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Show 9 SmwfulEofA DrexdRumwmRomance I fm A bandoned by Her Husband When His I Left Penniless in a Foreign Land on I Mv TF lSt2T?t Newport Home of the J j, ' Drexels, Where Mr. John R. i 'Al S'Sr ' Drexel Has Been Entertaining JU ' ,.J$ 7 1 vi My, Little Dreaming 1 f'&$k5r That Her Daughter Was Face I jwSflltoBffilL' to Face With Actual Poverty U mfeM'! and Suffering. v TUB nrst oirijn nx-nt on record in wntcu tbo bride-to-be ran the whole affair driving away from homo In her own car, picking up her waiting lover from his hiding place In a city park and whlsk-L whlsk-L ing him off to be secretly wedded by a P-: suburban parson- has ended In the most f dismal kind of unhapplness, poverty and ! actual suffering for the wife and her young baby. Miss Alice Drexel, daughter of the very rich and fashionable John It. Drexels, of Now York, Newport. Philadelphia, London and Paris, was the dashing heiress who 4-ave surprising proof of woman's new equality with man by managing her own elopement with Captain William Barrett, en American nlr vet'. ran of the war wltn Garman . I And today, before society has hardly recovered from its astonishment at bet surprising runaway marriage, young Mrs. Barrett is a heart-broken, disillusioned woman heartlessly abandoned by her husband when his lovo grew cold; left practically penniless among strangers In a foreign laud on the eve of her baby's birth; and now, living on Ihe money she formerly scorned for love, anxiously await . log news of her family's forgiveness for I what turns out to have been a most 111- Odvised adventure In matrimony. It Is not for forgiveness of all her family for which she watches the malls and cables with tearful eyes, for her father long ago forgave her Impetuous, personally person-ally conducted elopement. But her mother, the proud Mrs John It Drexel. has never been able to pardon her high-spirited daughter for upsetting all her fondest hopes and making a marriage which she has always Insisted could end only In unhapplness. j Now that It has ended so much luoro I disastrously thau even Mrs Drexel feared. will the mother relent and open her heart once more to her prodigal daughter? On this absorbing question opinion Is divided in society at Newport, vhore Mrs. Drexel has been entertaining of late with unusual lavlshness, perhaps trying to find solace In the gay social whirl for her bitter dls appointment over Alice's unsatisfactory marriage. According to close friends, poor Alice Drexel Barn ft i corning home perhaps; however, probably not to Newport. I - John Drexel, with unusual determination, ff1 has taken tho matter in his own hands and li sent one of bis secretaries to France to ' try to bring back his sorrowing daughter and her baby. It Is not given to many young girls, born and reared in tho deepest. softest lap of luxury to run the gamut of human suffering as Alice Drexel has done in tbe short space of what should have, ben the most Joyous season of a woman's life Into one short year has been thrust more tragedy than Folia to the lot of the average woman In a whole lifetime. The peculiar environment In which Alice Drexel had lived all her life forced her, gossip says, to meet In secret the man she finally married, to clone with him in sudden haste and to slip awny to Kuror.o with only her jewels and clothes and what pocket money she had left of her yearly allowance. Before tho voyage across tho Atlantic was ended her woman's soul must havo sensed tho fact that she had seriously misjudged the devotion of the man for whom Bhe had dared the disapproval of her parents Not long aft. r reaching Europe Bbe wars y awako to the appalling realization that with ever passing day whatever love her I husband had had for her was growing rolder and colder. Was there ever a more sorrowful awakening for a bi Ide i't the very start of hor honeymoon? And then, almost on the eve of her baby'o birth, her husband abandoned her, leaving leav-ing the young wife 111 and weak, with only strangers on whom to rely In her hours of trial. i Her Jewels and oven some of her clothes were sold or pawned to secure money to t pay for the meager food and lodging she could afford for herself. This would not I have been necessary had she written tn ( her father of her dire need, for John Drexel'- love for his only daughter is fat 8 greater than hie pride. But Alice was toe B proud to make this appeal The flna T touch of pathos is added to this real Up m melodrama by the fact that while Alic was lacking all th comforts an expec tant mother should L have in actual sut gr : i fering her mother, ,y ,., I Mrs. Drexel was . 11 taking a leading Cly ? ' part in relief work tjSE' ' " for the suffering Ar women and chll- : . dreu of Armenia . 'ft and Poland Mrs Ire-:'i I ' a ' ' C l.eintis - heart d f. ft woman, her pocket- cM- i :. i - ' j 1 ' -. v; to appeals from yft the Salvation Army. jMj . Kfil ( r - ; i.'! J ,- ' ' v, it other philanthropic : ' ; her daugli ' away marriage h;. l ' cut her prll '.) S'v i' J vi-r. qui' ... and fi& ' closed to her. g There Is this to B bo said for the mother. Not for ', j one moment did Sv''' m Bhl realize her tian'h'' r's ondl Hon. Poverty la a comparative term jv' What is riches to many, fpel pov r erty to others Alice might havo been living on five or ; ten thousand dol- b lars a year and ivf been eonsldorad poor by her mother HlgLLflfiLVB and her friends. Not for one mo- PSp mont did the moth- JJif-,.. 'i or realize that Alice '"f1., was at times actu- Captain William ail. pens Barrett the Hero When friends of the Runaway wrote home that Romance and the they had seen the Unheroic Figure in Barretts in Paris the Events Which and that Alice Followed, looked careworn and shabby, Mrs Drexel was not disturbed. Lots of women look rhabby even when they have money, and even more wives look careworn. No suspicion sus-picion of the real facts ever entered Mrs. Drexel s mind until letters began coming tolling of Alice's open avoidance of her friends and acquaintances. "She seems to be hiding," wroto one woman. By this time John Drexel took alarm and 6cnt a trusted representative to France to w s$ iff . . ' , ' & m Love Grew Cold, . . .M&m the Eve of Her Baby's Birth Was There Ever a More Dismal Ending for an Heiress's Honeymoon? Mrs. John R. Drexel, Who Has Yet to Forgive Her Daughter fojn Running Away and Marrying a Poor, Socially Unknown Ex-Army Captain. look into his daughter's affairs. This messcuger had great difficulty in locating locat-ing tho unhappy young woman, and when ho finally succeeded he found hor deserted by her husband and Just about to enter a public hospital. Could any one, knowing the Drexel wealth and social standing, believe that a Drexel grandchild would Just miss being born in the chanty ward of a pub lie hospital? But such wa the case, as Mr. and Mrs. Drexel learned to their horror. Arrangements wore speedily made to havo Mr-. Barrett taken to a private nursing homo somewhere in Normandy, although the exact whereabouts were .ept a secret. And there w 1th no husband to comfort her, with no relative or near friend to help her endure hir ordeal, Alice Barrett's baby came into tho world. Again the apparent neclcct of hor needs some explanation. Neither of her parents know of bar condition until too lato to do tho things they doubtless would have done. She had bidden befsell away with her sorrow bo completely that no one who knew her well was awaro of the true (C) 10'.v International Kcatur Service, lac state of affairs. When the Drexel secretary' secre-tary' finally located her It was too late for any member of her family to reach her and she went through woman's greatest ordeal alone. SInco she was found she has had every pbysicol comfort, however, that money could buy, for John Drexel gave his aldo full authority to r.pend all that was necessary to provide for his daughter. Ono report from Paris Is that the young wife made a pitifully small layotte for her baby all herself and sewed bitter tears into every stitch. Sho prepared for her baby's coming with no expectation that help would come in time. If at all. And what of Captain Barrett, If ho may still bo givon so honorable a title the man whoso gallant war record coutiasts so strangely with tho tragedy In which his marriage has ended? When tho Drexels were Informed oT thflr daughter's marriage to an utter stranger to them they sclent thousands of dollars looking up his background It was generally understood that they hoped to find causo for setting the marriage nsi.i" In Washington Mrs. Drexel discovered that her new son-in-law was tho sou of Great Urllaln Knhts Kwerred. IIU UdU UCUU LLKlllItU piC- vlously and divorced in 1915; that he had no money and no apparent profession or other means of livelihood. The marriage performed In Now Ro-chclle, Ro-chclle, N. Y.. was perfectly legal although al-though unconventional. AHco had met Captain Barrett through the Princess Rosplgliosi and, following their first meeting, meet-ing, the young people had met frequently far from mother's watchful eye. With the tragic ending of her romance, a burning question must he troubling Mrs Barrett "W ould her year of married life have ended differently if her UK'her had been moro sympathetic? Ono of the greatest mysteries to the Drexels' friends, from the tiino that Alice came out, was Mrs. Drexel's frank effort to keep her daughter from marrying To tell tho truth, she had kept Alice in the schoolroom a year longer than is usual and then sent her abroad for a year or two when the other girls of her sot wero having their coming-out ipnrtles. Alice was well over twenty when Mis Drexel finally capitulated and brought her borne to mako her debut. Sho then did tho thing very well, the openng ball was most brilliant and n round of smaller parties In Now York and Philadelphia completed tho season The next step for any fashionable mother lies in securing a suitable husband for her daughter Mrs. Drexel not only failed to take this Important step, but interfered cannlly with such romances as came Alice's way. Tli -re wero at least four worthwhile Buitors who paid court to the Droxel heiress, heir-ess, or attempted to. But Alice was whisked away from one and all, and even ser to Eurone to evade tho most persisted WW I I I H 1 f flj Mrs. William Barrett, the SadP j Disillusioned Heroine of the Surprising Sur-prising Elopement Which She ( Managed All by Herself. j When, therefore, Alice mei William Bar-rett Bar-rett and came to believe that they were in love with each other, she decided to take matters into her own hands She ex-plained ex-plained to the captain that she had no In-come In-come of her own aside from her allowance. But Barrett insisted that be wanted her, not ner money w itn mat avow ai maue u was easy to persuade her to elope. Taking all the clothes sho could pack In several suit cases and a week-end trunk, and her Jewel box, Alice on the sixth of June laat year motored in her own car out to Bronx Park, met Barrett and was mar-rled mar-rled to him The bride and bridegroom returned to ork and informed the Drexels of tbelr maniag. Mr and Mrs Droxel i were frantic they were "surprised and ibocked," to quote their first words and summoned the bridal pair to them at once. This mr-etlug was explained by Barrett as 8 love tf ast that meant complete forgive j A Few days after this historic meeting the Barretts sailed for France. tQie 1m-presslon 1m-presslon being that John Drexel had bought their passage and given them a check beside. Whatever money the Barretts had soon melted away and. as the months passed, ier and deeper into poverty. There can in- no doubt that the young peo- 1 .i ' beginning had banked on for- '! glveness and a settled income. As their bop faded, Barrett gradually neglected her entirely. Then tho day caino when ho left her to face the future, penniless and alone. New fort and N'ewport will not count on Alice's return to tho society to Jj which she was horn until sho actually ar-rlv ar-rlv - in this c ountry Among her friends are several who say that she has too much pride to come home and really desires to 'l Mniinur- living abroad if her father will arrance her finances. Time alone can tell what will be the future of the young bride and mother whose romance has ended as tragically as any In tho melodramas over did. I |