Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-19
WHOSE HOMES ARE HAPPIEST7

Two notable events nave occurred III
what is popularity called high society
recently to cause the common variety
of mortal to give pause and think. One
Is the wedding, after a scandal that
blackened two homes and was the talk
of two continents, of w. e. Corey ana
Mabelle Gilman, and the other is the
separation, with divorce as near pros
pect, of Howard Gould and his actress
wife.
Of the first of these volumes have
been written, and further comment is
hardly necessary. 1t is a wedding re-
probated by every lover Of decency and
the sanctity Of the marriage vow, in
the land. 1t is a connection which must
have quick and sorrowful termina-
tion.
The other case, however, gives more
meat for thought. Howard Gould was
generally supposed to be happy In his
home life, and the disagreement came
as a surprise. But it is no more than
might have been expected, and the
same cause underlies it which wrecked
the home of the Coreys as at first es-
tablished: The inordinate possession
of wealth apart from any legitimate
and useful employment thereof
The getting of money by any man
in any honest way, which does not mill
tate against his fellow man, and the
possession thereof, are not to be repro
bated, per Sc. 1t is a God-given right
of every person to earn and to save; to
accumulate and to lay by; provided 1t
is done properly and in order. But
wealth, like any other possession, Is
only of value as it is of use; its right
employment is a trust that goes with
its accumulation. The man who gath
ers and does not rightfully SOW is
miser, a robber and a creature de-
spised.
Howard Gould came into an immense
fortune through no effort of his own.
He was born to luxury, and he never
has done a hard days work In his life'
Naturally, then, he knows nothing OF
the value or use of money; and equally
Of course, it proves curse in his hands.
Idleness is still Satan's chief road to
mischief, and Gould is an idler. When
he married a woman who had worked
hard for her own living, and placed her
in a situation of equal idleness, Satan
got busy without further parley.
Corey made his money, but not in
the fashion that most men do. 1t
came easy with him; he was q petted
and pampered favorite of a money
king, and as such his path was
smoothed of all obstacles and his way
was paved with gold. When he reached
a point where idleness claimed most
of his days, he, too, fell afoul of that
master of lies and all evil, and divorce,
scandal and nastiness ensued as a
matter of course.
In both these cases. the man who
really tolls for his daily bread can ma
much to console him. 1t is generally
admitted that happiness in this world
and a fitting of ones life for the here
after are the main purposes of exist
ence; and the latter is accomplished py
usefulness toward ones fellow man
The greatest happiness vouchsafed to
mortals here below is the joy OF use
and the bliss of a happy home pre-
sided over by loving and loved WIFE
The poorest man who shovels earth the
humble clerk, the weary laborer, can
and does do noble service to his fel-
low mortals every day, and can ana
usually does possess a home and a wife
who prove the joy and the recon-
pense of his life. In them he finds as
near prototype of heaven as 1t Is
given a human being TO know.
Admitting this, what have either
Corey or Gould to offer, with all their
millions of useless, idle and corrupting
coin. to compare with that possessed
by the humble artisan who does his
work as we'll as he can, joyously and
gets his full envelope
at the end of the week and goes happily
home to Molly and the baby?