Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-05
BOYS
UNATTRACT|VE
MATH|LDE SAYS
McC ormick's Daughter
FINDS Native Land Be-
low Swiss Level.
American Ginks' Have
No Attraction For For-
eign Reared Maid.
By DALE,


~ vs. SfSe pSSN~
Copyright. 1922. by The Great falls Tribune
Chicago, June 4.-Why does II year
old Mathilde Mccormick want to marry
a middle-aged Swiss riding master in
stead of a wholesome American boy?
That is what the American public has
wondered as it read about the strange
! romance Of the daughter OF the har-
vester king and granddaughter of John
Rockefeller.
Mathilde herself gives the answer
The truth is that she does not like
American boys because she is not at
all an American girl. Even the most
impressionable of her short II years
she has spent in Switzerland, and even
her English has q decided accent.
II don't like these American ginks."
| she told the writer, Il don't understand
them. Though America is pretty it is
not so pretty as Switzerland and there
is nothing to do here. Now in Swift
zerland one rides and" after a pause
zone has some M to ride with"
MathIIde Alone Wants Max
Mr.. Mccormick does not want Oser
| for his son-in-law. His divorced wife,
Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick
does not want him for a son-in-law.
Her grandfather, John d. Rockefeller,
does not want him for his grandson. But
! the girl wants him for her husband and
! she probably would have him in spite
of all OPPOSITION but for a kink in the
| Swiss law that requires the consent OF
her guardian in this case is her father.
1t is a hard hearted and strong will
| ed father that cannot be twisted
| around his daughters little finger when
she sets her mind on it. And Harold
Mccormick has been weakening fast.
| When Mathilde first came home with
her big news father smiled indulgently
and told her to wait awhile. A man
of the world himself, he felt that the
old saying that absence makes the
heart grow fonder was "all bunk and
that if Mathilde had a chance to look
over a few of our bright American
boys she would o o cease to yearn for
her venerable riding master. So he
sent her off to Virginia Hot Springs,
y. Y, and other centers where all OF
the socially approved young men are
not cake eaters" or 'lounge lizards
Americans Hold no Charm
But Mathilde was not impressed with
| them and she came back TO Chicago
more determined than ever to be the
June bride of her Alpine cavalier.
Although an unusually intelligent and
capable girl, with very much of a mind
| of her own. Mathilde IS utterly I'M
Ike the carefree American type OF
| girl who grows up playing with boys
| or in other words a tom boy She
has all the reserve of q foreign girl
in seclusion.
Mathilde's father has never met the
man his daughter has chosen for hei
husband, but her mother. with whom
| she lived in Switzerland. knows hin
and knows all about him. And what
she does not know about him she sns'
poets. She regards him as a seasoned
fortune hunter with a long record Of
unsuccessfully pursued heiresses to his
creditor discredit. Her lawyer init
mated as much while the injunction
proceedings brought to prevent hei
former husband giving his consent to
the match were pending this week
She had no definite proof to give the
| court but much has been whispered
into the private ear of Mccormick and
his lawyers at the legal family con
ference which preceded withdrawal OF
| Mrs. McCormick's suit.
John D. Is Opposed, Too
In her opposition to Oser as a SON
in-law Mrs. Mccormick had the strong
est backing of her wise and venerable
father, John d. Rockefeller, who is
determined that no part of the Rookie
Teller millions shall be inherited by d
foreigner if he can prevent it. But il
, is something more than that considera-
ton that prompts mothers heart to
cry out in protest against the union
She wants her daughter to have the
freedom and equality that is the heri-
tage of every American born girl.
Why, under the common law OF
Switzerland" she said through Charles
s. Cutting, one of her attorneys. "a
husband may even lock his wife up in
a room and keep her there if she does
not do his bidding"
| 1t was because she had these things
in mind that Mrs. Mccormick had her
lawyers lay such stress on the loss OF
American citizenship that the marriage
would involve.
Mrs. Mccormick believes that Ma
| thilde will get over" her infatuation
for Oser if her former husband will
withhold his consent, At least until she
is older. To the sinister influence OF
Julia Mangold, former secretary to Oser
and later companion to Mathilde, Mrs
Mccormick attributes Mathilde's now
apparently undying devotion to the
Swiss riding master. 1t is her honest
conviction that Miss Mangold accom-
| panied Mathilde to America as Oser's
emissary for the express purpose OF
keeping him ever in the young girls
mind.
New York would save $780, 900 900
= vcar IL IN nor cent more efficient