THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY I.IORNINQ, JUNE 18, 1011
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Believe .th'e-Course of
True Love, Improm
' Must Run.Smooth
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minti ar throyt rod to bpplni when hanb Uf
Intrudtd aaaoyinc rporta that th brida had anatbar
huaband.- Bo Rufua William cam back bom,'aod hl
father atood.br' him untU tho dlrorco waa gTantad br
eomplata annulment )t aummtr. .','
ura. Torkt'MUler acama to hava atiad up tha mental
uppoaad to tnako an anfarement a dream 6f ocataay.t
, But when rhllandar. C. Kaox. Jr. no. not th triad
on; hla tirm la duo twentr yoara from now l!mpd
from oahool and married If laa May Bowler, who wa lua
aa ordinary girl without a dlatlnrutabed family; lifer
waa no fatted calf, no forglraneaa, no welcoming Vftna
f .,- fru. .)v.r when aha added to her w 0' tonfc. m iimo. - .oyna
L -u . .w- Hm.,w that the ,nnn. n'y carrymaT W oi-uuu ,uiwUt4..u.,
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fond of och other they can't t kept apart. Tna longer -u .
the are one ted without being mirnta mo mora wy
are likely to become fooUahly jaaloua. quarrelaoma and
bored.
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ENGAGEMENTS in Atnertca"
H' remarked the romantic English
f J " stuthnrtit Mrs. Yorkt'-Miller.
"are shorter because the young people take
thtir marriage into their own hands. If the
parents are annoying, the lovers just elope.
There are numbers of elopements in Amer
ica. If I bad a daughter who was engaged
to be married, lwould never let . her he tted
to a man unlest sfo was to marry him in
six months." y , . '
r: It was in the marriage month of May
when she said those provoking, stimulating
things. Mayor Gaynor's daughter Gertrude,
in New' Tork, hastily appealed to that ex
perienced eloper, ' her sister Edith, and
ttreirhtwav made for Wilminrton, accon
panied by the' nicest young man she knew. , ;
, Ann romantic, novelist migm oe expect 2AMrtf
to-boom business by boostini the expanding :t,M&M'K Ctj
movement in the United States. .&9JC.
where it has been found far more thrilling
; than sufragetting and infinitely , more de
lightful. ; And almost afty entrancing blonde
or brunette or demiblonde . or albino might
make a dash for Jfplmington with her best'
vounr man at any hour of day or night.
They've done it SO often that JOme famOUS that' becauaa their father. Mayor Gaynor. la one t
members of the clergy and magistrates there' pvr.
: ': , , , V L, m way and haa tranemltted the trait to hla chll-
have CObbteS hired tOr rush the lOVers Straight dren. Jhero ar famlllea Uke that, and the ordinary
from the, railway Station tO their houses aSt eoura of eventa la to leara father altung on the ionely
tn fU A-unttitr f V dooratop, wearing court plaater on nngerg that have
first aids to the affectionate. , ; , , , Un ntM nw nurUnc bricta after wa doparung
But the condemnation of long engage- progeny. ,
mtntS and the' indorsement of elopements. Jne.Caynor h0me, happily, haa mtiM n euch
... ; ' . j. f ' . , aerloua quarrels. Perhapa a eertaln ahrewd phlloaophy
happening almost Simultaneously, nave Stirred ptMU Aaa enabled Mayor Oaynor to i, tal,Uo that nike
the alluring question, Must you' elope tO be ;""kthor, like child" laomethlna; (hat must be expected
i..AMa "j In thla rale of love and politic, and he haa learned to
nappy content hlmeelf with auch aona-ln-law aa hla daughter!
nrHERK are mora oouplea xrow than ever before who
I y are ready to lift bUaaful voicea In eager aaaent.
1 The Oaynor family la ready to giro preference to
' elopementa by two toth. -
They aeem to have the elopement habit there. Maybe
taatea bring along, being a mighty nice father to have.
He aeema even willing to atand by an eloper .when the
alventuro proves to have been a mlatake.
That waa what happened with the first Oaynor elope,
"tnent. which waa heading straight for tho 'limbo of
ruined romances when the aecond oh was sprung with
the eclat which at once pridea and pains enterprising
Wilmington.
Mayor Gaynora son. Rufua William Oaynor, study
ing at Amherst, beheld the darkly beautiful Italian
daughter of a barber, a student of muslo la Boston. -That?
was enouah for Rufus William. Thev fled to Chicago,
and the Oaynor scion was prepared to prov that elope
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Pemos i. ttriin'. or something or, other, according to the
fAcveS,': attending specialist v-w:: ti--: '
Ckp'of' tfi& ! Never js Oania' worried; He orders portrait
'TosfT- - bust in silver, to adorn his yacht, and flirts as he
PcpSfUttys '' pleases. ' He is the jtt of the public, and the pub- , -
7T'7M3T'J Sr'-r lid is" tenor mad. iunfr as it riaa heart fnr all time. i
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- T'S 'all right; as long aa Carua' can call to his aid ,
those magic vocal chords. 'Anything will be tor-
Iven the rnan for the sake of his voice. Twaa
ever thus. As far back aa history runneth, the
public vas anxious to make a fool of itself over a
real tenor.' t - , , '
'l Carua. Instead of being an example of the follies
of the times, aa we have Imagined, la but the latest of
a long line of beautiful voicea over whom the people
at large have delighted to rave. .' "
Ware the time, though, that the vole faila. Unless
he shall have salted away enough ducat to tide over
a period of indifference and neglect that will last the
lARUS' has been in mischiejE "again. ' WiM
a silver voice that charms streams ot goia
into his coffers, he simply can't keep out
. Long 'at odds with his wile, later mixed cp in
a mysterious encounter in a ' New York monkey
house, lastly embroiled with -ft Latm girl of hun
Me parentage, to whom he dispensed couple of
thousnnd dollars at a time in French francs, Ger
man marks oikltalian lire, according towbere-he
and she happened 'to be, the most highly paid t rest of hla natural life he will be in a bad way, . Wnn p.opie
, modemJenSrs has. not JS . iSfitfSZ X&VSt?JS2ti . . fcJX'Z
01 iVUt Kluu Of nuuuicr iwi uo vf rcu jcihi
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'groped rYifb or. of rte former
KYr'ce jnesrtfen 0. b ctmj)
Edith Oaynor waa only II when, on June ti ot last
year, aha agreed ao thoroughly with Mrs. Torke-MUler
that she aped away to Wilmington with Henry Kermtt -Vlngut,
who la a clubman and broker. He brought about
the most remarkable combination of parson and wit
ness ever heard of, even In .Wilmington. Appealing to
Judge Gray, the attorney general of Delaware, aa a
friend whose presence would lend the ceremony dig
nity, he had It performed by the Rev. George I Wolfe,
known afar aa the marrying parson. And they have
lived happily ever after Juat one year, to be correct aa
to the details. '
Edith's alater Gertrude, who la 22, had already, tried
the protracted engagement plan. She la one of your blue- .
eyed, golden-haired, rosy-cheeked, graceful beauties
with whom plain masculinity haa been ordained to fall
In love at first sight It waa that way wtth Alexander
8tewart Wetherlll, and h fell year and years ago, as a
kid, when Ae Gaynors first moved1 to their estate at
Deep Welle, at St. James, I J.
Gertrude was In abort dreasea and had all the airy,
fairy Lillians of poetry relegated to memory's fond
domains. It waa boy-and-glrl love, the most charming
ot the danger of bringing on convulsions, or hernia, in r of all romances: and It grew Into an engagement; and
It went on and on. until the pair of them realised mat
they simply wouldn't be abl to bear each other If they
were to marry.
They had reached that cad conclusion and Tad been ,
existing happily apart for a couple of montha when
William fie ward Webb. a grandson of Commodore Van-
derbllt, decided that the elopement philosophy of Mra
Torke-MlUer wa fth inspiration of genius, and Miss
Oaynor lovingly agreed with him. Taking along th
experienced YinguU, they mad their prompt flight to
Wilmington,' and Mra. Webb la still indorsing her sister
verdict that an elopement leaves th memory of a long
engagement simply the recollection of purgatory.
: Th sons ot Secretary Knox have mad quite as good
a record maybe better, taking their fond average, be-j- ,
; cause Reed Knox rescued hla first romanc by slop
ment, where Gertrude Oaynor lout hers.
. He had been engaged for several years to Miss Basel
McCook. of Pittsburg, whose grandfather wa a captain
in th navy. At least- that wa (he war Washington
society regarded hla unremitting devotion.' Butvthre or
four years sg6 r there followed the inevltabl quarrel
Incident to these protrtcted lov affair. That settled It
earlier generations had raved.
It was, Indeed, the painful remains of a voice that
had been almost aa noted In Its day as that of Caruso.
For. in spite of his diminutive alio, Oullle waa one of
the greatest tenor of hla day. People forgave him for
being almost a midget when the silvery tones Vastg
out '
And before Gullle there were others. As far back
aa Demoathenes, even, the rag tor beautiful male
voices amounted almost to national madness. For In
the ancient Greek times oratory was a cross between a
' chant and a tenor solo.
The eld boys of the most antique days that we have
good records of did, not orate, a, our modern apell
blnders. They Intoned; they devoted as much time
to the cultivation of their voices aa to th formation
of their wonderfully constructed periods. In, fact, the
language had to be somewhat elaborate to suit their
formal sing-song style. : ' y-
, The same singing teacher who trained the singers
coached also the orators, according to Louis C. Elson.
fn a recent Issue of The Musician, of Boston, in which
he said; ' '!-r-'A:.-
Certain songs in Athens, called Orthlan' were
altogether' In the highest register and so dangerous
that Plutarch, the singing teacher, warned his pupils
a small, spare Italian who ripped off Italian arias in a-
in in accora wus . in
- And, througn It all, tne virtuous pUDllO WinKl , : raspy mtie .voice taat was
r-li .,.. A:.h.a-h;m hn. Thia grandloae manner of th old
wjscjj .uo y ---- - some audiences ,-were
. ISflnnirt vocal chords are not tied in double 'DOW- Others regarded him with
operatic style.
cruel - enough to laugh.
knots by laryngitis, grip, superstition, plain over-
been,
interest for what he had
It was something to hear Oullle, ever whom
singing them. The phonaeel, or vocal teachers, of, that
epoch trained both singers and orators; and, in tact
oratory ;waa then but a speclea of chanting. ' Cicero,
the great orator, always had a alav behind him to
sound the pitch at Intervals- during . hla addresses.
Demosthenes chanted hia oratlona. - . .
' "In ancient Athena the singer of tea uaed de
mulcent containing gum tragacanth. Onions and garlic
war considered ' beneficial to the voice. Eela and
starchy " Vegetables were also recommended. Cubebs,
gum arable, gum -tragacanth, 'extract of pine, oil of
almonds and thyme oil were among the remedies and
preaervatlves uaed by the Athenian public singers.
From, this It Is evident that neither, th public nor
the singers have - changed much since the day of
Demoathenes,. for the remedies with which vocallats
dose their vocal chorda are as varied and numeroua aa
those of Athenian daya. . . 1, ... .. ....
In old Rome it was as bad as In Greece. Rich cltl
sens haunted the vooai teachers and went in training
for th poat of head chorister in the plays of those
day post by the way, that waa - most highly ea
teemed. . " -'.."'.' ."''. " -' " " '. '"
As for Nero, he waa aa proud of his voice as any -millionaire
of today who thinks he can atng and can't
war snT wi vi -ni aaai srara nim inar nirm nun
Dr. The-tyrant was as mercileaa In : f or Rd Knox. He Just took her over to Alexandria
hla Blng-aong monologues w in all hiaother doinga. Wwm ngton, when they mad up, ahd hla father.
He would Intone for perhapa flv hour at a time, and t,..i,, . .. go utar be.-
ur on. who showed boredom waa haled out by the ; then senator from Pennsylvania, a year or so later oe-
emperor'a aoldlere and executed. However, according came a proud granddad. Everybody in tnemereasea Knox
to Suetonius, persons occasionally jumpea
Windows ana escapea tnusiy.'
Ther was seme hope, eves ! 14 Rom.
from-the .family appeared to appreciate the wisdom of real home
v ties Instead of rerrular calling nifrhts, even in Waahln
. . ton, wher you-hav calling nights that are generally
He also had to go to work after the el opera an 1 1 But
he showed ho reluctance for that ordeal, and whe 4 th
tlm waa ripe, his brother Reed, knowing how Itjwaat
himself, arranged the meeting between Fhllanderj and
' their father which resulted In th bride becomlj k Jaa
accepted member of the Knox domestic elrcle. .,' $ ) ft
- . Fred Fairbanks,' hla father vie president f th
United States, chose the same Ughtnlng-expres read, t
.wedlock, and for reasons hot so very different from Reedj
' Knox's, and for a Pittsburg girl. too. She wa Miss
Nellie ScotV a schoolgirl friend of hi slater. ; He jlL;la
lova as soon as be saw her, but hla father. alOwujth
Frederick was tf year old and ahe 22, objected to 14 eir
ages as to young. So Fred took MIsS Scott to Bteben-
' villa, O., met th marriage law of residence by deoia.rng
Miss Scott waa a resident until her prospective husband
ahould take her away; got hla license and wa able," a
few hours later, to Inform his father that th vie (reel.
' dentlal limit on th marrtageabl age had been success
fully removed. Th elder Fairbanks, after gritting Ct $b
crown of a few teeth, agreed wtth him, 4 , :
Th average girl. If . sh wer helres t about
rai.OOO.OOO. a was Evelyn Walsh, daughter of Thorns F.
Walsh, th Colorado Croesus, , ana were engagea x we
wir f ven more .million. Uke Ed McLean. sqnt
John TU McLean, of Cincinnati, would count on
mlllionatr marHags, with all th gorgeous fixings. "Miss
Walsh counted on It when sh was first engaged t
htm and had th glorious day set But a month of
betrothkl taught then .both that the course f itrue
love, running W smoothly, waa liable to rnake the
lovers tired. Oft they went and married In ,t ''
roarsonage. as though a H bill and their return tickets
t Whv whan th b&br
WmTW was -'-
cam th telegraph wires couldn't work long enough
to tell about th special guarda, the bulldoga. the
steel-clad coaches, th enormous Mr lnsurancwll
arranged by doUng grandparents to safeguard th
all-Important sequel to th McLean-Walsh elopement
The unwelcom brid or bridegroom does not flgur
much in thes American elopement. It is Just a th
rmanc expert has diagnosed it; American young pso
ple decline "to watt tak their hearts to the moat ao
eeaslble parsonage and hav thm welded together and
duly sealed. Pretty Madeleine du Pont oldest daugtu
tar at the Delaware millionaire, Alfred L du Pont
tookulte a party t f rtenda along with her to Wash
ington when ah fled with John Bancroft, IdV trhosa
father Is wealthy and objected to her no mor than hea
father objected to her Banc. But both parent thought
th coupl had batter wait and both lovers couldn't
se th good of It' Th fathers behaved with all proper
respect for national precedents, welcomed them hom
and agreed that It waa their first duty to th lopera
to keep marrlag from being a failure. v
s NEVER TOLD II OTHER ;. -i.
" Ther wer father to counsel Belay In th man,
4 A Thaodora B. Rogers and Miss Josephln PylN
annthar Delaware coupl who eloped Into domestic Joya,
Rogers! a mlTuonaSre by inheritance and only 21 years
old Just refrained from telling hla mother about It an
Miss Pvla refrained from telUng hers. They Just didn't
tell anybody, except a New Castle. Del., clergyman'
when they arrived at the pawonag together. Of cour
two vears is rather a short tlm for a teat, but thev
. 7 ni thev think lopments
oeen coniuv m - -
beat all th anticipations Ot marrlag. and all th fu
and feathers of a church wedding. t . r : r-
It was just two years that sufficed to end th nat
rled life that followed on elopement which created mor
aetonlanment than any other of lta time. That was tha,
fllsrht of th bautiful VIotoHa Moroslnl with her,
father coachman. Ernest Schilling, Her father, th
wealthy New arorlc banker, refused t hav anything
to do with them, and Schilling at laat got a Job a
street-ear conductor at $ a day. . .. ' - ...k..-
His wife, after endeavoring to put up with th limita
tion of her new existence, made an ineffectual attempt
to go on th stags; hut although sh wa th center ot?
almost tumultuou notoriety for a. tlm. it waa vldnt
hr talents wer not for th theater. She disappeared,
and her husband, after weeks of anxiety and despair,
enlisted in the marine under another nam. Sh ,!
believed to have taken up her yesioence, or a wm "
' a convent and later lived, very meagerly and unknown.
in a New England village, on her father's bounty.
- But fathera seem to hav been better trained, sine
stern old Moroslnl' day.
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Some Curious Facts v
GKESS is taught in nearly an th schools la Saxony.:
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Over six million acres of land ar undr tobaco
culUvation throughout the world. , - ,
Dormant funds In chancery in England now amount ta
about IS.S50.000. th sum being distributed over more than
ISM separate accounts. -
Of lira aliens naturalised In Britain laat year. 390 were
Russians and 847 Germane; while of the whole total i.S
settled In London. ' ' , ' , , '
Th-total area under Wheat in Auetralla this season
will be 7,307,000 acre, an lucre of mor than half a
million acre on last year's area. .
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That rars event a ruby wedding, wa celebrated la
Balfour village. Shapansey, Orkney Islands, recently t
Mr. and Mrs. John Orever. They wer married In V-U
and their respective ge are n and 84 years. .
' Each of King George' son will receive t'AOCO a
from th dvll list on attaining' Ma majority, and : .
daughter t,008 a year at her majority or marriage,
1 ' Under the putter and raargarln act of 157. I'd "!
nam" for margarine and forty-four names I t n.!x'
of butter and milk hav been approved by th 1.
board of agriculture. , .,'