| Show 1 7 1 i f 1 f. f i. i r Jt 3 toys Sy l. l R r t n y r a r 13 ti's CB r t J I g V. rz r i 1 r I A J 0 C j W 4 i is A s t I z p t H A Three ThreeFold Three Fold Presentation of f the Just Before Shooting H Him Himself im self Philip p S. S Hichborn Wrote I have stood it Real Life Real Life Drama of Coming i iBack iv v 7 r r as long as I c could Q uld 1 I J S c y t have been t r was ever despondent deserted since I A 11 Back as Played by Those Who Wh r f Defied the Written Law a U i i. i cb r Ii 4 t 1 f y rID 1 r I F l 7 V 4 1 J r l I fC tJ r ll r Irl h r 6 j f I r 1 J I m f h b ft 1 I r. r m I I ic J I r S J JI I a 1 b r f r Y w 4 iy r rV rn V I n r 3 1 1 I f A I I ii l 1 V VAt At 1 If I r Bee J 1 6 I J 11 r t I I M MI i l La I f. f h 5 I. I I I I J By Helen Hester I- I Hill Iv one of the fashionable secluded portions o ot of IN Washington's exclusive residential section a aTo aTo aUTo To UTo Let sign recently has bas been removed and the house bearing bearin bearing it has undergone renovation More Mor recently still there have been signs of bristling activity 1 and occupancy And the well bred neighbors nearly but not quite committed the irretrievable faux bux pas of being betrayed ed into an exhibition of ill-bred ill curiosity curiosity curi curl and excitement For Mr Ir Horace Wylie and Mrs Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie with two new chubby little Wylies have descended upon the Washington which they left together under inch cuch u h extraordinary circumstances some 10 years ago And theirs was no ordinary elopement When the lovely Elinor Hoyt daugh daughter er o of a n distinguished solicitor general of the state department depart ment went was wedded to Philip S. S Hichborn son of Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn for many years chief of the of-the the navy bureau of construction tion and repair repair repair re- re pair and under whose regime the first great battleship battleship bat bat- of our navy was built th their ir life toge together her seemed Indeed to begin under a lucky star Both young distinguished handsome highly educated and wealthy with assured entree into the inmost diplomatic and army and navy circles of Jf the nations nation's capital they were blest with every augury of success and happiness Among their near neighbors and intimates were Horace Wylie distinguished clubman son of Supreme Court Judge Wylie of the District of Columbia and his wife Mrs Katherine Hopkins t Wylie mother of his four children Washington ton Gets a Shock No one had bad so much as breathed a hint of ot to the nature of the suspicion as friendship existing ex between the two households it seemed so frank so gay so care free and the separate entity en en- of the two establishments so complete and entire Wylie and his wife were apparently wrapped up in each other and as for young Hichborn Hichborn born he idolized the very ground his beautiful wife walked upon Then came the thunderbolt Elinor Hichborn and Horace Wylie some 20 years her senior went to Europe together and since then then these two per tons sans havo have treated Was Washington society to a series f if jolts and surprises surprises' each more sensational than he be last For after fter a year spent abroad together whis whis- 1 their thel love f in the he romantic garden spots o of ij T g c Y 1 f 4 o J f r J. J I I i Europe and Asia AsiD amid the tho sapphire f blue blue of the Mediterranean or the midnight midI mid mid- I I night sable of the tlc languorous Nile on 1 gently lapping Venetian canals or under under under un un- der the spell and the grip and lure of the vast desert stretches stretches and and everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where and always they seemed t to re rc renew renew re- re new the exquisite travail of their love lovo rb suddenly birth irth suddenly the lady determined to subject this love to a r ruder der test They decided to return each to their respective respective tive homes and md attempt a trial reconciliation to last for six months This was decidedly unique and decidedly very wise on the part of or the lady in question She wanted to see sec what would happen to this love lovo of theirs bereft of its romantic and exotic atmos atmos- phere Would it stand the tho chilly blasts of the practical homecoming vr Would it be able to outlive out live the strain In the case of Wylie he be lasted exactly four months with his wife who had taken him back gladly for the tho sake of their children one of whom n a boy was then a student at Yale But the lure of his love was in his blood his mind was obsessed obsessed ob and his body possessed with the one wom worn an m. He knew no peace save with her Shock Number Two Meanwhile ne' ne Mrs Hichborn having been refused in her husbands husband's nd's home t through rough tho the advice and influence of his bis family was living quietly p during t these ese months with her mother Then came their second fight light Mrs Irs Hichborn leaving behind not only her Philip but a lovely young son as well The boy is now not only with with- out put a mother but is also fatherless for his father in a a fit of extreme melancholy at the desertion o of 01 f his bis s beloved wife committed suicide thus leaving Mrs Hichborn matrimonially free Somo Some years after in 1916 Mrs Wylie sued for lor divorce naming Mrs Airs Hichborn and so removed re re- moved the last obstacle to the marriage of th the e runaway couple Whose whoso domestic ranks h had in the meantime become increased by two new babies But even in the heat and ardor of W Y 1 e second elopement he remembered f to O attend to two little details before ho left He settled nearly marl half a million dollars on his an and d children y and he resigned from all aU the exclusive clubs that that had not already dropped his name namo from their sacred roster That was in 1916 And now in 1920 the Wylies are back Also the Blakes are back in New York Now the case of Dr and Mrs Blake differs In many details and even in its large largo relative values yet they aro ro facing the same samo problem of oz social rehabilitation as the Wylies Mrs Blake her bel exchanged position as wife wire of ot otono one ono of the tho greatest financiers and social arbiters in America to become the wife and helpmate of one of tho the most noted surgeons in the world S f f I. I LN P f l of I 4 tt r i i It Is 1 Y r I 0 ti t i 1 f j l' l I S J j T Tr j J r f. aC 9 r I J I i if i. i tl I 1 p. p li J fl I. I Jk s t t y r o S L e S' S j 2 f A Ais f o y is y r r 7 4 J Jr r yi I 4 1 Arr J i Ct try i n if i y f U. U Y r 3 gal Y a P 1 The Former Mrs 1 Philip S. S Hichborn Who After Years of Wandering Has Returned to Washington the Wife of Horace Wylie When as Mrs Clarence II H. Mackay she left her husband and three charming children to take up her bel residence alone in Paris whither Dr Joseph A. A Blake leaving his hig wife and two children also repaired she sho precipitated a social furore as tempestuous tempestuous tem tem- as in the case of the Wylies And Mrs Mackay was more than the mere intro petted wife of a rich man She was a n successful author and distinguished suffrage leader and evidently evidently evi dently the great surgeon afforded her a mental stimulus she had failed to receive at home For between tho the keenly brilliant physician of her husband husband hus hus- band and herself there sprang up a love Jo as imperative imperative im as it has bas been continuing and md in obedience obedi ence to its urge they threw off every shackle l and every convention and freed reed from their respective ties at home they also married abroad in Paris T There ere are three children the result of their union But the Blako Blake love has bas not expressed itself in sweet murmurings by tim the side p of babbling seas Since the outbreak of or the great war Dr Blake has been one o of its most noted figures and his hia long line of decorations and honors at the hands of the French government attest to the 1020 I I r regard in which he is held by them And always at his side stood tood Mrs 1 Blake the former Mrs Mackay aiding and encouraging The Blakes flakes have already fought their fight against tho the social ostracism resulting from their defiance of convention in Paris where oddly though enough tho ringleaders her bitterest opponents were the ultra smart American women married into titled families abroad and who in times gone by had been glad enough to acknowledge the social leadership of the then Mrs Mackay But the recognition by the allied command of ot Dr Blakes Blake's heroic devotion and supreme skill broke down all petty Social opposition and tho the captured Paris We next come to Jordan L L. L Mott Matt and the tho object object ob ob- feet of his l love ve Mrs Frances Hewitt Bowne Bonne Their union is to be regularized by the rites of marria marriage e as soon as the tho wife wile of Mr l Mott from whom he eloped with Mrs Bowne some 12 years ago foregoing fortune and family consents to free ilce him But this she has refused todo to todo do although Mrs Bownes Bowne's husband divorced h he her immediately and ond remarried l himsel I i x 11 1 1 J I amM- amM 44 t iI r r rr r m mr j Y 5 L r u f r rr v J I r y r I it y i Mrs nIls Frances Franc s Hewitt Bowne Whose Elo Elope ment with Jordan L. L Mott lott Shocked Fashionable Society l I This is another extremely picturesque cal cai caie ctt was the grandson of or a great multi multimillionaire multi million sire aire Mrs Bowne beautiful and amI n a well known gran crand grand opera singer attracted his attention then his lov love A And d again a far flung defiance to the voice of social order and convention and a most picturesque esque series of or wanderings all an over the globe Th The father of young Mott himself just returned re re- turned at the time of his sons son's elopement froma from froma 1 a most triumphant stay abroad where intimate intimate hobnobbing with ro royalties had become his habit and and custom was prostrated at this disgrace disgracer He 1 pleaded exhorted threatened sent messengers after the runaways begging trying to bribe them to return all to no avail Then he cut off hisson's his bh sons son's allowance No matter Mrs Irs Bowne supported sup 1 ported them both with her singing Their Idyllic Existence But now after 12 years of world-wide world wandering wander wander- ing ins they too arc back back on a b beautiful island in California where Mott earns carns sometimes a u. u I high as liS 20 20 a day on a fishing smack engaging seriously and successfully in in literature on the side and where ho he lives an idyllic existence with Mrs Bowne and her mother who makes her home hoo with them And the tho miracle has happened He f is G definitely cured of his drinking habit and reborn 1 remade his love has cleansed and purged hIm until today stalwart strong seI self reliant with shoulders broadened and head erect b he f faces faces faces' ces th tho v world in courage and self-respect self with an implicit im- im faith in t the he little woman who is 4 J sible sable for his cure He Hp H too together w with th f Bowne Bovine has done dono some wonderful war work for the tho allies And so these se interesting cases p picked out lori al almost ah 1 t most at random from the scores of others others' that might be mentioned raise several absorbing g qUe qua Lions while whilo answering others over which th thi world has long pondered Certain free thinkers say that these prove that some men are capable of a strong sustained love for the women with whom the they PI have bave contracted irregular unions and that far fu from such love having ignoble or deteriorating effects it has in these cases stimulated and purified puri purl Red fled and refined Also though there is no shadow of doubt that these men and women are arc all aU incoming in in- mr nil all to each other yet they show in their very coming back a wistful deeply human yearning to mingle once more with their kind And they who defied all who put behind them in one fell stroke their family their friends their countrymen are now back awaiting the forgive forgave a ness of the society they thought they could afford to relinquish forever And the tho question tion on everybody's lips is t what will society do about it Will Vill she welcome back bad back 1 her prodigals Will Vill sho she extend open arms or a a i cold shoulder Will the world decide that its agony of the wo last Jast five years has swept all conventions in th they the background and made service to humanity the only real leal big factor in social worth I j J Kt ij e Y k r ri ry ry y y i ft L Y A fro f W ro r io Ear EarI EarL r r I The he Former Mrs 1 Clarence Mackay Nod O Mrs l Joseph A. 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