£150,000 Heiress's Adventure.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1914, Page 2

£150,000 Heiress's Adventure.

Curiosity has been aroused in New York recently by the sight of a young woman wearing a sailor canvas blouse and sandals, who beneath the Frankling Statue and on the steps of the Treasury Building sells Socialist literature to the workers in the financial district. The woman, Mrs. Horatio Winslow, was until recently Miss Rosa iind Guggenheim, heiress to £150,----000 and a number of the famous (iuggenheim family of millionaires. She returns a cheque for £10C which her father insists on sending to her each month, and earns c good living by writing poetry for the magazines. . She declares tlm*. she is the only workmanlike poetesin America. Mrs. Winslow explained, through the medium of an interviewer, th* history of her plunge into Socialism. "My family," she said., "struggled for years to make me contented with money, clothes, and society. My father forbade me to read Socialist writers. Finally, with a written promise of an income of £100 a month in his hand, he launched at me a solemn anathema, saying that in Jewish circles it I was a sin for a woman to have ambition. But 1 was bound to be emancipated from corsets and gowns, and I ran away. I remained a yeaiin Europe, consorting with Socialists. Then, after my father had figuratively washed his hands of me, I came,home, began settlement work in the? slums of New York., and: ■married my present husband, the editor of the Socialist journal, ' Tht Masses.' "Your present husband ?" asked the interviewer. "1 say so advisedly," Mrs. Winslow rejoined. "Marriage is a mistake. We went through a ceremony to appease society. I admit I was a. hypocrite, but I am not yet Socialist enough to wound my family."