| Show J I jI ee I tJ t s 06 y f rn h x j o oT bw T L J y 7 2 J Ai L t A his y rr r ra t r i r s w i tr r rr ld How Gouverneur Morris Carne Home From wr 1 r y y xai k 7 u f j f f t j I K if y f t the Find His Y f r IJ w t Ii t to Fashion Fashion- 4 gyn hJ J r 4 Irl IrlI able Wife iV 1 t I t d 4 Pi i t f 4 J f L 5 1 t s sw i 1 Leaving s t l I V I d r t a aI H im J 4 kt t I k I Forever f U w t i 1 f t 6 it a ak as k s v r rY Y I f d sl 1 Iq r rYr Yr 7 Ow if I RG J Because R e p l Nye 1 a J r 49 r rl x q K it tt p d l rt 4 I I 5 t 1 Pre Pre- l f N Ny y yC ro 1 Jf d S j jI mil r Lv x p pd j v Z Y 1 M a d I 4 p pi S 1 I 4 z za i 4 r i f q r Mp s a nis rf t t J Boss of S Sc p 14 t t Fi pt c 4 t g c a h gf 3 t r rg g M Ml l I IT 1 W rf y T r rM t Rt q f fo p o f f r rs s oW r r v a-v p i Gouverneur Morris and Madame J i the soul mate of the Belgian literary I N x a r s N f t t W R EW novelists would have the cour cour- courage courage courage FEW F age to make the hero of one of their stories return racked in mind and body by his heroic service on the tho battlefields of Prance France and find hi hit his I wife a woman of wealth education and refinement unwilling to live with him himi i eser until he could regain his lost health y They would think and quite rightly that such a situation would strain the credulity of their readers T They ey 1 rot dare risk having the public cast their book aside alde with sith some such remark as Oh shucks I Its It's not true to Ife No woman of her breeding would ever behave that way Even Eien if she had ceased to love her husband she would hav have waited for him to regain his bis health before leaving him I itI Yet untrue to reality as it seems it was a situation exactly like this which t t recently ended the romance of Gouverneur Gouverneur T I neur Morns Morris the well sell known novelist no and nd his beautiful wife wife-a wife a situation stranger by far than any of the plots Mr Sir Morris Morns has put into his books or f orf prepared for the screen Gou Gouverneur Morns Morris was one of many spirited high spirited Amene Americans ns who long be- be before before be before fore this country entered the war self self- self laid aside their work and v went to France to risk their lives as liS ambulance ambulance am- am balance drivers 1 t i He saw unusually hard and dangerous service and it did such damage to his hiss t hist health that for a long time It nas as feared he never again would b be s his old vigorous vigorous vigor- vigor r ous self But when hen he returned pale weak eak shaken in every nerve by his long service on tho battlefields it was to others than his 0 own n wife Ife he had to look for praise and sympathy ard and for help In winning back hi hip his strength q He was in such su h ha a state that life in the noisy city was out of the questIon Mrs Morris Morns however hoever refused to go with him as he earnestly wished to the peaceful quiet of a II little farm In the inthe hills of Westchester County Fur Furthermore she soon made it plain that she no longer had any desire or tion intention of living with him anywhere whether hether in city or country The situation which most J writers t would think too improbable to a introduce between tho the covers of a book or in a film scenario is well described in the tho answer and questIon answer testimony which was heard in a California court the other da day when Mr Morris Morns went on the stand during the trial teal o of his bis suit for divorce When Q-When Q When did you and Mrs fibs Morris separate T A February A February 1918 1916 Q Will Will be you good enough to tell the tho court the circumstances surrounding the separation Did sho she e leave you or did J you OU leave herT her She A-She A She left me Will Q-Will Q Will you tell tel the court the reason for the separation I A-I A I came home from where I was or v king in an ambulance during tho Dar ar and found Mrs Morris very unset unset- tied unsettled and discontented and it seemed that she Ehe wanted to be In business and wanted to live in New York and did not want to have haye anything todo todo to do with me My Iy work kept me pretty well n ell el in tho the country where it was sas quiet You Q-You Q You You ire are re a writer Yes A-Yes A Yes sir and I tried very ery cry hard to compromise things and fix fl-c it up for forthe forthe forthe the children but her ller mind as w n as thorough I ly thoroughly made up and finally she went to New NewYork NewYork Yo York k to a a small email apartment which she sho had rented during my absence and main main- maintained maintained during that time and nd I haven haven't seen her since nor heard heald from her hr ex- ex except except ex except on one occasion Did Q-Did Q Did you ou tr try to have her return to you ou and live as man and wife I AI A I I did everything I could think of Q-Is Q Q Is Is Mrs Morris living apart from you against your yell will and consent c consent Yes A-Yes A Yes sir Without Q-Without Q Without OUt your consent Yes AYes A Yes Yes sir without my consent She didn't want to be hampered nor bound do don donn n by domestic tics ties and preferred to branch out It was aas as e self expression Q-By Q Q By By the tho way say ay your wife Ife IS 13 still In business A Yes A Yes sir Q She Sho She has a beauty shop of some hind Yes A-Yes A Yes she seems to be rather well well- well well-to-do to-do to wellI sHe he seems tob tobe to bo doing very well t Mrs Q-Mrs Q Mrs Mrs Morris Morns has been away from you ou since the date of the separation Yes A-Yes A Yes I had just come como bac back but mg that I couldn't go back to Europe again agam because I I was aas as stone broke andI and I I had to mend my s q dx u 1 S bridges and I went to toa a little tittle farm that Iha Il I l 1 d dhave have hale ha e at Bedford and lined Ined h ed there during that winter Inter hoping that the separation would be shat hat she thought it might be but it was Doti not She was stIllmore stillmore still stillmore more d determined to go her WilY way at tho the end of the winter She Q-She Q She She persistently and consistently refused since February 1918 to live wIth you ou All of which was against your wishes o Yes A-Yes A Yes sir IlIr Mr lIr Morriss Morris's I i attorney introduced In eVidence a letter l written by Mrs Morris Morns to her husband from Newport in Septem Septem- September ber 1918 and addressed in care of her brother Larry Waterbury NewYork in New York It read as follows Dear What Larry has to propose seems to me our only chance as a a family If It you will sill go and if Jf Iv I v work cork ork hard hero here to keep the children welland well and happy and to live livo on what youcan money you OU can give even Us-even us even if its it's only what pay bitterness you can get In the maybe army army maybe the bit bit- bit on oil on both sides will die dio down don do n and when you come back there ma may bo be a chance for us on another basis Its not so much that there will be bo a charge then as ns that there is none now For Tor you iou OU to go abroad now make us ug scandal Dont think Im I'm just lust hard and aud cruel about It-I'm It it Im I'm sick anxiety and un- un happiness unhappiness un too but somehow we must work toward possibilities not toward sure disaster ELSI ELSIE k w f pi 4 e o J J 4 t Dyg 6 kI k I I 4 1 e 3 v vw ve w e r ra a vr r r t f e Mrs Elsie Waterbury Morris would e 4 0 w wi i- i rather manage a busin ss of her own than d k a home and anda a husband wi wik R i J i Morris y x aid the thet g F t two daughters whom she is go t ing to teach to earn their own living Mis ilIts s Morris Morns filed d a demurrer to the complaint her husband filed when ahen v hen he first brought suit for divorce When this de- de demurrer de demurrer was as sustained d b by the courts he amended his complaint and she failed to tomake tomake make fUI further ther answer in the tho time allowed ed r I by law In the trial of the ease case ase it required only a little evidence in addition to the tho no ehst's own ov story on the witness stand to obtain from Judge field Summerfield Summerfield an in- in interlocutory in interlocutory judgment This carries cairies the legAl reminder that the Gouverneur Mor rises are still legally man and wife and that a final decree will be bo granted at the end of one year ear only on the applIcation of one of them Tho The were married in 1905 She was Miss Misi Elsie Waterbury a mem memo member bet ber of a wealthy and aristocratic old New York long famous for the tho enthusiastic devotion de of both its men and women members to polo racing a aryl other horsey sports They They have tWo to Kate daughters Kate fifteen and eleven years carB old When Gouverneur Morris Morrie found a II rec reconciliation with his Ills wife safe impossible ho he went to California to try to forget his extraordinary marital troubles in in scenario scenario nario work ork and rebuild In ini that balmy climate his v wrecked war health With the film winters winter's inborn instinct for trying for a n happy ending at all nil costs Mr Morris is now blotting out the unpleasant memories pf his marriage wreck with a brand brand new romance For several years the the no novelist has em- em employed employed em employed as his secretary an unusually at- at attractive at attractive and capable young woman oman Miss 1 Helen Wightman At first ho he admired admit edher her only for her ability to take the dic- dic dictatIon dictation dic dictation tation of a man of letters with aith Ith a sur- sur surprising surprising sur surprising minimum of errors but more marc re- re recently recently re recently he has come to feel that she eho will willbe willbe willbe be a n mighty pleasant pleasant person to have hove by his 1115 side in in a capacity quite quito different from that of stenographer engagement was announced Just after the granting of his interlocutory divorce judgment and as soon as ns the final decree is obtained Miss l Wightman will turn over OHr to some one ono else her note notebook book and typewriter and put on her em- em employer's em employer's wedding ring Tho The self expression to which Mr Morris a attributes the v wreck wreck r ck of his roo ro- ro romance manc mance with Elsie Waterbury took the tho form of a 0 passion for a business career Like so many other fashionable so society v women omen the taste she got of mens men's activities activities ties tics through war ar work made her lager ager for more While her husband was as salvaging wounded soldiers on the battlefields Mrs MorrIs opened a beauty parlor and be began gan the more and extremely profitable task of salvaging the tho good looks of wealthy maids and matrons She found the ise so fas- fas fascinating fascinating fas fascinating that when hen her er husband dragged himself home from war she seemed wilting willing to sacrifice 10 lobe e and quiet domesticity in order to reo re remain main in the hustle and bustle of a successful business womans woman's life Mrs Morris is tho the chief owner and active manager of the flourish nourish nourishing ing business she has built up through her shrewdness and energy aided to no small degree by her family's prestIge and her fashionable society She and her numerous assistants not only advise their patrons on the best means of and preserving ng beauty their precious precious youth and beauty but also supply the various vanous treatments and the endless cold creams lotions per per- perfumes perfumes perfumes fumes and other expensive things which are considered necessary Mrs Morriss Morris's experience eJ has hils convinced her that every girl no matter how wealthy or well ell born should be trained for some business or professional career and at least make a start atone aa al at one Any millionaires millionaire's daughter will sill be better otTo off she Q believes for a II 3 year ear or so in the workaday world The uncertainties of life make mae it pos pos- possible pos possible sible that My ny woman some day may have to earn her living hiving says sa s Mrs Mor- Mor Morris Mor Morris ris and and she ought to be fully full prepared to meet that emergency Whether It comes or not the training will be of benefit It is quite desirable for every woman om n nto to know how to keep her accounts and strIke a 11 balance She should know how to write what call called cd is in business a good selling letter She should develop her executive ability so that she can ad- ad administer ad administer minister successfully the affairs of a ahome ahome ahome home or a 0 business If a girl knows as much about busi busl business business ness as a few years ears of actual contact with it will teach her she will be ba hap happier pier in her married life She will III be a better companion for her husband a amore amore amore more understanding companion she will ll speak his language be able to understand his hia perplexities and help solve his his problems t Y v v vr vv r 5 it A f y J 9 I I I I I y yg g Ivy x 1 w Y 4 r f I i M r j j Gouverneur Morris the famous novelist I want both my daughters to know how to earn their living and I am nm gOing to see sea that they are trained tIa ned for what hat whatever ever work cork ork seems best suited to their tern tern Mrs Morris has given given long and care eare careful ful study to the subject of womans woman's u Omans Oman's beauty and her business is being conduct conduct- conducted conducted ed ad edon adon on lines Imes quite different from front th tho those the e a of 01 the a average beauty parlor Beauty she recently tolda told a representative sensitive of this newspaper is a II mat matter ter of molding from within We Wo no longer believe in tho the French method of covering co up defects with cosmetics In- In Instead Instead stend In-stend attitudes stead we e correct defects in mental atti att- atHI tudes and h help lp women to break their I slothful habits Real beauty is not merely a question l of ofa a perfect skin No woman can bo be truly b beautiful with an ugly ugly expression no matter ho how 10 lovely ely her ber Iter complexion I have seen many of the horrors that are committed under under th the the guise of beauty treatments and this is why by I am so card care care- ar I bustness ful to have ha none of them then in the busi ness I am nm conducting J Our patrons arp aro made mada to undergo no no painful operations upon sensitive skin akin and muscles Their skins are arc scientifically nourished nourished Their faces Caces and hands are hands Ire rejuvenated without dis i v comfort t and without risk any of perms perma neat nent harm Besides bein being the chic chief owner and and tine tive e general ral manager of ot her Iter ac lIC business also Mrs Morris Is its drummer makes Sh She frequent trips to and elites elite's In the South West to open up new markets |
