How Marrying out of Your Set Has Proved, in One Dreadful Case

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.

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