The Washington herald., 1915-01-24
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fortunes in jewels could not turn the ar
tistic Elsie from her purpose.
Things went from bad to worse after
this episode Two or three months later
Mrs. Goelet returned to Newport deter
mined to pursue high art at any cost
But Goelet would not give up. Not yet.
He made one last despairing effort to
wrest the woman he loved from the god
of art.
One day he invited her to motor out
into the country with him. When they
neared Goshen, N Y, he directed her
gaze to a superb view of hill and valley,
with beautiful woodland and meadows,
saying:
Dearest, does this lovely view appeal
to you? Doesn't 1t make your heart
throb with joy just to look at it?"
Yes, it is very beautiful she replied.
"but l see no picture in It,"
Its a picture to me-" said Goelet,
land for that reason l bought 1t for
you All this is yours-yalley, hills,
meadows, woodland and all Here
$1,OOO,0OO, II you will only give up
your desire to become an artist"
Your millions no longer have the
power to suppress my artistic tempera-
ment," she replied. 81 could live in
hut so long as l have a brush and
palette"
Sadly, Goelet returned to his Fifth
avenue palace in New York; his wife to
the villa at Newport. At last Goelet
was convinced neither his millions, nor
his love, nor his children, could divert
his wife from the career with which she
was enraptured, so he gave up-almost.
He had started the work Of convert
ing the Goshen estate into a fairyland.
and he ordered the work continued in
the hope that when completed his wife
might, as woman often has been known
to do, change her mind. At last the
beautiful home on the Goshen estate
was finished-"PiCture Land" 1t is
called-at an expense OF more than
$2,OOO,OOO. The house is built on plans
once drawn by the one-time Mrs. Goelet
when she was a girl, and used to dream
of the sort of home she wanted to have
some day. The vast grounds, compris-
ing more than 1000 acres, were pat
termed after the surroundings of cha
teau in France which Mrs. Goelet once
said were the most beautiful in all the
world.
"AIl this is yours" said Goelet to the
artistic devotee when the workmen were
through ITO the houses and lands and
jewels and gowns l have given to you |
add this one last kift-a thousand acres
OI picture ldnus uOlH6 lIdl lulhilS OH
your girlhoOd dreams: a garden that
will. if you say the word, be the Garden
of Eden for me. Do you refuse all this
just for the sake of art?"
The world knows the answer now,
written in the divorce records of Rhode
Island and on the marriage docket OF
the registrar in New York.
The erstwhiIe Mrs. Goelet, who is now
Mrs Clews, bride of an artist, has found
time for other diversions aside from
painting Once she won International
fame by taking luncheon on the bottom
of the sea in the submarine Octopus on
Newport In 1911. Again she relieved
the tedium of social life by ascending in
an aeroplane with Ruth Law. In her
pursuit of art she has not forgotten the
artistic, as she thinks. in woman's gar0.
for she was the first woman in New
York society to advocate the Greek cos
tune for women, and a few years ago
appeared clad in the Greek form OF at
tire, thereby causing widespread COM
ment at the time.
She is not unacquainted with royalty.
once having had as guests on board the
Goelet yacht, the Nahma, the German
Emperor and the Gar Of Russia at the
same time.