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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913. ABOUT TO LOST Third Wife of Famous Wooer, Declared “Sweetest of Them All,” Files Suit. ‘Kneeless Stocking' Arrives *•* *•* +.+ *•+ +.+ Fair Wearer Defies Hot Weather *** +•+ +•+ +•+ +.4. +#+ Men’s Socks Adorn Girl's--Ahem Miss Bunee Wyde, pretty actress at Forsyth last week, who snows how comfortable she is in new “kneeless stockings.’’ TELLS STORY OF MEETING Did Not Know of Long Marital Record of Poet Until She Had Joined Him, Special Cablo to The Amerfoan. LONDON, Aug. 18—Dora of the laughing brown eyea, third wife and unnumbered affinity of Ferdinand Plnney Earle, New York poet, artist and record wooer—described by him at the time of their marriage In June. .1911, as "the dearest, sweetest and loveliest of them all”—said to-day that she is about to seek her freedom. She said she actually has begun .suit In New York for an absolute di vorce, basing her ac*lon on evtdencu she says she has obtained of Earle's ’ behavior on the Continent since she parted from him in March. Mrs. Earle is now only 25, twelve years younger than Earle. Her maid- e” was H « len Theodora Sid- ford. From her father, an English 8I a < Ct ’ slle ln * , erlted artistic tast s and is an artist of pronounced talent She is .a very attractive 1 young worn- AIL Lived at “Earle’s Folly.” The original story that reached America of her relations with Earle toarrated a meeting- in the fields a tvalk home hand In h. d, swift and ardent wooing, marriage within the month and a start on a tour of the world, which wound up prematurely In the country home in Monroe. Or ange County, known as “Earle’s Fol- fy.” Her story to-day sets right much :>f that early fiction, for the meeting with Earle seems to have been con ventional. “How did you come to give yourself to a man of Earle’s matrimonial rec ord ?” was asked. “I knew nothing of his past until after our marriage,” she replied. “Whatever his renutation in America, I had lived in a quiet English town and had never heard of his ante cedents. After our marriage his life story was cabled from America to the j London newspapers. Clippings were sent to me on the Continent on our honeymoon by mv mother. He Softened the Plow. “It was a terrible shock to find that 1 had been so utterly deceived, but I accepted the explanation and excuses offered by Mr. Earle and his assur ances that I would never have any thing of which to complain. “After our wedding- we spent two months on t^ Continent. In Sep tember, 1911, three months following the wedding, we went to Ajnerica, and lived happily At his place in Monroe N. Y. Our first baby was born there 'in April, 1912. I remained with him *ln America unt last January, and then came here to visit my mother, with whom I have since lived. It was arranged that Mr. Earle would com', here for the summer. “At the time of my return I had no* the slightest expectation that our re iations would go wrong. We kept 'n constant correspondence. He arrive! here in March, remained two days and then wmt to the Continent. My second baby was born here April 20. Her father has never seen her. “Soon after he went from here in March information reached me which left me no option except to prepare di vorce proceedings. He has ‘appealed :o me to abondon them, but That i9 mite impoMsible after his conduct as lis'closed to me.” Mrs. Earle declined to anticipate by aublioation the specific evidence she Is reserving for the court. Thu9 the name of the co-respondent Is with held. Judging from Mrs. Earle’s con vincing manner of speech, she thinks •^he has ample ground for her peti- ion. Earle’s Lpve Affairs. Earle’s love affairs were first brought to public notice in 1908 when he took to his Monroe horn** Miss Julia Kuttner, and informed his wife that the newcomer was his affinity and soul-mate. The rightful Mr». Earle at that time was formerly Miss Emilie Marie Fischbacher. daughter of a bookseller on the bankf of the Seine in Paris, whom Earle Had married in • *1903 and’by whom he-had a son, Har old Erwin. Mrs. Earle departed for France, with a reported money settlement, and obtained a divorce there. Earle. Miss Kuttner and Miss Kuttner’s mother went to Europe and domi ciled themselves in Venice. Their de parture from Monroe was hastened by threats of neighbors there to pun ish Earle without process of law. Within a few months Mrs. Kutt ner decided a marriage was necessary and a ceremony was performed at the British consulate. Soon afterward a son was born and named Edmond Erwin Earle. In 1910 the second wife lued for the anulment of the marriage on the groilnd that the ceremony had taken place before. Earle was free under French law. She also charged cruelty, especially following the birth of the child. After long consideration the 'Westchester County Court granted the petition of Annulment and declared the child le gitimate. Earle had not defended either suit, but while the courts were trying to dispose of the second he sailed to Europe with Miss Gertrude Buei Dunn, a bright-eye? /oung woman from Chicago, who had “advanced” Ideas. It was announced that to gether they would work out. and pub lish a new’ philosophy on the ideal ru ctions of the sexes. Their zeal sub sided and they parted without scan- la!. IN FAILED For Twenty Years Efforts to Put Woodland, Colo., on the Map Were Useless. * i Miss Bunee Wyde Is Bold Apostle of New Style and She’s a Good Proselyter. Miss Bunee Wyde said she should worry. Everybody else was swearing at the beastly weather whose heat left no peace in mind or body. “You see?” sh e said naively, and hoisted her skirts a wee bit beyond t^ie conventional height. She was wearing half hose. Men’s socks. She had brought to Atlanta a new fashion.. Very frankly she announced, her belief that the short socks are good to wear, much, ever so much, more comfortable than the long stock ing; allow much, ever so much, free dom of the limbs, and ar e altogether desirable. And to her very best friends she minded not a bit to show them that she indeed wore them. Everybody in Atlanta laughed at Miss Wyde and with Miss Wyd P at the Forsyth Theater last' Week. where she played with Franker Wood in a little act, “Good Night.” Nobody picked her for the bold apostle of a new fashion in wearing apparel, though. But she is, and a pretty good proselyter at that. She talked the new fad very generally in Atlanta while she was here. She calls them the “kneeless stock ing,” though. “Half hose” has a cold, unfamiliar, masculine tone to it. And she makes the prophecy that the kneeless stocking will be popular. “Garters?” said she. "Certainly not. I don't need ’em. Up New York lots' of the girls wear silk garters or men’s hose supporters with these, but under certain desirable physical features, you won’t need anything to hold them up. They just stay. “Of course you couldn’t wear these with a slit skirt, and some might blush to put them on with a tight skirt that clings when you mount a street car or even a sidewalk curb ing. Still, there is nothing immodest in wearing kneeless stockings. They are comfortable and convenient. "Well, you needn’t look if you don’t want to,” she pertly adds. TOWN BLACKLISTS 85 DEMON RUM’S SLAVES CHESTER. PA, Aug. 16.—Leading .Mtizens of this city are lauding the blacklisting of habitual drunkards. I hich prevents them purchasing in toxicants in saloons, as a far-reach ing temperance victory. The list con tains, according to the police, the names of 85 persons who have made no effort to free themselves of the drink habit. ATLANTA INSTITUTE of MUSIC and ORATORY A MQDERN CONSERVATORY. A curriculum that insures the best results, leading to certificate and diploma* A faculty recognized not only as artists in their several departments, but successful teachers of proven ability. all it* branches. WOODLAND PARK. COLO.. Aug 16.—The women of Woodland Park have started a movement to put the town on the map of Colorado’s sum mer resorts. Twenty years ago the men of the town tried it and their efforts un*!el a few' years ago in the best building lots selling for taxes. When the men of two decades ..go thought the town offered great In ducements. they voted $20,000 in bonds and built a water system and an artificial lake in the center of the town. # There were bandstands built in the woods around the town, and a band was maintained for two or three sum mers. Then the bottom fell out. The other day the waterworks bonds became due. The men who had been the prime movers in the boom of twenty years ago were discouraged and their daughters and wives took up the affairs of the town. They organized the Woodland Park Improvement Association. The asso ciation succeeded in having the bond ed indebtedness compromised for $6,000 and the tow r n now has the money to pay the bonJj and improve the water system. The women have decided to have a series of “tag” days and entertain ments by which they will rp.i«e fur.d3 to put in street lights street signs, lights at the Colorado Midland sta tion and other improvements. Earl W, Butler, of Canton, III., Seeks to Escape Penalty for Banking Methods. CANTON. ILL., Aug. 16.—Earl W. Butler, the boy banker, whose career in frenzied finance wrecked two banks in Fulton and one in Peoria County In 1910, and ended by landing Butler in the Joilet penitentiary with an indeterminate sentence of from one to three years, again Is making strenuous efforts through his attor neys and friends, to obtain his release from the State Board of Pardons. So far the boy banker has not made much progress toward getting his freedom, because of the position taken by former State’s Attorney W. S. Jewell, under whose incumbency Butler was convicted of embezzlement in connection with the Ellisville bank, and who is supported in his view of the matter by the present State’s Attorney, M. P. Rice. Butler was convicted in the Pulton County Circuit Court in October, 1911, over a year after his three banks closed their doors, and he was taken to Joliet in November of the same year. He has served nearly two years in the penitentiary and has an other year to remain there, if his sen tence is carried out to the limit. In addition to imprisonment, the verdict in hiM case imposed a fine of $2,800. but it is the expectation that he will try to schedule out of this obligation. Predicts Dancing Is To Be Part of Church Dr. G. Stanley Hall, President of Clark University, Declares Grace Should Be Encouraged. GREELEY COLO., Aug. 16.—That dancing Is one “of the best forms of exercise that is possible to take and that eventually it will become a part and parcel of the church when th«* frofMr forms of it have been •11m* inated, w as the statement made by Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University. “Dancing in itself as practiced in ancient times is what kept the Greeks and Romans healthful and graceful. The dances of those days were far different from the kind which are popular now’ and made strong men rind graceful women. “Rhythm is the basis of all physi cal movement, and I am convinced that this form of amusement, under the proper supervision, will become, not only an adjunet to the church 1 which is proper and right, but to thi schools also." Trees of Ice Age Found in Illinois Species Have Been Preserved Through Thousands of Years. CHICAGO, Aug, 16.—Members of the International Phytographic Society who made studies among the hills and cliffs about Lakcf Bluff this week discovered there species of trees and shrubs that have been retained In the region since the Ice Age. This species, the Europeans found, have been preserved through thousands of years. The poplar and creeping juniper, ex amples of the Ice Age flora, rarely found in this part of the temperate, zone, were seen flourishing vigorously be;-:lde the beech, birch, oak and maple, which fol lowed them In the normal succession. Lake Bluff Is said to be “farthest south” for the creeping Juniper. GETS IE DATA Visits Omaha Stores and Secures Evidence for the Grand Jury. Made Up Like Tramp. OMAHA, Aug. 16.—In order to more effectively carry on war against vice of all kinds, the Rev. A. E. Hess, pastor of the Hirst Memorial Young People’s Church, of this city, has been disguising himself as a “rough neck" dope fiend and scouring the haunts of the denizens of the under world for proofs of law breaking to present to the Grand Jury. His latest tour w as through a num ber of drug stores suspected of sell ing “coke." For his disguise he se cured the services of a professional costumer, and so good was his “make up” that he now has in his possession a hatful of little wooden boxes, each containing a few grains of cocaine— each labeled with the time and place of purchase, and in many cases the name of the clerk who sold it. "I was never so scared in my life as when I started out for the ’dope’ drug stores.” Mr. Hess. “I was ‘made ut'* like a dope fiend tramp and I was afraid I would be recognized and quizzed. "At the first drug store I entered twice before I raked up enough cour age to ask for the cocaine. The first time I merely watched the traffic; and that was terrible enough. I saw a woman fairly weep in her plea for tha drug she craved and for which she had not the purchase price. MOTHER OF 8 IS ENABLED! SEE Although 66 Years Old, She Travels From Home to Hos pital All Alone. CHICAGO, Aug, 16.—Pfifty yean ago a little girl was stricken blind. She was 16, and never had seen the man whom she later married. In her home at Hillsdale, Mich., she be came the mother of eight children. The father died a little later and they went out* into the world, but the mother never had seen their faces. The woman, now bent and feeble, is Mrs. Mary J. Welsh, and is back in her Hillsdale home, her sight re stored. Mrs. Welsh during the last month has been in the Wesley Hos pital here. The operation that gave her back her sight, surgeons say, was one of the most remarkable on record It consisted in the removal of a cataract of fifty years standing. A chaplain of the hospital, the Rev. M. W. Satterfield, delivered an ad dress in Hillsdale several months ago. He told of the charitable work done bv the hospital. The white-haired blind woman heard him. She groped her way forward. “(’an you do anything for me?” she asked. ‘I only want to see my babies before I go. I have been praying.” A month ago the Methodist congre gation took up a collection which made it possible for her to make the trip to Chicago. Dog Carries Mail 10 Miles for Master Evidence Found of Prehistoric Dentists Faithful Canine Postman Prefers Making His Trips Between Sundown and Dark. Archaeologist of Columbia University Discovers Ancient Skulls With Gold-FHIed Teeth. COVINGTON, IND„ Aug, 16 — Charles Keller, south of this city, owns a dog which carries letters from Mr Keller’s home to Philip Keller's home, ter. miles. When Mr. Keller wishes to communicate with his fa ther he fastens the letter on the dog’s neck and Instructs him to deliver it. The trip is always begun between sundown and dark, as this seems to be the time of day that the (log likes to travel best. The following evening the dog will return to his master with a reply. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Apparent evidence that dentistry was a pro fession in prehistoric ages has been disclosed by Professor Marshall H. Saville, archaeoligist of Columbia L’niversity, who returned here to-day from an exploring expedition In South America. Human skulls containing teeth filled with gold were among the interesting discoveries made in Ecua dor. ■ !' ■ ' : .r -felsV- In the Piano Business the Concern by Which All Others Are Measured Is the Phillios & Crew Company! There’s always One by which the Rest are Measured- In every line of business there’s unquestionably ONE that is generally accepted bv ALL as being the Standard---the one by which ALL OF THE REST ARE MEASURED OR COMPARED. * So, ask any Piano Salesman what Atlanta Piano house he would like most to work, for or to reoresent in the field— J A Ask Piano purchasers what Piano Concern’s lines are always mentioned in comparison, when other Pianos are being con sidered for purchase. And then, ask yourself at what Store'you’d rather select a Piano for use in your own home— The answer cannot help but be in every in- stance the same, for the Phillips & Crew Company are the acknowledged Standard Piano concern in Atlanta—the Old and Reliable Piano House by which all others are Measured or Compared. PHILLIPS & CREW COMPANY — The STEINWAY — The KNABE — The HARDMAN — The FISCHER — The PIANOLA-PIANO The STANDARD Pianos of The WORLD! 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