The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-09

wife. have come TO the parting Of the
ways. With the possible exception Of
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Rives 70
credited with being the best amateur
whip In the United States.
For many years he drove the coach
Pioneer from the Holland House to
Ardsiey-on Hudson and from tha
metropolitan Club, OF which he 10 a
member, TO Southampton. L. I Since
coaching ceased to command the In
terest Of the fashionabies Of the city,
he has not figured 80 often IN the pub
lie prints. Il was q big surprise to his
friends when they learned the other
day that he and Mrs. Rives had sep
arated ana were now living apart by
agreement. Mrs. Rives, with her son
and daughter are staying In the old
Rives' house, while Rives has gone to
the Knickerbocker Club. Both sides
deny any intention of threshing out
their troubles IN the courts, and de-
cline to take the public into their con-
fidence respecting the cause Of the
split. No imputations Of any kind are
made, and It is generally thought to
be case Of incompatibility Of temper.
Takes Fall Out of Snchhs.
Mrs. John w. Cox, the gifted wife of
millionaire physician Of Gotham and
an occasional contributor to the maya
zines under the name Of Marian Cox,
took a fall this week out Of some OF
her wealthy American sisters, who, by
an affection OF snobbish superiority,
endeavor to make the world believe
them extraordinarily intelligent. Incl
cidentally. she blamed the American
mans lavishness as largely response
BILE for making snobs of their wives
and daughters.
From the excess of leisure with
which the American mans industry
has lowered us" she said, I'VE have
developed both the virtue and vice OF
leisure, imagination and curiosity. The
American woman is primitive enough
to hunger after all the fruits upon the
tree of knowledge, and is civilized
enough to desire no one but herself to
enjoy them She desires to shut out
every one-sometimes even her hus-
band-from her own little epicurean
garden of success. For her, life is a
calculated egotism. This is the cause
of her famed snobbishness, hardness
and self-assertiveness. With American
women action takes the place of emo
ton; experience takes the place OF
sympathies. She is born adventurer.
on whom is engrafted a caste-wor-
shipping Brahmin. No matter If she
can trace her ancestry to the May
f1ower-and all ambitious Americans
do-she has the emigrant instincts in
her-nstincts which have made the
American men the bravest and most
initiative in the world, but have made
her the most restless, striving, insen-
sitive, and audacious woman in the
world. She is incapable of feeling fear,
and so is incapable of deep love or
religion. She adapts sects and cults,
because of her ever mobile vitality and
curiosity, as substitute for her lack
of religion, and she plays the game of
love- better than the woman Of any
other nationality, for she loves with
her head and not with her heart. With
a freedom and independence enjoyed
by no other woman in the world. eur
American women have never set a
standard, never originated an ideal
Our houses are ruled by our servants.
No American woman dares to be
thrifty. because thrift is not a part Of
the below stairs deal. Our fashions are
set by the demimonde of Paris, with
an added touch of Oriental extrava-
gance. Even our philanthropies arc
dictated snobbishness."