The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-10

III your mothers knee.
an III Rich and handsome
XSkIA young men of noble
lineage always married
beautiful and good, though ragged. dam
sells who sat beside the road and combed
their long hair, and events subsequent to
their marriage were never sufficiently
troublesome for note.
The Rich Young Man and the Proud
Working Girl have thus inherited the
romance and been held up as ideals.
Prince Charming and Cinderella got along
smoothly once they 'jimmied" the shoe
ern aristocratic families and shop girls
ind ideal romance in similar unions?
If Prince and Beggar Maids lived hap
PLY ever after in the days of monarchy
and caste and GLASS; their modern counter
parts In democratic America should pro-
gress still more smoothly. But they don't.
No, they don't, and yet in England
they do.
Knox Case 10 Latest.
The United States witnesses the event
ual breakup OF nearly all the rfch-groom-
poor-bride unions. Great Britain, with it's
scores Of instances wherein young mobiles
marry show girls, beholds very few d.
vorces coming therefrom.
1t sounds like paradox, for Great
Britain Is popularity supposed to have
thousand times the class pride and snob-
berry of the United States. But consider
the evidence.
Here is Philander c. Knox Jr. SKATER
Mg tho roseate dream Of love which he
huilded with the little Providence shop
GIRL back In 1910. At that time his father,
the statesman and lawyer Philander c.
Knox, and the rest Of his wealthy family
objected strenuously to his marriage, but
the boy stoutly maintained that humble
birth and occupation denoted nothing in
such matter and so took May G. Boiler
into the family Of Knox whether or no.
There was much gossip and Phlladel-
phia, always insatiate upon the matter of
discussing private affairs in aristocratic
circles, rumored about all sorts of stories
concerning the Knox family's attempt to
thwart the entrance of the girl into the
colonial society, but In time it became ap-
parent that Mr.. Knox Sr. and his sons
wife were reconciled If they had ever been
estranged, for young Knox and his bride
toured with them aboard, evidently in the
best Of relations.
However. the criticism among the So
eially elect in the Quaker citadel did not
ebate and the sensation kept on and on.
Young Husband Goes to Reno.
Young Knox went to Reno, New, and
left his wife in New York, SO everybody
u saying that the end has come and that
~ soon as the husband has rounded out
OILS year IN the western divorce haven pro-
readings for separation will begin.
Then there was young Raymond Bel.
mont, son Of the fnancier, August Bel.
mont of New York. who undertook to fnd
eternal happiness In the ranks Of the peo-
pie whom his friends said "were beneath
him." He eloped to Jersey City with
Ethel Lorraine. a chorus girl, in all the
romantic heedlessness Of princes in fairy
tales through all legend
His father, living true to the tradition
Of mythical kings in Juvenile fiction, dew
sAAs0 1885, Aue eIucE OrOtner, 100, en-
tered into the story, when August unaer-
took to persuade Raymond to sever this
unfortunate" attachment. The BRIDE
groom. however, insisted that birth and
breeding had nothing to do with marital
happiness. particularly in free and equar'
America, and took the bride to the Gosfard
apartments In New York City, where the
course Of their smooth-running love was
1deal-for two weeks. And ON Nov. Is the
'prince" departed never to return.
Tower Romance q Failure.
Another bitter disenchantment came to
Charlemagne Tower Jr. and to Georglanna
Burdick Tower. his bride He was the
son Of another Of the socially prominent
families Of Philadelphia, that headed by
Charlemagne Tower ST., formerly Ameri.
can ambassador to Germany and minister
to Russia.
While :. Yale In 1910 Mr.. Tower Jr.
met the beautiful "Dixie" Burdick, who
was then living with her mother In New
Haven. Recently divorced from her hus-
band, Herman Allen. New Haven bust
ness man; vivacious and extremely popular
WITH the undergraduates. she proved at
tractive to young Tower. who saw In her
previous stage experience only another In
ducement toward matrimony. Again So
ieaAl prsstise. pride Of birth and the honors