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I i i t T rr v I Ij c 1 I j kr Z I J t OIL Looking o k mg ever so so happy h appy s she h e went a away way Wit with h h. h him to coo cook k a an and nd d sew i ari and l' l sweep sweep in a little room five room bungalow with flowers and fragrant I vines vines i es and canaries singing irig rig in a kitchen where she will do all alf her er i own work And think of the ease and luxury she co could ld have with i forty million dollars fi R SALE SALE happiness happiness i This sign has never appeared on on a public highway If it did how many a automobiles automobiles auto auto- to- to mobiles do you suppose would slow up and how many persons do you you suppose would crowd around the billboard to find out when and where and h how w much Can a dollar buy happiness 1 The United States Government in a brightly worded little bulletin claimed the theother other day that it could But at the same same moment out in California California California Cali Cali- fornia a shining-eyed shining girl who had 40 of these dollars to stack one upon the theother other was quietly insisting to the contrary I r do not know about one dollar but butas as for forty million times one dollar dollar- And to show that she meant every word she said Dellora Angell pretty as a rose and as if that was not enough heiress to the John W. W Gates fortune fortune yell well Dellora closed her lovely eyes tight and pretended that all the stacks of shining gold dollars were were not there at all aU She has her dreams as all aU year twenty-year-old shining-eyed shining girls are aro wont to have it is true Only when Dellora curls up under her rose silk quilt of a night she dreamed that she was poor poor instead of that she is rich Now maybe some of the rest of us wouldn't feel exactly easy if the dream fairy or whoever it is that gathers tha the sighs and wishes of folks for consignment consignment consign consign- ment in the stars took us too literally But this mark you is the tale of Del Del- lora bra In the pretty but simple living- living room of her fathers father's winter house in Pasadena the other day her great dream came true With the modest engagement engagement engagement engage engage- ment ring he had given her on her trembling trembling trem trem- bling wedding-ring wedding finger this little girl who is one of the country's greatest married Lester Norris a cartoonist cartoonist cartoonist car car- he heiresses a fine strapping young chap make in the to who has his own way had nad known world He was a boy she Looking so since she was a little girl hurt she went off with him happy happ that it to cook and sew sew and sweep in a little w h fl flowers and i room five-room bungalow w with in in m a fragrant vines an and canaries singing kitchen where she will do her own work secrets the then of the one I PERHAPS Sphinx n holds in her in-her her inscrutable pos pos- possession between bank accounts accounts accounts ac ac- session is the relation Copybook mottoes mottoes mottoes mot mot- and happiness counts and back the question toes have argued and in Sanskrit each other at forth orth it first became the since otherwise ever down on the counter slap money to style bright beads hansom and get et in return g the clothes trips to the Avenue Fifth cabs sedan Seashore for the children seashore shoes for the radio and new parts cars ars t blessing for instance Poverty is a neatly suggests one on Sweet are the uses t another adversity agrees of come to the next page But when you t reading what are you out flies comes in in love When poverty t the window en moment the tf rand brand the ver very Almost Norris was offering offering offer- offer little Mrs Lester W new against the buying ing sweet testimony miles cents and dollars of f f power o Atlantic winsome Jes Jes- ovel spraying over the furnishing evidence for forT fore forI forside ales ste Brown was J Jessica essica I khe T e other otherY side of tho the s story ory f. f S It Y i r. r Brown formerly a show girl in this country was announcing her engagement engage ment to the Earl of one of ot Britain's noble peers When Jessica was wason wason on on the stage she knew what it was to sit lit liton on the edge of a white iron bed and to look over the price side of the menu before she picked out what she would like to have for breakfast As Lady she will ViII be mistress of a corps of servants who will bring to her on anc ancestral an an- c silver trays the choicest delicacies each season does or does not happen to offer Will she be e happy or will she be going back the to-the to the counter of life in in well well lets let's say two years and asking for an exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change But that as we have said is part part of the Sphinx's secret And while Jessica the poor little girl was deciding with glowing eyes that riches are apt to lead to the highroad of happiness and Dellora the rich little girl was Wl deciding quite the other way around testimony on this very ery subject was being given in still another part of the world by a n young woman who knew neither Jessica nor Dellora I IN bj A courtroom in New York City Mrs Sally White suing for a separation from her wealthy husband nd Abraham White whom she married at the ago of ot twenty-one twenty years five years ago was sa saying ing this The phenomenal business success of my husband has had the effect of making a failure of him as a husband For all ail the luxuries the defendant has provided me with I have paid the highest price inthe in inthe inthe the power of a woman to pay I havo have given happiness Mrs 1 White has a little girl four years years old whose name is Elaine They live hie in in one hotel in New York City and Elaine's father Abraham White whose ann annual al income is lives li in in another Heis lIe He is still a very ery young man man just just twenty- twenty eight in fat fact When Elaine was born he was twenty four and his salary was 50 a week Against her coming this little baby girls girl's parents lived in a modest room four-room apartment There was no great luxury in it but there was a bassinet bassinet bassinet bassi bassi- net made of billowy lace and tiny knotted knotted knotted knot knot- ted blue ribbons When the little rosebud rosebud rosebud rose rose- bud of a girl did finally come down from he her place her place in the skies there there was a a good bit of happiness in that little bandbox of an apartment where you could not have got lost if you tried In the house in which Mrs White and her little girl with the curls liv d at the time she entered suit for separation from her husband it was very very possible to get lost The kitchen was a aery v very ery ry long way from the parlor Somewhere in the tho mazes of carved halls haUs there was a dining- dining room For Por the maintenance of the table of this Elaine's mother was allowed a n week The furniture in the tho house alone cost It was aa not stin stinginess iness in in fact at all White complained of in her that Mrs alimony claims she suit In present presenting ng brief history of the s sort rt of life life a gave cavo she and her husband had lived She mentioned the following expenditures Eleven thousand dollars spent on sue six weeks' weeks vi visit it to Europe to-Europe in 1922 h 1 i ALi r. r t- t I I J 4 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J Heiress to Huge Gates Fortune Prefers the Love of Her of Her Herr 1 r r H Humble fumble Childhood Sweetheart I in Country Cottage pottage to All the tie Titles and Social Fame in the World q Jd i I r rf 4 Q C S a t F 1 Ml r 4 s N sk v 4 I hat modest little engagement ring which Lester Norris slipped slipped slipped slip slip- ped on Dellora Angells Angell's s finger meant more to her than all the Gates Cates millions and the wedding 0 ring rig which which later joined ned it ismore i is ismore more precious to her than all the minted gold in the world One th thousand usa d four hundred dollars paid for cabin on Aquitania Husband insured for In 1921 bought specially built auto for Spends yearly for clothes for Mrs White arid and self In 1920 paid paid weekly for forr suite at Hotel Nassau Long Beach Tips caddies 5 after each round of golf Has lIas head wait waiter of popular Broadway cabaret in his employ that he White may always have a table All this life in a perpetual shower of gold however vever Mrs White contended means n nothing thi to to her because it did not bring a dearer possession happiness possession happiness I was happier she said when my husband was making 50 a a w week eek Which is is well well most of us would be he- willing witting to risk the blight of gold PERHAPS the new brand-new little Mrs P t Lester Norris whose husbands husband's income in income income in- in come probably is not too snobbishly re removed removed re- re moved from 50 a week has tucked aW away y under that mass of golden brown curly hair some of the lessons life teaches If she is fond of thinking and those who know her say this is true she may IDay have tried to puzzle out this The Czar of Russia was as the richest man in the world Isis His we wealth was vas fco great that it has never been estimated She Sho who had fortune thrust upon her hermay hermay hermay may have ticked ed off on her sl slim m white hito forefinger the gold of the Goulds the the Stillmans and others and tried to balance with them a ratio of do- do estic 1 tranquillity of happiness Whether or not th the little Gates heiress tried to figure out t these ese problems that have troubled more mat matue minds than her own is not known But this fa fact t stands out Her lIer manner of arranging her young life is highly significant because because because be be- cause here is an average normally reared young American girl who had love lo and with immense fortune fortune fortune for for- the luxury that goes tune extended to her and nd she sho chose love Dellora was vas vas' the favor favorite to niece of t the e elate late Mrs John John W. Gates W.-Gates Gates ates and nd that tha is o 1 N n j 1 t N i I r JA JAe e z i k 3 Lip r a at t 1 a i t C J p r yn So- So IVY py a y yr r- r a vC f fr r r 1 s J w a rv r li t 1 Y z 1 w Y t tw L w s s The The old saying saing When poverty y comes c me in at the door love flies out the wi window wildow dow was was was' reversed in the case of Mrs Sally White until her husband husband hus hue who was h happy year twenty-eight-year-old band piled up riches His business success she says made him a failure as a husband and she is now seeking separation why she will receive by degrees this million forty fortune until at the age of forty it will ViII be completely in her possession She also inh inherited all of of- Mrs Gates' Gates personal property including one of the finest collections of paintings in inthe inthe th the country not to mention a ca casket ket of jewels which fills a sized good safety safet deposit box in one of New Yorks York's banks The modest diamond ring young young Norris Norris Norris Nor Nor- ris bought for her out of his savings 1 she would not exchange however f for r everything that is in that vault N NORRIS ORRIS is a handsome young fellow a clean athletic and boy who ho has chosen cartooning and commercial commer commercial commer commer- cial drawing as his profession He is the son of a furniture dealer of St St. Charles Ill and works in Chicago The present l Ir Mrs Norris lived in St. St Charles too when she was a little girl and these two romped together and beat each other at swimming races long before before be be- fore there ever was a question of a barrier of 4 to the sweet growth of their boy and girl love When Dellora lived in St. St Charles sho she went to the public schools and was graduated from the eighth grade with honors When the family moved to Lake Forrest in order or- or order order or or- der that she might attend Ferry Hall HaIl she was still jealously fond of ot her little home town and she vas was i iI fond I d of someone someone some somo one in it It was was' this simplicity that won won for this this' charming girl the friendship fri of nearly every resident of St. St Charles and it was these friends who have kept re repeating repeating repenting re- re penting all along that Dellora would not listen to the love songs and plaints of titled foreigners and American fortune hunters St. St Charles where Dellora's boy and girl chums were wanted their favorite to havo Lester Norris They had their way vay The engagement was announced last November at a simpie simple sim simple sim- sim pie party at the homo home in Lake e Forrest Dellora was never a poor girl The home in Lake Forrest is a beautiful and tasteful taste ul white stucco affair and there is also the home in Pasadena where the wedding took place But this little heir heir- to ess had the good sense to be born to sensible parents Even when her own mother died when sho she was nine and afew a afew afew few years rears later her father married secondly fate favored again for her I 7 1023 br la Led t er r Company t r t. t to t iJ lf S k L t f. f t It J l d oA f tv Jr a ar 1 1 r i i I 1 A t 4 1 1 Y ci N j N T N 1 Ji J tr M 0 r if I Iii i iV- iV 4 I J fj iI I. 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J Rr Yr ti y Jessica Brown is one cine of the girls who does not see wealth and f. t honors as a bar to matrimonial l i happiness She ha has announced the Earl of her engagement to z one of England's t richest peers Miss Brown was wasa a show girl and she knows w what at I R it means to count count th the e pennies 11 stepmother unlike the th stepmother st of ot the story story book proved pro an excellent friend and adviser a splendid woman who l turned out a strictly home girl a perfectly perfectly per per- perfectly healthy normal girl with rigid ideas of morality duty to to ones one's neighbors neighbors neigh- neigh bors bore and one who got an immense amount of enjoyment out of simple things As a result Dellora hates bates sham and the tinsel of artificial social life She j likes lilies instead to skate to harness and drive a team of horses to skim her little roadster along the lake and she likes E Ebest c- c best of all ll to manage a boat like the best of time old mariners out on Lake Michigan when the water is fighting the tha wind Her allowance has been a month but ut she did not spend it all by a al along along l long ng shot P pERHAPS you are re wondering if little 4 Mrs frs Norris can cook She can and she can make a dress dressin In the twinkling of an e eye e e. e But Mrs Norris can also Ia laugh gh She is in fact given to giggling and she has two deep dimples which do not make make- of this an unattractive business will It 1 not matter so much if the ch chops ps burn or she happens to use the pattern upside down i Dellora typifies the love lore that is the stuff of the stars and and the salt of the the earth Easily it leaped that barrier of ofa a mere forty million dollars Dellora in her little room five-room bungalow bungalow bungalow bun- bun galow with the flowers and the honeysuckle honey honey- honeysuckle i suckle vine on the back porch and the note to the milkman in the morning morning- y Jessica with her turreted castle her lawns that look like a n city park her servants and her ancestral dining room room room- Who do you think has th the better chance chane for or real happiness i o H i i r it t t L JJ ft f fr rif |
