The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04
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Strange Romance or Mathilde Mc Cormick
 Has Public Puzzled

oscer for his son. -in-law Ills divorced wife, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCor- mick, doesn't want him for a son-in- law. Her father. John D. Rockefel- Ter, does not want him for his grand son. But the girl wants him for her husband. and she probably will have him in spite of all opposition, but for kink in the Swiss law that requires the consent of her guardian, in this case her father.
 Mccormick weakens
 1t is hard hearted and strong willed father that cannot be twisted around his daughters little finger when she sets her mind on it. And Harold Mccormick has been weaken ing fast. When Mathilde first came home with her. big news. father smiled indulgently and told her to walt while. 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 chance to look over a few of our bright American boys she would soon cease to yearn for her venerable riding master. So he sent her off to Virginia Hot Springs. New York and other centers where all of the, socially approved younf men are not "cake eaters" or lounge lizards"
 But Mathilde was not impressed with them and she came back to Chicago more determined than ever to be sne June bride of her Alpine cavalier.
 When one considers the exotic at- mosphere in which she has grown to young womanhood the attraction which Max Oser holds for her is not surprisins. An outline of her TO- nance, related to the writer today by one close to the family, might be expected to win popular sympathy for this young American girl. brought up in exile. except for the disparity in the ages of the couple and the even greater distance between them In the matter of wealth But the American people have seen so many of these international marriages land on the rocks that they are be- coming heartily tired of foreigners marrying American girls for their money"
 Sent For Health
 While Mathilde Mccormick was still little girl 10 years old she was sent high up in the mountains of Switzerland to be cured of tubercu- lar infection of the glands. For five years she remained there, learning the Swiss tongue and Swiss customs from native governesses and com- panions. At Is she was well enough to move to Zurich to live. There. in the romantic setting of snow crowned Alps and shimmering lakes. she first met Max Oser, a splendid figure of a man just released from the Swiss Guards with medals entirely covering his chest.
 As his riding pupil she rode with him over mountain trails and through picturesque valleys, the impression- able girl just turned 5 and the sophis- ticafed man of 43. At the end of Is months she had fallen madly in love with her teacher. had promised him her hand in marriage and had come dashing home to gain her fathers consent to the alliance. She had never had the attention of an- other man. Until her recent visit to Hot Springs she had never known any American lad near her own age ex- cept her brother. Fowler.
 Although an unusually Intelligent and capable girl with very much of . mind of her own. Mathilde 10 ut terly unlike the carefree American type of girl who grows up playing with boys-oE in othor words