The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-07

PCLIA FRENCH GERAGHTY has left
her husband. and taking her little
six.year-old son with her has gone
6ark N the stately, luxurious Newport
home, from which she eloped WIN
Geraghty, then one Of her fathers chaut-
feuYs, nearly eight years ago. Action Tor
legal separation has been begun, but 1t -
doubtful whether any divorce proceedings
will ever be brought. There are, It would
seem, no legal grounds to warrant them.
And the grounds for separation? Simply
,hese-that after more than seven years
~ trial young Mrs. Geraghty Is convinced
that a girl who has once been very rich
and a man who has always been poor can
not be happy together; that the poetic
idea symbolized by the phrase Love IN
cottage" is purely poetry, and therefore,
not At for harsh contact with a practical
world; and mat the theory OF All TOT love
and the world we'll lost" is only workable
Union the world Is actually lost. and not
o,u.avs lust around the corner to REMIND
vou ~ the many comforts that you nave
haen used TO and are now doing without.
Mrs Geraghty was born Julia Esteile
Turk French. Her father Amos TUCK
r,rancb "a ono OF the richest men In Amer
lea, her family one OF the highest placed
socially Up to the time OF her eiopement
sbs.bad few wishes that money could iuInl
left ungranted She had luxurious nome
and a retinue of servants to wait upon heT'
hand and foot, as the saying goes.
"Iac," Ce-agh,y worked for living.
His father Is a cabman on newport
streets. His mother was often haro put
"a I, 70 make both ends meet They had
no social pretcnsions whatever Ihey
lived IN a little one-story frame house IN
Eewnorrs humhlest section. and every
body waited uaou themselves.
Romantic vnung Mrs. Geraghty thought
that love could bri'd a shining. Immortal
bridge between the French cottage on
rho Eeightr and the one-story mouse Oh
humble Prospect HIl street. and for all
o,ch renresentod She found It couldn't.
Novelsts build beautiful structures about
King Co2hetuas and beggar maids ana
nrincesses, who gaily leave their goloeu
nalaces 10 trudge the world with penniless
.ons OF toll, and grayely assert that always
thew live happy forever after. But un-
romantic students OF human psycnolos!
and social reactions take issue Win the
Sntionists They say that after some over
towering strong new emotion mas puSneo
into the BACKGROUND habits and modes OF
thought built up in a person from child
bood those old habits push forward In
eyitably as the new emotion grows more
familiar, until at last they rule once more,
ard that which for a time pre-empted
their Mace must sit at the foot OF the
minds throne instead OF upon 1t.
Thus King Cophetua. still loving his
beggar maid, would. after the honeymoon
bs increasingly annoyed at her lapses
Srorn The standard OF manners and thought
~ those which he was accustomed 10 as
sociate with ladies. She. In her turn.
would be profoundly bored and distressed
nv having to try to adjust her early train
ing to his. .,,
And the impetuouS princesses would
Iong for feather beds instead or leafy
bowsrs. and the duties OF her old seryi'
tors would seem like acts OF mintstering
angels while she was laooring over hot
cookstove or washing out her loro ana
masters dirty clothes.
The JeSults say S' ,
until he 10 twelve years old and the world
cannot seriously harm him" These wise
brothers know from centuries OF long OBJ
seryation and experience that the habits
~ Thought and conduct formed during
those plastic years Of childhood will hold
throughout lKe. no matter how the en-
Yironment may change.
Julia French was seventeen when her
love for her fathers chauffeur swept her
away from her moorings. Mrs. Julia