The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-27
A ~REMAaKAeLE HEtRgSS.
Helen Gould, With Her Millions. Lives
Quietly and StudiousIy.

Helen Gould, With Her Millions, Lives
Quietly and S~tudiously.
Jay Gould's eldest daughter. Helen. Is
described as a typical American girl.
earnest. brainy and cultured. yet very
much of a riddle to the outside world
withal. She cannot be judged nor does she
conform herself TO the ordinary stand
ards. II has been inconceivable that n
young woman who represents $l5 100000
In her own right should not be a great
belle-a fashionable leader. 1t has been
marvellous that so great IN American
heiress should not long ere this have
sought the prestige of a distinguished al
lance. either at home or abroad. But Hell
en- Gould has neither battered at society's
doors nor bartered her millions for n IT,
tie.
Still society looks cordially upon her.
and the door to its holy Of HOLES would
swing for her should she signify her wish
to enter therein. But she does not. On the
contrary. she goes on in the noiseless
tenor of her way, living her studlous.
benevolent life. adored by the little waits
upon whom she has showered the sum
shine of her beautiful presence, idolized
by the younger brother. to whom she
has been mother and friend, respected
by business men for her level judgment
III dudlTS. u Npilu u tbIlDuAtn i'll
with her sister. the gay. ~fun-loving
school girl. the dashing young countess
whose marriage set society agoe, the
grande dame of Partisan society. IL has
compared her with her sister-in-law. that
brilliant and diplomatic young matron,
whose pretty hands almost swing open
the doors to fashionable society's holy
of HOLES.
Helen Gould Is first of all a sincere.
earnest Christian. believing that this life
is but the threshold of the next. n is
a communicate of the Presbyterian
church. The creed by which she regu-
lates her gentle. blameless life, is sum-
med up I'm these words: Il expect TO
pass through this life but once; any good.
therefore, that l can do. let me do 1t
now; let me not neglect IL, nor defer II,
for ] shall not pass this way again" The
greatest happiness of her life is to make
others happy. Her charities, however, are
as unostentations as her life. Miss
Gould's income is more than $4,000 a
year. and Of this she spends twenty times
as much upon charity as upon herself.
Miss Gould is a studious woman. She
has one of the finest libraries In the
country, doubly interesting from the fact
that she has chosen every book in IL
herself and has arranged them to suit
her own fancy. She Is very fond of po-
etry. Mrs. Russell Sage is perhaps her
most intimate friend, and Mrs. Sage is a
deep student. These ladies spend hours
together I'm study and research. Moreover,
Miss Gould is a law student. She has ta-
ken a full course of law I'm order to be
able to understand and manage her own
affairs. She is known to have been the ia
vorite of her father. She is to-day de-
voted to his memory. and says to her
friends that he was the best man she
ever knew.
The heiress said to n friend laughingly:
A my beauX are cranks." She has been
annoyed and threatened by Adventures
and lunatics. Her life is so full of affairs
of moment that she has not time to con-
slider matrimony. II Is a well-known fact
that the Count DE Castellane paid court
first to Miss Helen Gould. Receiving no
encouragement, he turned to the younger
daughter. Miss Helen is an intensely pa
triotic young woman, an American
through and through. Should she ever
marry, her friends say. il will not be
some foreign nobleman.
Helen Gould is considered far more at
tractive than any of her photographs or
portraits. Her face is dainty and flower
like. her smile swift and rare. Were she
the daughter of a hundred earls she
could not possess greater repose of man
ner or charm. Her voice Is sweet. low
and musical. There is just the SUSPICION
of a lisp. IS a hostess she Is cordial, I'M
affected and entertaining. She does not
wish to talk of herself. but leads the
conversation to topics of general interest.
and especially to matters Of reform or
of any serious nature. And yet there is
solemn or gloomy in this piously-
inclined young woman. whose wealth is
equalled by no woman of her years.