The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-15
HELEN GOULD.
The Richest Young Woman in the
World
From the Ne,o York World

frocks, is to-day social magnate-an en-
wed and admired American lady only 10
years old, with an income of 800, 900 a
year and one Of the most magnificent homes
4 10 the country.
By the terms Of her fathers will she is
or will be, one Of the wealthiest young
women in the country.
1t is safe TO say that 100 900 delicate
| fingers have BEEN figuring out with their
pencils for two days. at least, just what
| Miss Goulds fortune will amount to in the
next twenty years. and all kinds of hypo-
thetical theories have been made Of what
could be done with $4,000 month.
Money stimulates the imagination Of all
people who do not have money.
1t is doubtful if those persons who have
never known the need Of it have any such
| Authorizations.
The wealth OF the late Jay Gould has by
| his own provision been kept in his own fam
| lily, of which George Gould Is now the
| adIciary patria rch.
Ofthis family Miss Helen Gould is In many
4 respects the most Interesting member. Her
youth, her intelligence. her unassuming
grace and her attractive appearance. entire
| " aside from her wealth, make her, Ia spite
Of her modesty, conspicuous at this
moment.
Nature has her recompense and her re-
venge as q rule. in spite Of mems selfishness.
/ III mas Dttu buOuRub anu SAlu TSC6utlT tnaH
Jay Gould entirely evaded the law of equil-
iorium, and gave nothing back to the world
from which he had taken 80 much.
TIE philosopher who came to this conelu-
sion overlooked Miss Helen Gould.
Jay Gould has given her to the world,
/ whether he would or not
While he was accommodating she was ma
turing. While no planned and sohemed she
was deve oping peculiarly womanly char
scter in an humble and uneventful round Of
duties that was TO plant the flower of noble
eudeavor on the stalk of sordidness
1t is JUST year ago shat this young
woman stepped, one night say, out OF she
school room into the parlor. Those who re-
member the petite figure IN blue aud brocade
that received the compliments of host of
notabilities with simple, unpretentious
girish winsomeness in which there was just
hint OF reserve power, can hardly realize
that now she is one of the wealthiess and
may be one OF the most influential women
n America.
There were many observaut women at
that debut who formed an instructive
Judgment of the little miss They may
have been influenced in their conclusions by
what they knew of her life and habits but
the opinion arrived at took her out of the
atmosphere of her fathers life entirely.
That is to say out OF that part of bis life
with which the public is acquainted.
" AOOA6u 6Ntu wen dS IL Tue QOm6SUlC
virues of the money maker had kept this
delicate portion of his establishment as far
away as possible from all knowledge of and
contact with the means and measures upon
which he had built himself.
She was like one of the royal buds In his
own conserv atory over which he hung in
hours Of relief, content to inhale the fra.
GRANGE of innocence and beauty and forget
the clink Of gold.
Later we can see this feeling growing from
passive to a positive conviction, as the
duties and aims of the girl are directed and
guided by the father.
She is not encouraged to be a belle, Her
beauty is not extolled. She does not care
for admirers. She becomes a teacher. then
a nurse-and is always a companion for her
father to whom he can turn at all times, as
one turns from the fever of life to the rest
Of nature.
Something Of the indomitable will of the
father. softened aud finely tempered, that
makes her desire to do. So she takes four
music pupils aud begins to teach.
She wants to impart something.
Then the mother falls i'll. If you hold the
private curtain up moment, what is it you
see in the house OF affiuence!
IL is only yeSterdaY-and the heiress is
nurse and housekeeper in a spic-span apron,
experimenting everything from kitchen to
chamber, cooking, prescribing, watching and
heepluk Tue DUCKS. NODOuY Suhll ever know
anything about 1t until some rash writer
like the present one draws aside the do
nestle curtain and tries to take peep.
This is not in a strict sense a society girl.
She does not live on parade. Obviously she
is too serious-minded. Otherwise why does
She go to the asylum on Lexington avenue
quietly and regularly and read to the poor
people who are bedrlddens
Perhaps all girls have a weakness that
way. But all girls don't think of it and they
might want brass band If they did.
just how far the fathers character was
operative in developing this girls character
it would be hard to say. To the mere on
locker it would appear that he was chiefly
etficacious in not bringing his charac or to
bear at all.
Perhaps nature, if she said anything,
merely remarked to him, 'You keep your
hands of ard watch me-"
And then we can imagine the father res
garding this growth with reticent wonder
and admiration.
Nobody has said word about the mother.
And yet it is quite possible that the silent
influence OF the almost unknown factor has
found tongue in this girls character.
hose of US who remember her at Saratoga
will recall a rather demure maiden with
pretty brown hair and very pretty teeth,
who showed two dlmples whenlshe laughed,
but who laughed not half enough for the
uItupIeS; girl VINO WoulQ De called pretty
anywhere, but who was singulsrly reserved
and appeared to think more of her younger
sisters company than any other persons.
They had one of those cottages at the
United States hotel-a little, unpretentious
affair, with little piano in 1t and few
articles OF good taste aud comfort. There
we're fifty cottages near by hired by people
who earned salaries, that outshone it in
gaudy splendor and from which issued the
strains Of the loudest music. Sometimes in
The morning you might hear Miss Gould
singing ballad or a hymn in a subdued
voice, as If she meant TO be the only lis
tener,
Now she is mistress Of Lyndhurst.
The Tappan Zee will still curl itself at the
foot Of her domain. Not wave will recog-
nlze the change in the owners. Not an oriole
more or less will light on the trees next sum-
ner. The clouds will lower and the storms
VIII come. Nature is indifferent and sheds
ltS tears on grave and garden alike.
But there may be a new light In Lynd-
burst. At all events. it is evident that Jay
could left discreet heart, no less than a
shrewd head, to take care of it.
BUTLE Rs AND BODY SERVANTS.
Inc Rapidly Increasing Employment
OF These Functionaries in America.