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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1922)
THE STTXDAT OREGOtftoT, PORTLAJVD, : JULY 2, 1922 V The Si s ers cans for Til Charlotte Demarest, When She Leaves Millionaire George Burton Waiting at the Church for Count Zichy, Only Follows Example of Her Sister, Lady Leveson-Gower, Who Turned From the Land of Democracy to Castles in Europe '4 I II II II m & . 'i v.ni I'is in 11 -Wf: 1 ' W ; W V SI lllti'l the inbnomn Romance lies In York believe San Francisco a city o dreams. San Francisco yearns' to ward Av York, The castle in Spain allure because no mortal foot has set its print Inside. 'I lie little daughter of poverty carries In her heart a pic ture of a fairy wedding day. Helr . loom lace, orange blossoms. Tarts gowns, police lines to keep bnck the crowd. But the poor little rich girl! Sim plicity for her: a few words hastily spoken; a flight through the night! The princess loves aud sometimes weds, her commoner, believing plain "Mrs.'' a designation greatly to be desired. But the daughter of democ racy turns from an American mate to a title. Distance! Light as cobweb, strong as steel, winding the human heart, drawing it through dishonor of broken vows toward attainment of the remote. Inconsistency seeing desirability only In that which Is not possessed! mi H ' II. , if 1JL sx.s ft if Charlotte, who threw over an American to marry Count Edward Georg ' -1 T7 T ei r usunyneu. WHEN word went round that the youthful and personable mil lionaire, George Burton, had heen left at the very door of the church down near his New Jersey country estate while his bright-haired, brown-eyed bride-to-have-been, Charlotte Gardiner Dema rest, dropped into the municipal building in New York city and became the wife of . Count Edward George' Zichy de Zich" et Vasonqkeo, two sorts of remarks were made by those most interested. The wealthy and exclusive coterie which had known the lovely daughter of the Warren G. Demarests, first as debu tante, then as an engaged girl whose errant fancy turned elsewhere than to ward her fiance, declared that for once she had done the natural and admirable thing. They said: ' "She is one of our many girls wh5 want a wedding, not a grand opera ceremonial. She was tired of display and so she seized the casual." But a less fashionable set said this: "Ah-ha! Another American jilted for a title!" Now both of these opinions are true, in part at least. For the little society beauty did hate "fuss and feathers," she said to herself after it all was over. She was weary of humdrum elaboration. Contrast and therefore satisfaction for her was represented by the four bare waiis of the municipal building chapel. The change was the tonic which invigorated.her love affair. And that she expressed a dispositional quirk, a, family one quite likely, in drop ping whatever she fcad on hand to seize a title which waited round within easy reach sees demonstrated in the mar riage of her older sister, Lady. Alastair Lveson-Gower. The unsuccessful marriage of Helene Demarest to Jack Leishman, sor cf the Pittsburg millionaire and the then am bassador to Rome, is social history, just Kill Atk A iD;ti: an t . s -JSC- mm have been made without a descent to frank sensuality. The statue is now on exhibit in the Paris salon. . A recenj, exhibition in London of the works of the Polish sculptor, Glicenstein, startled the art world of the British capital solely on account of Its bold treat ment. The subjects were all convention al. One of these, "Fear," Is said to be the best thing ever done in bronze by a modern. This statue, a reproduction of which Is shown on this page, depicts the .awful, soul-sickening fear of a mother for a threatened child. Movement Begun to Introduce Camels as Beasts of Burden. Plans for Transport In America Follow Successful Experiences With Animal In Foreign Famine Districts. 11 Lady Mastair Leveson-Gower, first of the Demarest sisters to wed a nobleman. as is the alacrity with which she accepted the opportunity to become "my lady." Leishman was an ; American and a "Mr." Even the wedding at Lake Como end residence in Italy offered little of the unusual to tfte girl who Tiad roamed the world at will. But the brother of the duke of Suther land appeared to be successful in fulfill-1 ing her dream. He died suddenly two years ago and her little daughter now is heir to Sutherland's vast land holdings, the greatest in the United Kingdom. , But the Countess Zichy is only one of the social butterflies who have fluttered through vows and promises, parental ob jections, conventions, every logical' con sideration, to be married and started on the road toward Happy-Ever-After land' a country characterized in nearly every case by sharp contrast " to the land of Familiar Fact. , Two years ago the hauteur of Philadel phia was jarred out of its superb calm when the most youthful debutante ever to defy lorgnette and lofty brow hooked' up with one of its younger sons and announced that they'd both go to work for a living. She was Fifi Widener, daughter of Joseph Widener, the traction millionaire. He was the nephew of Will iam C, Dickerman of American Car & Foundry fame. Both of these personages indicated a willingness to be "shown." So, after the youngsters' had dragged their suitcases outi of Knoxville, Tenn., where the ceremony took place in the un millionairish office of a Justice, to Ashe ville, N. C, for their honeymoon, they "moved up to Berwick, Pa., and got busy. They made good. They are getting on so well that they have refused assistance offered- by pleased members of both fam ilies. - - The boy, who had , been accustomed only to idle luxury, found such fascinat ing contrast in his work as a two-dollar-and-a-half-a-day laborer in uncle's foun dry that b became a self-reliant man all at once with whpt seems certain success hanging over his ead. . The girl was dazzled by the novelty of a gingham apron. I Her mcst 1 arduous housework having been the job of ringing for the maid, she discovered endless in terest in a dishcloth and a mop. City mansions, country homes, seaside .cottages all were old stuff. But the little house of four or five rooms and one bath in the workingmen's quarter of the city what more could one desire for romance? And .so they are heppy. About the time Philadelphia's upper ten had recovered its breath, Gotham's Ld. ni Zichy and his bride as they ap 1 peared when they eloped. choice Knickerbocker specimens were gasping over the Edith Gould-Carrol Wainwright affair. That lovely, dark eyed daughter of an old line met the young art student upon a corner of Fifth avenue the day after she was graduated ' from School. They decided that prospect . of summer in the Adirondack3 promised nothing but boredom. He had no business experience; no personal income. Together they faced uncertainty; perhaps poverty, a casting out by their own kind. But precariousness blazed against the safety they had always known like a flame on the ash- of monotony. Magnifi cence had gone stale through too intimate acquaintance. They wished to take a chance. , So there was a hurried visit to Elkton (Md.) Gretna Green, and a marriage with out any of the decoration associated with the nuptials of such socially important people. They were not permitted to test pov erty, however. Their families forgave and were pleasant. Is the romance of the Countess Zichy and her tall, blond husband to turn out unfortunately? Unlikely. She has little of the unknown to find disillusioning. Socially the count is eligible. Born in Eastbeurne, England, as' the records at the marriage license' bureau relate, his parents, the Count and Countess Bela R. Zichy, are leaders in the same exalted set in which moves the Countess Szech enyi, formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, in Enyiczka, Czecho-Slovakia. The Countess Bela Zichy was Mabel Wright, daughter of the late George 'Wright, one time wife of young Yznaga, a nephew of the beau teous Miss Yznaga, who became the dow ager duchess of Manchester. Financially, however,' the young count ess may be forced into experiment. The day after her marriage the hotel where her honeymoon was being spent was in vaded by a deputy sheriff with a writ of judgment for something over a thou sand dollars obtained by a taxicab owner for injuries his vehicle sustained when the Hungarian nobleman wrecked it with his roadster. The countess was quoted as telling the embarrassed officer that she and her husband "hadn't a shirt between them." That lack of money failed to make her down-hearted seemed indicated 111 what she said later in the day about her marriage. Her statement is interesting because it throws a light on all other marriages of the sort; dashes into the unknown after romance, as they may be: "Married quick, like a whirlwind. Yes, that's it. Only I should say it was more like a cyclone so quick, so thrilling. And really that's the only way. No fuss, no feathers. Those are such a bore! "I'm sorry to have hurt anybody's feel ings. Poor Mr. Barton is very nice, but I felt I was making something of a mistake in marrying him. . "Six months after I met Ed I "went to Paris to study. He went to South Amer ica on business. But we corresponded. When we both came, back to New York he proposed to me." When the little countess was asked con cerning Mr.. Burton, who was rehearsing the wedding ceremony at the church in Elberon, N. J., when word came to him of his fiance's elopement, sh musingly repeated the words with which he is said to have received that piece of news: "Hell's bells!" New Statues Cause of Sensa tional Incidents. (Continued From F?rst Prp.) who offered to pose for her, speculation as to the identity of the models used in "Jazz" has kept the statue pretty well in the limelight. The same aura of mystery surrounds the identity of the four models who posed for '"The Dance of the Bacchante," the new fountain at "El Gran Casino de la Playa" in Havana, Cuba. The artistic in terest aroused by this work but this interest was pale and academic beside the curiosity which was provoked by the an- ' nouncement that the four models were American girls of prominent families. The Cuban sculptor refused to give out the information. Since that time every body who looks at a photograph of the statue has tried to recognize an acquain tance. ' But statuary sensations haven't been confined to America. Citizens of France, whose ideas on art are considered freer from illiberal restrictions than the peo ple of any other nation, have shown that - they can still be shocked. The shocker in question is Maxine Real DeSarte's new piece of sculpture, entitled "Resistance." This artist won last year's grand prize and this statue is what he is offering this year. The group is made up of a woman in the embrace of a man she is evidently fighting off. The treat-, ment is considered "audacious but love ly." One or two critics have said, how ever, that the same artistic appeal might TO most Americans the camel is a circus animal and an animal of romance. Few can conceive of him as an everyday beast of burden, a beast as com mon in the countries where he is used as the horse is to us and even far more useful. Yet despite the inroads of the auto mobile, in oriental countries he is the most prized possession and performs the work that in other countries are per formed by a number of animals. It was only recently that an intimation of what a tremendously serviceable and remarkable beast of burden he is was given to us in a dramatic manner through the eyes of the American relief in Russia. When the food ships arrived in Russian ports last fall the relief administrators discovered a pitiable state of demoraliza tion. The railroad system leading into the famine districts was absolutely dis organized and could not be reconstructed at the beginning of winter or in time to serve the immediate needs of the suf ferers. Horses were not available to any ex tent, many having been killed for food. Those that had escaped the stricken, vic tims of starvation were so weak from un dernourishment that they could not be depended upon for this strenuous duty. While the workers despaired someone , suggested camels of which there wa3 a fair supply available just over the Rus sian border in Asia. With the ordinary misconceptions of this strange beast as an oriental in mind the Americans at first laughed at this suggestion, but the Rus sian helpers , who knew reminded the doubters from the United States that camels have to stand very severe temper atures in the night winds which sweep, piercingly across the desert and that these animals are in use in mountainous Bactria and in the northern part of China, w where the climate is not by any means tropical. In other words that the animals work equally well in wet, hot and cold climates, which is more than can be said for the horse. But there was no time for skepticism. .The most forlorn hope would have been utilized and all the camels in the vicinity . were impressed in this service of hu manity. From all sides came reports of the ter rible sufferings of the famished. Relief was needed at once in widely separated districts, many of them inaccessible by any other way than the camel train. Along the stretches of the crippled railways went what relief trains could be got together, while along the rugged highways went caravans of camels each animal loaded with nearly 1000 pounds of food. There have been caravans before which have figured in romance and history, caravans that have served high purposes, but few that have performed missions of mercy and won places like those sent to the aid of the starving by the American relief. In due course they reached the vast districts which, on account of the trans port breakdown, could not have been reached in any other way, thus saving' hundreds of thousands of lives that other wise would, have, been sacrificed. These caravans, in fact, made long journeys through difficult country in bit ter cold weather, in extraordinary time and that with the loss of but few animals Thus not only was a trying problem solved by the use of camels, but to the wise observers it suggested something else, namely that other similar work In similar climates not usually considered natural for the camel could be per formed. It brought home the fact that the animal which by its very nature was the ideal, servant of man need not be limited in his range to the warm climates but could be used in other countries, the United States among them as well. It was a dramatic revelation and its fruit seems to augur as much for tne permanent and normal benefit of human ity as it proved in this startling and un usual emergency. .Following this experience word comes that the department of the interior is now .contemplating the introduction of the camel into this country, especially in the larly available.