The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
H. IL RIIGK
Special correspondent ot The Ase-Hera

Fl. H. BUCK
 | Special Correspondent Of The Age Hernld. ! Copyright. 1921. by The Age-Herald) | Chicago. October S.-Chicago so-
 ciety, shocked by the very cold and
 extremely formal announcement this
 week that Mir. and Mrs. Harold Mc-
 Cormick, the former the head of the l International Harvester company,
 and the latter a daughter of John D. Rockefeller were no longer living
 under the same roof, is wondering
 now just what part in all of this do-
 mestic infelcity. Mrs. Mccormick S new school of synthetic psychology"
 is to play
 Mrs. Mccormick came home the
 other day after eight years of exile
 and study In Switzerland announcing
 that the new philosophy was calcu- lated to make all things beautiful. l The most startling announcement she
 was quoted as making was this |.
 q am psychologist and I believe In freedom of action, My psychology
 has enabled me to understand my hus-
 band very thoroughly aud my chill
 dren.
 Ut enables me to keep In touch at
 all times with what my husband and
 children are doing, however great the distance between us.'
 Psychology Infinite It was seen at once that the possi- bilities of such a school of psychol- ogy was infinite. Wives have been l wanting to know what their husbands were doing all down through the l ages. and 1t was certain that Mrs.
 McCormick's school, if 1t could guar
 antee such vision, would be
 swamped with students from the very l start.
 But has this Synthetic psychology" met its first test7 According to the friends of MT. Mccormick, if Mrs. Mc- Cormick could have looked any lone 1 ly evening from her chateau in Zurich l through utterly negligible space to | the Mccormick country place at Lake l Forest, she would have beheld | through. synthetic, If not through
 sympathetic eyes. the figure of q man | pacing back and forth. longing for | the companionship of wife and chill | dren and for that domestic complete l ness which only woman in the home
 can give.
 | If Mrs. McMormick with the gift
 of the new cult possessing her mind
 and soul. saw, she shook her head
 sadly and murmured to herself that
 synthetic psychology" had an ap- peal far above the commonplaces of l a united home or of domestic happi- ness.
 | Since her arrival in Chicago and | the announcement of the separation, which annoRncement came exclusive l ly from MT. Mccormick. Mrs. McCor-
 mick has remained the most unper- turbed of women. It is said that Mrs Anne Potter (FifD Stillman made a pilgrimage to Zurich last summer when her own home was in process
 Of dissolution. and sought solace and strength for her coming ordeals in
 the same school of thought in which Mrs Mccormick was immersed. This was the school of Dr. Carl Jung, who developed Freud and all of his the
 ories.
 Separated Before Mrs. Mccormick takes the placid view
 there Is nothing strange in her sep aration from her husband. They were
 separated for long intervals, during
 her eight years in Switzerland and
 that they should continue separated for another long interval while both
 are in Chicago seems to her simply a Synthetic psychological" matter.
 which need not upset the waters which rise above all the material matters of life which throw of fall that Is sordid and ugly and retains only the beautiful and good.
 When Mrs. Mccormick first re- turned to Chicago she declared the