The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1913, Page 3

AUTO ELOPEMENT, WEDDING AT DAWN, { Mrs. McCann, Who Married | tball Hero as the Roosters Crew, Asks Annulment. SEQUEL TO GAY PARTY. Marriage Result of Dare at a Table in “Lobster Palace” on Broadway. ‘Mies Mirtam C, MacDonald's midn| @epement from a Broadway lobster palace ami sunrise wedding at Bridge pert, Conn., on the Gabbath, March @ test, was a filght of fanoy which end- | @4 when the gasoline ran out some- ‘where near Tarrytown that afternoon. AWhough the pretty sister of Mrs. Mal- eolm Straus was then Mre. Elmer C. 3, MeCann, wife of a Yale senior and eck star, she left Cupid tinkering with the machine with MoCann and sped tack to her mother, Mrs. Liillan EB. | MacDonald of No, 25 West One Hun-| Gredth street. Mrs. McCann's romance was not even | trial marriage. Her whole career as flancee and bride were beside the Old HA athlete at the wheol. McCann lost @ wife when his motor came a cropper. Had he reached Newburgh, his destina- tion, where his father is President of the Storm King National Bank and former Mayor, his bride might not have altered hor whirl into matrimony. But} a few hours with mother, some pertl- | nent observations about a sixteen-year- | 4 daughter annexing a hubby, some evidences of penitence and atsence of | regular love for her husband—and the pcene changes. « ARE WEDDED AT DAWN AS ROOSTERS CROW. The fight of fancy bride te next in| the Supreme Court, where mower asks, | gg guardian ad litem, that Mirlam’ | marriage be annulled. The complaint | states some meagre facts sufficient to) eenvince the Court that Mra. McCann fg entitled to a decree because she is Ofly sixteen years old, and because she Neglected to ask mamma about “El,” the Yale hurdler, who was known on | the New Haven campus as the pal of “Letty” Flynn, whose marital dream fg also said to have been disturbed by | parental nightmares. | Although the lawyer and Mra, Mao- | Donald refuse to utter a syllable anent | Cupid's broken chariot, the incidents ot} the wedding were somewhat widely cir- | culated at that time, It seei Miss | MacDonald, who early manifested a temperament when she joined “The Merry Countess” despite parental frowns, was seated with a party one Saturday night when Frank Whitcom), | Yale ‘10, son of Senator Joe Whitcomb Bridgeport, called attention to his) blushing bride and remarked on the joys of connublal bliss, Matt Bellow, Harvard ‘07, was also there, as was) MoCann, Yale ‘ls. The magic hour arrived, McCann) called for a car, ordered heavy wraps ter the party and challenged Mise Mac- | Dona ww a matrimonial hurdle, Th skipped over the ferry to Hoboken. one was awake and they jumped ack reached Greenwich, where they found te citizenship retired, { OFF OVER THE HILLS GO THE, NEWLYWEDS, Puff, bure-r-r-r-r, and they were in Fairfield. Likewise, Fairfield was in re- pose, Then up spake Frank Whitman. Be knew Billy Mullins, the assistant town clerk, at Bridgeport. He and Bil'y were chums and Frank hadn't thought of it before. @o they rousted Billy out im his pa- Jamas at 4 A. M,, got their license and when the roosters had wakened a mic- lgter, the deed was done. No, indeed, the Whitcombs and Bellew wouldn't break in on a honeymoon, and off over the hills went the newlyweds towari Newburgh. The others came back to New York and read of the excursion In the papers. MoCann was eald to be one of the! Yale youths who were not impressed | with the histrionic ability of Gaby) Desiys when she came to the Hyperion | Theatre. He and some other nimble- minded lade confiscated @ fire hose and at an opportune moment turned the noz- sle in the general direction of Gaby, much to the young lady's chagrin and Joss of glossy front, according to re- ports. Miss MacDonald ‘s the daughter of the secretary of the Bethlehem Steel Company of Pittsburgh. ee ee TAX! BURNS AT HOTEL DOOR. Fire Row Mauhattan’s Gueste and Blocks Tramic 20 Minutes, Thomas Moore, chauffeur for the Ma- | son-Seaman Company, was endeavoring to repair a slight mishap to the engine of his taxicab as it stood in front of the Hotel Manhattan, Forty-second | street and Madison avenue, this morn- ing and the machine caught fire. Moore | tried to put out the blaze with sand, but could not, and an alarm was turned in. | Before the engines got there the ma- | chine was @ total wreck. The arrival of the apparatus roused guests in the inotel and faces appeared at every win- WHY IS IT A FAILURE? “(Man Has Been at the Mercy of the Man Hunters Since Eve and Her Daughters Discarded Fig Leaves and Took on Decollete and Abbreviated “Garments,” Writes “W. P. G.”’ einteitetetieetehital-fobnieteitabinteleitoleieintototob Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). HAS COURT CLIMAX Wait Till the Sixty-first Second Of the Minute Before You Marry" “= | “I Would Rather Have a Faithful $16-a-Week Hus-| band Than One Who Wo uld Give Me a Precious Necklace and Then Go to the Abode of a Variety Beauty,” Says “‘A. T. H.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Wait till the sixty-first second of a Three women of widely differing minute before you marry! views and particolored experience jconverge to the one point of warning and prohibition when the hero of Owen Johnson's new novel, “The Sixty-first Second,” announces his intention of getting married. “There are two kinds of mar- Tages, Teddy,” says the woman of ing of forces to fight the battle of life in which the wife is the help- mate, and the serious thing is to live to pay the bills and to save a little money. You have nothing to do with that sort of marriage. The other kind is the marriage our sort! makes—no responsibilities, Ject and no struggle. such conditions is a miracle. no ob- To have any chance of success there) should be on each side an equal! experience in curiosity. have known When you two hundred women you will find that there is always) one above the rest who ts necessary to you. Don't marry for ten years.” Then the hero carries the tidings of his engagement to an opera| jsinger. “Marry? Impossible!” exclaims the prima donna. “Amuse yourself —love, flirt, break her heart— or brea! head in a noose!" OUR LIFE 18 MOSTLY AFTER THIRTY-FIVE. The third prophet of disaster exclaims | when the now crestfallen lover carries | her his news: "What you seek now-- romance, adventure—is not what you'll Kk at thirty-iive, and life ts mostly | r thirty-five, “To-day you are willing to sacrifice, every friend in the world for one love. To-day you hold yourwelf very cheaply: to-morrow you will wake up, look round you, sce what other women have brought to thelr husbands, and you will say ‘What am 1 worth?’ At this moment marriage appears to you to be the only, thing {n life that counts; you will realize some day that it is the least thing in i” ‘Tet, after all these croaking prophets have had their say, th hero marries the heroine and they live very happily ever jorward, and so it happens now and then is reallife, Thore is nothing which adds more sest to a successful mar- riage than the realization that « Great many persons who exercised their talent for prophecy at the time cf the wedding are sitting around ings to come true, or, to ling’s cynical phrase, ar Sleary' I don't think that any youne nan or Woman Was ever discouraged from a con templated marriage by warnings or ad- vice. But there ts one profound plece of philosophy in the counsel given to Mr, Stover's hero, It is .his: "What you seek now !s not what you will seek at thirty five, and LIFE IS MOSTLY AFTER THIRTY-FIVE.” | MEN DIFFER AS TO LIFE A8/| THEY DO ABOUT A DRINK, Perhaps !f every young man and ‘woman could look into the future enough to discover what sort of mate would be desirable at thirty-five all mar-| riages would be happy. But men differ | about life as they do about a drink, | Some like it—life, of course—long and! diluted and safe and sane, with plenty | dow, As soon as it was sean that the hotel was not afire, the excitement was q@aleted, but traffic past the corner was @opped for twenty minutes, of cracked ice and unnecessary things Uke pineapple and strawberries floating about; and others prefer a short and | serv draft, with a lot of tame years ik yours—but mi: You are mad! again and headed the car's nose for | YOU ought to be shut up! Love, my dear boy, is madness, hallucination; Connecticut, Along about 2 o'clock they YOU are drunk; but everything returns as it was before. Don't put your To them Seer very At thirty-six Byron coming after Ike a chi the years after thirt much Ike that. wrote; My sears are in the yellow The flower and frults of ‘Te worm, the canker, and Are mine alone, For any person who feels like :hat any sort of wife would be suitable after thirty-five, But for those who dwell al- ways in the temperate zone of the emo- tlona there could be no better advice than to marry what they would prefer at thirty-five or after, The letters of Evening World readers follow: MAN HUNTING BEGAN IN THE DAYS OF EVE. Dear Madam: Man has been at the mercy of hunters since Bible times and before; since Eve and her Gaughters discarded fig leaves and took on decollete and abbreviated or bifurcated lower garments, and before, the only exceptions I can re- member being Joseph, St. Anthony and a historic or legendary person who was violently separated from his romantic esteem for # lady, but for which my exceptions might have been reduced to two, wir a. je ate gone, the grief | ALL CAPABLE MEN DON’T GET A CHANCE, Dear Madam: There are uw many men in this world who are capabie, good workers, but somehow they don't get chance to get shead. It is not always the consclentious, hard-working fellow, who gets to the top, Just look about you at the fore- men, office heads and superinten- enta in various establishments; if they aren't the biggest scamps; and as for character, well, they haven't any, that li, When girl friends of mine confide in me and ask my ad- vice about this or that man, I al- ways tell them, “Don't worry su much about the sise of his pay en- velope, as long as you know he is wood and manly." I don't see why the whole responsibility of keeping up @ home should fal! on the man's shoulders, anyway. Most girls, when they marry, have done some kind of work before marriage; why not do something after? There is lote of Work that can be done at home, 60 a Happiness in} | the world, “the kind that is a-join-| WHY IS YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS? * % * “ WHEN GALS ASH ME POR ADVICE ABOUT MARMAGE 1 SAY!‘ DONT worry TOO MUCH ABOUT Tee May ENVELOPE® woman can tend to household; duties and yet make a few extra dollars every week, And every Mttle bit helps 80 much. Also every wife of @ wage earner should know how to use her needle, and be able to make her own and her children’s clothes. ‘There are so many ways to practice economy if one only wants to, And, oh, women, don’t always tell your husbands about all the money other men make; don't always throw up to him about the juxuries other men provide for thelr wives. Give # hus- band all the encouragement you can. Every honest man tries his best to forge ahead, I would far rather have & $l6-a-week husband who I knew was faithful to me, than # man who would present me with a precious necklace and then proceed to the ayode of some “variety beauty.” 1 am the happy wife of a hard-work- | ing, honest man. I don't say that | married life is always smooth sail- ing, but one must be patient, not nagging, forget and forgive the many little things that come up in every home. When trials come to me 1 always look back into the his- tory of the world's nodl2 women and try to face them just as they might have done. Our lives are really ju what we make them. And this world holds no greater blessing than @ happy marriage. , T. A. ML. UNHAPPY BECAUSE SHE MAR- RIED FOR MONEY. Dear Madam: I have been married Monsignor A of twelve years and I will tell you way my marriage has proved a falluro— ‘at least, to myself, [ married for . The man | really loved was the time of the wur with Spain, and in the mean time friend (7) of his did his utmost to separate us, meeting me on every possible occasion and then writing to my friend how untrue I was, Imag- ine my horror when, on returning {rom the war, he Ignored me entirely, although before that he had written me of his love and how anxious he was to marry Knowing I could never love any other man, f finally consented to marry my husband and save the little home my aged parents lost if it wasn't for my Although I am true to my husband, I cannot control my thoughts; they continually fly baci: to my first love. If my husband were not such an honest, good-natured man T would not imind, but !t seems | unfair to him. I feel untrue to him in thought, I never give him any | reason to suspect I do not love him and I try my utmost to make his !ife happy, as I know he deserves it, 1 am only human and I have jm punished on account of marrying for money Instead of for love, MRS, Mf. <n cee nee WORLD “AD” FINDS RING, Qu covers His Lost Pro LoaT—Th tone diamond ring, and 42d and Broadway; lil Manager Pekin Restaurant, 47th #, The abovo advertisement appeared in the Lost and Found columns of ‘The World Monday morning, The ring was lost by Manager Lane of the Pekin, Saturday. He thanked The World yesterday for Restauraut Mana; the prompt return of the ring. It was | returned Tuesday afternoon by a World reader, who found it near the restaur- jant and seeing the ad. handed It to the i head walter, Salninteictnininteleicteints it Nineteenth of a Ser Dolorita O'Gorman, United States Senator O'Gorman, and John Anthony Maher, beautiful daughter of the Senator ts to be married, obtained their loense at the City Hall to-day. City Clerk Soully received them in his private office and issued the licen | Miss O'Gorman lives with her pare! lat No, 318 West One Hundred and She is twenty-four years old and was born in this city. | Her husband-to-be te @ broker, twenty- who lives at No, 7 Fort He was born 'n Albany. They will be married on May 24 by Bt, Loyola church, Eighty-fourth etreet and Park Pighth street. six years old, Morris Park, nominations: ‘THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 18, Article MISS O’GORMAN GETS HER LICENSE TO MARRY. Senator's Daughter and Mr. Maher| 4 Announce the Ceremony for May 24. McCready at avenue, alliance” into which the Duke von ——— is about : on Pei boawe vat by y @ only Li jor tl FOUR OFFICES FROM WILSON. teain 1?) the vivacious Americaine. ‘More WASHINGTON, May 1.—The Prew- | than ® score of times rumors, of her | dent to-day sent to the Senate these Collector for Internal Rev- enue for West Virginia District, Samuel ‘a of West Virginia; Unitd States Ciroult Judge, George Hutchina Binghain jew Hampahive, First Judicial Dis- United Staten Attor rn District of Oklahom Lin@vaugh of Oklahoma; Commistoner of Fisheries, Ernest Leste. | oulture as a breeding ground for native | — Jones of Virginia. Condiment Set. Sterling Silver and cut glass, A remarkable Meriden value. The MERIDEN Co. (INTERNATIONAL daughter to whom the DESPITE HOSTILE Chosen the Duke of Croy for Keeps. {SHE SMILES AT SNEERS. | Ambassador’s Daughter Does | | Not Mind Berliners Calling Her “1! “Heiress From Dollarland.” | _ BHRLIN, May 15.—-Independent | Mine Nancy Leishman, daughter of the | American Ambassador to the court of | Kaleer Wiihelm, is going right enead | with her plana to marry the Duke of Croy some time next month oven if the Gtled members of the Association of High German Nobility tn confer- ence assembled decree that, an the wife of the Duke she can never be a Duchess or even o “Highness.” Buch a decree of excommunication from the rigid ranks of the high Ger man society has been passed at an al nual meeting of ‘these lofty German princes, dukelets and margraves. The decision was launched againat the head of the American girl with all the pomp and circumstance attending the hurling of Papal thunders against the stiff- necked kings of the olden time, ‘That the haughty republican head of tho Ambassador's daughter does not seem in the least to be wounded by the lethal weapon of the “Highnesses” is what puzsies the Germans so much Not only i# the future bride of the Duke of Croy notified by this citadel of Acoumulated dignities that she can never appear at the court of the Kalser as a Duchess or a Highness, but @ blunt warning goes with the decree: The mar- riage of the Duke of Croy with anybody not of equal birth will never be consid- ‘That is taken to mean that the Agso- ciation of High German Nobility ts hoid- ing over the dainty American girl's head the grim brand of the morganatic mar- riage, an institution arranged for the convenience of titled persons and for the breaking of women's hearts. A SLAP AT MR. LEISHMAN’S! ACUMEN AND KNOWLEDGE. | Roland von Berlin, @ society weekly | paper, in commenting upon the action of the association, sald in its issue to- | lay. “Mr. Leishman, who in other respects enjoys the reputation of being a very intelligent business man, appears not to have informed himself sufficiently regarding the chances which a: daughter in the case of her marri: to the sovereign Duke of Duimen, | Westphalia.” The veiled threat contained in this society weekly is at one with the gen- eral tone of German officiakiom anit high German society toward alliances between inembers of the petted ant sanctified nobility and American In the prints and In the baliroo fame sneer is heard about “the helrasy from Dollarland,” and some of the gos- sips take revenge by saying that lf Minn | Leishman marries the Duke of Croy it will be the first instance of an Ameri- can hetress getting a titled husband | Wreater than hers. the sneers of the nobility over the “mes-| of jant to this or that German with je to his name were bandied about and denied. | Mins Leishman, cool and defiant, toc’: | her pick and i# goin to stiok to it. 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