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Show hmmrinrfT r F W O I If Papa' Did His "Darnedest" to Keep Both His Pretty ffl ' I 4 ''T? daughters Wedded to Music, but Josephine I sShe " I IAr.d tins Josephine Kryl de Triumphs like and $100,000 to her credit in the .ISHBiiHHHBflR anything bank were whet Papa Kryl promised each of his r the v.y of fame or fortune her daughters if she would remain single until she dad cr any one else could offer BOHUMIR KRYL ia a wealthy Chicago Chi-cago landma.xt.er and the father of two charming daughters. Nat-f Nat-f arslly a man a? fond of music as Mr. : Kryl has been all his life was eager to ee hi3 girls follow in his musical foot-I foot-I steps. I So, when they were very small girls, B he encased Eug ic Ysaye, the Belgian H fenius, to teach Josephine to play the riolin and an equally famous piano teacher to give lessons to Marie. He was deUhu 'it- tlx- apt l .ide his daug i-ters i-ters showed fe.r music and the promise they gave of becoming accomplished artists. But as they neared young womanhood woman-hood and he saw howattractive they ere he began to worry for fear , they might fall in love and be lured J sway from their musical careers n. before they could satisfy his tmbitions for them. To guard ff$-iK2in5,t ff$-iK2in5,t this possibility hp made V I' them, when Josephine was I eighteen and her sister Marie i lixteen year.- old. ' m extraordinary offer. y If - remain single u- ' . . .. t:i the; . tnirtj years old, i he told the girls, and devote themselves single-heartedly to their music, he would give each of them a fortune of $100,000 To win this hand- JfiBBL 9nt prae they must put all 4H wougnts or love and marriage H I Mt of their minds must not ' ven entertain any young men callers o: have beaux to take thcra to the &wies and dances. The two sisters agreed to their : Other's terms with the greatest enthu-f. enthu-f. BMm, for at that time their hearts !jid never been touched by love and J' had no idea they could ever be-(orr.e be-(orr.e fonder of anything or anybody ton they were of their music. ; This was back in 1910, and until a weeks ago there wa3 no indication f cither of the girls failing to keep the 1 'freerncnt that was their's father's I Rarest wish und that would make them jwh rich and probably famous by the they were thirty. Then Josephine met Paul Taylor I "nite. a oung Boston musical com-: com-: er, and almost instantly smash i trt all her doting father's carefully j sid Plans of fame and a fortune for . ' There was a light in White's eyes Jj 'resistible that it made her think r devotion to music a cheap and tnv'al thing Even her father's bitter Appointment did not seem too high pnce u pa? for the joys unbounded j 'cl1 she now realized marriage held. . so she and her lover eloped and are Bt,w keeping house in a modest Boston jPtrtment. Mrs White hones to keep jnth her music IF there is any time spare from her household duties and care of the babies which she hopes m arrive in due course j f' Plaining her reasons for dis-; dis-; jrdng her father Wj8hes and let-horself let-horself be lured from the path to stiQ5lcal f&me and $100,000, she says C Wa swept away by love and a d-Je d-Je for twins' Yes, .Mrs. W hite will not . tisfied with one baby at a time ljc lnst on a pa:v ,,f the little dar-I dar-I to to eudde m her arms and croon et'eep with the lullabies Ysaye taught " 0 P'i.v delightfully on her violin. li the former Josephine Kryl do ";t 'j-..:'.f' . ;. $ ' :; ' , 7 1 ' ' ; . Marie Kryl, who thus far is keeping her heart closed to all thoughts of love ju3t as her father wahtfl right? Was she justified in setting a higher value on love ami twin? than on anything fame and wealth can possibly offer? And how about her sister Marie in whom the father's ambitions are now-centered? now-centered? Should she remain true to his wishes, or should she open her heart to just such a romance as that which has carried Josephine into marriage and the hope of twin babies7 The Re. Dr. Alexander Cairns, pastor pas-tor of the H.gh Street Presbyterian Church in Newark, N. J., was asked to discuss these interesting and in many ways pUMling questions, and here is what he has to say: "Certainly this brave little Chicago jrirl did right. Her action was the finest piece of first-page heroics of the month The minute I read about her little romance ro-mance I thought of another Josephine, the luckless and hapless wife of 'that imperial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great.' You will remember that our incom parable prose poet, Ingersoll, says that she was 'pushed from his heart by tin cold hand of ambition,' So even royalty without love is a padded cell in Dante g inferno- "ny true woman will choose Cupid rather than Croesus and Fame. And especially should the former MlU Kril have done so. Were there a red-lipped red-lipped wolf sniffing at the door, and were poverty written legibly and mdel-ibl, mdel-ibl, ovvr the futun 's portals, then she Lrfrirt be wise to hope for love 8 irre-Sle irre-Sle call after thirty. But a student of Ysave married to one who ia already a composer is as sure of a lucrative life as though she acquired a fortune with- t. f . A I : ' ess i 1 " j Y! X- ; '". i ; . .. :.. V'V. - gitg:: ' : .' j V'W's&t , , Paul Taylor White, the young composer com-poser who won Josephine Kryl away from her musical career and the fortune her father promised out personal effort and I'm sure Samuel Smiles would say, 'And more so.' "Moreover, Mrs. White will probably BOOM day receive the fortune promised to Miss Kryl A father whose love for his children is as prominent as a Wool-worth Wool-worth tower will find that the giving of fortunes to them U a lure he can't deny. Mr Kryl said he would eive Josephine $100,000 if she remained sin- Bohumir Kryl, the disappointed father whose hopes are now pinned on Marie alone 1 le, but he didn't say that he would not i.'ive it if she married. "There is a subtlety about father Kryl's proposal that smacks of ulterior motive. He knows that thirty-year-old daughters are a drug on the market and that the percentages are against their ever entering woman's paradise 01 love and wedlock. So that his proposal pro-posal if more honestly put miRht read this way. 'Will you live and die unmarried un-married for $100,000?' "To that query any woman should reply with an outraged negative A true woman may die unmarried for nothing but not for $100,000. "Any unmarried woman with $100,-000 $100,-000 in her own right is to be pitied when marital matters are considered. Such spinsters may pray with J O Holland, Hol-land, 'Cod give us men,' and be nn-BW.ered nn-BW.ered by his Satanic majesty with vultures vul-tures and bloodsuckers. 'No consideration of a child's duty- he former Josephine Kryl casing the hfnds the gr.?at Ysaye trained to play the violin to cook for her hubby and Lhe tw ns she iopes will cccn be part of l'ae family to her parent should e nter into this case. The- former Mi s Kryl h twenty-four, and for rix years has been of acre by the standards of Uncle Sam. Moreover" her loVe imu.tions now are doubtless the keenest and most sensitive they will be m ail her life. She is beyond the Spasm pi 'chicken love' and has not yet reached the anxiety of spinster-hood, spinster-hood, an anxiety that murders love's intuition. "There are not only sound moral rea-sonr, rea-sonr, but the best of physiological reasons rea-sons why Josephine Kryl did right to make the choice she did. Those twins she is so eager to have are far hkely to be healthier and happier babies, medical BCienceteJJfl us, if they are born several years before their mother reaches the aRe of thirty. "Happiness is always subjective It is in our hearts, not in our purses Loveless wealth like loveless poverty is an endless pilgrimage over a bridgo of sighs. Don't forget that old classic story of the king who was distracted with melancholia His wise men told him to hunt through his realms and find a perfectly happy man and then take the shirt off him and wear it himself And when they found the happy man he had no shirt! "No normal woman would ever be justified in refusing to make the choice Josephine Kryl so bravely made. And her sister Marie will be doing perfectly right if she follows her example whenever when-ever the opportuntiy presents itself. "Young Mrs White may have lost the fortune her father promised her if she would remain unloving and unloved six years longer, but she has not necessarily m sacrificed her chance cf fame as a violinist. The idea that a woman ha? to abandon all her artistic ambitions when she as.-um?s the responsibilities of wife and motherhood is att nonsense." I Elissful cooings from the cozy love nest in wiiich the Paul Taylor Whites have ensconced themselves in Boston would seem to indicate that they are going to be very happy regardless of whether the young wife gets that $100,- 000 or t'irilh great audiences with her artistic master)' of the violin. "Cf course, I don't like to grieve my father and mother, but I couldn't wait si- years bo marvy Paul, could I?" says she. "T don'L care about the ir.or.ey. ti would be nice to have it. but it buy everything. I d rather be Paul's wife than tha richest heiress ia H "It 13 silly to say one has to give up H ic for iv-e. Paul le going to help me do a great deal on my violin. "They say a v.ife can't find the neces-ii:y neces-ii:y time for practice, but that hn't so. H 1 manage t) play the violin several hours day, and soil do all the things there are to do around our little apartment. H "I shall net stop studying, hut, of course; my home and my husband shall H r-.nnc f.rst What I really want now H more than any musical career or any old H f.lOO.fiOf) in the bank is babies! "Oil, how I hope I have twins!'' H Josephine's husband appreciates fully H what his bride has given up for his sake. H "And I'll make it up to you, Josie, 'dar- H ling," he assures her. H Besides composing music and doing H c mcert work with his violin, young Mr. Whiie is on the teaching staff of tha Boston Conservatory of Music and also has a large class of private pupils. Ha H knows more about cooking and washing H dishes and things like that than his wife does, and so, in addition to supervising H her work on the violin, he has to teach her to be a good housekeeper He, too, insists that Hhe keep on with her music in spite of twins and every-thing. every-thing. Are! his great ambition is for the two of them some day to make a tri-umphant tri-umphant concert tour together. V, lien papa Kryl discovered his daughter's love affair it had been going n secretly for more than a year. He thought he could break it off by send-rig send-rig her away on a long European trip. Kut on th? trcin she took for New York she met by prcarrangement, it is tjs-t tjs-t B( ted her lover, and long before the H time for the sailing of the liner on which her father had engaged her passage pass-age they were married. Prom Bohumir Kryl in Chicago come formidable threats of unforgiveness for the way his eldest daughter has broken her promise and disobeyed him "She places loe before art," he de- H clares, "and now she can take the consequences. con-sequences. Not a cent will I spend on her. "But I should worry. I still have little Marie, my Mamie. Ah, she will never place love before, art!" And now it remains to be seen what the wily Cupid will have to say about the fate of the younger of the Kryl Sisters. Will the little fellow adopt a "hands off" policy for the eight years that remain before her thirtieth birthday birth-day p nd let her heart continue wrapped up in her piano scales and scores? Perhaps Mr. Kryl will find to his sorrow that his pretty daughter Mario in whom he puts such confidence la quiet as fond of love and twins as her older sister. Maybe it runs in lh family just as musical ability does. ( |