Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-29

, complexion and dark brown hair, very
attractive In feature and manners.
Jerome entered Princeton last fall al
freshman When he was home for the
Christmas holidays he first met Miss
oakley in my Office and got to talking
with her. A few weeks ago he gave up
his studies at Princeton and entered
my ofiice-just played around trying to
look like working. He got to taking
Miss oakley out to lunch and now we
are prepared to welcome Mrs. Alex
andre
The whiting -Greely wedding was
something along these lines. Samuel
Raynor Whiting, son of ex-Congress-
man William Whiting, millionaire paper
manufacturer of Holyoke. Mass, and
Miss Gertrude L. Greedy, long time his
stenographer were married quietly last
February without much formal cere-
mony. Mr.. Whiting did not lose any
caste with his father for marrying his
stenographer. He Is now secretary of
the company and some day will control
II. Mrs. Whiting, however, has enough
to do in attending to the mana agement
Of his home and doesn't go to the office.
Charles Lee. a millionaire manufac-
turer of oneida, N. Y, has a stenog-
rapher bride. She was Miss Mabel r..
Brown, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rod
ney Brown of Syracuse. Mrs. Lee no
longer visits the office where she was
Miss Brown, typewriter but she is one
of the leading social lights of Syracuse
thanks to her husbands position and
her own tact and clevernes. No So
ciety leader turned her nose up at re-
ceiving Mrs. Lee
There is family In New York proud
to own an Office girl as an heiress to
its millions. She was once Miss Ada
Briefly, who worked in New Britain,
Conn, from Z q. m. to p. m. She is
now If you please, Mrs. Francis Edgar
Talcott of West Fifty-second street,
New York city, neghbor of the Van
derbilts. Whitneys, Oelrichses and
others of the world Of fashion. and
daughter-inlaw of james Talcott, the
multl-millionaire dry goods merchant.
1t wasn't an elopement.
Mr. Talcott sr, very frankly adj
mitted that he did not want anybody to
think that he was ashamed of his sons
marrying a girl who had to work for
her living
Both of them said Mr.. Talcott,
have my full and free approval of
their marriage
Young Mr.. Talcott holds a responsible
position today in his fathers mills. The
best proof possible that his marriage
with stenographer did not hurt him in
a business way is that he has been pro- |
noted.
Turn now to the case of Augustir
Meaher, who married Miss Helen Van
Nlmwegen, daughter of a Paterson
baker, employed by him as a stenog-
rapher. Now she is Mrs. Augustin |
Meaher of Mobile Ala, head of the
house OF one of the proudest families |
Ia flaaA - -
stenographer up in Jersey never hurt |
her social position down south in the
slightest.
Pittsburs society has been upset |
many times by chorus girls. But they
never caused so much gossip as did it's
tavorite clergyman, the Rev. William
L. McEwan, pastor of the Third Pres |
byterian church, when he married |
Eleanor Fulton Colvin. She was |
stenographer. Not even a member OF |
his church, whore Mrs William Thaw |
worshiped, was asked. 1t was in his !
study that Harry Kendall Thaw and |
Evelyn NeSbt were married. Today |
Mrs. McEwan is one of the social lead [
ers of Pittsburg, though once par
sons secretary.
Why is it, then, that the stenograph- |
cr no matter how modest her position !
before, is at once accepted by society? /
Why is it that marrying her employ
er is looked upon as quite a matter OF
course for the stenographer?
Statistics give the answer. The real
helpmate of the busy man who has no
time for society Is his stenographer |
While he has been making his millions
she has been making herself indis
pensable.
The stenographer has been marrying
her employer in far greater ratio than |
chorus girls have been capturing the
callow youth
And why not? The woman secretary
represents the stable, satisfying, long |
working, personally interested assis-
tant to the busy man. She may, there
fore, soon apear as his natural affin-
ity Once she makes him her husband |
her heart is in the business a thousand |
times more.
! Erank Fl. Bailey. vice president |
of Title Guarantee and Trust COM
pan. of Brooklyn, He married Miss
Marie Louise Lambert, his stenograph-
er for ten years. He is 40 years old !
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