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Show I' Mathilde Wants to Marry Oser Because She Thinks jj American Boys Are Ginks i Mrs. NtcConniclfc Pears foi Happiness of Daughter for I rider Swiss Laws Husband May Keep Wife Locked Lock-ed L'p If She Fails to D o His Bidding. BY M VRC Mtl'.'l li idLE 1 1 Special Correspondent of Tiic Stand-and-Exemlner. j i Copyright. 1922. by Tho Standard-Examiner,) Standard-Examiner,) CHICAGO. June 3. Why does seventeen-year-old Mathilde McCor mlck want to marry a middlo aged Swiss riding master instead of u 'wholesome American boy'" That Is I I what the American public has wondered wonder-ed as It read about the strange ro- jmancc of the daughter of the harvester ?jking and granddaughter of John D -1 Rockefeller. . I Mathilde herself gave the answer . today. The truth Is that she does not like American hos because she Is not ;lat all an American girl Seven of the , imost Impressionable of her short seventeen sev-enteen years she has spent In Swttzer-. Swttzer-. 'land and even her English h?s a decld-. decld-. ,.-d ncrent. I "I don't like these American gink,1 jlslie told the writer 1 don't under- : stand them And though America Is ; pretty It Is not so pretty as Bwitser-llan Bwitser-llan I And there is nothing to do here Now in Switzerland one rides and " (after a pause "one has someone to ride with ' .Mr MoCormlck does not want Oser for his son-in-law His divorced wife. .Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormlck. idoes not want him for a son-in-law. Her father. John D. Rockefeller does (not want him for bis grandson But the girl wants him for her husband ,und she ;,rolally would have In spite Ol all opposition but for a klnk In the I Swiss ISw that requires the consent of j her guardian, In 'his case her father.! I It. is, 8 hard hearted and strong- trilled father that cannot be twisted jaround bin daughter's little finger j ii n the her mind on It And. Harold McCormlck has been weaken- fng fast Wh;-n Mathilde flrBt came (Continued on Page T-u-o ) INSISTS SHE WILL WED OSER Reared Abroad, Mathilde Can't Find American Youths Interesting (Con tinned from Pago One) home with her big news father smiled Indulgently and told her to wait a while. A man of tho world himself, he felt that the old saying that absence ab-sence makes the heart grow fonder was "all bunk," and that if Mathilde had a chance to look over a few of (our bright American boys she would soon cease to yearn for her venerable riding master. So ho sent her off to Virginia Hot Springs. N Y., and other centers where all of tho socially approved ap-proved younc men ar not "cake eaters" eat-ers" or ' lounge lizards " But Mathilde was not Impressed with them and she came hack to Chicago Chi-cago more determine,! than ever to be the June bride of her Alpine cavalier. cava-lier. W hen one consldeis the exotic atmosphere atmo-sphere In which .he has grown to young womanhood the attraction which Max I ser holds for her is not Surprising An outlin-- of her romance related to the writer today by one lose to the family, might be expected to win popular sympathy for this young American ulr). brought up In exile except ex-cept for the disparity in the agi - ol the couple and the e-. en greater distance dis-tance between them In the matter of wealth. But the American people have seen so many of these International Interna-tional marriages land on the rooks thai they nre becoming heartily tired of foreigners marrying American girls "for their money." MOUNTAINS FOB HBA1TH While Mathilde McCormlck was still B little girl ten years old she wai nl high up In the mountains of Switzerland Switzer-land to be cured of a tubercular Infection In-fection of tho glands For five yean she remained there, Learning the Bwiss tongu- and Swiss customs from natlvi governesses and companions At fifteen fif-teen she was well enough to move to Zurich to live and there. In tho romantic ro-mantic setting of snow-crowned Alps and shimmering lakes, she first met Max user, a sphndld figure ol a man Just released from tho Swiss guards with medals entirely covering his Ichest . ... As his riding pupil she rod" with him over mountain trails and through I picturesque 'alleys, the Impressionable girl Just turned lf and the sophisticated sophisticat-ed man Ot ' At the end of IS months she had fallen madly in love with her teacher, had promised him hr hand in marriage and had come dashing home to gain her father s consent to the alliance. She had never had the altention of another man. Until her recent islt to Hot Springs, she had never known any American lad near her own age except her brother Fowler. Fow-ler. , REARED IN SECII SIOK Although an usually intelligent and capable Klrl with very mucn of a mind of her own Mathilde Is utterly unlike the carefree American type of girl, who grows up playing with boys or in other words a "torn hoy." She has all the reserve of a foreign girl reared in seclusion Mathilda's father has never met the man his daughter has chosen for her husband but her mother, with whom she lived in Switzerland, knows him and knows about him. And what she does not know about him She suspects She regards htm as ft seasoned fortune hunter with a long record of unsec-cessfully unsec-cessfully pursued heiresses to his credit or discredit. Her lawyers intimated in-timated as much while the injunction proceedings brought to prevent her former husband giving his consent to the match wen- pending here this (week She had no definite proof to give the court but much has been whispered into the private ear of Mo- ormlch and his lawyers at the legal ; family conference which preceded withdrawal of Mrs. MoCormlck's suit BACKED BY JOHN D. In her opposition to 1 ise-r a- a son-in-law Mrs MoCormlck has had th-strongest th-strongest bn king of her wise and ven-arable ven-arable father, John D. Rockefeller, who is determined that no part of the Rockefeller millions, shall be Inherited, by a foreigner if he can prevent it. But it Is something more than consideration con-sideration for money that prompts the mother's heart lo cry out in protest again ihe union She wants her daughter daugh-ter to have the freedom and equality that is the heritage of every American j born girl -"Why under the common law or Swit-erland." she said through Charles S. Cutting, one of her attorneys a husband hus-band may even lock his wife up in a room and keep her there If she does not do his bidding." It was because she had these thins in mind that Mrs McCormick had her lawyers lay such stress on the loss of American citizenship that the marriage mar-riage would Involve. M lti TAl'A DISAPPOINTED I Mrs. McCormlok believes that Mathilde Math-ilde will "get over her infatuation for Oser if her former husband will withhold with-hold his consent at least until she Is older. To the sinister Influence of I .Julia Mangold, former secretary to Oser and later companion to Mathilde Mrs McCormick attributes Mathilda's now apparent undying devotion to the Swiss riding master It Is her honest I conviction that Miss Mangold aocom- Ipanled Mathilde to America as Oser's emissary for the express purpose of keeping him eer in the young girl's mind. "It was a bitter disappointment to I MISS Mangold that sho was unable to take Mathilde back lo Switzerland and Max when she sailed tho other day." said the friend of the family. 'For years she was associated With Oser riding stables and was once engaged to Oser's brother now In South America." |