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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1914)
TV maha Sunday Bee Magazine PaoeJ v iffrexnn xampier llHEO m rfepw norrib e L t , d fr 77 A "Jake Warning! Mrs. "Lon" Thomas, the American Beau ty, Who Has Proved tho Excep tion to the Rule by Living Most Happi ly with the Rich Man She Loved and Wed. Very Annoying Conduct of Society Girls Who Have Found "Love in a, Cottage" While the Conventional Members of Their Own Set Continue to Flock to the Divorce Courts dono tho Ideal thing when she enp tn red tho then richest bachelor hi New York, "Bobbie" Goclct, for a hus band, but only recently she sot forth while obtaining a dlvorco that her married llfo had been ono long his tory of mlsory, Insult nnd 111 usage- Miss Vera Gilbert, tho handsomo daughter of tho Charles Plerropont II. Gilberts, married Randolph Rog ers Santlnt, a young man of excel lent family but condemned to work for a living. Mtss Gilbert had been accustomed to a palaco on Riverside Drlvo and a villa at Newport with all tbo luxu ries that they denote. She found that she could bo just as happy In a $20 a month cottage near Pater eon, N. J of tho typo that Is occu pied by tho humblest of Now York commuters. Many other cases liavo occurred whore girls of fastidious training havo married poor men amid tho lamentations of their friends and families and then lived happily over afterward. As a rule little Is said about tho happy sequel, and It Is an encouragement to ro mance and high idealism to point out that such things do happon. The socloty girls who have mar ried poor men aro something Uko tho "horrlblo examples" of tho old fashioned temporanco lecturers. To make their addresses in country vil lages attractlvo and easy to under stand tho workers for sobriety would havo two or three men In advanced stages of Intoxication in the front row. Then tho lecturer could say: "Look at that quivering wretch I How can ho look his wife and Inno cent babe in tho eyo? How can he take up life's duties to-morrow morn ing?" It frequently happened that the horrible example thus pointed out was toy far the happiest looking man in ithe room, and intelligent observers sometimes commented on the tact, .thus upsetting the earnest lecturer completely. Tho circumstances are of course very different in tho case ot the socloty girls who havo married poor men, but tho worldly society people who point to them as horrlblo examples nro very much In the posi tion of the disconcerted temperance lecturers. Tho simple truth is that tho girl who marry tho men they want to and disregard wealth and ancestry aro observing tho good old American rulo that nil men and women aro created free and equal. It Is the only rulo that can bring much human happiness In the long run. Mrs. Jack Geraghty, tho former Julia French, is now living tho slmplt! and happy llfo with hor husband at Woburn, Mass. They havo n hand some llttlo daughter, who has beoji named after Mrs. Geraghty's mothor On August 11 tho Goraghtys will colo brato tho third anniversary of their marrlago, which convulsed Newport society more than any other event of Its kind. The peoplo of Woburn oven doclare that Mrs. Goraghty Is tho happiest woman in tho Commonwealth' of Massachusetts, because slio is still In lovo with her husband, Idolizes her baby and has plonty of work to do. Ono of the tcrrlblo tilings that would happon to Julia French Geraghty In the opinion ot society pooplo wbb hav ing to do hor own housowork. After she had been waited on by an Eng lish butler and a French maid and a host of other servants, they felt sure this would bo an unbearablo hardship. As a matter of fact after nearly three years of this kind ot hardship Julia Fronch Goraghty still enjoys It and looks prettier than over. The Goraghtys havo a nice llttlo farm ot AVoburn and aro making a good profit by selling vegetables, flowers and other small produce. Mrs. Geraghty's knowledgo ot needs and tastes In society has been very valuable In showing them what pro ducts to raise and how to proparo NEWPORT, June 8. OW shocking that Julia French should havo mar ried n chauffour!" "It may sound very romantic, but when she faces tho hard realities sho will bo unhappy!" Thcso were typical remarks with which tho Newport fashionables greet ed the news that the daughter of ono of their set had eloped with a young man.who ran an automobile for hire. Now conies tho certainty that the society girl who married a respect able young working man Is perfectly happy, while her father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tuck French, who married strictly in their own set, have been divorced and nro very unhappy. Previously, her aunt, Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbllt, had obtained a di vorce after a marrlago with a man very conspicuous in her own set, that had caused unhapplness from tbo very beginning. Investigation further shows that many society girls who have marrlel poor or hard working men havo beon perfectly happy, while it is scarcely necessary to say that all those who have married rich men have not beon perfectly happy. Miss Elsie Whelen, the Philadelphia beauty, was consid ered by parents and friinds to have Mrs. Elsie Whcten Goclet, Whose Marriage to "Bobby" Goelct, America's Richest Bachelor, Has Just Ended in the Conventional Divorce Court Smash. them attractively for market. Thus an oxperienco which Is ordinarily barron of useful rosulta has boon turned to good purpose. Both the young pooplo wero al ways found of dogs, and they now ralso French bulldogs and Irish ter riers, tho salo of which add consid erably to their Income. Iloro again .Mrs. Gernghtyn knowledge ot socloty tastes has been profitable And how does Julia Fronch Gor aghty dress? Sho dressoa Just like her filBtors-ln-Iaw, 'Jur-t llko the girls of tho class Into which sho married. Whon she goes out walking with Jack, sho wears a dark bluo sorgo suit and n plain felt hat. The outfit may havo cost ns llttlo as $15 or $20. "Ah," said socloty pooplo, "how will sho foej whon sho contrasts that plain llttlo ready-mado suit with those hundred and fifty dollar tailor mades she formerly woro? How will sho feol whon, sho looks in hor glass and compares tho plain ready modo hat with thoso hor mother's exponslvo Fifth avonuo milliner used to make for her? Those hatH of her past cost from $8? up. Tbo hats ot her present cost from $0.50 down." Woll, after throo years of trial, Mrs. Goraghty finds that tho ready, mado suits and hats do not mar tho happiness that a busy, normal and contented llfo affords. Then society said that Mrs. Goraghty would not only miss tho comforts and luxuries ot hor former life, but would feci dreadful bocausoi her friends and family and even her mothor would have to ostracize her. Even thla mlsfortuno has not wholly como to pans. Just nfter the marriage tho family did avoid her whon sho appeared in public with tho husband who had beon a chauf feur and whoso father bad been a cabman, but most of them havo thought hotter ot it since. It is Interesting to hear that Mrs, Goraghty is now on good terms with her mother, Mrs. French, bur brothers nnd sisters nnd her grand mother, Mrs. Stuyvooant Lo Roy. There's only ono gloomy figure In the picture That la Mr. Amos Tuck French, the father. Ho has never forgiven his daughter for eloping nnd mnrrylng beneath hor. It Is belloved a different point ot view from that ot hla wifo toward tho eloping daugh ter waa partly responsible for tho dlvorco of tho Fronch couple. Cortnln ly It was nt tho tlnio Mrs. French began to visit hor diiuehter again that Mr. French loft his wjfe. Tbo haughty millionaire was com pletely crushed by tbo elopement It is said that he was peculiarly horri fied by tho fact that his uew son-in-law's father had been associated with cabs. Every tlmo a Newport cab man balled him with tho simple word "Cab!" ho recoiled in horror. There waa something about cabs that grated on tho millionaire's nature. He stayed away from his clubs, ho stayed In doors as much as bo could nnd ho avoided tho main streets, all In order to keep away from cabs. Ho must be pained to And that his socially distinguished sister, Mrs. Elslo French Vanderbllt, extends a sisterly hand of tho chauffeur's bride. His friends bellevo that ho will fly for consolation to his other sister, Lady Cheylesmore, who is married to a prominent member of tho Brit ish nobility. You Can Make Money Catching Moles T " Cry the Society Mammas, Pointing to the Geraghty's with Their Baby, Dog and Little Furm. "But They Seem Happier Than Most of the People We Know," Answer the Debutantes. Copyright, 1314, by the Star Company. Great Britain nights Reserved. HIE farmer's boy says tho Do partment of Agriculture In a bulletin soon to bo Issued should go into the business of catching moles. Thero is money in it Moles have a very beautiful fur soft, sleek, glossy, and soraowhat resembling sealskin in texture. Quit) probably, If skilfully handled, it could be mado to Imttato seal skin qulto satisfactorily. A market for it exists, and it will bo mora and more in demand, at enchanced prices, ns other wild fur-bearing animals aro wiped out. Every boy who knows anything of tho country Is acquainted with moles and their mode of tunneling under ground. When n disturbance of tho surface soil Indicates that one is at work, it may readily bo 'hrow out with a spado and cap tured. But tho oaoiest way to catch tho animal is to sot a trap in such a way as block its burrow. Mr. Molo will certainly run into It nnd bo taken. Molos sometimes damaga lawns. Very little othor mischief 1b proper ly to bo attributed to thorn- The nibbling of plant roots and other in jury commonly blamed unon thnm should bo credited In a great ma jority of Instances to field mice and otlier small rodents which use mole burrows as runways. Tho farmer and gardener, indood, owe an immonso debt to the mole. Ono of tho most abundant ot small mammals, It has for ages been en gaged in working over the soil to the boneflt of plant life. The tun neling it does, with incidental shitt ing of earth particles, permits bet ter aoratlon of the soil and favors tho entrance ot water from the sur face. Moles feed largely on the white grubs which do so much damage to garden crops. They also devour earthworms, beetles, spiders, centi pedes, cutworms, and various other such small game The government experts went to tho trouble of cut ting open the stomachs of 200 moles, to find out what they ate,, and in ono they camo upon the re mains of 171 white grubs. This meant one moal, of course. That number of grubs can do a deal of daroago to tomatoes and potatoes, Molos kept in captivity exhibit a most voracious appetlto, eating ra venously boefntcak or any kind of fresh moat. They will consume lu one day their own weight in food.