Show t r l a oo St o Kr Jl Y r N q e rr tea lt ad Jr i Y tf 1 rf M c MK s r s t s sh f h fw p k J Sw h j F J i tk I oc x r rr 3 f t v Ji t r r c J W It IJ It IN 4 Miss Frances s S i fc who lt Budlong s attracted so much t attention attention during her fast fust summer at Newport by entertaining her young men and girl friends at quite un- un chaperoned un-chaperoned chaperoned house parties T home these children children HUSBAND H Jj are the the principal items in the staggering price e Mrs Milton J l long is being forced to pay p y for the the ambitions 1 ambItions which hick Inch clutched her a few cars ago aeo and transformed her from a contented wife and mother into an ex tra ex lra audacious social climber The Thc constitute a price many mant women Mould be unwilling uD to pa pay even if they l for which Mrs acre ere ed the prizes Budlong has so desperately struggled And none hone of those prIzes IS yet et within Mrs Irs Budlong's ng's rasp grasp New York and Ne New Newport The Tl c high place in Newport port society which she the coveted coveted the sat satisfaction of se seeing mg her daughter pre pre- presented pre presented at the Court of St these James James and other goals goah goal which wInch Mrs Budlong CO coveted eted and md for which she staked slaked the things most women omen Told 1 J old dearest are still unattained And recent e events make it seem doubtful if they eser eer sell III be The husband who gave so 50 liberally of Ins his fortune to further her foolish am- am ambitions am ambitions is lost 0 to 0 Mrs Budlong The court which de dented denied her lier a divorce declared her unfit to be the custo custodian lan of her t two 0 little hUle sons eons The rich background supplied by her husbands husband's pal homes his Ms wealth and hIS prominence in the business world orld IS w no longer hers to enjoy and exploit The soaring dream tower of Mrs Bud longs Bud longs long's ambitions has collapsed like a ahouse house of cards card and with its collapse hl base e va vanished from her possession the wealth and 10 lose lo e which made mada possible Its building Some there are arc who ho say sa that Mr Bud Bud r long lone long lone more generous than most husbands would be lie under such circum cIrcum- cIrcumstances circumstances circumstances stances will Mull In eventually forgive his wife's folly and take her back to his arms Lut can Coln e cn c ell such uch generous forgiveness compensate her for what hat she has already in her vain effort to place herself her self in the She innermost circle of ot the smart set sel This amazing real ical life story of ot a womans woman's thwarted ambitions might cr peer leHr lease have come true If it Milton Hilton J Bud Bud Bud- Budlong ions Bud long had not proved himself such a good salesman back iii 11 in the days da s when hen bicycles cles were ere the world wide craze Long before the craze died out Mr Budlong hold had made a reputation anda and a good bit ot of money Heas He lie was as what would be called nowadays a go getter getter-a getter perfect whiz luz ota ofa of ot a salesman If It er e every bicycle cle salesman had sold I wheels heels at nl th the rate he did the factories could ne neer nc er ert e t base ac begun to supply the demand From bicycles eles he lie turned to automobiles i automo-i biles andas and was wai even more successful with them them from plain salesman he rose to tobe tobe tobe be sales manager and finally an n im important portent official of a x great treat motor car manufacturing company compan All this time Mr Budlong and the A AAll pretty young wife he lie had Iad married in his bIcycle selling da days s seemed as happily married a couple a as i you cn could find any r c t M MY d Y r c t where here The husbands husband's steadily mount mounting ing income showed no signs of drIving them apart as it so often orten does docs a husband and wife v The more money her husband gave her to pend the less inclined Mrs Dud Bud Budlong long apparently was to go in for the society lire life which Illch tempts man many women omen as soon goon oon as they hale hae ha ha e the price ller lIer disinclination for esen en er sery ery modest so- so social social so social cial affairs was as the subject ofa of a good deal of chaffing chafing b by Mr Ir Budlong's buss busl bustness ness an and then thell vines wi 1 es lorg t your our husband and lour our o r home and those three precious s children for Ju jut t ta a fe few minutes minutes they pleaded at least long enough for alIne a game lIne of bridge But nothing seemed able to shake sha Mrs Budlong from het hel domesticity She grew to be pointed out as a model wife and mother a strong shong minded woman oman one who would neel ne nc cl el lose her head inthis In InthIs inthis thIs Jan jarz age no matter maller how ho fast her husband continued to climb t the e ladder of commercial success s So it went ent ith fth the the chIldren growing up the wife Ife happy and ald contented the tile husband able and glad to spare from his business plenty of Um time for In hn his until family family until a few years ago That was seas a when hen Mr Budlong branched out into oil and became even more suc- suc suc successful with ith w th that than he had been with Ith the bicycles an and automobiles it keeps from squeaking About the time lime when self made Mr Budlong began to be mentioned as one of the rising magnates of the oil industry indus Indus- industry tr try a surprising change chane came o er his wife Ire In her middle age the woman who ho all nil her life de had been content with qUiet domesticity suddenly became filled with Hili a burning desire for the thrills of fashIOnable society life llIe in a circle e abo above aboe e that in II which she the and her husband and her debutante daughter were ere figuring It t was not just lust a few rounds round up the social ladder Mrs Budlong wanted to climb She wished t t leap as fast as asher asher asher her own daring and her husbands husband's monc money would permit to that very sery topmost t round where here SIt lit enthroned the proudest aristo arIsto- arIstocrats aristocrat crate crat of American society Milton she said one day I wanta want a villa at New Ne port Now Mr Budlong had hold always s en- en en enjoyed JO joyed loyed ed the reputation of ot going elg gl Ins his wife everything she wanted anted and being will willing ing to give her much more than she e eser eer c er asked ed for He lie did not belie behe his reputation reputation reputation tation in this case although his Ius friends athis say he was tremendously surprised at athis his Jus wife's sud sudden en desire to exchange the quiet unostentatious mode modo of o life that had satisfied her all these years fears cars for forthe forthe forthe the blare and blaze of the ultra smart bet et betit It was as quickly arranged that Mrs Budlong should hale haic e what she iho he hid had set sether sether sether her heart on Mr Budlong indulgently bought for her ber The TIr Reefs the splendid splendid did estate on Newport's fashionable Ocean Drive formerly owned by Theo 1 Theodore heo- heo doreI dore doro M Da Desk Daiil I the A African fri an explorer lIe Ie fitted it up in a st style Ie suitable for forthe forthe forthe the ambitious wife safe of a prosperous oil magnate and steamship owner He Ifs pro- pro Husband Home She Children Loses Them All in Her Vain Effort to y Climb Into a Place in in the Most w Y Yb r i b If Fashionable Circle of d i R l iy Newport Society t t pt 11 l s ham l lr p r A Aib ib FYi S J k r J 41 9 A j 4 4 A c 6 t i il l 1 14 ji r A it 4 t rn 1 i y t I Ij j s iJ r lj i w L 5 q 4 f fa ft a 41 tk I t iF y r w s tS t'S a b A K K Y j f r I t 0 i b W iJ 1 Utu Little Milton Budlong Jr one one of the two chi chil- chil children c h i 1 I dren dren whom the Rhode Island court F refused to let let Mrs Budlong u d 1 o n e bring up sided Mrs Budlong with the money to torun torun torun run it Jt in sir a way ay that would could make It com compare part fa favorably with any of N Ness Newport's ports port's mansions The longs opened their calla ilIa and nt at once the he mother and daughter began to appear at all nil the fashionable places to which they could gain gam access Prances Frances appeared at Ine tue horse show at toe Casino Casino Casmo She was HIS seen atthe at ifs w the Countr Country Cleb Cl b and ald at r Baileys Dalley's Beach where there here the fashionables swim or display dis dis- dis display play k play their bathing suits on the warm sands a Other things which the pretty t Budlong daugh tar ter did that sum ty met made e eien esen en 4 r t the most sophisticated sophis sophis- sophisticated A s Newport x C l lera era en lift their eye C eye eye- eyebrows e- e ebros s brows bro sery ery high s sOne One of them cash casha was as asher a her cn tiomi Donal habit of o A II Irving v I n g entirely for necks at a time m in a cottage cotlage on her parents l 01 r e n t s estate and enter- enter taming there an nn i l equally it I and scry ery ry t f merr merry crowd d of tw v t r young sung nung men and girls of her ber own ow-n c jage Jage J Jage age Testimony re regarding re- re y garding these gay ca f Milton and John nine to the father Before she had been many weeks In port Newport Mrs Budlong realized as many other ambitious women have that one may be ui m summer capital and still not of its fashionable inner cIrcle the oIl 01 mans man's wife was taken up by other social climbers and by a n few near celebrities who mho constitute the fringe of othe the smartest bet bel but the invitations she wanted most mo t were not forthcoming The s nt I 1 11 n 0 u li a t trl q Message attached to one of her it rl 1 t I s 1 es esY Y husbands shirts which Mrs Bud x L y long dropped out of the window j It a as at ift s t I rI 0 of f h his 15 e I ev- ev w v ff t jf- jf t 1 floor I apartment k a 4 M t x while she 1 f i B ii at t was a al as J voluntary I f g 1 1 iff s l fy prisoner t there A- A 1 7 D a tf U A u 3 Ird 14 S 'S 1 It Iti e i I v ri j VI JJ Rf I I 1 4 r fp t I i t jl 1 v s raio M 4 r I Iw 4 L w ae 1 wt r t j t b 1 v Aix ry b t pa t 4 a 41 z t Mn tr e- e l p I Ie C t t I Mrs Mn Milton J Budlong who lost her her expensive fight ficht for a place in society and also her t divorce suit uit the judge declaring that her herts hers s ts N r- r Aa r-o r v her charges against her husband were a v wholly unfounded unbounded and that he not nol r rt l t r j 31 r rA dA i she h w was the cruelly treated td one 4 f ekr o t r I INot Not at all fashionable crowd df of curiosity seekers eager for fora fora or ora a glimpse of one of the rather hysterical messages Mrs Budlong dropped from the window r house parties of I fashionable doors she would c Prances rances Budlong base liked to enter remained was as introduced nt at ats atthe s closed to herthe herthe her the trial of her Perhaps no other nc newcomer comer mothers mother's recent 1 eser eHr supplied the Ne Newport port gos gos- gossips unsuccessful suit sut t i if f liP sips with with Ith more interesting topics for dl orce It IS i than Mrs Budlong during that to have I first summer There were ere the been largely this lavish entertainments site which led Judge continually gave there Capotosto Cap 0 t 0 s to Y ere acre the m down 5 c house houe parties she bhe per per- pcr his decision to j S wf L ted her daug daughter ter and denounce M 11 Mrs r s 5 W r no al also o for the fist fust time in inthe Budlong's Budlong method the long mar of bringing up a ai r I rJohn IJohn John Budlong the other of ned life there there were tiffs tilts daughter and to the two boys given into their between the husband and entrust the care fathers father's custody wife over money matt matters rs of the t two 0 sons The expenditures the ambitious wife felt compelled to make makeIn makein In her Iler desperate effort to achieve achie e her ambitions were ere growing too y heasy liea y for even rich and generous Mr Budlong to endure without protest At the recent trial of the divorce suit he rId testified that during their rust first summer at Newport his pretty wife and daughter spent far f more than his Ills income to fo that whole scar car which wag wn a he paid haid 1000 The stormiest of many ninny quarrels which that Ne Newport port summer brought to the tho I once peaceful family resulted from the attempt of T Suffern Taller to bu buy a striP of the Budlong estate Mr Dud Bud Budlong Budlong long was vies qUite qute wilting willing to make the sale lle but his Ills wife ade angrily refused to sign the deed and it was finall finally torn ton up The reason on for her refusal reCusal was as be be- be because because cause the great social PO powers ers nt IJ Ne Newport N port were among those who ho on turned belo zero helms zero shoulders shoulder on her From then on things went from bad to worse orse in III the Iho now no thoroughly thorough unhappy Budlong family r Relations between hu husband husband and and wife reached the snapping point a j few months ago when Mrs Budlong Sued for sepa sepa- separate separate separate rate maintenance At a 11 preliminary hearing she was as awarded a month and the cu custody tod of ot the tO tyro boys but when the case reached a 11 l Rhode hode I Island court for final nal settlement a n few weeks ago she the received what must ha base haic e been beena a painful surprise e I IIII In III all the mass of ot sic ale syb- syb sub sib submitted the court ourt was as unable to Jin find any Justification for the tha charge charges of gross misbehavIor with other women neglect to provide and anel cruel an and abu abul at u i e e treatment treat treat- treatment treatment ment which bile brought against her husband Her lIer p petition for n was as denied on en ever every ground i oo l I i a The charge of gross misbehavior lor Judge Capotosto declared to be the dis distortion of an Jealous cr o mind Il ruled Hi-ruled ruled that Mr dr Budlong instead of neglecting to pros pro ide de as the wife ICe nl III eed had been heen phenomenally g As As to the charge of extreme e cruelty the v court l E said sud tint it was as Mr Budlong who had 1 been eon een the sufferer at his wife's I fes fe's s hands Mr Budlong said the judge wa sva essentially a j businessman business man who vho enjoyed pleasant surroundings and limited social activities He lIe did lid hd not however aim amt to I II reach I each the social heights winch which III lug hii wife hoped for and which for him lum had no real attractiOn His indulgent and yielding altitude to toward ar his hia wife f fa wab a a meant meant mean Mr Budlong adopted ado ted perhaps In acI in m an effort to keep his ramify together s Social ambition a desire to hose hole con control cons control control of oC unlimited fund funds 0 oser er sensItive sensItiveness sensitiveness sensitiveness ness stern de determination term mallon and ond unwarranted unwar unwarranted unwarranted ranted jealousy and suspicion are the predominating characterIstics of the ner as dS disclosed by T y the cadence c In tIlls thus case But cn c tin thit tint t stinging rebuke could not present Mrs Mr Budlong seeking still other means to be revenged on her hus bus husband husband band As cri c er e body kno b know knots she went to ti New York Vork ol and d in the hope of forestall forestall forestalling forestalling ing a divorce suit by her husband for desertion forced her way ay into his lIIs pal pall t meat ment and announced her determination stay I 1 th there even even re-even even if she had to tar stare For Tor Tor several days day the would would-be be society society leader kept New Now Y lorl rl amused amu ed by re rc flaming a voluntary o prisoner corn com with Ith the outside world orld by dropping messages attached to ber her bus Is bands band's shirts from n an n eleventh ole stor story What nhat still vill 1111 this ambitious lady Indy do now Will she prod find some som |