o and married seem that this task was beyond their ities." permission to buy. work. It was fun for a time. Then a hero In her eyes. the army and navy in New York, she outside their social sphere. powers. One reason for this Is that After the of A Newport Romance. she began to think of the pretty Young Kleist brought a heavy dam- met and married Herbert Rlchter of The elder sister, when she was 18, society, banded together to protect its deaths her father and a snobbish arbitrary mother, she being the eldest daughter Last summer saw the beautiful clothes which she no longer possessed, age suit for alienation of his wife's the United States naval reserves, a eloped with her father's coachman. members, takes of fine beautiful things New- Against the wealthy Mr. young man of own social set. Schilling. Schilling became a attitude toward the girl who marries and unmarried, occupied beauti- Julia French back in the luxurious the that affections her Ernest She becomes a sort of the home of her mother, with whom she port mothers lavished on their new- Breitung. This the court dismissed and To the long list of these unhappy street car conductor at $2 a day, but out of her set. ful Coppell home in Tenany, N. J. To social outlaw. Flinging convention- was reconciled at the time of her born, which she could not afford. Miss Juliet went to Reno and suc- mesalliances may be added those of the wealthy young woman, as time ality to the winds in the first hours of this home she brought her husband, baby's birth. Her father, Amos Tuck Finally came the break and the ceeded In freeing herself from the the two Moroslnl sisters, daughters went on, found she could not adapt her romantic enchantment, she almost after their elopement, but not with French, member of one of the "love In a cottage" theory which matrimonial tre, wmch bad become of that proud old Italian patriot and herself to this mode of living and she always repents at leisure. ages are a necessary part and par- lieve me, this beard is making me told Koser. about 700 members In team, but he spurned the offer Indig- strange Michigan community, and nantly, and as matters now look, ths cel of his character in the planned old before my time. I am only 34. the get removes In I SO. they all, she affirmed, consider it a Benton Harbor folk will have to LONG HAIR AND FLOWING BEARD, ONCE production, and that if he but the pictures look at least or along without Koser as a prise ad- his SamMonian he will I grow be- crime to cut their hair whiskers decorations and can't afford to old from the day they begin to grow un- dition to their gallery of whiskered ACTOR'S PRIDE. CAUSE DEBUT IN COURT break said contract and will be sued fore my day. til death calls them to a better land. marvels. for damages forthwith and notwith- "But it is not so much the dramatic The members of tho House of Da- For Kosers peace of mind It's a standing. side of the situation which is so an- vid, she said, secure their greatest real pity that be has had the misfor- Hirsute Marvel Fain Would Use Razor to Forever Win Lady-lov- e, but Moving Picture Producers Will Hear His honor heard both sides of the noying, my opportunity to display their hlgbly-prize- d tune to lose his heart to a young almost making life un- they woman long None of Plan and Demand That Beard Be Retained. case most judicially and then decided bearable, but the personal comment hirsute growths when who dislikes beards and film folks, warning comes my way play baseball. hair, because overseas in Paris, if re- for the Koser that and the traffic I sources comes the In- ports are correct, there lives a. young not to go near a barber or a safety Interfere on From other A my are my in revealed, man or with the street., All formation that when the team woman. Miss Vlolette Volsln. who PUBLIC festival when the hair and beard burden but what won't a razor until the termination of hia sorts of epithets are hurled in my di- ronrches on the field they look for all simply adores hirsute marvels, and Philistine lords were assembled life." woman do for love and when the lady rection when I go IN contract. Thus the film hermit finds ways, out on tho high- the world Ilko a "bunch of hair she and Koser might havo made a In the temple of Dugon, Samson Cupid Sentences Whiskers. love of the whiskered one spurned himself in tho predica- the most common of which is restorer ads." Any wonderfully happy pair. was summoned to show them sport. his to unfortunate "Bolshevist." which rings my put upon Today we can form no conception advances ho decided get ment of 'being legally restrained from in ears... umpire would feel himself of- - up. at least 50 times a t i. saw running on the Woman's Hair Is Praised. Laying hold of two pillars tho of what Samson's hair and whiskers trimmed The story is now at the restraining his beard. It is very many when ho them Mile. Voisin Is to be the pos- as If to support himself, he point when the begins. Koser, how opprobrious names a man diamond with hair and whiskers said temple looked like, but it is known by many trouble probable that he will institute pro- -- uuiv, im ini'-- unui my wnisKers streaming behind them like the talla sessor of the most wonderful head of pulled down the building and was that Mr. Koser has raised a beard and It seems, Is a "flllum star." Hia ceedings to restrain the company grew 1 could have scores of fist of so many kites. It seems out of all hair in the world. Her raven locks burled in the ruins with more than head of hair of such very generous hanging garden appearance having from restraining him in the matter, fights every day if I paid any at- consistency tbat these men with their fall much below her feet and trail SOOO Philistines. made him in much demand to play tention to these little remarks. feminine appearance should be able proportions as to cause comment ever although he has not entirely decided "If 'on stop behind her on the floor when she Samson is said to have enjoyed the amidst the purlieus of New York's the parts of hermits, bolsheviks and to do this In the face of the general the street i to look In to play baseball. But they can. walks, like a train. Even Eve, the make-u- p a window or to speak to my woman extraordinary strength which this Rialto which Mr. Koser daily fre-quen- the like. No for such roles unrest. friend who hates whiskers and long Pling Made Hioturenque. first woman, who In the beginning great feat indicated because of his with him was necessary; he was a very ques- hair, There is not a spectator who would adorned herself solely In her own "It's Interesting legal a crowd Immediately gathers locks, hardly had remarkable growth of hair and beard. Is quite possible, apart ready to go right ahead with the tion, I suppose, the lawyers to and my life la made miserable once not readily acknowledge that it is beautiful could have It from the - for to equal Mile. Votsln's. Eut Samson was betrayed by his mis- picture making at a moment's no- work on," said Koser naked more. Peopla Jeer at me from win- the sight of a lifetime to see the a head of hair attention of casual that when dows When I pass a barber shop the Recently a famous Paris hair tress into the hands of his enemies Mr. Koscr's locks and whiskers would tice, and he had a contract with one on the status of the hirsutus, while proprietor pitcher. King Benjamin, the leader of dresser took this young lady's hair in of the big film companies to a. almost Invariably runs out the community, running toward the who out off his hirsute adornment not have gone down Into history like this light breeze whistled through the to stop and ask me how I do It and hand and executed a ipasterpieoe of and lo and behold, he was reduced to If effect. whiskers swaying them like south- what Is reclpo. As grandstand to catch a high foul, while his art a wonderful coiffeur over those of Samson it had not been for the a matter of In physical power of an ordinary Koser ern moss In the . blows fact, there Is no particular treatment his hair and whiskers toss wildly seven feet height and weighing the the fact that he recently decided to Hailed Into Court. breeze that ten pounds. It was decorated with man. get of Quite 'by accident the picture pro- through the Everglades. that has achieved this annoying be&rd. about his head like the mane of a Hon. rid then. My hair and whiskers Just naturally extremely exciting to hundreds of roses and surmounted by The Bible strong man was the first At the bottom of the whole ducers heard of his resolve to cut 34 Years Appear 60.. grow It is watch the a pleasure yacht flying affair Like fast, that's all." who an- miniature the great hirsute marvel in history. Since 13 story of Cupid's pranks. his whiskers. Perhaps his lady love, Not long since "Lady center fielder, resembles an French flag. To finish this master- another "Meanwhile during this absurd a eliding In then there have been others, but none It seems that Koser, just like any like Delilah betrayed Samson of old, litigation I am compelled to wear Priest" made a pilgrimage all the way cient prophet, into second a piece the barber was obliged to stand smooth-shave- from House of David, smother of dust and hair. And on a stepladder. Perhaps the most of them have been more interesting n fel- gave away. Be may. o- the Benton ordinary young him this as It all this unnecessary Fiji Island Hatbor, New York, of than the latest to go o nrecord one, low might, fell In love, but the young the movie folks went up In the to to Induce Koser Prince Joshua, comes to the bat the remarkable ferturc the headdress air To be frank, I am decidedly te give up movie art and Join the stand becomes a demoniac, howling, was that the young woman was. when Henry Francis Koser. While it broke woman would have none of hla em- at this news and the next thing Inning long-haire- d was friend tired of extra hirsutus, and colony of and whiskered mob the coiffeur finished, able to the heart of the mighty Samson to braces because she dislikes wbtskers Koser knew he was hailed into court. of cave man It man who made Mich- hirsute and reverberates with walk around with it and a this stuff which leads have the small admonition, "Pole er over dance at lose his beauttful hair and whiskers they tlcklo so. Up to this point His employers alleged that a part to. I am tired of having my whis- igan town famous. In Benton Harbor the the ball given in her honor as the Koser, on the other hand, recently had very nrotid of his has already been created for the kers Hire me, my the men prise hirsute adornment just fence, old boy. pole 'er over the fence." world's hirsute noeen." Koar bcn drsmatle.d. hire as much as Koser come to de- up Alas and Koser remark' d in Ire". i:t!ois of the i locks, in fm-- t they prodigy In a. managers has As a compensation for giving alack that and Mils touus beard and had bearded forthcoming whiskers. Is what seem to spise It, of- Volsln never They of day, "111 say so. my i aa picture, - his movie work Mr. Koser was have luei. would men the But been his fortune will shortly be and thai his hirsute append- tuinlfc la my trade slogan, and. be Thcro axe at present, ihQ Wuouux fered a, posiUoa vu jouqufi bail wake a wonderful pair.