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THIS is Ih story of a self-made
Cinderella. It is also the etory
of Mrs. Herbert M. Ilarrlman.
who. up to a few weeks &o. was
rla'n Miss Sally Hunter. Mr. Harri
min and Miss Hunter were recently
married in Indiana an'l are now on
their honeymoon.
Like the kitchen drudge in the fairy
tory. Miss Hunter was raised over
Right from the comparative poverty
f a walk-up apartment on New
York's east aide to the fur-l!ncd opu
lence of riches, aoclal position and a
celebrated name. But quite unlike
the kitchen drudge, six has refused
to leave It all to a fairy god-mother.
She believed In magic did Miss
Hunter. She believed particularly in
the magic that could raise one from
obscurity, to eminence. But she also
Relieved that spell weavers and
magic workers expected a little help
from their beneficiaries.
An Ironical American .writer has
suggested that the full story of Cin
derella has never been told. What
happened, he asks, after the prince
took her to live in his palace? What
did he think when she misused her
knife and forkT What bitter words
passed between them when he tried
to get her out of the plebeian habits
f the kitchen? What utter humilia
tion must he have felt when she ap
peared at her first court function
dressed up like a circus horse?
"Alaa.- he must have told himself,
"would that I had had a good look at
'her In that kitchen.'
AH of these things must have flick
red across the mind of Saliy Hunter
as she sat and meditated on the pos
sible grandeurs of her future. And
out of these speculations must havt
come the determination to keep her
lamp trimmed and burning, her hair
waved and her mind clear.
A key to the former M!ss Hunter's
attitude Is furnished by her mother,
Mrs. James Hunter.
"Tou know Sai:y has been very
popular." said Mrs. Hunter In com
menting on her daughter's marriage
to the capitalist and ex-golf cham
pion. "She makes friends very quick
ly. Somehow or other all of her ac
quaintances have been among prom
inent peopje. She often said she
wou'd not bother with any others.
"She has had many chances of mar
riage" Cinderella must have had of
fers from the coachman and the
butcher boy too "but turned them
all down. She often told me she would
take the ripht man when he cam
along one that was worth whl'e
She must have believed that Mr. Har
rlmn was won:i while when she con
sented, for she is a very clever girl."
So we have Mif.t Hunter looking
out upon life, not through the eyes of
a fatuous'.y sentimental girl, but
with the clear gaze of one who knows
what she Is about. She expected to
marry some one rich and great and
she knew that in order to do that she
must be quite as good in all ways as
the grrls who are habitually wedded
by the rich and the great.
The Hunters, according to informa
tion furnished by Mrs. Hunter, came
from Ireland Sa'.ly was born in Bel
fas: and had never been away from
home until the whole family moved
to the I'nited States and took up
their residence in New York city. Her
father took employment as a car
starter with the Metropolitan Rail
way company. Sally took up nurs
ing and incidentally sought In every
way to broaden her outlook on life.
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Sally vis good looking and she
knew it. The fact that most men
stopped to look at her twice taught
her that she could afford to be dis
artminating. The war cam on and Miss Hunter,
being already a graduate nurse, went
Jurnwdiate'.y Into service. As one of
her brothers was going across with
the expeditionary forces she decided
to confine her work to this country.
She was assigned to the base hospital
at Camp Taylor. Louisville. Ky.
Major Herbert M. Harrlman. then
an officer in the field artillery, was
also at Camp Taylor and was one of
those caugiit in the Influenza epi
demic. Miss Hunter was his nurse.
The attack was slight but the period
of his convalescence' gave the major
ample time to study the girl. He
found her tall, well-molded, with
light hair and the deep-blue eyes that
were put in. as the Irish say. with .a
smudgy finger. He found her singu
larly well Informed and agreeably
self-contained. She knew things and
she knew when and how to express
loem. In the major's experience with
women, an experience which had been
croud and Ion?, he had known no girl
with greater charm 6r greater savoir
talre. She. on her side, found her patient
n experienced man of the world, but
the sort of a man who has been mel
lowed by his experience rather than
embittered. He was plainly a man of
education and culture and one who
was used to luxuries. But there was
none of that narrowness of views
which led to snobbery.' He was a
personality as well as a person.
On such a mutual understanding
was the friendship between Sally
Hunter and Herbert M. Harriman
built up. Some of his friends, hear
ing his enthusiastic descriptions of
his nurse, were inclined to chalk it
up as another one of those sickroom
Idylls. A man racked with fever,
they argued, would think any woman
an angel who placed cool hands on
his head. He fell In love with the
hands and not the woman. Once he
recovered his health and saw what
the hands were attached to, he usual
ly found that her teeth advanced
while her chin retreated.
Nobody, of course, could find any
bad. But for a long while, It did
look as if the Hunter-Harriman
flaws in Miss Hunter's appearance,
whether he was in good health or
with the troops. Miss Hunter stayed
in America. There was no corre
spondence between them.
After a while came the armistice.
The troops returned. Major Harri
man went back to civil life. In the
eariy summer of 1921 he asrain took
sick and a trained nurse wfis brought
In. The nurse suggested that a
friend be engaged as her relief. Here
the long arm of coincidence reached
over and took hold of the situation.
For when the relief nurse arrived at
Harriman's bedside she was Miss
Sally Hunter.
Not much was needed to revive
their friendship. Not much was need
ed, in fact, to make it take on a
greater significance. Then, again,
Mr. Harriman was no longer held
back by the disability of being al
ready married, for his second wife,
Mrs May Brady Harriman, had di
vorced him a few months previous.
Presently Mr. Harriman recovered,
went abroad, returned and went west.
Shortly thereafter New York society
was handed a shock in the report that
Mr. Harriman and Miss Hunter were
to be married. Mrs. Oliver Harriman,
mother of Herbert Harriman, finally
declared that the report was true
but not until she and Miss Hunter
had met.
Mrs. Harriman has never said what
sort of girl she expected to meet. All
she knew of her prospective daughter-in-law
was that she had been a
nurse and lived in a walk-up apart
ment on the east side. But the girl
who walked calmly Into Mrs. Harri
man's drawing room might have been
the carefully nurtured flower of any
aristocralc New York menage.
Following the meeting Mrs. Harri
man said:
"Yes, the engagement is a sort of
a surprise, but it is true. I found the
young woman quite charming when
she came to see me. She is cultured."
It was the self-made Cinderella's
friendship was purely a sickroom af- test this meeting with Mother Har
fair. Major Harriman went abroad riman and the preparation of 29
years was justified. She had not only
won the prince but the prince's fam
ily, something that only a modern
Cinderella could hope to do. By that
let it not be thought that Miss
Hunter jumped at Mr. Harriman's
proposal. She gave it serious con
sideration.. He had- to repeat his of
fer several times, it is said, both in
person and by wire.
Following her visit to Mrs. Harri
man, Miss Hunter joined her fiance
at French Lick Springs, Ind. They
were married at Paoll, Ind., the coun
ty seat, and are now on their honey
moon, which was to include a
European visit and a possible trip
around the world. This Is Harriman's
third marriage. His first bride was
Miss Hunnewell, his second Miss
Brady. There was a divorce in each
case.
Her Friends Rejoice.
In Sally's set there is some little
envy of her, but for the most part her
friends are rejoicing with her. On the
night she chose to announce the en
engagement she gave a little party at
her home in East Ninety-Eixth street.
The girls and boys refused to take her
story seriously at first. It sounded
too much like the original Cinderella
yarn for them.
W. Thompson, who married Miss
Hunters sister, spoke of the party
and his own impressions in these
words:
"We had a wonderful time celebrat
ing Sally's good luck. Some of the
girls who dropped In to wish Sally
good-bye didn't believe she wa,t to
marry Mr. Harriman. vBut I haTa
Lever had any doubt about it. Sat
is not a girl who wouldi take up wlta
someone who didn't have some atand
Ing m the community.
"She Is like all of the girls now
adays. They all want to marry the
fellow with some money. I don't
think Sally cares anything about so
ciety. All she wants is comfort. But
in marrying Mr. Harriman she Is get
ting both."
BLOCKADE OF CULTURE AND ENLIGHTENING
PROPAGANDA HELD CURE FOR BOLSHEVISM
Eminent Anti-Leninite Leader Says Bayonets and Shells Are Powerless to Banish Abominable Idea That
Now Grips Russia and Theatens to Destroy Civilization of World.
USSIA cannot be rescued from
bolshevism by a foreign mil-
tary invasion. Fighting ter
ror with terror will not avail. An al
lied army passing through Russia
would be like a vessel crossing the
ocean. The waves of bolshevism
vould be disturbed for the moment,
but they would close in Its wake and
t.s visible trace would be lost by the
time it passed over the horizon. Bol
shevism is an idea, hideous, abomina
ble and Utopian, and it is only by
Ideas, sane, healthy and humanita
rian, that it can be eliminated."
Such is the opinion expressed by
Pr. V. T. Kriavskey. president of the
Far Eastern League of Freedom and
Men's Rights, who was In Los An
peles, Cal., coming from Manchuria on
a special mission to Washington. Lon
don and Paris. Dr. Kriavskey is an
eminent Russian physician who. be
fore the war. had achieved an in
ternational reputation for bis dis
coveries In relation to treatment of
diseases of the heart. Since the bol
shevik! have seized the government
red destroyed the industries and
cultured life of Russia, he is seek
ing to heal the bleeding heart of his
r.ative land.
While he deplores the destruction
cf property and the starvation and
misery occasioned by bolshevism,
cat receives the impression in listen
ing ta Pr. Kriavskey that It is the
cultural loss to Russia, the loss of
Its science. Its arts, its cleanliness,
the refinements of the intellect that
free man from grosser animal in
stincts that it is the loss of these
which he deplores most.
He has given to his country's ills
a clinical diagnosis and has reached
the conclusion that a major surgical
operation. with its unavoidable
bloody hemorrhage, will never ef
fect a cure. When a country loses
Its music, poetry, literature, painting
and architecture, its love of justice,
love of beauty and love of virtue, it
Is plainly suffering from a mental
malady and it Is a case for a sana
torium, not for the operating room.
Dr. Kriavskey says that the war
left the Russian people so enfesbled
t.iat they were not able to combat
successfully the bolshevist revolu
tion, that the contagion of bolshe
vism has now attained the masses
and is spreading to neighboring peo
ples, that it is a menace to the
civilization of the world and that
the bolshevist propaganda must be
fought courageously and intelligently
tv counter propaganda or modern
civilization Itself may perish.
It is for the purpose of fighting the
bolshevist idea of spoliation, plunder
and terror with the higher ideals
cf humanity. Justice and brotherly
love that the association of which
he is the chief has been formed. It
vai organized in Manchuria by a
cosmof olitau group composed of
Russians, Frenchmen, Englishmen
and persons of other nationalities
who were united in their opposition
f. bolshevism, but - who became
convinced from their experience that
a campaign of education and not of
military force alone could stop the
spread of the red plague.
Speaking to a group of Los Angeles
isidents who had learned something
of the aim and the work of the asso
ciation and who called to see him
recently at the Alexandria, Dr. Kriav
skey said:-
"Three years of internal struggle
in Russia have passed and the little
faction with ultra extreme socialistic
tendencies, numbering no more than
10 per cent of the population, has
seized all the people in its clutches,
raa destroyed centuries of its cultural
development and has brought the
country to a state of beggary and de
cay. "No attempts on. the part of the
Russian elements who were able to
save themselves, no efforts or In
tervention on the part l her neigh
bors Poles. Japanese, etc. no as
sistance and aid from the allied pow
ers have been able to overcome those
v, horn all the world has recognized
as the enemies of civilization.
"Why? The answer is clear and
simple. The success of bolshevism
does not depend eimer on the Imag
inary strength of the red army or
or. the qualities of Its pseudo-teach
ing. No. They have on their side
tremendous assets in . the enormous
propaganda Within the country and
without, in an exact and durable or
ganization of their party and in the
power of terror. On the other side
there is no constructively organized
oiposition.
"By force of arms it is possible
to overthrow temporarily the power
of the bolshevist government, to pre
vent menacing episodes, to retard the
process of disseminating the evil; but
to destroy, to eliminate, entirely an
idea, even, one so hideous, so abomi
anble and so Utopian as that of bol
shevism, fcby force of arms alone Is
Impossible.
"There must be organization work
as well as counter propaganda con
ducted for the purpose of strengthen
ing the moral force of the laws of
culture and civilization, those for the
defense of human rights and liberty
and for the decisive, but bloodless
struggle with . the ideas of violence
and the rule of the minority. That
work has not been done. The moral
and constructive side was neglected.
"Instead of this, on the borders of
Russia are bayonets and shells; be
yond her borders are restrictive po
lice measures against bolshevism. But
these are not methods that will carry
far.
"Humanity is undoubtedly under a
menace. The poison of the contagion
which ha9 already inoculated Infect
ed Russia is gradually spreading to
her neighbors. It must so spread and
penetrate in accordance with the law
of irloral unresistance.
"It has penetrated, and 'is pene
trating to those places where there
is no preventive propaganda. All peo
pes. even the most remote, are not
immune to the serious menace to the
political equilibrium of their a-overn-
ments and of the civilized world.
They must no longer be criminally
near-sighted, but must take special
measures betimes to help those who
are nearer to the seat of infection
and who wish to work, but are un
able to do so on account of lack of
strength and means.
"In place of, or simultaneously
with the attempts at a military and
economic blockade of Russia, it is
necessary to create an organized and
forcible blockade of a cultural, educa
tional and propagandist character. It
is necessary to form a chain of asso
ciations for moral guidance and eco
nomic assistance about the present
borders of Russia, or those reassigned
to her, for the aid of the population
which is still alive and has suffered
to a lesser extent from the neigh
borhood reign of the zoological in
stinct over the rights and freedom
of civilized humanity. By the cre
ation of such a preservative zone for
the healthy, indirectly and automati
cally the process of resuscitating sick
and enfeebled Russia will be greatly
facilitated. "In general, ail peoples who are
"blissfully dreaming on top the bol
shevik volcano, like prerevolutionary
Russia rocked by the government and
the gendarme regime, must be
aroused, must be made to stand for
an active and open cultural struggle
egainst bolshevism. It is time for all
to disregard factions, classes and
stages of social life and to organize
and unite in the spirit of an entire
people opposing a great malady that
attacks the brain as vigorously as
the stomach and intestines. Peoples
must be roused to the menace of bol
shevism, to Its destructive degrading,
brutalizing and terrorizing tenden
cies, to the end that all peoples shall
send forth the fiat that on no spot
of their territory is there now or ever
can there be, a place for bolshevism,
"Peoples who, by reason of their
remoteness and the internal charac
teristics of their country, feel se
cure from the dangers of bolshevist
Infection, must join now in the aid
of those who are immediately men
aced. For, as certainly as the earth
revolves, if they fail now to combat
bolshevism while it is comparatively
weak and far away, the day will come
when it will be strong enough to com
bat them, though they be located at
the ends of the earth.
"Millions are needed now for the
culturally educational struggle with
bolshevism, a struggle that gives
every promise of success. But the
amount necessary is but a trifle com
pared with the terrible cost in lives
and gold of an armed struggle later.
To wasted millions will then be add
ed human lives, tears, mourning, sor
row and misery." .
But one must listen to Dr. Kriav
tkey, must see the emotion depicted
on his countenance and the tears that
well to his eyes when he speaks of
the present condition of so many mil
lions of his countrymen in ill-starred
Russia, and of the terrible mistakes
that were made when Denikine,' Kol
chak, Yudenltch and Wrangel sought
to fight with powder and cannon in
place of with Ideas in order to grasp
the true pathos to a loyal Russian of
the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
All the mysticism of the Slav, por
trayed so vividly by the great Rus
sian romancers, air the wild love for
the customs and the traditions that
composed intellectual Russia, all the
regret for the culture of centuries
destroyed by human brutes all these
pass like a scenario through the
changing lights in his gray-blue
northern eyes, or leap like cataracts
from his lips. "
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