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I 1 9 1 Gy I t C- C 0 p f- f r l f f 4 a t ft rl- rl w f t r I ff F Z h s I r t JAMES wrote a story stor r called What Maisie Knew father and mother 4 J were divorced Each marJ mar mar- gift again and 1 grew brew up with two fathers and two mothers The purpose or of the nov novel l was to show In the pathetic figure or of a lItti litt a girl the domestic and social and sometimes some some- times sadly personal confusion resulting re- re sull from the catastrophe or of di di- vorce orce You may apply the star story with special cial pertinence at this time to the queer marital mix In the wealthy families of the United States There Thero is no analogy between the tho case of the average child tossed Into the scales ot of a divorce court and the tho child of oC money moner whose gOdparents are corporations and whose real parents are trust companies The Tho life or of the child of the rich Is marked out after The Former Mrs Robert Goelet and Her Son Peter m mr r L 4 S IA iY 1 t rL p y 1 r. r Mr a scientific order of at things taking account of health of oC dress of manners man man- ners of education and training In each pach line the modern man of millions provIdes experts There Is small time for the man or woman or of society hedged about with Innumerable duties duties du- du ties and interests to give personal care to the several branches of oC the childs child's upbringing And It t Is from this viewpoint that the child of the rIch may be pardoned for taking a philosophic view or of bar Ing a double set of oC fathers and moth ers cry that might be entirely stran strange e to the grown up whoso path had never or been bordered by the setting of at wealth The Vanderbilt Exception A notable exception to this phase or of the stud study is little William Vanderbilt Vander Vander- bilt son or of Alfred Gwynne Vander bill b by his first wIfe who was Elsie French Isis 1115 was the expectation or of being the heir to the Vanderbilt mill mm Ions Each year ear for five years his father Cather gave o him Then Thon came tama the tho family break br and little Instead or of finding himself with wilh t two o homes and two fortunes fortune found oun that his bis expectancy had been partially eclipsed by the advent or of n a Vanderbilt family resulting from his fathers father's subsequent mar mar- Two To children born to the second Mrs Vanderbilt who was Mrs Smith The Gould en Over Whose Custody Frank Jay Gould and Helen Kelly Gould G Fought Bitterly in the Courts Hollins McKim came Into tIle the major portion of the fathers father's estate while th the son by br the first marriage found himself In possession of the minor share Nor did the little Vanderbilt of the first marrIage find t that a double establishment cared for him For matter or of contrast the Always stand prominently prominent prominent- ly lj from the record The title is quoted It was as bestowed upon the two little girls who were born to Frank Jay Jar Gould Goul and his first wire wife Helen felen Kelly Gould Gould- Following divorce there was much fighting over their custody tI to Father and mother alike I i In- In 1 t d- d upon exclusive jurisdiction for Cor a long lont time the court made most elaborate arran arrangements for the passing or of the time of oC the tho children The father Cather was given the custody of at the two girls for seven months of oC the year ear During the tho other othor five the tho mother was awarded their cure care But even during the time allotted to 0 each parent the other had certain clays durIng which the children must be duly returned for Cor a visit The rhe comings and goings of oC the children were almost is as complicated as the workIngs workIngs work work- Ings of oC an astronomical chart Master William Vanderbilt Son of Al Alfred red Gwynne Vanderbilt Driving with Tutor and Footman r r r 1 fI J j Even certain days da s 's were divIded as for 01 instance c on Christmas when the fathers father's automobile duly whirled the tho children over to his his his' home to see what Santa Claus had hung on the tree then the mothers mother's car came camo along nt at the exactly appointed hour to take them back to see how the old saint had treated tho stockings In the maternal establishment Between Sept 15 and Juno June 15 It was provided that neither parent could take the children more than miles from rain New York without the consent or of the other I i In- In a and Miss Mis s George G Gustav Hoye and the the Children Placed in Her Custody by the Courts q t y yr r j A As s 3 j fr R t r y ff 1 Y far I t i fry r vR K Q S Q it r rr r I r The whirligig or of the fashionable world brought to the tho father a second wife In the person ot of Miss Edith Kelly and to the mother a second husband In the person of oC Ralph lUll Thomas And along came also a compromise com com- promise b by which Ir Goulds Gould's sister Miss Helen now Mrs FInley J. J Shepard was given the care of the girls Then there are the tho three little John William I am KatherIne and Ellen When Clarence W V Machay Mac Mac- hay kaj separated ft from om his beautiful wife wite who was wad Katherine Duel Duer and a aleader aleader leader in the suffrage movement the Another View of Miss Alice Muriel Astor The Children of Anna GoUld Castellano Castellane Who Who Went to Their Mother After the Div Divorce r from the Erratic Count time The court awarded the custody cu tody of all three children ren to the father A typical case of oC double guardianship guardianship guardian guardian- ship appears in the instances ot of the two young oung Goelet Ogden boys and Peter Mrs Goelet was Miss Elsie Whelan a Philadelphia beauty She dev developed loped strong artistic temperament tempera tempera- ment which is generally believed to have wrecked the Goelet For years ears before their divorce society heard that the husband had oU offered red h her I eyer pO possible inducement to drop the dream of sculpture and painting FInally when the tho break came camo and anda a divorce was granted the custody of at Ogden was given gi to both parents jointly oi through a mutual agre agre agreement me The younger son Peter was given n Into the custody of the mother un until lI he reached the age of oC 6 now two years when distant he would come Into mutual custody Mrs Goelet has become the w wife e of Henry Henr Clews Jr There are many In In- Henry Clews III Who Acquired a New Brother I Iby by His Fathers Father's Marriage with Mrs ROb Robert Goelet I Mrs WK K V Vanderbilt Iid Jr and Her Phil Children en W Who ho H Have e Not Suffered S from m the Results of a Legal Separation l Yet Are Arc Not See Seen wi i the Father care of two children who vho have b been n made court orphans Is given in n the case as of at AIrs Blanche I A. A V Reye lIe dl divorced from George Gustav Here Hepe a New York banker who recently re recently married married- Miss Dorothea Page I In her suit for Heye was wasn n custody at andLa rence William their two children She told the court In an itemized statement that they could not b reared In society onless than n a year The court had different notion and seeing that the justice was was' bringing along a family on a year rear he awarded her the same amount I j The Children The Tho reading s public is fam familiar lar with the for the little born to the Count and Countess de deI I Castellane lIss Anna Gould Following her d vor e count and her her- marrIage to the Prince de the tho three children were gIven to the moth rn n this case case likewise the former Miss Helen Gould n now w Mrs Shepard aided the children of oC a divorce c court urt mix t p p. Another Interesting case which places laces into the story ot divorced dl chili dren another loadings family is that or of lIttle lIttlen n s Muriel Astor daughter of of the late John Jacob Astor Since the the divorce that was granted John John Astor who was was Miss Ave Ava Willing Will- Will Ing of oC Philadelphia she has with th her mother The marriage ge ot of oth h her 17 father which shortly pIe preceded e d his death on tho Titanic to Mies Madeline Force did not bring P and home to Ue the young g girl rl possibly because the Jat father er was as before e the waning of at the and the establishment ot of h In hIs N New w York home r r until Another View of Miss Alice Muriel Astor jointly oi through a mutual agre agre agreement me The younger son Peter was given n Into the custody of the mother un until lI he reached the age of oC 6 now two years when distant he would come Into mutual custody Mrs Goelet has become the w wife e of Henry Henr Clews Jr There are many In In- Henry Clews III Who Acquired a New Brother I Iby by His Fathers Father's Marriage with Mrs ROb Robert Goelet establishment ot of h In hIs N New w York home r r until e. e r. r roi t r r 1 d sk 1 i I 1 rf i. i F i ir r t 7 I r t i 1 r rby r. r 4 1 f t TT Y t ti i I J Al L 1 L A t o nt r ra I t z 4 S 7 r I p t Y A father Cather lDa made e the tho mo most t strenuous et ei torts Corts to keep the children from Crom the mother Automo Automobile flights long traIn trips and a fast a secret run across the ocean all under the cover of detective protection continued for Cor Cornino nino months before a halt was reached reache Up to the time that the Paris court which granted a decree sides s. s passed upon their divorce the ho mother had custody custod of oC the tho oldest girl for n a n V ter reports that Mr Goelet who Is a man or of Ulan many attractive s butts is shortly tu to take a bride A Agreed reed upon a separation was g. g ts v said or of Mr 11 and Mrs W V K Vander E hilt Jr but ut there has been no legal tr separation The Tho Vanderbilt children J however though they the are not In the i position or of children are said not to have havo seen their father for fora fc a a considerable time l Some idea of or the cost o oC taking |