The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-23
WANTED TO Be
REAL WOMAN
Rich Julia French Looks With
Satisfaction Upon Her Es-
cape From Society
HAPPY WITH HER STRONG,
HANDSOME CHAUFFEUR
Young Man Says He Has Enough
to Support Bride, and as for
Her Enraged Family, Why
'HLet 'em Rave"


Her Enraged Family, Why
'Iet 'em Rave"
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Aug. 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Geraghty, the
Newport clippers, are enjoying the
| days of their honeymoon here, equal
| ly Obvious of the Trenches and Van
derbilts, who don't conceal their dis
gust at the intrusion of the tall, good
looking automobile man into their
family, and the Geraghtys, who hope
the erstwhie Miss French will make
Jack a good wife.
1t was the blushing backgrounds
turn to be interviewed today. He told
| frankly how he had met. wooed and
won his aristocratic bride
HAPPY as his bride calls Mr.
Geraghty. is an alert clever young
chap of the typical business man sort,
| obviously in love and obviously able
to provide comfortably, if not luXu-
riously, for his young bride.
The 'Happys" expect little trouble
through the efforts on the part of the
brides family to break up the match
! AS Happy put 1T: Let 'em
rave
And now let Happy tell the
whole story in his artless American
way, as he told it with Mrs Happy"
sitting by and occasionally Quitting
in"
Which One Looked First?
well, about three years ago saw
the future Mrs. GeraGhtY while | was
standing in front Of my place she
drove by in big car, and-well, she
looked at me"
II did NOT" from Mrs Happy IN
dignantly. you looked al me-
well" continued the irrepressible
one with his sunny smile how did
you know | was looking if you
weren't?"
The bride relapsed into a blush
and the narrative was resumed.
After that we looked at one an
other quite often, and one day she
had some trouble With her car and
IT fixed it for her and we got ac-
quainted We became pretty good
friends that summer and when she
came back next year our acquaint-
ance began to warm up"
More bushes and, yes a giggle
from the other end of the haircloth
sofa.
"By that time knew 7 was in love
with the kid. and one day I got a
chance to tell her about it, and she
'fessed up to me that it was mutual
To ir c.
ties We decided to wait and see
whether it was really that one big,
best best--love--or merely an imi-
tation.
Corrcsponded Long Time
"Another year went by, during
which we corresponded from time to
time, and she came back to New
por.. We spent another summer like
the first and second, and her people
began to worry. But she was game.
and told them there was nothing to
worry about. when already we had 1t
mapped out that the following sum
mer this one, when she would be of
age, we'd make a clean getaway
from Newport and do the big matri-
monial stunt
Has Good Little Business
az have a good little business Of
my own in Newport, and Julia is
perfectly willing to go back there and
live in a nice little cottage with me
instead of in one of those Bellevue
avenue palaces; aren't you, Baby
Doll?"
you know | am" responded Mrs
Happy, squirming little closer on
the slippery black SOFA.
"And you can say for me that I'm
only too glad TO get out of the So
ciety's atmosphere" she said to the
reporter. land live live a real wo-
man. Why. most of those society wo-
men don't know what il is to have
real feeling of any kind. They are
as false as their complexions. and
the men are no better. From now
on Jacks friends will be my friends
and my. friends must be his or they
won't remain mine.
There is absolutely nothing in So
ciety life to appeal to any one with
real heart. | have always hated II.
Just as I hated to go to school You
know they never could keep me at
school in Lenox, so they finally gave
me nothing but private teachers. and
even then I didn't do much studying
I've always been just a regular sort
Of girl witha real longing to meet
some man could love and have a
happy little home and-and-wel,
I'm simply wild about children"