The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-12-29
GOTHAM GOSSIP
Try Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910.
by the National News Service. N. 70

New York, Dec. 29-The man who
marries woman genius, whether he
is one himself or not, throws his life
away, according to DR.. Julious c.
Rappold, the grand opera prima don.
ma. Since she became a great favor
tie at the Metropolitan Opera House,
and has been acclaimed one of the
worlds greatest singers. Nine.
Rappold has been growing cool
to her husband, from whom she is
now separated While the diva occu-
pies sumptuous apartments in River
side Drive, the physician, who has q
practice in the Williamsburg section
of the city, lives in modest flat over
a tailor shop. Nine. Rappo1d wants a
intention of marrying again. DR..
Rappold to whom she has been mar,
ried eighteen years thinks she has
| matrimonial plans in view and de-
clines to accede to her suggestion
that they dissolve their wedding.
Il still love her." he said, the other
day in discussing. his trouble. "but
she is genius and considers that l
am too far beneath her now-or-"
and he grew serious-"perhaps it is.
she has risen too far above me.
"One professional person in a fam
lily is enough. 1t is perhaps bad
enough for the husband to be such.
especially a physician. And there are
some 1 know who say doctor of
medicine would be better unmarried.
That may or may not be true: But
in the case of woman there is only
one side to the argument She never
should marry. There has just been a
very good example of it In France.
Madame Curie and her husband were
the best of friends, until she discov-
cred that she was a genius. Then
what? Poufi The light was out.
LAS for marrying one who already
has achieved success in a profession
who already realizes that nature had
endowed her with powers beyond the
! ordinary and feels that, like 'TheU-
dora. she is gift of God'-never!
There should be laws against it. l
do not say that woman is not fitted
for a profession. I say that a woman,
sufficiently gifted to follow a pro-
fession, should not marry. 1t is only
my opinion.
dure when the wife is a genius and
her, husband is nOt-not even when he
is Following the dictates of modern
science, Uusually when soldiers go
to battle, they count more or less up.
on an unknown foe. Spies and scouts
| other side but they cannot always be
relied upon, and it is the unknown,
| uncertain quantity that is really fac
| ed Just SO when a man picks gen.
| JUS as his lifemate. And therefore my
| advice is, that. as love and marriage
| fair as war, beware the genius in
| woman when selecting a wife,
DR.. Rappold refused to say word
! personally about the diva. "She is a
| good woman" he said, ''but she is a
| genius and she says she cannot live
With me. You say She has said some
| other things-that I do not love her
any more and have not proper parent
! feeling toward my daughter.
''All that / can say is that she is
| beyond me. She is upon the battle
| ments that 7 cannot reach until she
| genius, but common sense is likewise
| commonsense. My conscience does
not permit me TO talk of the divorce.
| Some of the things attributed to my
| wife L am certain she did not say.
/ But, speaking in the abstract, I tell
woman who is-or who even thinks
! she is-a genius. comes pretty near to
! throwing his life away"
By a ruling the Appellate Division
| of the/ Supreme Court here. the rail-
| roads have secured what they consid-
| er a highly valuable precedent for
| determining future suits brought
against them by passengers who
charge neglect to provide them with
l
| indienities.
The ruling was handed down I'm the
| suits of Mrs. Cora 3. Heeren and hel
mother, Mrs. Lucinda Burton. against
the New York Central railroad. Ir
May, 1908, the two women while or
| a train at Utica, y. Y, on suspicion
that one of them was Mrs. Belle
! Guinness. of Laporte, Ind. who was
wanted for the murder of several hus-
| bands. On boarding the train al
| Rochester, Mrs. Heeren and Mrs. Bur
ton went to their berth and were
sound asleep when two Syracuse DE-
| tectives awakened them and insisted
/ upon their dressing and accompanying
| them to police headquarters in that
| city. At headquarters they were
searched and locked up for the night
| Next day it was discovered that a
| mistake had been made and the WON
| en- were set free with an official
| apology. A comparison of the wom-
| en- with the photograph of Mrs. GUM
| ess, who has never been found and is
now believed to have persisted in the
no similarity in likeness between
| them. Indignant at the treatment tc
| which they had been subjected the
mother and daughter instituted suit
for 100000 damages against the rail-
road for permitting them to be sub
jected to the humiliation of being
| dragged out Of their berths.
i The lower court dismissed the ac-
| ton and the Appellate Division to whom
| they carried an appeal sustained its
| decision. In it's decision the Appel
| ate Divisio Maid down the principle
| of law that the railroad is not Obliged
to prevent the police from carrying
| out what they conceive to be theil
| duty and that as a public carrier il
| is not required to prevent any indig-
! mites to it's passengers in the enforce
| ment of arrests on it's trains.
| Instead of supplying the sum. the
| thirty founders gave outright $4,000
| each and made themselves liable tc
| assessment in case there. should be q
| deficit. They then sold to themselves
| and others forty boxes for s25 0Of
| each. Some founders took an entire
| box, others split a box with friend.
| and still others took no box at all. Al
$4,000 per box the forty boxes brought
| $1,OO0000 cash. Added to the $500 0Ol
given by the founders this left bal
ance due of 81, 750, 900 which was raised
! On gortgage made out to William
K. Vanderbilt, the president Whil
the founders couldt be assessed, tn,
plain box owners could not be, bu
they stood to lose what they had pu
in if the theatre failed and brough
less than the mortgage. It was statet
in the contract that in event of sucl
failure they should be paid pro rat;
out of any balance accruing after tn
mortgage was satisfied and that thei
claims should take precedence owe
any bonds issued by the founders t.