The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-12-10
.o,,r MARRYING THE CHAUF.
FEUR


another. to Be a Risky Experiment.
especially, of Course, if 1T is the
Woman Who Does the Condescen-
ding.
barbara Craydon writes the follow
ing: :.
certain brand of literature the heroine
ic the miIlionaire's daughter, who,
.impelled by what she mistook for the
great power of love, steps out of her
own fashionable circle to marry her
Iather's lowly employs.
And always we are likely to be as
snred by the author of these pleasant
FINANCES that they lived happy ever
after"
But in spite of this cheerful opti-
mism, and in. spite of humanity in gen
eral, or any altruistic wish that all
marriages might be happy, many in
teresting exceptions to this rule of the
playwright fill the records of current
life.
In fact, several spectacular ro-
mances have ended most disastrOusly
Of late.
Many notable cases where the mil
lionaire's daughter wearied of her he
70 after a few years of married life
have come to lighEto jar the senti-
ments of the optin1ist
Recently society was shocked by the
dramatic separation OF what many re-
garded as a great and beautiful ro-
mnce.
The beginning Of this romance,
when Elizabeth G. Coppell, daughter
of George Coppell, millionaire rail-
road builder and banker, eloped with
the family, chauffeur in 1914, furnish
ed society with an equal surprise.
The bride at that time defended her
chauffeur husband, Robert D. Con-
nors, to her brothers and sisters who
were cold to him, characterizing him
as zone possessing rrusual intelll-
gence and many gentlemanly quail
ties"
After the deaths of her father and
mother, she being the eldest daugh-
ter and unmarried, occupied the beau
tiful Coppell home in Tenaf1y, N. J. To
this home she brought her husband
after their elopement, but not without
vigorous protest from her relatives.
Robert Connors had continued to act
as chauffeur and manager of the Cop
nell estate after the death of Mr.. Cop
nell, and as Miss Coppell had known
him for some years, she declared at
the time of her marriage to him that
this was not a within of some foolish
girl, but in the years she had known
him she had grown to admire and re-
Spect him.
But in spite of this, her romance
has gone the way of many others of
similar character.
81 did not marry my wife tor hef
money" Connors announced after
their marriage. l married her because
/ love her | can earn enough to sup
mort us both" Mrs. Connors inherited
a goodly fortune from her fathers es-
tate. She sold out her interest in
the Towers and built a beautiful home
in Tenafly. Connorss opened a garage
and is said to be successful
Just when the beautiful heiress re-
pented her marriage to her fathers
employe is not known, but so anxious
was she finally to put an end TO this
romance that she enlisted the local
police to help her do it, and one even
ing when Connors returned to his
home a detective and the police relter-
ated Mrs. Connors' request to leave.
He left.
What of this grand passion that
slowly burns itself out in the grind OF
household drudgery? Housekeeping to
most young brides is the natural re-
suit of romance; desire to make
living alter where the fires of love
may always be kept burning. But do
ing her own work" in modest home,
with a small baby to mind, finally be-
came burden to Mrs. Julia French
Geraghty, the young heiress who
startled fashionable Newport society
six years ago by clipping with the
handsome chauffeur, who had entered
her life on the day he came to demon
strate new car which her father had
given her permission to buy.
Last summer saw The beautiful Julia
French back in the luxurious home Of
her mother, with whom she was rec
onciled at the time of Her baby's birth.
Her father, Amos Tuck French, mem
DCI VI OlIO VI tIC "CoAt411C0G anu
proudest old families of Newport, new
er quite reconoiled himself to his
daughters elopement. But Julia's
aunt Mrs. French Vanderbilt, the for
mer wife of Alfred Vanderbilt, who
after her divorce married a young
officer of the Navy, egreed with Mrs.
French that Julia should not be
spurned by society because she had
married the man of her choice.
At the time of her elopement with
handsome Jack Geraghty," son of a
Newport hack driver, the independent
young woman spoke her mind after
learning the criticism she had pro-
vOked from her fashionable friends.
81 always hated society,"" she said
"The people in it are too vapid for me.
Real men are a rarity among those |
know. The masculine mind Glove in a
cottage" theory which many daugh-
ters of the rich have INDUCED in,
proved anew it's failure.
Miss Juliet Breituug, daughter OF
the wealthy shipowner and banker,
found she could not reconcile life with
poor gardener with whom she elop-
ed in preference to the sumptuous
apartments of her parents at the Hotel
st. Regis.
Max Kleist, the humble gardener
and country boy, fell in love with the
Ty,1; thic attraction