Show MOVIE STARS STAR S WIFE f TEllS SAD STORY j Mrs Francis X Bushman Says Her Sacrifices F Forgotten Forgotten For For- or- or gotten by Film Actor By International News New Service BALTIMORE Md Did May 24 24 Testimony mony of Mrs Josephine I F. F Bushman wife Wite of Francis X 1 Bushman movie star Dorothy V V. McDonald at one onetime onetime onetime time secretary to Bushman and Miss Mary hoary M. M Bushman his tiis sister has lias at circuit court been filed in the Towson Md Did in the divorce proceedings proceedings pro pro- gs instituted by Mrs Bushman In giving a history of her life with Bushman the wife wile said said that t at her husband husband hus hus- band who then was a a bookkeeper before before before be be- nervous prostration suffered from his fore their marriage caused by efforts to gain a good physique by physical culture course She taking taking- a said mid he was 19 years ears of age when they were married and that she did all ill she sloe could to help him attended to o her own housework sewed ved at homes tomes of persons she knew taking tier her first baby with her and continued to o seW until the third child was born Mrs Bushman's testimony reads cads in part During this time ho he was kind lovable and true It was his love hat that inspired me to do almost anything any- any hing thing to help himIn him him- In New York Mrs Bushman alleg al- al leg s that she was forced to take in boarders a and d it was in this way henet he hemet henet net met two young women in the Moulin Rouge and through them obtained his bis first part on on the stage Later at Camden N. N J. J Mr Bushman Bush- Bush nan man she said procured a ai aJ position with the Film company and hen then went to Chicago This was the turning p point int in their happiness which she said up to then had been complete I Things went from bad to worse said Mrs Bushman and he told ine that I was a loadstone around his neck He said that he had made a mistake in marrying me and said that I was not a good housekeeper mother or wife He wanted me to go back East Mr Bushman's income she alleged in her testimony is not less than a year and she asks the court to require him to contribute conti to the support of herself and their five children The sum is to be fixed by bythe bythe bythe the court She also asks the custody of the children |