The Washington times., 1919-06-08

her husband, and taking her little
six-year-old son with her has gone
back to the stately, luxurious Newport
home, from which she eloped with
Geraghty, then one Of her fathers chauf-
feurs, nearly eight years ago. Action for
legal separation has been begun, but it is
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
these-that after more than seven years
of 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 fit for harsh contact with a practical
world; and that the theory OF "AIl for love
and the world well lost" is only workable
when the world is actually lost, and not
aIxays lust around the corner to remind
Won of the many comforts that you have
been used to and are now doing without.
Mrs. Geraghty was born Julia EsteIe
Tuck French. Her father, Amos Tuck
French. is one Of the richest men in Amer
ica her family one Of the highest placed
socially. Up to the time of her elopement
she had few wishes that money could fulhl
left ungranted. She had luxurious home
and a retiuue of servants to wait upon her,
hand and foot, as the saying goes.
"Jack" Geraghty worked for a living.
His father is a cabman on Newports
streets. His mother was often hard put
TO II to make. both ends meet. They had
no social pretensions whatever. They
lived in a little one-story frame house In
Newports humbIest section, and every
body waited upon themselves.
Romantic young Mrs. Geraghty thought
that love could build shining, immortal
bridge between the French cottage" on
the Heights and the one-story house on
humble Prospect Hill street, and for all
each represented. She found it couldn't.
NoyeIists build beautiful structures about
King Cophetuas and beggar maids and
urincesses, who gaily leave their golden
palaces to trudge the world with penniless
sons Of toll, and gravely assert that always
they live happy forever after" But IN
romantic students Of human psychology
and social reactions take issue with the
fctionists They say that after some over
towering strong new emotion has pushed
into the background habits and modes OF
thought built up in person from child
hood, those old habits push forward in
evitably as the new emotion grows more
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and that which for a time pre-empted
their place must sit at the foot Of the
minds throne instead Of upon it.
Thus King Cophetua, still loving his
beggar maid, would, after the honeymoon,
be increasingly annoyed at her lapses
from the standard Of manners and thought
of those which he was accustomed to as
sociate with ladies. She, in her turn,
would be profoundly bored and distressed
by having to try to adjust her early train
ing to his.
And the impetuous princesses would
long for feather beds instead Of leafy
bowers, and the duties of her old servi-
tors would seem like acts Of ministering
angels while she was laboring over a hot
cookstove or washing out her lord and
masters dirty clothes.
The JeSuits say: Let us have a child
until he is twelve years old and the world
cannot seriously harm him." These wise
brothers know from centuries Of long OBJ
servation and experience that the habits
Of thought and conduct formed during
those plastic years Of childhood will hold
throughout life, no matter how the en-
vironment may change.
Julia French was seventeen when her
love for her fathers chauffeur swept her
away from her moorings. Mrs. Julia