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political sagaci y and straight com-
wife. His sot lal standing Is con*
by bis wife, gh ■ makes or mars his
s.
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unday Is the gA| day in the week
'our husband tflTbest you can pro*
sace, comfort, lippiness. Give it to
he works hard to give tt you all
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self, does not
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a the morning
om 12 o’clock
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i same.
testimony Dy the
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aid or if he did or
■pear in the records.
turday and Sunday
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d on a Saturday,
mtll 12 that night,
til 2 at night, hav-
my bed.
o you mean?
f to him talk. In the Summer time
g Summer the windows were shut
> Summer of when?
lndows were shut down tight, and
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rs couldn't hear anything, and at
lng happened, and the shades were
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re in
The Husband Who Went to Live With
His Wife and Her “Soul-Mate.”
1915, the de-
at the
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watch and
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cause,
struck
O NE of the most extraordinarylnstances in which
a husband has ignored those domestic princi
ples supposed to be dearest to the hearts of
husbands, shows him actually encouraging and smooth
ing the way for his wife’s "soul mate.” What is all
the more remarkable is the faot that all the parties in
this "soul mate triangle" are New Englanders, and the
scene of their strange proceedings not many miles
from staid old Boston.
The philosophical husband 1n the case Is Dr. H. Lin
coln Chase, of Brookline, Mass., and the hospitably re
ceived affinity of his wife Is an architect of equal social
and professional prominence In Massachusetts—Hart
ley Dennett. Dr. Chase did not rush into this arrange
ment impulsively. He gave his wife and her affinity
two whole years in which to make certain that they
were really soul-mated, and not .victims of an evan-
escent infatuation.
The scene of this probation was the amiable doctor's
farm at East Alstead. N. H While Dr. Chase remained
in Boston attending to his medical practice Mrs. Chase
and her two children and Architect Dennett were do
mesticated at the Chase farm. When Dr. Chase was
aattsfled of the complete success of the experiment he
announced the fact to hfs friends.
Whatever were the feelings of those frlenda at this
calm announcement. Imagine their amazement when
the doctor added that he was now ready to Join the
soul-mated couple and establish his personal home
with them at the East Alstead farm. Pursuant to that
step he was severing his professional relations in
Boston, and would transfer his practice to Alstead.
There, he said, he expected to spend the rest of his
life, happy in sharing his wife's affections with the
architect, his "best friend."
Outside of the scene of this triangular domestic ar
rangement the doctor will retain but one important In
terest—his aged mother. She Is an old resident of
Brookline,, and he will visit her there occasionally.
There are mutual friends of this strange triangle
who do not regard them with undue harshness. They
say that the doctor, his wife and the architect are
simply endeavoring to "approach their ideal of living.”
It appears, however, that the wife of Architect Dennett
was not in harmony with this "ideal.” She divorced
him, and is living with her two children in New York,
where she is prominent In woman's suffrage work and
one of the founders of the Twilight Sleep Mothers'
Association.
Dr. Chase, after spending several weeks bb a mem
ber of his triangular household at Alstead, paid a
visit to Boston. He spoke willingly to a friend, saying
that nothing had occurred to mar the "Ideal serenity of
the household.” He added: "I am taking up my per
manent residence at East Alstead, where I shall live a
simple, Christian life. There Is something new in our
life in the hills. The.re life Is freed from much of its
strenuonsness, and there people of like tendencies can
get together and talk over matters which have called
them into a common relation—a type of life which
reflects the teachings of Christ, Tolstoy and Emerson.”
The theories which finally brought this woman and
these two men Into their hltbferto almost unheard-of
amiable arrangement began to Incubate some years
ago, according to evidence brought out at the trial of
Mrs. Dennett's divorce suit. The Chases were mar
ried in 1897, and the Dennetts In 1900. Mrs. Chase
was Margjftet Everett, a school teacher in Brookline,
and Dr. Chase was on the town's Board of Health. The
doctor was an ardent wooer and soon won his bride.
Dennett had gone to Boston from Framingham to
start his career as an architect. He met Miss Mary
Ware, a graduate of the Boston Museum Art School—
tnd he, too. was an ardent and successful wooer. The
two families became Intimate in 1904. Dennett was
taken into the Chase home, becoming the doctor’s
"bosom friend.” Ere long Mrs. Dennett began to
make objections. Presently she filed suit for divorce,
based on her husband's "Intellectual affection" for
Mrs. Chase. In awarding the Dennett children to their
mother the referee who heard the testimony made this
ruling:
"Margaret Chase has been able by the force of her
personality to monopolize the affections of Hartley
Dennett, another woman's husband, and at the same
time to retain the affection of her own husband,
"Hartley Dennett, living as he
'is with the children of another
man and dependent in large
measure upon the bounty of that
man for support, and holding the
views as to life and conduct that
he does, as disclosed by his acts
and by his testimony, is not a
fit person to have the care and
custody of either of his children ”
At that time Dennett described
his deep affection for Mrs. Chase
as "a very real and splendid
thing in his life.”
It was ndt until recently that
Dr. Chase was able to prepare to
put his theories of love and life
Into practice at Alstead His
plan of a permanent residence at
East Alstead means a great sac
rifice on his part, as he gives up
his Brookline medical connec
tions.
The doctor declares that the
end is worth the sacrifice, and
says the "platonic friendship” of
his wife and Dennett is "so
Christian-like as to be more than
earthly.”
Each of the parties to this
strange domestic arrangement,
however, is brought, necessarily,
into contact with matters that
are "earthly," and it remains
to be seen w r hether their philos
ophy will be equal to all such
smergencies through the long
years to coma.
The Husband Who Made a “Purity Pact”
band. From Left to Right,
jm Dwell Amicably Together.
tr. liatzenstein
reason of the outbreak of the Euro-
at on board the steamer the plaintiff
man of which she apprized the de-
it the defendant accused her of flirt*
gentleman and became so violent in
of that In one week he smashed a
t glasses, a watch and a cane, tore
and tore some money bills,
iry, 1915, the defendant charged the
flirting with a customer; drank a
ao and behave-Jtfeo tnat the plaintiff
erself in the bathroom,
jarly part of October, 1914, plaintiff
defendant for money for a suit of
defendant /lew into such a violent
i woman who was then working for
left their emp oyment, saying she
rk for people who had such rows,
er occasion, In October, 1914, defend-
iny cause whatever, became violent
;Ous and yelled and swore at the
d a razor and slashed his own neck
: ran through the house, waving the
ig and cursing at the plaintiff.
[Other occasion, in_October, 1914, the
which he told
plaintiff ex-
; that the de
praise it suf*
violent, yelled
in his fit of
W HEN the case of Clement Remington D. Cun
ningham agalDst his wife Irene Cunningham
for severance of marital ties was heard be
fore the Superior Court in Philadelphia, an extraordi
nary condition of affairs was brought out. Mr. Cun
ningham is the president of the Crucible Steel Cast
ings Company and wealthy. The Cunninghams were
married fourteen years before their separation came
about, and during all that time not even the closest
members of the family of either of them had any hint
that the marriage was not one of average happiness.
In direct examination of Mrs. Cunningham the fol
lowing testimony was brought out:
By Mrs. Cunningham—Well, we were engaged to be
married about five years. Before we were married,
while we went together four years at least, and about
a year before w-e were married we commenced to talk
of things pertaining to our living together. * • •
He said, "Irene, I would like to live a life Just as we
are living to-day or to-night.'' I don't think anything
more was said that night.. It may have been Tuesday
or Wednesday—two or three nights later—when he
spoke of It again. He asked me what I thought of it.
He said he was willing to live his life—the rest of his
life, as he lived it that night, in perfect purity. “Well,”
he said, "I am willing to take an oath on It," and I
suppose there was half an hour's talk on it, hut I
don’t Just remember the words; and I said, "Well, I
am willing to take an oath to live the way I have
lived anyhow." And so we took the oath. That was
about an hour before he left
Q. Describe what you did and said.
A. We went down, both of us on our knees, and ne
raised his hand and he took the oath first.
Q. What did he say?
A. He said, "I will take this oath before God that
I will live the rest of my life In perfect purity"—and
I said the same.
Q. Did you raise your band?
A. I raised my hand.
Q. What did you say?
A. I said, “I take an oath before God that I win
live the rest of my life in perfect purity”—and then
we had a little prayer to ourselves—not aloud; and
then we talked it over that we would never say the
things about ourselves to any one of what we had
done. We would keep It a secret. Up to the time I
came and told my attorneys It was a secret It was
not spoken of then again, only as to the happiness we
would have living our lives the way we had promised,
until after we were married, and I often used to ask
him, "Clem, are you satisfied the way you are living?”
and he said, "More than happy,” but he did not like
living in the house with others; that was the only
thing that he did not like. I asked him three or four
times during our time together.
Q. How long before you were married was his
so-called oath taken between you two?
A. It was taken about a year before.
Mr. Cunningham also, according to the testimony,
wrote a couple of letters to Mrs. Cunningham concern
ing the agreement. The statement of the case refers
to them as follows:
"He asked her to make that resolution a matter of
prayer, and to further emphasize the solemnity of
their pledge, he wrote her two letters, which she
ever after kept as sensible reminders of her vow. In
those letters, among other things, he said: 'We prom
ised last night, Irene, yes, more than promised, took
an oath that we would lead the rest of our life in per
fed purity. We need God's help to keep this promise.
The Charming Mrs. Lucile
Polk Carter, a leader of
Philadelphia Fashionable
Society, Who Was. Grant-
e<J a Decree from Her
Husband Because He Left
Her to Shift for Herself
on the "Titanic” with the
Simple Order to "Get Dp
and Dress Yourself and
the Children.”
It would not he an easy task for everybody.
I do not say it will be easy for us, but much
easier than the majority of others, for, Irene,
we have always tried to do what Is right,
and this promise we must do as near right
as we know how-. God will help us, I feel
sure.’ • * • ‘Irene, I think for the past
two weeks there has not been a happier per
son in the world than I. Why shouldn’t I
be? I have a person to love me with Just a
pure thought, as I do you. It took, Irene, the
purest, truest kind of love to talk to you the
way I did.
" 'Some people might think I, or we, are not sane
for thinking the way we do,-and have promised each
other to do all our life, but I think, Irene, we have
both thought well before we made that promise. I am
sure God will reward us for having purer thoughts
than most people, still we need God's help to keep us
so pure. I think, Irene, if we kneel as we do together,
In earnest prayer, oh, we. shall be guided. • • •
if we can help one another along in any way, we must
do it in the way of correction, if we should need It.
The testimony showed that the “Purity Pact” did
not work out very happily, although Mrs. Cunningham
rigidly kept to her oath. After fourteen ^ears of it.
Mr. Cunningham broke up the home and sued for
divorce, which his wife resisted. The disposition of
the case te still in the hands of the Superior Court
of Pennsylvania.
Amazing Indifference of a Titanic Husband
M
RS. LUCILE POLK CARTER was a leader of
Philadelphia fashionable society. Before her
marriage she was the brilliant and beautiful
Lucile Polk, of Baltimore. She married ■William E.
Carter, a multi-millionaire of Philadelphia and a son
of one of its oldest families.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter set sail on the Titanic upon
that ship's tragic voyage. Their children were with
them. It was this voyage, apparently, that led to the
suit for divorce, as during her testimony Mrs. Carter
made the following remarkable statement:
"When the vessel struck, my husband came to me
and said; ‘Get up and dress yourself and the children!’
1 never saw him again until I was put aboard the Car-
The Man Who Wished
His Wife Was Dead
I T was by talking continually of the expensive fu
neral he would give his wife that James F. Rogan
made married life unendurable to her.
In demanding a separation Mrs. Clare G. Rogan said
that while she was lying seriously ill her husband
talked continually of the elaborate funeral he was
going to give her when she died. He actually moved
the furniture about to show her how he would arrange
the coffin in the room.
He figured up how much money he would have left
after all the funeral expenses had been paid.
"It will come high, Clare, but it will be worth It," he
observed.
Rogan Is a law clerk and Investigator at No. 84
Grant street, Brooklyn, N. Y. His wife asked a separa
tion In the Supreme Court, Brooklyn.
Mrs. Rogan’s Illness compelled her to go to St.
Mary’s Hospital for an operation. There, she says,
Rogan continued to dwell on her funeral as a topic of
conversation, as be had already done at home. Ha
brought their son, ten years old, to see his mother.
"Take a last look at your mother, Allie.” she says he
said to the boy. "You'll never see her alive again."
The Court made Mr. Rogan pay alimony-
pathia. He was leaning on the rail as we climbed up
to the deck. All he said was that he had had a Jolly
good breakfast and that he never thought I would
make It.”
Mr. Carter showed the greatest ingenuity, his for
mer wife declared, In devising other ways and means
to abuse her.
In his report to the court Mr. Norris described the
case as an “almost unparalleled history of a husband's
depravity and the ability and willingness of a wife to
submit to such a course of treatment."
Soon after she obtained the divorce, Mrs. Carter was
married to George Brooke, and she is living at Bryn
Mawr.
The Husband Who Be
lieved in Wife Spanking
T HAT her husband spanked her like a baby was
Mrs. Anna Bebell's principal ground for asking
for a separation from him.
Mrs. Bebell lives at No. 887 Sllkworth avenue, Rich
mond Hill, N. Y, and her husband, John F. Bebell, is
a well-to-do real estate operator.
Mrs. Bebell Is a pretty, well-developed young woman
of twenty-three, and she very reasonably pleaded that
spanking was a very cruel and humiliating treatment
for a person of her description.
She said that on the morning of September 5. 1913,
her husband came home at 4 o'clock In the morning
and she upbraided him for keeping such hours. He
then, she said, placed her in the undignified position In
which parents have long been accustomed to chastise
naughty children, and spanked her cruelly with a
slipper.
Had he not used a slipper the offence would not per
haps have been so bad, but be used that article—and
a heavy one. too—In such a manner as to cause her
severe pain
Justice Gsrretson in the Queens County 8uprem»
Court decided that Mrs. Bebell was entitled to a sep
aration.
An Actual
Photograph
of the
Lifeboat
in Which
Mrs. Carter
Was Saved
Coming
Up to the
Carpathian
Side
While,
She Swore,
Her
Husband
Looked
Carelessly
On and
Told Her
He "Had Had
a Jolly
Good
Breakfast.”
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