A CAREER?

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 14

A CAREER?

OR MARRIED LIFE? WEALTHY GIRLS CHOOSE POVERTY AND MARRIAGE. BEGINNING AT THE END. After all, isn’t any really good reason why we shouldn’t begin life at the ends and finish at the beginning! A famous fictionist solves his mystery first and works backward, step by step, to the commission of the crime, as his point of greatest interest, and so creates the most irresistible of all adventure stories. Given the usual goal of life at the start; fortune, family, beautiful home, why shouldn’t the individual throw it out and organise a struggle toward something else equally— or perhaps more—desirable ? There are at least four charming figures in America who decided to try tho experiment of beginning life at the end and finishing at the beginning. MUSICIAN’S DAUGHTER. Bohumir Kryl, of Chicago, director of the famous Kryl band, is a great musician. He is also a noted art collector and millionaire, with the beautiful home and other possessions that go with great wealth.

It was to this and to her father’s ambition for her that Josephine, of the Magyar eyes and the sweetlysmiling Jip6, was born. She was to have a career. So, of course, she studied her music dutifully, as her father’s daughter should, though with perhaps a mental reservation. And finally, she went to Cincinnati to become a pupil of the beloved teacher. Ysaye. Paul Taylor White, of Boston, a youthful composer and violinist, also was studying under Ysaye. They saw each other and Cupid did the rest. Then Papa Kryl heard reports and brought Josephine home. He imposed astonishing rules upon her and her sister, Marie, and made his still more astonishing offer:

“He wanted us both to have successful careers so much that he told us we must put all idea of marriage out of our heads,’-’ they explained. NO BOY FRIENDS. “To make sure that he’d have his way, he forbade us to entertain boy friends at the house. But he was willing to do his part, as he saw it. He offered us each 100,000 dollars il we remained unmarried until we were 301” No doubt the assurance of it all made it uninteresting. Then there was the always insistent voice of love. For what Josephine saw as a picture’ of fulfilment of her heart’s desire, was not herself bowing and smiling before a brilliant- audience. Instead, it was herself in a little cosy living-room crooning over a cradle. So, of course, Josephine did the ■ perfectly natural thing; she followed the dream of her own heart. And it was hut a few weeks ago that a wire sped from Boston, where she had travelled without mentioning it at home, to her father, announcing that his eldest daughter was married. The '• wire was signed, “Mrs Paul Taylor White.” TO A BLACKSMITH’S SON. Helen Walker began life where most lives end, from standpoint of wealth and social position. The daughter of Dr. Samuel T. "Walker, of Chicago’s “Gold Coas had everything desirable waiting tor her when she came into the world, Her father is a member of an old and socially secure family, and he is a noted physician of the mid-western city. But B|clt-ri -met Stanislaw Svukalski, son' of a blacksmith. Artist and sculptor, his queer Slavic temperament dictated that he roam the streets homeless and hungry, rather than sell the strange A’orks tf art J’e turned out to connoisseurs who were bewildered by his genius. He held that masterpieces should go only to public galleries, and not to individuals.

Arrogant, aloof, with a tempera-np-nt that seemed almost insanity, ‘the youthful Pole made his way in Chicago, and finally New York, where he was taken up by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney. The quality of his work was recognised through her efforts. Still penniless, however, he returned to Chicago, and there married the daughter of riches in her father’s lordly home. And that was the beginning of life backward for Helen. From the luxury of the existence she knew best, she went into the poverty of an upper floor flat within a 6tone’s throw of New York’s East Side.

Yet looking ahead, Helen Walker ■Szukalski sees a long life of work with chisel and clay by the side of the genius of the man she loves, with final success —perhaps! It is the "perhaps” ,in the equation, no doubt, which makes it attractive 1 SISTERS AS DETECTIVES.

Of course, dainty Helen McCormick didn’t inherit any such spectacular fortune in the beginning as did the girls just mentioned. Still there was the pretty little house in Yonkers, with the Hudson “flowing down to meet the sea” on the one side, and stately country homes, some of the country’s show places, stretching away on the other side. There were evenings under the maples, and mornings Jill the suuny rooms, playing the leisurely role of housewife tor an adoring father and mother. Helen was happy, and this is a goal of life in itself, the thing wished for and worked for all one’s days, sometimes without success 1

But there came a day when she met Adolph Russ, and it took her no time at all to decide to end het life at the beginning and work backward toward a beginning at the end. But Daddy McCormick saw things differently. He decreed that Adolph would be “given up,” since his daughter was but 17, and far, far, too young, said he, to know anything about genuine lovel And to make sure that his order was obeyed, according, to the Jaugh-ing-oyied Helen, three little sibters were assigned as detectives to follow her and see that Adolph never crossed her path! Now of course such a state of affairs is unthinkable to one who had determined to reverse the usual course of living. So the girl packed a bag and moved into a friend’s house as a preliminary step toward acquiring Adolph and matrimony. RICHES RENOUNCED. Dorothy Shaw is the other sweetheart of fortune who threw over one goal to begin a long fight toward another. When she left her father’s home in Atlanta and married Walter Gibbons, the son of a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, she felt for a while that she had achieved what might be considered a well-rounded life. But a povertystricken sculptor crossed her path, and she changed her mind. Friendship turned to love during long hours, when she sat for him to do her bust in clay. She finally added a divorce to the separation which previously had parted herself and hus-

band. And the day Dorothy Shaw Gibbons and George E. Mulligan crossed the .border lino into Indiana _ and were married, she dictated and signed a renunciation of riches. They then began the journey to the Latin Quarter of Paris, where Mulligan will perfect his work, and where Mrs Mulligan will set forth upon quest of the perfect love between herself and husband; her new goal!