The Omaha Sunday Bee
PART THREE
EDITORIAL
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PART THREE
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VOL. XLTH-NO. 25.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MOANING, DECEMBER 7, 1913.
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Why No Other Girl in the
World Interested
Young Astor
VINCENT ASTOR'B engagement to his next door neighbor
and childhood sweetheart, Helen Dlnsmore Huntington,
seems to disprove the old saying that "familiarity breeds
contempt,' and to prove tho truth of that other old saying;
"propinquity breeds love." Certainly thcro has been no romance
In tho history of American fashlonablo society In which propin
quity has played so large a part. It also explains why no other
girt In tho world ever interested young Mr. Astor.
OAnd although astrology, whoso predictions upon their mar
triage appear further on, takes a somewhat different view, there
will bo thousands of senslblo persons who will see In this
triumph of propinquity an earnost of continued happiness for tho
two and a bulwark against a repetition of the marital failures of
Vlncont Astor6 parents. It would seem that a youth and a maid,
both healthy, both interested In tho same things, and both brought
up under the same social and financial conditions, and knowing
each other from childhood up. would have a bettor chance to live
togethor happily than a pair who, perhaps, a year before their
marriago, had not oven yet known each othor. Young Mr. Astor
and Miss Huntington may have fower surprises to offer each
other but then dt Is usually a surprise that tips over the marl
tal berk. A boy and girl growing up togother get a chance to
know each other thoroughly. They know each other's likes and
dislikes, and thoy have grown tolerant of both.
Tho girl cannot say after the ceremony: "Why, If Td known
you were that kind of a man I'd never have married you." Nor
can the man.
Even tho parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of
the two were friends and neighbors. Tho seeds of the romance
were planted by William B. Dlnsmore, tho great-grandfather of
the bride-to-be, and William B. Astor, ' grandfather of tho fUturo
bridegroom, when they purchased adjoining estates on the banks
of the Hudson.
Divorce statistics prove unqualifiedly that marriages on short
acquaintance, more of ton than not, prove disastrous. It has been
proved,, to tho satisfaction; of many students, that marriages be
tween persons who have grown up together, or who have enjoyed
oeyeral years of friendship, are more apt to prove happy than not
And why not? Take these fwo young people, who will marry
early next Spring. From babyhood they have played together.
In their, childhood, when neither one would be Interested In "put
ting the best foot forward." they were close companions. They
quarrelled over childish matters, perhaps. But they always made
up and "were better friends than over. At Christmas time they
planned together for the benefit of tho viljlago people of Staats
burgh arid Rhlnebeclc They gave presents and "treats" to tho
children of the villages, thoy made Immature plans for a future
when thoy should bo "grown up."
Then, growing up, together they took a part In larger
philanthropies, particularly in Holiday House, a home for work
ing girls established by the late Colonel Astor; they spent one
day a week at tho homo whenever they were both In residence
aj their country places.
Urged by his nqxt door neighbor, young Astor formed an
athletic association In his village. He developed a baseball team
and his neighbor becamo an ardent fan. But they still played
togother nearly every day there were tennis games, In which
there must have been some love games; they played golf, motored
and rode horseback. Thero wero family luncheons and dinners.
In every way theso young people were placed so as to see all
sides of each other; thoy discovered their own and each other's
weaknesses and strength. They learned how to meet and eolvo
many problems which, had they confronted after a short acquaint
ance, might have lea to a severed love.
During her years at a fashionable boarding school, Helen
and her neighbor were tho same good friends. Her school girl
friends becamo nccustomed to seeing the tall, slender, young
millionaire, for he never failed to call on tho ono weekly visiting
day.
Last Spring, urged by his next door neighbor, young Astor
decided to become a scientific farmer. He has laid out his Fern
cllffe farm on thoroughly scientific principles, ouch as are advo
cated by the New York State Agricultural College, and In all this
work his coadjutor has been Miss Huntington.
All his life Vincent Astor saw so much of Miss Huntington
that he had no time to get Interested In any other girl.
What the Stars Foretell
By Professor SOTHNOS LETILLIER.
THE position in the heavens of the stars, the planets, the
sun and the moon at the moment of our birth, determines
what are we to be. The heavens are the book of Destiny
on which, when we are born, fate writes with starry symbols
all that is to happen to us in this life.
The science of reading the stars and translating these symbols
Is called astrology. Astrology is older than modern science.
There are some Surprising facts observable In the conBldera
lion of the two horoscopes of Vincent Astor and his bride which
the working out of the Karmlo law has blended Into one. They
are two separate thlngv that must be read as one.
And herein Is presented the real interest that attaches to the
present analysis. Vincent Is ruled by Venus, Helen by Mars,
a romantic combination, but transposed as regards tho logical
qualifications of positive and negative. The woman is the
dominant factor, the man, the flexlve one.
Mr. Astor possesses the faculty that makes him bend to tho
exigencies of a situation, whether It be to his liking or not.
Miss Huntington will shape those points of emergence to her
own plans, bringing pressure to bear upon desire,, and concen
tration to the vantage to be attained.
A.nd herein lies the hope for happiness of the couple. For
frankly, their two horoscopes do not "gibe" at all; they aro at
And Their
Very Peculiar
Matrimonial
Prospects
loggerheads, The stars indicate that ho can bo sufficiently
plastlo for hor to havo no difficulty in ruling; If ho Is not, thero
will bo soriouB troublo, for I foar tho new Mrs. Astor is' going
to bo very much disappointed as regards domoatlc sentiment.
Tho stars show hor to bo strong enough to mako tho best of
tho situation If she will. But thoy do not say sho will..
And the stars show very clearly whero tho trouble comes
In. Tho law of propinquity is xnoro in ovidenco in their mating
than Is tho law of affinity, it is thought by many that pro
pinquity creates affinity, indood that often they are ono and
tho same.
Astrology recognizes the true dlfforonoo botwoon propinquity
and affinity, and tho eternal stars testify to It. Propinquity
dooM not nocossarlly moan affinity, and the mating that comes
from tho first alono can never bo so full and complete as that
governod by tho second.
Propinquity Is habit; affinity Is the resistless onrush of two
natures that can only find real happiness In merging. The
dictionary definos the first as "local nearness" and gives as
an oxamplo, "watchful mammas calculating what prcclso dogroe
of propinquity is safo or reasonable for their daughters." Affinity
Is novor qulto safe, or roasonablo and supremely disdainful of
"watching mammas."
Ono Is tamed, domestlo; tho other smacks of Olympus. There
is llttlo affinity In theso two horoscopes and herein, as I say,
Hob tho danger.
Mist Huntington should be' Mr. Astor sister rather than his
wife and has been such In previous Incarnations.
Saturn is in bar marrlago houso and this, alas, loaves no
doubt as regards tho health of tho husband and his lack of
physical roslstahco to disoaso. From this point alono one
must surmlso widowhood sooner or later. The stars show clearly
that tho fatos will play an interesting gamp In this direction de
spite all present, anticipations for happiness and I much fear
that history will bd a domestlo repetition In this respoct. The
shadow of destiny must necessarily slllhouette itself against tha
body of the family politic.
Plainly ultimate separation is too clearly indicated.
Tho marriage itself occurs under some astral contradictions
her Venus (the ruler of her marriage house), Is In beneflo
conjunction with Jupltor (tho money arbiter), but la opposed
to Uranus. This latter has a maleficent significance later on.
A similar solar combination passed over a year or so ago,
and muBt havo brought to the bride affectlonal or other com
plications. I might almost postulate an engagement, or at
least an understanding, with another than Vincent at that
time. I
Immediately following the marriage the stellar field clears
somowhat, with tho nearby years as very satisfactory.
The question of children Is resolved from the feminine horo
scope, and the first tostlmony of this naturo culminates in No
vember of next year. A girl child will bo born, but there is
gTavo doubt of its living boyond the Infantile period.
Of pleaBanter promise Is another birth, two years thereafter,
of an heir to tho Astor millions.
He will bo a credit from the silken layetto up to tho mantle
of John Jacob I, a royal porsonago In a democratic setting, for
ero his manhood the socialistic Instinct will havo crept Into his
veins and made of him a soul kindred to tho Bplrlt of the ago.
There Is Just the possibility of a third child, but tho exig
encies of the union will scarcely havo oxtonded to that point.
Thero Is no diminution of the family wealth, at least in the
noxt gonoratlon. Indeod, it will grow larger, though Mr. Astor
will know what depreciation In real estate values means be
twoen two and throe years hence, with a vory decided curtail
ment as regards' accumulation beginning with 1917, whan Ur
anus will have reached far enough into Aquarius, tho sign of
the Now Dispensation, to call a positive halt to the present
rule of money. I mean that on that date will begin the Social
Revolution. '
Tho wife will pass through an 111 condition between the Bum
mers of 1915 and 1910, with Saturn very much In afflictive evi
dence, and tho domestlo menage will be very much disturbed,
with not a llttlo danger of serious alienation of the two. The
period does not warrant social activity, as she will meet con
siderable effort to lessen hor supremacy as a leader. Thlsils
the first really evil condition that presents Itself for her, and
will Induce In her not a llttlo anxiety.
She at no tlmo affiliates vory agreeably with her relatives
by marriage, not being disposed to let any quostion of either
right or might prevail against hor Ideas of exactly what is due
hor as the espousod of the head of the family; her tempera'
'mont doos not accord with concessions of that nature. She will
not get along at all well with Mrs. Astor, her mother-in-law,
and In this condition lies one of the strongest factors of 'the
indicated marital shipwreck.
An acutoly sinister chapter in the stars showB an actual ship
wreck In 1917, nlong the southern coast of the Mediterranean.
As this indication occurB simultaneously In each chart, it is
clear that the two will be travelling together at that time and
will meet the danger together.
No careful astrologer cares to deal oxcathedra with the prob
lem of death, although often confronted with glaring testimon
ies of that nature. Eventual separation Is assured, but as I
read tho signs, not until a later date. And so It is not possible
that they perish In this wreck. Yet thore Is very great porll
and suffering, Indeed.
I do not like to write this and there 1b always a chance for
orror but the horoscopes show conclusively separation for the
coming Mrs. Astor, either by death or man-made law. They
show plainly, too, a subsequent marriage for her.
But In tho meantime this prospective union will have ful
filled Its necessary requirement In the lives of the two.
What American Millionairess Spends
WD are Indebted to ono of the Paris
, fashion magazines for the news that
; American women of wealth spend a
quarter of a milUon dollars a year on their
clothes and It requires many economies to
pinch along even on that figure.
The "chic" women among the millionairesses,
says the French editor, will need at least the
following Items, costing not less than the sums
set down:
She may start with the morning tailor
mades, and she will want at least four of
these, costing her altogether $640, for you can
not get the kind of suit she will wear for less
than $160 each.
Then she requires at least two riding habits
and a hunting costume, which will cost her
1800, with the fancy vests and other fittings.
A special costume for each sport Is an ab
solute necessity, for who would go yachting
in a tennis suit, or play tennis in golf costume?
Thus she spends at least a thousand dollars
for the sporting costumes and rough wraps.
This has only covered the morning. In the
afternoon she will require a number of fancy
tailor-mades, in cloth or silk, gowns for teas,
meetings or tango parties, and special cos
tumes for the trip South in Winter. The silk
tailor-made will cost $250; a lace gown may
cost her 1760, and she will need at least fifty
afternoon gowns a year at an average cost of
240 each, or a total of f 12,000 for these alone.
The evening gowns are still more delicate
and expensive. These very sheer folds of tulle,
the rich brocades and embroideries are price
less. They are worn perhaps twice, never
more than three times but they cost any
where from a thousand dollars to three thou
sand, and there must be many of them.
The chapter of wraps Is worst of all. A
sable coat may cost 160.000. The fashionable
woman wanted a coat of broad-tall last year;
this year she must have one of ermine, which
costs from six to twenty thousand dollars, ao-
Copyrlght, 1918, by the Btar Company.
$250,000 a Year for Her Clothes?
cording to quality. She may spend anywhere'
from $50,000 to $100,000 for the furs alone,
easily spend anywhere from $50,000 to $100,
000 for the furs alone.
But she must not forget her house dresses
and gowns, made of all kinds of silks and
laces. One robe may cost $250 or $300. Her
dressing gown of China silk costs only $100.
but altogether she will spend at least $8,000
for these home dresses.
Dresses and furs have been provided, but
she is not nearly through with her needs. Sho
must have hats, and they are not cheap. The
plainest of theae for morning wear will cost
thirty or forty dollars, and if she buys a bat
with aigrettes or paradise plumes It may cost
her $600, or even $1,000. Sho will spend ad
least $30,000 for all the hats she will need
during the tour seasons and between seasons,
iu tnaicn eacn costume.
What now about the lingerie? It is so fine
that it washes to bits very quickly, but that
Great Britain Bights Ittierved.
does not prevent her from spending $30 for a
chemise, or a corset cover, and $40 for a
nightgown. Her handkerchiefs are an Item In
themselves, and all these together will cost
her at least $60,000 per annum.
Her corsets must bo of all kinds and shapes
for various uses. Who would wear tho same
corset for a tailor-mad o and for yachting, or
for a house gown? She must spend not less
than $800 to $1,000 each year for corsets and
brassieres.
And then come the stockings! Five dollars
buys the poorest she will wear, and the em
broidered and medallloned may run as high
as $300 a pair.
Then como the glovos, changed with every
dress, bought by the dozens, worn once and
thrown away. Sho will spend thousands on
Jabots, scarfs and ruchlngs.
Her parasols, In every color, will coat as
much as $260, when made of lace, and she
must have all kinds.
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