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Show p p y p m & 7 '7 ' " I j B I ! 'uB i laBf Biak J. Gould and the wife wh Hbt Ralph H. Tnome! and I HiDNTIXEXTAL EUROPE ia no . piace to briny up an American '- alii beyond the seas m ittie i he Amer- m- firl who 1 appy mar- Hi things con a "made-in- enra" husban.l i one for AEtricm piri. Bkoe are the of the Br5 Vlora York Hks, v.h ha? perhaps had better op-Btamty op-Btamty to iv th( 11 ial fabric of Continent than any other American pu. They are th. net result of the HR reflection of an American princess Hi Us left no joy and no thrill of the ReHset on earth pa.-s without a tesl final haltnco sheet of on accounting hlch millions, titles, the pomp of Hrtf,the glnre and fanfare of fayhi. n P the winning of three loves all player! Europe is all right as a place of resist resi-st for mature persons," said ti.cbeau-Bl ti.cbeau-Bl Prir.cess Vlora. "but it is surely no to bring Am her conclusions on the subject are the more interesting now that she 1 joat divorced Prince Vlora and is ""Mesa in the Parisian spotlight by MS f One must remem- iwt the Princess Vlora is nono other lhc former Helen Kelly, of New ptfitv. Her father, the late- Eugene rr,as as bluff and hardy a typo of tif rnRde man as America ever got y of the Old Sod. He amassed aev- millions by reason ol hard-headed f'lfer.ce and earnest effort. 7th the fortune came two girls, both WJ Helen, the princess of this btory, jr'rr,l: J. Gould's nrsl love. She it W ho married him, only to Bet the Ml millionaire adrift after his own HJ into French affairs made him a W amone the spenders of tho fast t Erelong came Vlora, who boast-Albanian boast-Albanian title, passed along by h Turkish reminiscence depart-flora's depart-flora's father was a former Virler of Turkey, which country ltamated Albania. 1 Ml family quit work about the Ftln that Turkey quit ruling Al-t Al-t - hich is so long ago that only Em!10 deal in anclcnt history can Eli .year' and the titlc of Prince f Pkbef real,y passed from the map 0re the present prince was born, kid P,riCCe is n Pr'nce in the Old C Was a privileged member of the (Jt Pari;:, a pleasing figure at tho arul -l lang i) 1 -nd unobt-E unobt-E ' ht 'r.- 1 ufr- whereat Americans EL nlish "et. He wm just a nice E ,ap' with all of the latest dance EVhen he met and married the E?n eirl- Ml bos always been the favorite of foreign noblemen and holde r.' PtoUl ! J'''''', "l ,:iVor Wktn iun,ls- They have mixed and I ith the polished society of The Twice Divorced and Once Widowed Beauty Gives ' Her Reasons for Thinking That Any 1 I , American Girl Will Be Better Off by I SiclVinff at HoniC tO he dres. "and that they shall bo 0 married to Americans." m . " , 1 "Why ia that?" ahe was n-ke.1 "You I ; a uet Iter Lducation 55:. ; 1 7 roP ls a" J,,;'ht for Rrandmothera and i: ', -J p k. -v 3 -m married women, but it is no place for Awa & (jmp.'A.' ' ' jV - a ' 'ht' seemod surprised that there could ;:: " HH- ' -"1 A IV f A. '"' any othrr notion of the cas- ,J ' JLiOVC iVJSltC "There is something about th atmoa- phere of the Continent that does not har- (: : Hfc JHHHB The daughters of Frank J. Gould an'-iH """f ! ; ,-2 jo n . , American girl. It is easily und I and Princess Vlora, whom she From the very beginning of out , pan ? keep, away we ! ave come up under ael and y'SSBSw from Europe a evil established ideas of what you may tall , RS?1 ,nfluenco s, the conventional for wont - of any better phrase Con- V: - '' ' ' ) " -y ' . ventions vary widely in : S I " ;i matter of course in an- :-',v. ; instance, that polygamy is i''i' ''-' ..vy ' V.C, raphy, when one considers "HsJt V ,( il conventional prob- V-fjjH'-'' per in --..il.- ...ii - and $kau " crimc in others. i 7 a j'S "But tho point is this- f j . J you take people who are - rr.1SW& born to a land where one ': ''' : '..' ,V, thii.g H tp- i' ,iji;S' fi."' '-.-, V : ; m j-ftrdd as con .. tj$-1 ' ' 'JLigFi ' ;SU entional and , mR-V'V '1S&P5 -.Si proper, -in.i P'v' o divorced hJm to become later the Princess Vlora mW the ancient regime and 9PSf have found their patent-" "(b of nobility ready jass-porta jass-porta to favor, no matter what administration ruled the government gov-ernment or what storms blew in the land. So that the fact that Albania had long since boon taken under un-der the wing of the Powers, that William of Wied had been placed on the Albanian throne and then deposed because hit v.ns German and that no vestige ves-tige was left to connect Vlora with the barren realm which was his In name ,-cut ,-cut no figure in the easy path to had the entree. Society was his. jw As to Gould, everybody knows his facility for tfy taking a wife into ' W such circles of j !a Europe es money - ? might open, so vjfr--that the Princess - "$X&f. qualifies as an ex- jMHf2 pert witne.-s on WWKwlL the subject she twEr w discusses, both mmn. .. from the view- MR point of having been the wife of I a prince In the titled set and of having been the ! consort of an i American million- uj aire who left no :5 realm of explora-tion explora-tion that money might develop up- f on the map of un- V known territory The Princess sMl learned her night ? life at first hand. V) v She danced with t$r the late daneera ,i:?i?- Sho saw the lights aJI and the life as jftef)ffi2$: they are, and the "rsBB hard-headed Kelly indtrment c a m e along to give her a, perspective of what she saw that '.1 L. .1 .1- 7. . i ,..r; :?;?; ? Princesa Vlora'c sister, Mra. "Al" Davis, and the husband from whom she has just been divorced neuner mo uu.ie of a title nor the screen of millions might disturb. It might, indeed, have done the heart of her old Tammany father good, if the' pirit3 of the "departed "de-parted could watch the living, to have neen her planning in her elegant home In Pans to win a throne for her young and spineless husband. But that has nothing to do with this story. It deals with the views of an American mother upon the subject of rearing girls in Europe. Here, again, the authority has expert ideas. For shu had two children both girls by her luarnage with Prank Gould, Helen and Dorothy, now approaching the estate of v. . manhood. They aro in school in Lu-v. Lu-v. rr.e, Switzerland, after having passed their earlier years in America under the care of Mrs. Helen Miller Gould Shep-ard, Shep-ard, to whom the court awarded thoir custody when tho divorce was granted. Ifrt, Shepard turned them over to tho mother year ago and now the mother is determined that (hey shall return to America for their lives and their mates. "1 nm determined that my daughters shall have their education in America," i' t;v W ' . '.' ,T v i 1 1 y'yf 1 HI ' ' ' ' ' it 111 then transplant them at tcn-- tcn-- i!.t a"c , to anoili. r whve Z, : wiieaily ditrerent ideas pre- ''' " a:!, the young mind will never cease to regard the tolerated and approved item in the new surroundings in exactly the same light that it appeared at home. "There is a lack of restraint in Europe Eu-rope upon girls in the matters in which they are strictly restrained at home that i3 fatal, and it matters little that there :a a degree of restraint in other matters that America has never known. Young people accustomed to being held in check, like all other known forces in nature, follow the line of least resistance when the check is removed. They plunge toward to-ward the new freedom in the same manner man-ner that a great mass of water held behind be-hind a dam rushes into a destructive flood the moment the dam breaks. "It doesn't matter to tho water that the banks on cither side forbid their rushing sidewisc. The hindrance immediately imme-diately ahead is gone. That is just what happens to the young American girl unguarded un-guarded by the murriage tio when sho is turned loose in Continental society. The great restraining intlucnco-that wa-chicfly wa-chicfly before her in the United States is no more in effect and sho is in danger." "But why only American husbands for the girls?" Here, indeed, was an interesting question. ques-tion. Pot the Princess, it will be called, had one purely American husband in her list. Following her divorce from Frank Gould she married Ralph Hill Thomas, who died December 81, 1914 There, mn n pite E . . W J, . , I I fJ : MM I also, she had tested 't ?! her question. She had tried life with an American millionaire million-aire who had a foreign habitat and purely foreign tastes; she had tested the institution with an American pure anil simple, and hail given a try-out to a match with a foreign Prince. "It is but the corollary to tho other idea," she said. "The American man and the American girl have the same rearing and the same viewpoint. What is conventional to the one has the same spect to the othcT There is nothing to lie learned as to what can and cannot be done without offense or 6hoek. The foreigner for-eigner with the best intentions can and will do and say things that aro to his way of thinking perfectly proper, and he will never understand in what respect ho has violated every ideal of bis American Amer-ican mate. "He regards the relationship of husband hus-band and wife from tho Continental no-ticn. no-ticn. It is no 50-50 proposition over the water. Women havo never had the same rights or privileges in any part of Europe that they havo in America. You will find it very common in tho Old World for tho husband to be overlord and master. You will never lind him tho partner in the American sense of the word. A lover, yes, but never a helpmeet. help-meet. That form of espousal is distinctively distinc-tively and almost without world exception excep-tion American only. "The laws of the countries of Europe, the custom of ages and the practice of oil times make of tho husband a radically radi-cally different proposition from that found at home. If a woman marries a foreigner, understanding understand-ing this, very well. "But where she simply falls in lovt with a graceful man who woos with art and looks the part of a Prince Charming, Charm-ing, unmindful that he never knew and never will know tho American mental attitudo toward the married state, she is going to wake up in short order nursing a disappointment and a shock. "There is no book from which a woman may learn the mental state of the husbands of other lands. Experience only brings the lesson, and experience is too frequently fatal to happiness to bo made tho subject of this strenuous teat, "It is Haid that all men, excepting waiters, look alike in dress suits. That is too ofton true when young women attempt at-tempt to gauge tho men of two different countries. Tho cut of the clothing may bo the sara. the niceties of apeech and manner, and tho steps of the dance may coincide perfectly. But that intangible something called mind the mejital state that comes from environment will be as different as the day Is from tho night." The sweeping Indorsement Princess Vlora gives "mode-in-America" husbands ls all tho more interesting and significant signifi-cant becauso sho hcreelf had an unfortunate unfor-tunate experience with one, and so did her sister, Eugenia Kelly, divorced only the other day from "Al" Davis, the American dancer. But the Prlnccas evidently thinks the hard luck of tha Kelly sisters is only the exception that proves the rule for her daughters and all other American girls. |