The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

MloS HELEN SOIl1AN
his own provision been kept In his own
family, of which George Gould is now
the fduciary patriarch. OF this
family Miss Helen Gould is in many
respects the most interesting men,
Der. Her youth, her intell-
gence, her unassuming 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 a rule, in
spite of mems selfishness. 1t has been
thought and said recently that Mr.. Jay
Gould entirely evaded the 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 would or not
While he was accumulating she was
maturing. While he planned and
schemed she was developing u peculi-
arly womanlY character in q humble
and uneventful round of duties that
was to plant the flower of noble en-
deavor on the stalk of sordidness. 1t
Is just a 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 compli-
ments OF host of notabilities with q
simple, e,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 ono of the most influential
women in America.
1Iere were many observant women
! ut that debut who formed an instinc-
tive Judgment of the little miss. They
! may have been influenced in their con.
clusions by what they knew of her life
| and habits, but the opinion arrived al
! took her out of the atmosphere of hel
! fathers life entirely. That is to say,
out of that part of his life with which
| the public is acquainted. 1t looked
! even then as if the domestic virtues OF
the money maker had kept this deli.
cate portion of his establishment as
| far away as possible from all knowl
edge of and contact with the means
| and measures upon which he had bull
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 thC
! clink of gold. Later we can see thi,
feeling growing from u passive to {
! positive conviction, as the duties and
aims of the girl are directed ant
! guided by the father. She i.
! not encouraged to be a belle. Hei
beauty is not extolled. She does MOI
! care for admirers. She becomes {
! teacher, then n nurse--and is always q
! companion for her father, to whom hi
can turn at all timcs,as one turns from
the fever of life to the rest of nature,
! Something OF the indomita BILE will Of
the father, softened and finely temp
| cred, that makes her desire to do. Sc
she takes four music pupils and be,
| gins to teach. She wants to impart
something. Then the mother falls Ill.
II you hold the private curtain up a
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house of afiluence? 1t is only yester.
daY-and the heiress is nurse and
housekeeper in spic.span
apron, superinteuding everything
from kitchen to chamber, cook
ing, prescribing, watching and
| keeping the books. Nobody shall ever
know anything about it until some
rash writer like the present one draws
aside the domestic curtain and tries to
take peep, This is rot in strict
sense a society girl. She does not live
on parade. Obviously she is too seri'
ous-minded. Otherwise why does she
go TO the asylum on Lexington avenue
quietly and regularly and read to the
poor people who are bedriddenP Per
haps all gifts have a weakness that
way. But all girls don't think of IL,
and they might want brass band II
they did. just how far the fathers q
character was operative In developing
this girls character II would be hard
70 say, To the mere onloolser
II would appear that he was
chiefly eillcaoious In not bringing his
character TO bear at all. Perhaps
nature, II sho said anything, merely
remarked 10 him, "You keep your
banda of and Watah ma ~