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—Shakespeare.
OWADAYS when a young woman
becomes the bride of a man ‘‘old
&nough to be her father,”” her loyal
friends quickly rally to her defense and
quote the saying, ‘‘"T'were better to be an old
man’s darling than a young man’s slave.”’
But every now and then, as if to prove that
sometimes old wisdom is better-than the new,
the warning of Shakespeare’s Passionate Pil
grim, ‘‘Crabbed age and youth canmot live
together,’”’ persists in casting its shadow
over the newer philosophy of love.
A remarkable instance of the conflict
between the old proverb and the new, is
the experience of the young and beautiful
wife of William J. Chamberlain, the mil
lionaire mine owner, of Denver, Colorado.
Mrs. Chamberlain, who is one of the gayest
members of the Colorado capital’s younger
fashionable set, was only twenty years old
when she married the wealthy mine owner,
who had almost reached his three score and
ten,
Eugenia Brueck was the daughter of a
family in humble circumstances. She had
finished high school, and had taken her place
as a wage-earner in a department store to
help eke out the family income. One day
she waited on a distinguished looking elderly
man, who seemed more interested in her than
her wares. Later that day the elderly cus
tomer came again to Miss Eugenia’s counter,
and the next day, and the next. Then, early
one morning, Miss Eugenia was sent for by the store
superintendent. In his office she was confronted by her
mysterious customer, who was introduced to her as ‘“‘the
wealthy Mr. Chamberlain, one of our principal stock
holders.”
The superintendent explained that Mr. Chamberlain
had been struck by the beauty of the sales girl and wished
to formally propose that she give up her position, allow
him to educate her and, when she had become fitted to
take a place at the head of his household, allow him to
make her his wife.
Not long after the young girl was established in luxur
ious surroundings, with governesses and a chaperone.
On spacious grounds at the foot of the Rockies the
elderly suitor built for his bride-to-be a miniature palace
which he~christened ‘‘The Love Nest.”” Here he in
stalled her when they returned from a long honeymoon.
And here for a time, the oldest and the youngest fashion
able ‘‘sets’’ met, on common ground. Now Mrs. Chamber
lain is suing for divorce. She has found, she says, ten
reasons why romance cannot serve age and youth together.
Here they are:
By Mrs. W. J. Chamberlain
(In an Interview.)
I—-’l‘he young woman who becomes
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encounters a hopeless difference be- '
tween her tastes and those of her
husband. He has passed that point :"\%
when social gayety appeals to him. T
For'a time he may strive to simulate I B
an interest in such matters, just to
please the young woman who has
taken his name.
But it can be only a sham at best. After a few weeks
or morfths the will to pretend vanishes and the mask falls.
The absolutely certain result is marked incompatibility.
And ““a house divided against itself cannot stand.”’
Youth must mix the matter-of-fact things of life with
a large percentage of amusement. The play instinct is
strong in all young things. ,
Youth wants to dance and sing. Old age—whether it
wishes or not—looks on with disdainful eyes; it walks in
stinctively with a cane and croaks.
2——May’s marriage to December
' means the stifling of what to
normal women, is the primal instinet
of all life—the desire for mother
hood. Say what we will, the desire
for motherhood lurks in every
healthy woman’s heart. If the bride
faces the fact that all through the
years-to-come- of her wedded life
this instinet is to be denied, her heart turns bitter.
Even should the man not be in the midwinter of life
the woman who is not entirely happy in all her surround
fngs shrinks from bringing a child into the world to share
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The Beautiful Mrs. W. J. Chamberlain—Tak en from a Shop Counter to Become the Wife
of an Aged Millionaire, She Found Luxury but Lost Romance.
her environment. She will most likely shrink and ponder
and doubt—until the magic hour has forever passed, and
the possibility of motherhood is dead.
3—The normal young woman who
marries looks forward with the ‘
keenest interest to working side-by- . ‘é
side with her mate for the upbuild- i
ing of his fortunes, and hers. She
takes a constructive interest in his &:&3{
business and social affairs—in all
that goes toward his establishing for
himself a place in the community.
She wants to share his trinmphs; to help him bear his
defeats.
But old age has already attained whatever measure of
success it may expeet in life. His upward climb has ended.
The battle has been fought. The sorrows and joys of the
struggle have ceased. He must look backward, not for
ward. The girl looks forward instinctively—her past has
been so brief. And so he can have no part in those things
which normally are part of her life, nor has she in his.
Their positions are fixed past all possibility of change.
There is nothing left to struggle and hope and plan for.
T'his side ‘of her womanhood is dead before it knows life.
Let the materialists say what they will, but experience
has proved that those marriages are happiest where the
wife begins with the husband on the humbler rounds of
life’s ladder and helps him eclimb to the heights. The
helping in the climb, after all, is most of ‘the spirit of
marriage.
4——Just as the normal woman finds
g happiness in contributing to the
N gradual success of her husband, so she
Kus finds happiness and the fulfilling of
v her instinets in making a home. Most
e N women, I believe, experience some of
== their most cherished sensations in
laboring, day by day, week by week,
year by year, to make a home.
She starts with a little. Bit by bit a picture is added
—a blooming plant upon the windowsill, a rug, a few sofa
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cushions, a piece of furniture that holds near and dear asso
ciations. Through these little things the home grows into
a wonderful and priceless thing.
A home cannot be bought and paid for in one lump at
a furnisher’s establishment and hauled out and dumped
into so many empty rooms. It must grow through the
years—through sacrifice and love and endeavor. That is
what makes the home.
. The girl who marries a rich old man inevitably misses
all these joys that are so near and dear to every woman’s
heart. The bridegroom may bring her out of her hall bed
room and set her in the midst of a palace—furnished at
fabulous cost by some past master in the art of decora
tion. The establishment may be the wonder and envy of
the thoughtless.
But such a place can never be HOME! And in those
calmer moments, alone with herself in her own chamber,
when reflection must come to every woman, the futility
of her surroundings will pierce her heart and wither
whatever happiness is hers.
S—One of the bitterest things an
’ ““old man’s darling’’ must bear
‘ is her husband’s constant suspicion.
Instinctively realizing that May was
never intended for the mate of De
) cember, but striving to bind the
H young woman closer to him by ties
e of force and duty, he secks to check
all those natural desires of the young
wife for friends of her own age, and for pastimes suited
to her years—however innocent those desires may be.
Her young men friends are under suspicion, even if
they are not shown such a cold shoulder that they stay
away. If the wife goes to a theatre in the evening when
the husband is feeling too feeble to accompany her, she is
subjected, upon her return home; to endless questioning
as to whom she was with and why she stayed out so late
and why she ‘‘always wants to be runing around.”
Closely akin to the aged husband’s jealousy is his lack
of trust in his wife. The simplest requests are met with
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#0 many snags on the score of expenditures that her life is
made a constant burden. :
Where youth sees everything golden, age’s instinct is
to turn everything into gold. .
7——Age cannot help expressing a
spirit of ownership that is little
short of degrading to a woman. He
is continually trying to make her
E - realize that but for his money she
would be slaving at a washtub or
s begging for a humble place in so
ciety. Too often a rich old husband
will not grant any gift without flash
ing its price mark in the woman’s face.
8-—Age knows no permanence ,of
affections.
Age does not know how to have
and to hold. i 2,
Young women who long to be
““old men’s darlings’’ find all too
soon that age does not tolerate them :
long. It will soon tire of its joyous ol SR
plaything and seek to harass the
woman, to hound her and drive her from home—believing
she married only for money. The old husband,.knowing
his own defects, disillusioned, weary, cannot get over this
belief that his young wife married him solely for money.
9——l! the old husband has been
married before his memory of
his first wife—no matter whether the
union was happy or unhappy—rises
as a barrier to real happiness for the
latest wife.
b The young wife is always re
minded that the first wife ‘‘did so
’ and so,”’ or that she ‘‘was a wonder
ful housekeeper,’’ or she ‘‘was superbly economical,’” ete.,
ete., ete. Such talk to any woman, especially if she is try
ing to do her best, is intolerable. It inevitably causes out~
bursts of temper and wrecks the peace of any home.
10~—Then, too, any young woman %
who marries an old man must ( \
face the only-too-slightly veiled (“"o
sneers of even her closest friends \
that she ‘“married old So-and-So just
for his money, of course.’”’ For a
time she may steel her ears and her
mind and her heart against these ac
cusations, but in time they cut
through the stoniest barriers and produce heartaches that
only the most calloused can bear. However untrue these
statements may be, few women long are proof against
them. They will prey upon her sensibilities until they
have utterly shattered her peace. In time she seeks. to
flee from them as she would from a lash applied before
.a crowd.
Says the
Disillusioned
Beafity Who
Was Taken
From a Shop
Counter and
Educated to Be
the Bride of a
Millionaire
of Seventy.
suspicion. He will seldom sign over to the
wife’s name any property, however slight its
value. He seems to fear she will depart, like
a thief in the night, with the ‘‘stolen goods’’
wrapped in a sack. Without perfect trust
there cannot be true love.
6——Far too often, the
elderly husband of
wealth is a miser at
heart. He may have
spent money lavishly
upon the young woman
when he was courting 9
her. But once the min
ister has joined their
hands in marriage he becomes a monument
of parsimony.
Usually he has worked hard to accumu
late a fortune and knows only too well the
value of a nickel. The young wife, not real
izing the need for rigid economy, or not
trained to pinching every penny, will strike~