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Show 9 b Ktwo attractive, dark-eyed children who may now call George Jjk HffBP (EN the puliln pn Lip it s Brspaper a1 the n kfast 1 able he other morning and saw bla-tbe bla-tbe front page the new? that iy Gould, eldest son of the lato Id and the most distinguished lathe of this immensely wealthy id married again it pave a gasp K who are (rood at recalling dates td at once that it was only in t cays of last November that Edith Kinjrdon, thr former ar-lo ar-lo had been 1 ufe for more Irs, dropped dead of i playing golf with have married again ) much leys than the f mourning was con-y. con-y. even in these days es. the more extraordi-ially extraordi-ially happy life Mr wife were supposed nt had ever reached tag to mar the folio-tctresa folio-tctresa and the mil-seemed mil-seemed ideally mated i was generally je-I je-I pleasing contrast to adals and bickerings lnions in our divorce-family divorce-family was another m notable in a day e in rich and fash-absolutely fash-absolutely childless. Roosevelt and other race suicide pointed oulds' seven children. Iublic to paint in the enlal picture of the 1 and his beautiful id to feel the keenest heartbreaking blow believed to have side a few garrulous in this case, it now under basis of truth than they usually do, Wt Mr. Gould would t least not for several to Guinevere Sin-ppmedy Sin-ppmedy actress, who London back in 1913 the eyes of New P a few short kandoned her artisti. me the mistress of n house near Charles insin on Riverside JteintheW. h, 10 villa on one of Long J" shores. of "nrprise which the 'W t) learned of Mr iage, gained re-I re-I It developed that it th-aHy days of July, as was at first believed, but oil May 1 a few days more than five months after the death of the first Mrs. Gould ! This second romance of George J. Gould's, gives new interest to an always interesting question ; How long should the gra'' mortgage a husband's heart? One year is the period which society has set as the time during which a grieving husband should remain in mourning for the wife who has passed into the world beyond the grave. This would mean, even with the speediest of courtships following a case of love at first sight, that a widower could hardly be married in less than thirteen months or so after his wife's death. Is this a sensible and reasonable convention? Or is it one of those stupid and absurd rules with which society undertakes to hobble the natural and perfectly proper de- sires of men and women? In A. S. M. Hutchinson's famous fa-mous novel, "If Winter Comes," his hero, Murk Sabre, has the following fol-lowing to say about conventions: "Conventions can be much more than odious and hateful they can be as cruel, as cruel as hell. But nevertheless, they're all absolutely rightly based. That's the baffling and the maddening part of them That's what interests in-terests me in them. "In their application thej I often unutterably wrong, (.rue,, hideously cruel and unjust, but fffiE when you examine them, even at their crudest, you can't help sec-ing sec-ing that fundamentally they are absolutely right and reasonable and necessary. "Look. Take quite a silly example There's a convention against going to church in any but your best clothes. It's easy to conceive wrongness in the application appli-cation of it. It's easy to conceive a person per-son wanting to go to church, and likely to benefit by going to church, but stay- away because of feeling too shabby But you can't help seeing the rightm-.-at the bottom of it the idea of preaint iriK yourself decently at worship, as before be-fore princes." George Jay Gould seems to have felt vi ry much as this hero of fiction felt concerning society's conventions. Although Al-though he found himself unable to conform con-form to th convention which requires at least a year of mourning to intervene between the death of a man's wife and his remarriage, he tried to show his re-ipci re-ipci 1 for its reasonableness by concealing conceal-ing his new romance for more than two month.-. But there are many who will maintain ; jjffi -V. ' ' ' 1 A war-time photograph of Mr. Gould and his charming first wife, who dropped dead of heart disease last November that thifl convention ia -tupid and unreasonable, unrea-sonable, that it defeats the very purpose ior which it was intended. According to th' ir line of reasoning, the sooner a man marries after the death of his love mate the greater the tribute to her. It show -they say, how pleasant he found the bonds of matrimony. They maintain, on the other hand, that the man who hesitates about marrying again after the death of his wife is thereby virtually admitting that his previous pre-vious experiment was far from as satisfactory satis-factory as hi expected and that he fears to take another try at matrimony. There could be no better proof, they -a that Mr Gould was sincerely devotd to his Brit wife and deeply grieved at her death than the fact that he sought another vision of loveliness to take her '" , The new Mrs. George J. Gould, a striking blond 1 -rt " beauty of the English type, and at least twenty- rffl nve Years younger than her husband v. f : ; r V.. ;!?. The $250,000 estate on fashionable Manursing Island, one of the three magnificent homes which the new Mrs. Gould took when she suddenly abandoned the musical comedy stage for a life of ease and luxury place in his heart at the earliest possible moment. They regard the way he defied society's conventions by marrying again within live months of the first Mrs. Gould's death as the finest possible tribute trib-ute to her worth and his appreciation of the way her love mortgaged his heart. Cynical society gossips, however, laugh scornfully at such a line of reasoning as this. It would all be very plausible, they say, if it could be proved th. v Guuld had never met or had any interest in the mysterious blond lady of the musical mu-sical comedy stage until after the death of his wife less than a year ago. They offer many interesting bits of evidence to show that his interest in her is nothing of recent origin, but dates from her arrival in this country to appear ap-pear In "The Girl in the Film." in 1913. Furthermore, they think that the first Mrs. Gould vvas perhaps aware that her husband would speedily marry again i;i the event of her death, and that she had more than a suspicion as to who would be her successor in his love. This would explain why in disposing of her property she left her personal for- tunc amounting to between 2.000,000 and $3,000,000, to her husband "during his life or until he remarries." j Th" m .'. Mr Gould is a striking blond beauty of what SH is known as the English type. & shr : ln" Mother of two chil-SPaP chil-SPaP t'ro11' a uov 01 seven and a girl BIBti of four years, and is at least twenty-five years the junior of HBB her tifty-flvc-year-old husband. HM Since the amazing change in her fortunes which enabled her ffiS to establish herself like a queen Kstfi' Sflj in An erica Bhi 1 u pajsad much HHB of her time r her splendid ;'. ' v&t ' ' "' M-i''Ui.-inir Island. 'J iOi&'w one e mo"' ,-'xc'us've li tno l-on Island Sound million-tey million-tey aire colonies. ' '' Her most frequent visitor ,) ,( is said to have been a man ! jlif Y well past middle age. who came to the island on a pala- ' j tial yacht such a craft as only multi- h millionaires can afford. Happy marriages in the wealthiest, ; ii. v -i exclusive circles (.f American so- j clety are so rare that the public will ( b' e sorry to see the ideas it has long Si 'U cherished concerning Mr. Gould's life ) i with Kdith Kingdon proved only illu- : ij sions. But this can hardly fail to be the j case, unless he can offer some good 0 j reason for not postponing the ringing . ;J of his second wedding belli until the Vt .'! expiration of the mourning period which l r,d the conventions prescribe for a widowed f. tljij husband. w In trying to decide whether Mr. Gould's f nj new matrimonial venture will bring him IV jsj happiness the gossips point out that it M tjl involves many conditions which must re- jjj vjl mind him very forcibly of his life with (if jjjJ Edith Kingdon. His second wife, liko is his first one, is a former actress and a 11' wonderful beauty. Ami in spite of hm- ' fill pronounced blondncss, her children are A as dark-eyed as the offspring of the first I W Mrs. Gould. j |