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Show Too Much Affection, n' ' Wheeler Incidentally Gives WlU. I a Tip to Nat Goodwin's Hkm' Fifth Wife When Sh'TelJr, B Her Husband's jjtjS Nat Goodwin, who has written ; book on "Wives I Have Mariicd,'' has an adventurous time finding, living with and in some cases discarding dis-carding wives, and his fifth venture ven-ture will turn out disastrously un-leas un-leas he changes his tactics or his wife uses different tactics from his previous mates There is no getting around the fact that Goodwin was head and heels in love with all his wives and that the were in lose with him, too, at the start. Perhaps thc loved him too much. We would think so from the words of Mrs. laudia Carlstedt Wheeler, who has been sued by her hv:cliand, Albert Gallatin Whefltr, Jr., banner bann-er and broker, for divorce. Mrs Wheeler says you can't love too inui ii ard be successful in matrimony. mat-rimony. Therefore, Mrs. Goodwin No. 5. beware. It took six wives tr outlive King Henry VIII. Accord -i mg to Mrs. Wheeler's recipe. Mrs. Goodwin No I should not love too much if she would be with Nat at the finish. Here Is what Mrs. Wheeler says about loc-: A woman may love a man as deeply as she pleases, provided sh ! does not set him on a pedestal and fall down on her knees and worship him. "Let her tell him of her love but she must not let him. in receiving that love, get htr soul at the same time. "Do for him as for others, hut do not make the mistake of doing for him alone." The latest marital difficulty of the one-time dazzling favorite of theatergoers thea-tergoers is the suit which her husband, hus-band, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr . banker and broker, began against her a few days ago. Mr Wheeler, from whom she obtained a legal separation and J10.000 a year alimony ali-mony four years ago. Is the son of the Chicago millionaire subway builder, and is said to be worth some- millions In his own right. WAS THE GIRL OF ROSY TIGHTS. It was In 1S9S that Miss Carlstedt. then known as "the girl in the rosy tights,' was married to Mr Wheeler. Wheel-er. They went to a beautiful country coun-try home in Connecticut and then launched upon a career of social activity which made them well known at most of the famous resorts re-sorts in Europe and America. Following Fol-lowing this came the spectacular ease in the Supreme Court, in which Mrs. Wheeler alleged that her husband hus-band deserted her. The outcome was their legal separation. I loved m husband with a love that was more than love," Mrs. Wheeler once said in explaining her uh happiness. "My thoughts never turned away from him it never occurred to me to look to another for love, and I wanted love from none other save him He was all in all to me, but after we had been married a number of vears anotner woman entered his life and mln-. 1 was the last one to find it out, for my love was too great to believe it. And that was the trouble too great a love. " The $10,000 allowance which th" court gave Mrs, Wheeler was late,-cut late,-cut in half on the appeal of her husband hus-band that he was unable to pay so large an amount. Following their separation the former stage favorite favor-ite once again became a familiar of the boardR and her husband entered business in Chicago. Since that time they bave1 continually fought each other In the courts, the wife generally being the aggressor and money matters generally being the cause. Not long ago Mrs. Wheeler said that she intended brinxing action against the elder Wheeler for $1-. 000,000 on the ground that he had alienated her husband's affections. The mere pittance of 5500 or so a month which she got as alimonv was in no wise suited to her needs, she said; and what would a million less matter anjway to a man who was worth $30,000,000 Since making that announcement she has received a bit of small change in the shape of jnc.000 from her husband in settlement of claims against him for carrying off the furniture at the time of their separation. Just who or what In tba oaum A j L of Mr. Wheeler's recent action has N not becomo known Mrs Wheeler, who has been staying at the Mc- ' ' As' Alpine Hotel since her return rrom London a few days ago. says she V i v " ' wouldn't be surprised .it anything ' ' her husband might do. though she refuses to bave anything to say Q cvr 'Jr which might throw bht on the ' '. " ' '.V case 1 . ' v f ' Of her on n popularity, however, '2 .,'' '.;'T? '' she has never been so sib nl W h , & ... . f j , ' . she sailed for Europe last year h said she waa going to escape tho Importunities of an army of suit- !fclk'. '. ors. " They phone me, they write me, -V; , ' 'y:''-t ' ."' ' ' they ask me day after day to share :-v - '-Jy. .4 ray lot with them.'' she an- ( , nounced. "One South American 'Jxv'.sr. banker telephones his proposal daily 1 r: T...I C..U , . V, : I- """ ' . bert ' ..nil i,:n V !:.;,; , r name Why bear a married name y with nothing but futile excuses for ' -- ;. )'.'. says Humph! I wonder where her husband is 7" It is too humiliating -?p$jHHH I'm going to be Miss Claudia Carl-Btdt Carl-Btdt Wheeler after this to every v. ' REFERS HUMOROUSLY IX) sKVl I'M. win i:s. iSM wives. The advertising notices sent out concerning the book declare It to be: "An intimate and permanent history of the American stage for the past forty years, by the greatest living actor, and the most rcraaric-able rcraaric-able autobiography ever written." However that may be, there's no use attempting to overlook the matrimonial chapters. Especially when one finds the five wives of the author frankly catalogued thu after the fashion of the charado In the puzzle books: 'My first (wife) was an angel. "My second a Hilly woman. "My third a Roman Senator. "My fourth a pretty little thing.' ' My fifth nil woman. "My whole (desire) was by repetition repe-tition to prove that hope can conquer con-quer experience." The chapter headed, ' Number Just fifteen lines. Tt l a masterpiece master-piece of discretion, as though of-tering of-tering "hope" every opportunity to give the he to Experience it is only a year or so since fcoodwio married "Number Five""- it will Je remembered that she was the leading lady of his company touring tour-ing tho Pacific Coast cities. and that she nursed him back to health after he was severely injured while boating in a chivalrous, but re" k-ess, k-ess, attempt to send his boat through the surf to do her a small favor. In referring to Eliza Weah'ersby L.o 1) as an "angel," Mr. Goodwin Good-win corroborates the opinion consistently con-sistently hfdd In the world of the stag for a quarter of a century and more. She is dead. uXu2' as everybody knows, was Mrs Nella Baker-Pease. Mr. Qood-writes Qood-writes that the was the "wife of WWW I yir ""B - 'i;t: vS.i'j ' tj t - i '. ''iL'i tift'- .'-'- ' 'L'T " - ft V-. jj - J UPPER right Claudia C. Wheeler. Center Nat C. (jtiojwin and his present wife. Below T ' 1 1 former wives, Maxine Elliott Elli-ott al left and Edna Goodrich Good-rich at right. a dilettante living In Buffalo. She was the best amateur piano player ti whom I have ever listened." Here is where Nut gets busy with his un-trammeled un-trammeled pen. .Mrs. Pease was i great applauder in the theater where he played. They were introduced and became "steadfast friends," and married after her hushann got a di orce. This was the "silly woman" ? tho wives' catalogue, of this marriage Rat C. Goodwill III came into the world. L'p to that time we were happy nd then she became insanely Jealous of our daiiincr boy. and It is hero that I drop the curtain cur-tain upon ou: lives." It was a leS.,i separation, and It cleared the way lor No. 3. the "Roman "Ro-man Senator" of the catalogue, Maxine Elliott. Mr. Goodwin llrst met her at a dinner party in San Franci.-eo on the eve ot his departure depart-ure to tour Australia In "An American Ameri-can Citisen." "At Mr. Frawley's left sat :he stately, majestic, Juno-like Maxine Elliott, one of tho most beautiful women whom T bad ever seen, her raven black hair and eyes In delightful delight-ful contrast to the red hues that formed an aureole, as it were, above her head. "My leading lidv at this time was Miss IMamho Walsh, who was engaged en-gaged only for the Australian tour. While contemplating the fair Maxine the evening of the dinner It suddenly sudden-ly struck me what a fine leading woman she would be for .m organization. organ-ization. Everybody told mo she was an extremely poor actress, but I nijile Up my mirld tr, rm(1 out fQr myself." it is intorostinir now, some eighteen ear later to read what Mr. Goodwin's Good-win's manager. MeClellan. .said when spoke of engaging Miss Elliott: 'Why. you're crazy1' ho shouted. 'She's beautiful to look at, but she ean't act; she hadn't the emotion of an oyster!' " There' a whole story by itself in - IIW kill him caution him " In speaking of Edna Goodrich's suit for divorce Goodwin says: "During my mining activities I foresaw the calamity that was inevitable, in-evitable, and acting on the advice of an incompetent attorney I foolishly fool-ishly entered into a trust agreement agree-ment with my wife under the terms of which I placed all my property In the hands of a trustee. In avoiding avoid-ing a possible loss I ran headfirst Into a sure steal! "As soon Ss I liad be.en served In tho divorce action I began suit on my own account to cancel this trust agreement. On tho Tuesday before the Saturday on Which the decision was to be given my friend Jim Kill-duff, Kill-duff, who had been following the sua more closely than I had, came to me and congratulated me: 'You're winning so easily, it's a laugh,' he exclaimed. 'Winning'." I echoed trebly. Do you mean she isnit going to g?t her divorce?" 'She hasn't a chance on earth,' replied Jim gleefully. 'Every charge she has made against you has been sti icken from the Referee's record' 'Good Lord'' I gasped, 'she's got to Win.' It's the only way I can ever get this trust agreement busted!' 'The result of our conversation I cannot set forth In detail. The fact remains, however, that before i t (MR 1 J i that catalogue expression, "My third a Ko'iian Senator," up to the day of the divorce that cleared the tracks f r r No. i. Mr. Goodwin gives her this final paragraph: "Maximo Elliott Js a various gifted gift-ed woman. With the nmnition of B Cleopatra she used me as a ladder lad-der to reach her goal, and found her crowning glory In the blinding glare of a myriad of incandescent lights which spell her name over the portals of a Now York theater. She Is one of the cleverest women I ever met. Ilei dignity is that of n Joan of Are. her demeanor Nero-llke Nero-llke in its assertive quality, and yet she lias channels of emotion that manifest womanhood in the truest sense of the word " "My fourth, a pretty little thing Edna Goodrich. The end of that chapter Is this piece of advice: "If a man steal your wife, don't that next Saturday the Referee had presented to him the evidence necessary nec-essary to make his course of duty plain and once nuain the newspapers news-papers had grounds (?) for proclaiming pro-claiming me a disciple of Solomon!" Tn the Black mils. Out from Omaha a good night's fun by rail a little longer, of course, by auto lies to the northwest north-west the far-famed Black Hills district, dis-trict, about which clusters a great d al of th. pioneer history of the West the country In which 'old Deadwood Is situated, where, years ago, it was not only "pistols and coffee for breakfast," but pistols without coffee practically every hour In the twenty-four. it is different now up Deadwood way, and all Is peaceable and quiet as law and or-i y in aer can make it in any communlt. Al All the noted bad men, such a m ' Wild Bill." "Deadwood Dick" and 0 ' their kind, have passed on to the u hereafter, together with such female m g ni fighters as Calamity Jane," mjc Roaring Sal" and others who did ""or their full share in establishing one rtnf of the most pii tur. siue graveyards ne on the mountain ride known in an- ..grc clent or modern history And it is San of i ue Uljck Hills this article haj rorr to do H l v rccei At Lead adjacent to Deadwood, for is located the great ilomestalce gold mln--, where millions of dollars of Tnej, gtld is taken out each ear. The (hat t; of Dead is bullded over much 0j 'i' Hi gold mine, and underneath fter Hie i t ap b ad.s and tunnels thou- jre sands of feet deep some now used "tUai and some abandoned Em Deadwood district offers much to 1 ljctj0 the tourist. The scenery Is grand and the climate superl . The fish- lj in is great in the -treams and ,.y there is the chance for the tender- ' foot to prospect for gold, which C often brings rich reward for al- r uable finds. Betw een Deadw ood and Rapid City the trip Is made, tilled to 0 ' e the brim with thrilling beauty rt ' ired scenes as the railway train dashes do i the mount iin side. ). a d ' ood ivT' distii.t, on, e so turbulent, is now ? quiet .mil peaceful an ideal place T,3' for the lover of nature. The old- "" time stage lines run as years ago, . 1 but Wild Bill" and "Calamity Jane" 'ao r sleep side b side on the mountain tne ,j i i ire 11 Bide . , i mi" ai ross the I duck range of hills o! . and mountains to the south from Di idwood, a few hours' ride by either train or auto, nestles one of ( the wonders of the age of ages Hot SprinpM and the great Wind ?cks rave the latter possessed b the n " United States Government, where !r5r visitors can go without price or ' ng 2 hindrance. V408 Over 400 years ago tradition has b it, there was a great Indian village in the Valley of Minnekahta, where Wlaxj Hoi Springs now stands, and many rP,rl tierce Indian battles have been "JE fought there. Tins little summer jlon 3 and winter resort Is 3,400 feet above ret 1 the sea level and forty miles away wa Is Harney Peak. 8,000 feet up from an sea level to ky line The deep Ue rli canyons are cool and the forests of eam waving pines and sparkling torrents trB- draw one time and again to watch W(i 0 and enjoy their splendors. And all re 1 of ibis Is one night's ride by train n.'JO from Omaha ht h The public bathlns: houses of Hot ,ears Springs are the largest of the kind, jer I it Is said. In the world. All of them r,i ;' spout forth warm water and some Uun-ti of them hot water, clear as crystal. ht b Away to the north of this valley f Ja town lies Wind Cave and Wind pounds Cave Park, owned by the govern- merit, and visited by tens of thou- Jionsh sands early. Already explorations I Junds In the great caw liave extended to J; ninety-two miles, and 2.500 separate tw,?i chambers, hunp with wonderful ',,89' geological formations, have been 'JA: measured This mine of beauty ex- e cl i eis In many ways the famous a Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. A fonder guide through the cave can be had e ofam for 50 cents The government does r Ch not permit anv charge to be made cksoi for entering the cave. The trip to d r. the cave Is made by auto or In pic- nocke turesque tally-hOS and Western staga Jpreni coaches the like of which are only mmoi to be found In the fastness of the jjiash Western mountain district. ..i89 Another place of Importance to all RO travelers desiring to see America at ad th. her best is Sylvan Dake. This beau- ; Jhg tv tir.il place Is located between Hot Jck D. Borings and Deadwood, and reached rown ; by tram or auto. The lake is one ISO of the wonders of the Western Hem- Jme h. w 'He of i ,sl'hcrl Uny F latest Accommodating. j "jam 0ncer (filling In form)-Whafs Jn w your religion? Reen.lt (anxious to Orbett Join, and determined to accom- Tl modate himself to any conditions a W3 they a.lse)-Well. what are you non short of? Punch Wonshij Not a Pool. "Was it your craving for drlnK tound that brought you here?" asked the JpL' sympathetic visitor at the jail. t "Great Scott, ma'am! Do I look so J st stupid as to mistake this place fof a saloon?" Buffalo Courier. |