| Show u J I II 1 i I 9 eM e C Cl l n Just Like the Fairy Stories a the r I Julia Were Y at N Way Mary and Changed Into Heiresses f d r 5 by Their Mother Mothers Mother's s fr f Marriage to Rich Old l 6 gy I V Mr Candler N Ne e r rs ato s a a SS 4 i Yta y r A f t y f rZ i b r ri i h f fw w 7 Asa An C G Candler evidently pleased over getting two ready made ready daughters along with his charm chann- channing charming ing young bride I yesterday the freckle face freckle faced 1 ONLY O Ragin twins twine Julia and Mary were no better off than countless j I Iother other girls of their age Their father is dead and they hued lInd lIndI I with their mother in a modest rented home in a suburb of Atlanta Ga Mrs Ragin still a youthful and hand Band some hand some woman worked as a public stenographer stenographer in one of the city's skyscraping office to for her her- herself her buildings building's earn a living self and the children It was o often ten a hard struggle for the widow to make both ends her husband had left her almost nothing ex- ex except except ex except a great many debts But her little daughters were a great help to her They did much of the housework and they wore to school the very 0 I 1 dresses which she made over for them themI I from her own As soon as they were I through high school they planned to 1 learn stenography themselves so that they might get positions and make things easier for for Mrs Ragin I All this was only yesterday day To-day To thanks to the fairy wand touch of an 1 I aged millionaires millionaire's love for their mother they are no longer the humble daughters t of a poor widow with only a workaday I future ahead of them but fashionable heiresses who may look forward to the tho theL L enjoyment of every advantage that money can buy Instead of only a high school education I tion and a course courso at a business college I A for them there will now be private tutors and exclusive e fitting schools courses schools courses Zit et Smith or Vassar and the refinements of i 1 foreign travel el They may lay aside their simple home home- homemade made home made dresses for clothes such as the they never dreamed drea ed of v wearing Instead of f perhaps a l lifetime of drudgery at stenography stenography stenography raphy and typewriting they will r ride de m costly limousines live in fine mansions i andi and enjoy all the many comforts and luxuries which a multi millionaire father can give his daughters Seldom outside the pages of a fairy story do you find a more amazing transformation trans trans- transformation transformation formation than that which came over the lives of Julia and Mary Ragin when two seventy year two old r-old Asa G Cap Cap- Can Candler sr ST one of Americas America's greatest capi capi- capi capitalists capitalists looked into their mothers mother's dark eyes and decided that here was the woman he loved and the very ono one hI ha wanted to add joy to his declining years When Mrs Ragin's husband died some years ago and she decided to tc earn her living as a public stenographer she found offices that would be suitable for her available m in two the buildings buildings Candler Building and another almost squally qually fine skyscraper close by She chose as she now thanks her lucky stars an n office in the Candler Building Otherwise she would not now be Mrs Asa AsB G Candler but would still be bo slav slay slavIng slaving ing away at her dictation book and her typewriter Mr Candler directs his great business enterprises from A t suite of offices in the bUilding that bears his name He was 4 quick to notice the public stenographer who had become one one of his ws tenants and was among her first patrons He admired her good looks and also lIked the energy and efficiency with which she handled any work he gave her Whenever his own stenographic ff M i I'M I t r r I N x F H it f 9 x R v jA R S r f s d As i Ai A ly f s s 0 k L LP Lo P o w ro L d c N k y b yr M s st 7 1 L L x a 4 6 i s r r ri a as i ra rr q sr i FeR 4 F s P i 4 r C Cy y a ae e t a e t Jar rb f y ye yo 1 jt x Nax Y Ya r s da JN y M a k r Y d dr x x y r t M MN N The lucky twins Mary and Julia Rag mother with the housework or won wor they gr force was unusually busy he got in the habit of relying on Mrs Ragin to handle handlo hIs correspondence After Mr Candler broke his engage engage- engagement engagement engagement ment to marry Mrs Onezima De Beuchel of New Orleans and was made the de- de defendant de defendant in m her breach of promise prom prom- promise promise ise and slander suit he saw more mora and more of Mrs Ragin The trouble arising from his strangely wrecked romance necessitated a gleat great deal of correspond correspond- correspondence correspondence ence enco v which often he preferred to to her rather than to one of his own secretaries secretaries Mrs Ragin liked Mr Candler from the start and was most grateful for the large amount of work he gave her but never until the day ho he asked her to be beIns his wife did she have any suspicion that their friendship was vas developing into love And Mr Candler's friends suspect that the realization of his love for the dark dark- eyed dark eyed widow came to him hint almost as liS suddenly sud- sud suddenly sud suddenly denly One Ono morning in June the month that romance calls its very sery ery own the aged capitalist sat by Mrs Ragin's side dic dic- dictating dictating tating just as he had so many times before an important business letter Jetter When he reached the tho yours very truly he cleared his throat and Mrs Ragin poised her nimble mmble pencil waiting for him to begin another But the tho words which Mr Candler presently uttered were for inscription not in her stenographer's stenographer's stenographer's raphers notebook but in her heart But how about the tho asked Mrs Ragin thinking of her girls future futuro es e een en more than of the brilliant one which the millionaires millionaire's unexpected proposal opened up for her I 1 love them too Mr Candler is reo re- reported re reported ported to have said and they shall be provided for jut just as if they were my myown myown myown own daughters So what was there for Mrs Ragin to todo todo todo do but promise to marry this aged lover who can do so much for her and her fatherless children She Sho even agreed to do as Mr Candler wished and be married within the next few days But like the conscientious business woman she always has been in i who no longer have to help their theirry ry about earning their living when ow up she positively refused to go out with him to select her wedding gown until after she had bad type typewritten the letters ho had hadgis gis en her The marriage took place in the chapel of the theological department of Emory University an institution which Mr Candler's millions have made one of the leading educational centers in the South After a brief honeymoon trip they re- re returned returned re returned turned to Atlanta and settled down along with the twins in the magnificence of the Candler mansion one of the show showplaces showplaces showplaces places of Atlanta 4 Freckle faced Julia Juha and Mary their new l life e immensely are stIll considerably dazed by the sud suddenness denness of their transition from fru- fru frugality fru frugality to riches And is it any won won- wonder wonder der To have gm gingham ham dresses replaced by silks and satins and streetcars by slid saddle dIe horses and limousines almost in inthe inthe inthe the twinkling of an eye is enough to upset minds more mature than theirs One can hardly imagine the extent of the transformation tho the lives of these two gIrls has undergone through this mar mar- marriage marriage nage of their mothers mother's It is quite on ona ona ona a par with what hat happens in the fairy stories when Aladdin rubs his magiC lamp or the fairy princess touches some some- somebody's somebody's somebody's work wonder wonderworking wonderworking body's shoulder with her ing wand Trips to Europe Pans Palls gowns dIamond necklaces andall and all the tho other glorious things their childish dreams have pictured as impossibilities are now easily within their grasp They can read with no pangs of envy of the that was spent on the wedding of the former Miss Vanderbilt to Harry C Cushing Gushing at atthe atthe atthe the fashionable Hotel Ambassador In New York The pearl embroidered chiffon gown the tho bride wore the orth orthof of floral decorations that lined her path to the altar the luncheon that was served the guests after the cere cere- ceremony these mony-these mony these and the many other ex- ex extravagant ex extravagant expenditures that marked the recent Vanderbilt-Cushing Vanderbilt wedding may easily be equaled or perhaps surpassed Mrs Above Above Mrs Onezima De Beuchel society beauty whom Mr Candler dE d want for a wife after all and aad who i ifor for damages On the nigh rigmer user mer Mrs May Little Ragin who w heart while taking his diet public stenographers stenographer's office where sl s living for herself and her dau dai when Julia and Mary are married For their new daddy is as well able as any Vanderbilt father to marry his daugh daugh- daughters daughters daughters in m style The foundation of the Candler fortune that has now swollen into nobody knows knos know kno s show how many millions was laid in- in inthe in the manu manu- manufacture manufacture facture of a well ell known soft drink WIth Withes ery e es cry bottle of this beverage that poured down the parched throats of thirsty mor mor- mortals mortals mortals an even larger stream of gold seemed to pour into the Candler pockets Out of the tho immense profits earned for from the worlds world's prodigious appetite thIs colored amber-colored beverage Mr Candler has built towering office buildings bear bear- bearing bearing ing his name in New York and Atlanta and also engaged in numerous other profitable enterprises A year ago the millionaire who vho has now acquired a public stenographer for his w wife e and her freckle-faced freckle twins for his step-daughters step was the promised hus hus- hus- hus husband husband husband band of Mrs Onezima Do Beu Beuchel hel n a amature mature but very charming New Orleans society beauty On September 10 1922 the friends of the supposedly devoted lovers losers were sur- sur sur plIed to bear hear that Mr Candler had de- de deci decided de decided ci ed Mrs De Beuchel was as not a woman he cared to marry It was said ho he ob- ob objected ob objected to what he thought the tho indiscretion indiscretion indiscretion tion she had showed in the hospitality extended to certain guests in lD her hotel hotd suite The Tho breaking of the engagement by Mr Candler came came ame only a few days be- be before before be before fore the date dato set for their marriage which was to have hale ha e taken place in Reno Nov Nev Mr Candler and I were to have been married on September 20 said Mrs De Dc Beuchel at the time time All arrangements had been made a clergyman engaged lards ards of announcement engraved and we were to be at home in Atlanta on October 10 On September 10 he wrote y the New New Orleans he didn't is suing himon him it t- t The follon for for- on onT T the hmil mil mil- in the tho ie y Ie earned teamed a a D Y Y k t me that it would not be fair to marry me ant bring me to Atlanta v where here I 1 would be slighted on account of reports circulated against me i Mrs De DC Beuchel's reply to Mr Candler's Can Can- Candler's Candler's refusal to marry her was the filing of a suit for damages on the grounds of breach of promise and slander When the news that the heart heal of the tho thoman theman thaman man she had lost had been won by II a brunette stenographic widow was ear ear- earned car carried ned ried to Mrs Do De Beuchel she is said to toa have met it with a smile But the se Ie porters le-porters porters neglected to say whether it was wasa wa Va waa a smile of I real leal eal amusement or of scorn or one that may perhaps havo been only a 11 camouflage for sad regrets I knew nothing whatever about Mr Candler's romance she he said and bem being entirely unconcerned in m it of course I 1 could not say anything about it When Mrs De Do Beuchel's suit comes comesup comesup comesup up for trial it is expected cJ to bring some seine revelations But even if the tho courts should decide her entitled to the damages she demands there will ft ill III still be bo plenty enough left of the Candler millions to provide le most handsomely for the lucky freckle fredde- faced twins and their mother r i ka Pt N M a r 3 y F Fv FY FL v Y L a The t twins new step sister Walter WalterT Mrs Walter WalterT T Candler 4 |
