Palisadian., 1925-10-30

had an appeal for him. She was the
radicalest of the radicals and had fire.
quent mixups with the law. But the
more she was molested the more she
persisted. She was socialist of the
disturbing, violent type, and hesitated
at nothing to win favor for her cause
She was a born militant and though
small of stature was a wheelhorse
for work and got all forms of pub
licity which she seemed to relish as
a part of her conquests in behalf of
her socalled liberty for the poor"
Shattering a Romance
Young Stokes proceeded along the
same path with his wife for nineteen
years and though they were said to
have had many differences, he clung
to her. Then year ago they sepa-
rated, and she had her own home in
West Twenty-fourth street, later 60
ing to her mothers home in the
Bronx. Last week in Nyack Stokes
got an interlocutory decree of di-
vorce, his wife being without counsel
at the trial. Stokes charged "miscon-
duct" and the testimony was so cir
cumstantially definite that the Judge
granted the decree in half an hour.
Thus is shattered another rich young
mans dream of trying to do some
thing with his daddy's money, he
never having earned a dollar of it
himself. One of the curses of inherit
ed wealth is that about half of it
goes by default when it is distributed.
Rose Pastor was never worthy of her
rich young lord, and she gets now
just what she deserved. She is in
disgrace on the misconduct" charge,
but this doubtless will not change her
course. These inspired young radi-
calls generally ride to fall in the
end The romance she had in we'd
ding millionaire socialist has been
knocked into a cooked hat In no
other country of the world could Rose
Pastor have had suchsa career. The
public mind has all along been criti-
cal of her, but her husbands fine con-
victions helped her out of a thousand
holes.
One of the mysteries of the idle
rich clan is the strangeness Of its
PHILOSOPHERS. 1t takes everything for
granted. | would not for a moment
say that some of the rich are not as
good as some of ordinary business or
professional men. There are rich
men who discipline their sons and try
to make them work and to realize
that occupation is the supreme source
of happiness. But there are enough
rich men who indulge their sons to
such pitch as to make them almost
worthless. There are many notable
examples, of course, of worthy sons
among the rich. John d. Rockefeller
is one of these. Most of the Wander
bilt boys have been top notch men.
So with the Astors. And Harry
Payne Whitney is another fine chap
a good sport and fine business man.
The fact that Phelps Stokes had the
determination to break the bonds of
his union with Rose Pastor is all to
his credit, for he doubtless found out
that the old legend of the silk purse
and the sow's ear is all too true. A
woman with her opportunities failing
to make the best of them must be
simple bugs on going wrong. The
charge of misconduct" by her hus
band is the worst thing to be said
of any woman and more particularly
about a married woman. She has
simply stigmatized herself.
While on this subject, it Is we'll to
quote a few opinions of the worlds
best thinkers on riches. Goldsmith
wrote "His best companions inno-
cence and health, and his best riches
ignorance of wealth." And Emerson
said, "Ah, if the rich were rich as the
poor fancy riches" Bacon said "the
ways to enrich are many, and most
of them foul" Vespasian made some
allowance for riches. He said:
Riches are we'll if gotten we'll and
spent we'll" There goes the ever
lasting reflection" upon the rich.
Barton Holyday wrote, e"The dying
mole some say, opens his eyes; the
rich till tits too late, will not be
wise" 1t was Seneca who said, "The
shortest road to riches lies through
contempt of riches" And Confucius,
the wise, wrote: "The rich fool is
like a pig that is choked by its own
fat" Mahomet said: "a mans true
wealth is the good he does in this
world" The famous Cardinal Mann
ing said: Few men are both rich
and generous, fewer are both rich and
humble" Again Emerson says,
without a rich heart wealth is an
ugly beggar." From DIR. Johnson this
morsel: "Riches seldom make their
owners rich" From these it cannot
be said that that the worlds heart is
set against wealth, but it is clear that
most great thinkers have felt that it
is the use of wealth that makes it
tolerated.
Mrs. Stokes On Free Love
Since the above was written Mrs
Stokes has issued a statement in
which she saws that GLOVE IS AL