The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-02-04

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his own provision been kept in his own
family, of which George Gould is now
the fiduciary patriarch. OF this
family Miss Helen Gould is in many
respects the most interesting men,
ber Her youth, her intelli-
gence, her unassnming grace and
her attractive appearance, entirely
aside from her wealth, make her, in
spite of her modesty, conspicuous at
this moment. Nature has her recon-
pense and her revenge as rule. in
spite of mems selfishness. 1t has been
thought and said recently that Mr.. Jay
Gould entirely evaded tho law OF
equilibrium, and gave nothing back to
the world from which he had taken so
much. The philosopher who came to
this conclusion overlooked Miss Helen
Gould. Mr.. Jay Gould has given her
to the world, whether he wouldor not.
While he was accommodating she was
maturing While he planned and
schemed, she was developing peculi-
arly womanly character in humble
and uneventful round of duties that
was to plant the flower of noble en-
deavor on the stalk of sordidness. It
is just year ago that this young
woman stepped, one might say, out of
the school-room into the parlor. Those
who remember the petite figure in blue
and brocade that received the comph-
ments of host of notabilities with
simple, unpretentious, girlish winsome-
ness in which there was just hint of
reserve power, can hardly realize that
now she is one of the wealthiest and
may be one of the most influential
women in America.
There were many observant women
at that debut who formed an instinc-
tive Judgment Of the little miss. They
may have been influenced in their con-
illusions 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 his life with which
the public is acquainted. It looked
even then as IL the domestic virtues of
the money-maker had kept this deli
cate portion of his establishment as
far away as possible from all xnowl-
edge 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 conservatory
over which he hung in hours of relief,
content to inhale the fragrance of in
nocence and beauty and forget the
clink of gold. Later we can see this
feeling growing from u passive to
positive conviction, as the duties and
aims Of the girl are directed and
guided by the father. She is
not encouraged to be belle. Her
beauty is not extolled She does not
care for admirers. She becomes a
teacher, then 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 and finely temp
cred, that makes her desire to do. So
she takes four music pupils and. bc-
gins TO teach. She wants to imtart
something. Then the mother falls i'll.
II you hold the private curtain nm a
moment, what is 1t you see In the
house Of affiuence? 1t Is only yester-
dsy--And the heiress Is nurse and
housekeeper in spic-span
apron, experimenting everything
fron Kitchen to chamber, cook
Ing, prescribing. watching and
keeping Che books Nobody shall ever
know anything about It until some
rnsh writer like the present one draws
onjdp Tho domestic curtain and tries to
- pect'. This Is not in strict