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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1912)
I I 1 . ' 1 1 b Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page Copyright. 1911. by the Star Company. Great Britain nights RcierveO. Mrs.Drummonfe 100,00(l!DOODaemma J I...IH I I She Can't Bear to Leave Her English Home and Husband, but Unless She Does Her Two Sons Will Lose the Fortune Grandfather Marshall Field Left Them on Condition That They Become Jlmer ican Business Men rRS. MALDW1N DRUMMOND. of London, wlio wns ne widow of Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago, and mother of the two boys, Marshall third and Henry, wh re to Inherit the enormous fortune left by their grandfather, Marshall Field, Sr., is In serious dilemma. If she follows out her present plan and makes Englishmen of her two pons they may loso a large share ot their Incomes, if sho lives up to the ftrlct letter of the Instructions left by the founder of the family she will have to separate either from her present husband, an Englishman ot high standing, or from her sons. Just what will she do? And what will happen in caso she defies the Instructions given to his trustees by tho late merchant prince? Mrs..Druramond's present husband, a well-known Englishman and heir to severnl million dollars, will not come to this country to llvo. His interests arc all on tho other side, and he is not happy when far from Piccadilly. Mrs. Druramond has identified herself entirely with her husband's Interests and friends, and naturally does not want to come to this country to live. And, naturally, she wants nor sons with her In her English home. For six years, thcreforo, they have lived the life ot English boys ot their class. Marshall Field, Sr., lef ($120,000,000 to these two grand sons, tho sons of his only son. III? will was one of tho most peculiar over flledilnfctho Stato Kmsf iBi&tt! It. VHki IHfe. BHv The Two Field Boys Are Too Young to Worry Oyer Their Grandfather Will, but It Is DrivingiThcir Mother to Distraction." and, married him against her father's wishes. Ho refused to be reconciled for several years, and often said that his money was not going to be left to any English grandchildren, should any bo born. Later, In Novombor, 1905, his Bon, :arhull, Jr., was killed by a gun shot wound, sclf-Infllcted. . There was no reason for him to commit suicide, and Ids father mado the an nouncement that the nffalr was ah accident. He was happily married, had three children and n wife both beautiful nnd charming. Blunders Nature Makes in Treating Disease VOLTAIRE'S celebrated remark that "The physician amuses tho patient while nature cures tho disease" has caused naturo's curative powors to bo much over estimated ever since, according to some familiar .facts presented by a medical man In a recent issue of tho Medical Record. "If nature was famed for her skill .in relieving pain, draining abscesses and killing Invading parasites," says this writer, "tho physician would starve to death." , , . ... Nature's treatment for pain Is to cause the sufferer to faint from oxhauetion. Nature heals wounds with scar tissue, which, In tho case of intestinal ulcers, for example, causes obstruc tions, owing to tho tendency of tho scar tissue to thicken and contract tho tube, whereas tho surgeon, bringing clean-cut edges together, leaves tho tube Its natural size. Nature' scar tissuo patch over an ulcerated heart valve so puckers that delicate and vital mechanism that the heart works In vain to overcome tho back flow of blood. , Nature often gives overdoses, and thereby does more harm than good. Fever Is a good example. Fever Is now recognized as natures attempt to make the blood too hot for the com fort of Invading microbes. A moderate amount of fever evidently aids the patient, but when It becomes excessive the question arises: Which is causing tho most damage, tho bacterial toxins or tho heat? The headache, anorexia, malaise, rapid heart, hurried breathing, scanty kidney elimination, nervousness, delirium, stupor, cloudy swelling and the whole train of symptoms of the acute infections how many are caused by the disease, tho toxins, and how many by tho natura rem edy, tho fever? The benefit dorlved from the uso of plain cold water In typhoid fove'r will help to answer this question. Any minute a man may drop unconscious from apoplexy unless tho physician with his nitrites can undo some of the mischief by bringing tho pressure down. A cough, as wo know, 1b naturo'8 method of blowing irritating matter from the bronchi. We can all recall lnstancos ot how this Is frequently carried too far. There Is, for ox ample, no sense In making a child cough until It vomits or breaks a subconjunctival blood vessel, for all tho good It does In whooping cough. The congestion of tho mucous membrane of the larynx and its Injury by being brought into violent contact following a severe paroxysm of coughing surely doe8 more harm than good. The cough of consumption Is certainly an unwUe prescription when It keeps tho patient sleepless and nervous or encourages hemorrhage or the dissemination of infection. Diarrhea which persists after the bowel is as clean as a gun barrel, tho profuso nasal flow from a simple cold, the edema which causes the glottis, the bony callus which entangles the nerve these are but few of the many other examples of bow nature overdoses Its patients. We often admire the way In which one kidney does tho work of two when the second is re moved and how a small portion of lung will carry on the work of a widespread area de stroyed by tuberculosis. This natural compen satory action, however, Is by no means constant. In injuries to the eyeball wo are familiar with the danger of sympathetic inflammation ot tha healthy eye. Sometimes, in fact, the ophthalmic surgeon can make of the injured eye a more useful one than the other, the victim ot natural interference. In treating a wound Involving a main artery of the log or arm, nature calls various anastamos ing arteries Into servlco to form a circuit around tho break In tho blood stream and to allow tho circulation to proceed unimpeded. This Is a wise provision and means tho saving of a limb which at tho prosont time tho Burgeon would have to sacrifice. Why, may we ask, doos nature not have these anastamoslng arteries instead of the so-called end arterlos In vital organs so much more important than the limbs? j If tho dorsal artery of the thumb becomes plugged or divided, anastomosis with the prlnceps polllcls on the other side prevents this finger from suf fering any loss of blood supply; on the other hand, If one of the ganglionic branches of the middle corebral artery becomes plugged, naturo Is unable to do for the brain what It did for the thumb and apoplexy, with death or -worse, Is tho result. Tho most vital spot of the brain 1b thus laid bare to a bit of natural nfgllgence which even the smallest tee does not suffer. ' . During starvation tho different ways In which tho body metabolism economizes in tho food supply Is often remarkable. Nevertheless, in a starving child, naturo will allow the food to be iispd for tho growth of tho skeleton before sun plying tho vital organs dying of hunger, and tho bones, Ignorant of their greed, grow longer up to tho very point of death. In anomla naturo will' allow tho dupe to mas querade about as a fat and well-nourished speci men of mankind, when, In fact, he Is starving to death; for while the blood cannot furnish enough oxygon to utilize the food eaten, tho food collects In tho tissues as useless matter, unable to bo touched by the neighboring cells which are dvlne of huncer. At uie iiiuo of tho tragedy Mrs. Field was in Lakowood with Mar shall third, who was a very delicate child. Mr. Held was at his Chicago home. While examining n now re volver It discharged, Injuring him so that ho died six days later. Mr. Field, Sr., novor recovered from tho shock, nnd died two months later. Four months beforo his death Mr. Field had married Mrs. Delia Oaton, his next-dooor neighbor for thirty years. This marrlago cnuscd n slight estrangement between Marshall, Jr., and his fathor, but It hnd beeu overcome by tho now Mrs. Field. Mr. Field wnB a patriotic American. Ho mado his many millions in Amer ica and he frequently suld that he wanted them spent here. He wanted his grandchildren to go to American schools and colleges. Knowing his attitude toward for eign Influence the reading ot his will was awaited with great Interest. The conditions Impressed upon his trus tees insured the keeping together ot his vast fortune for forty-eight years! Out of an estate of one hundred and sixty millions, ho directed that seventy-two millions ubould be held In trust until 1954. Then, on his 'six tieth birthday, it Is to bo turned over to Marshall third, with its ac cumulations. This seventy-two millions brings In vn annual in come of threo mllllonvbut the heir, is not to rocolvo this outright uutU ho is f. rty-fl ve. Ono and one-halt millions yearly is to be used for his legitimate ex peu.es under his trustees' directions, until ho is thirty years of age. The overplus ot his million and a bait Is to be Invested and reinvested, and the accumulation added to tho sev enty-two millions. Unless somo un foreseen losses occur, Marshall Elold, at the ago of sixty, Hlnuld receive hot less than threo hundred million dol lars, if )ic compiles tctth the instrtiC' Hons left by his grandfather, in a private loiter to his trustees' V nry, the younger hoy, receives forty-olghfc mllllon'dol'ars under sim ilar conditions.' The, concllllons laid down by tholr grandfather, 'that they llvo-In 'Amer ica and giefln training for American business caroors, have already been broken in spirit snd letter ''by tho heirs.. During their boyhood thoy could not help the-nselves. Tholr mother's marriage made her an Eng. llshwomnn. They wero natur ally, .therefore, sent to Eton, although tholr grandfather had mado larrangmonts tor them.to godo Qroton, and -then to Harvard. Thoy nro .rapidly nearlng tho daj when they will enter college, wilt 'his college bo Harvard? Marshall, tho future heir to threo hundred mil Hon dollars, has already statod that ho will go, Into tho English Army. Henry, tho futuro heir to'ono hun dred -and' olghty,two million dollars is definitely preparing to go to Ox! ford, and then to cntor politics In England. Tho 'trustees ot tho Field million ' nro of tho.opinlon that they will for-felt-n largo share of their incomes It they, persist In following their pres ent plans. Mr. Flold stipulated that hls:hoIt-ssh'ould llvo in a manner that tho trustees approved, else their, in. copies would bo 'cut materially., A few nibnths ago Mrs.,Druinmond camo' to' America to see tho trusteeM and to'persuado them to muko u largo, jillowhrfcc to her for the maintenance of her sons. Contrary to 8upisltionMrs. Drumraond is not a woman of largo fortune. She re ceived half a mllllor in cash from her father-in-law and husband, and tho income from a trust fund of ono million dollars. Sho married a poor man, for Drummond, whllo heir to a largo fortune, has practically no mbnoy at.present. Sho had to spend Iftyhjbly.in order to establish herself In'Loiidon. and Inst Winter, when the Field trustees objected to her policy lnkeeplng the' heirs In England, sho found hersolf very much straitened. This state of affairs brought her to America and led to long discussions with the obdurate trustees. She proved that her boys wero being brought up as gentlemen. ."Yes, as English gentlemen,", re tortod tho trustees. "Th'oy can come to America later to -llvo 'If ' they choose," said - their mother. "American men, brought up In England, are never satisfactory American citizens," replied the trus - toes, and then-read again from. Mar shall Field's will the clause that bears on this question. "I desire my grandsons, Marshall and Henry, to bo educated In Amer Little Miss Gwendolyn Field, Who, Unlike Her Brothers, Is Sure of a Fortune, Whether She Remains a "Yankee Girl" or Not. lean schools and to entor Americas business Ufa." "Wo cannot pay Marshall Field's, money to English school masters, nor can wo pay tho expenses of an Eng lish est a to for these heirs," was tha trustees decision. The Field boyB and their little sis ter, Gwendolyn. w,ho will inherit night millions sonio day, bavo no American associations. Their closest companions are English boys and girls, their dally companions are their cousins, tho Beatiy children, who uro English through and through, awendolyu, a pretty child of eight, barely remembers her American homo and relatives. Sq far as Gwendolyn's fortune Is concerned, there wero no conditions attached. Sho wJ.1V recelvo It In full on her twenty-fifth birthday, no mat ter whero.she'ls educated. Mrs. Drummoiul's dilemma is a very r.eal ono. She-daro not run the risk of Imperilling her' sons' future, consequently she, Is, continuing her efforts to win the trustees to her side. Sho will not give .up her husband and como to America to live. She will not send her sons hero without her. What can she do?