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Mrg. Gwyn-Stuart-TraflFordwyr-Caffrey-Williams Thinking, No Doubt,
of the Hill That Is to Be Added to Her Name.
Unusual Perplexities of
Dancer Nance Gwyn, Who
Has Just Taken Her Fifth
Husband, but Has to Consider Two " Destined" Reservists
DOOMED to har iTa feiubands.
Fated to b Tn timet bride,
and tlx, perhape leven, timet a
widow. All the (una and bother of teven
weddlngi, and all the heart wrenching of
alx or more undolnga of the marriage
bondi. Seren problem- In human nature
to aoWe, and at exceedingly ahort range,
for no two men being alike In character
istics, ererr new huiband la a new
problem.
It la a strange fate that baa no equal,
ave In that of the much married and
captloua Henry VIII., King of England.
It is not a matter for surprise that Miss
Nance Gwyn, who is to take unto her
self on Chrlatmaa, a new and fifth hus
band, should look and feel extremely
graTe.
Mis Qwyn, who waa once a daaoer,
and a most alluring one, la ao weighted
by her responsibility as a much married,
and more to be married, woman that she
has given up dancing. Under their matri
monial orerweight ber toes may be aald
to bare lost their cunning. Her tamouav
high kick has been converted Into a staid
stand pat attitude, comporting with the
dignity of her lire ply marital experience,
with two more ply Impending. .
Mlsa Owyn began marrying and being
married when she was sixteen. When
fate bestowa her Christmas gift of Hus
band No. V. the dancing bride will be
twenty-seven. In eleven years she has
had five spouses, five times aa many as
moat women acquire In a lifetime, and
five tlmee more than some women want
or than others can get.
WhyT
Mlsa Owyn is comely, but not aa beau
tiful as Rachel, who never married. She
Is gifted, but not as gifted as Charlotte
Cushman, who never took upon herself
the burden of the marriage yoke. She
Is charming while she dances, but there
has bees more than one dancer aa charm
ing who has never married. Miss Owyn
knows all this, and being questioned,
answers that she doesnt know why, but
believes It Is all the fault of "that Hindoo
fortune teller."
Note that she aays not credit, but
"fault."
Note also that among Miss Owyn's con
victions Is the belief that woman has
very little to do in the matter of marry
ing and being married. She Is not a free
agent, the many husbanded Miss Owyn
says. For herself, for instance, ahe has
the habit of saying she might have been
once a widow, twice at most, but for what
the fortune teller aald. Suggestion la all
powerful la forming the marriage habit.
"It was at Hong Kong, while I waa on
my first wedding tour, that my fortune
was told for the first time," said the many
giridaled bride. "My bridegroom and I
were making the rounds of the basaars
and aaw an old witch standing in one of
them, looking very tall and commanding.
Instead of bright colora, like those
around her, she wore a long black Bilk
robe and a black turban, beneath which
showed long, anow white hair. She had
remarkable eyes, like black beads, but as
though they were transparent. She paid
no attention to David Stuart, my husband,
but Just looked from my palm to my face
and then back at my palm. She uttered
an exclamation of surprise. She said:
'You will have seven husbands. Seven
times shalt thou marry and only with the
last wUl you find perfect happiness.' My
Why Brown Bread, Not White, Is
the Real "Staff of Life"
ONS of the most difficult Usks that
confronts the family physician is to
Induce his dyspeptlo patients to
break themselves of the white bread habit
Usually it is useless fey him to tell them
that the "staff of life" got lta name long
before the Invention of machines that made
white bread possible, and that to utilise aa
food only the white starch particles of
wheat Is to devitalise and "denature" the
most valuable of nature's food materials.
Science shows that the grain of wheat
contains. In organic form, all of the twelve
mineral substances needed by the animal
body. Chickens, guinea pigs or monkeys
fed on whole wheat bread will thrive, but
the same animals fed on an exclusive white
bread diet will die. In order to obtain
white bread three-fourths of the minerals,
including the phosphorus. Iron, lime,
chlorine, allies, sulphur, potassium and
magnesium are discarded.
These elements as explained by a
writer In the Herald of Health magazine
are contained in the brown outer skin of
the wheat berry, called the bran, and -in
tae "ahorts." middlings" and "tailings."
which are sifted and boited out of the
ground meat, leaving principally the white,
starchy part of the Interior part of the
berry.
The millers admit that they do not give
the people white tour or white bread
through their own choice, but that be
cause the people thick they want while
flour and white bread they are obliged
to pander to them.
The millers In their consternation at
the thought of our eating the bran of the
wheat fall to warn us against eating corn
on the cob. Every time we eat a "roast
ing ear" we eat the "bran" of the corn,
and every time we eat beans or peas we
eat the "bran" of the bean and the "bran1'
of the pea, and It is well that we eat these
things, because while tluiy are not digested
in themselves, they surrender to the body
tbo Invaluable mineral salts which they
contain. Accordingly, while it may appear
to the dullard that they have no place la
the diet of man. they contribute wonder
fully to the life-giving properties of his
food.
Just as chopped meat surrenders Its
mineral salts to the water In which It la
immersed, through the p roc eases of osmosis
that we have described, so also does the
bran of the wheat surrender its minerals
to the body In the same way. But the
bran not only furnishes . Indispensable
mineral salta to the body, but lta chief
virtue is aa a regulator of the peristaltic
action of the alimentary tract by which
Its contents are kept moving onward.
In Dr. Albert Weetlake's new edition of
his book on "Babiea' Teeth to the Twelfth
Year" ho says:
"Babiea' teeth should receive considera
tion at leaat six month a before the child la
born. Necessary elements In their build
ing up are furnished at this period by the
mother's blood, hence the need of the purity
of the latter. r '
"Teeth require more organlo phosphate
(particularly phosphate of calcium and
carbonates of lime than other parts of the
body; therefore, bone food is necessary for
the mother (cow's milk. eggs, especially
yolka. pea, beans, lentils, whole wheat,
outer grains, etc.).
"Dietetic treatment for the mother la
very Important at this period while bone
is forming.
"The intestines of the child are also
undergoing vital changes at thla period and
earlier. This Includes the primary fixation
of the child's intestine in the left hypo
chondriac region.
"It is, therefore, vital to the offspring
to get perfect peristalsis of the mother's
intestines. Elimination should be regu
lar without drugs."
For this reason alone the mother ehould
not be robbed of the potassium, sodium,
magnesium, iron, phosphorus, sulphur,
silica and chlorine which venuine whole
wheat bread affords.
young husband flew into a rage. Even
though I was Just married to him and
deeply In love, I thought he cut a ridicu
lous figure. His face waa red as an angry
turkey's and he shook his flat at the old
witch, who only smiled with her eyes and
turned to read the fortune of a fat Eng
lish woman of fifty.
"That fortune made trouble from the
first ;My young husband fretted and
swore about it. I laughed at him and
Joked about it, but I believe the idea took
hold upon him and sapped his life. 'I'd
like to see you have any other husband
than me. I would never divorce you, no
matter what happened.' Poor Davy. He
never thought of the. highest divorce
court. Two montha after I heard that
prophecy. In Hong Kong my boy husband
died. I waa a widow before I was seven
teen. "I might have remained a widow for a
long time, or always, had It not been for
that fortune teller. My husband had told
his chum, Eric Traffordwyr, about It, and
Eric believed It. He took it aertously.
When Davy had been dead for six months
Eric Said to me: 'You are young and
pretty and alone in the world. You ought
to have someone to take care of you."
" 'But I don't want to marry. I ehould
like to be free,' I said. 'You can't really
help It,' reminded Eric, who was super
stitious. 'You know what the fortune
teller told you. You haven't anything to
do with It. It Is Kismet.' I began to
think so myself. We were married. Eric
didn't live long either. I was for the
second time a widow before I was twenty.
Both my husbands had served In the Boer
war-and their hardships had predestined
them to early death.
"I determined to shake off the spell of
the old prophet's words and stay single.
But on shipboard on my way to Australia
I .met Thomas Caffrey, a witty, enter
taining Irishman. We talked of our
travela and In a foolish moment in a gay
little party at a cabin dinner I warned
everybody against Hindoo fakirs.
"'Don't let cue of them tell your
fortune,' I said. They seem to cast a
spell over you.'
" 'It ie the power of suggestion,' said a
man who waa going to Australia to give
lectures on psychology. 'Some of the best
physicians treat their patlenta by meana
of suggestive thereapeutica. They put
the thought of health Into their patient's
minds. The Hindoo haa put Into your
mind the thought that you will marry
aeven times.'
"'And you think I wilir X flashed at
him.
" 'If ihe power of the thought la strong
enough in you,' he said.
"'Nonsense,' I have seven husbands?
Two have been more than enough. I
shall enjoy my freedom as long aa 1 Jive.'
But. somehow, that very night, Tom Caf
frey and I. while leaning on the deckrail.
grew sentimental. He proposed; I
wavered.
"Come, me darlinV he aaid. with his
delicious Chauncey Olcott brogue, "you'd
better take me. Afther aU. there's no
escapin' me. You know what the ould
witch aald.' "
In a ahort while it befell that Mrs.
Stuart-Traffordwyr became Mre. Stuart
TraffordwyrCaffrey. That marriage lasted
longer than the others. Caffrey hadn't
served in the Boer war. But he lacked
philosophy. What he had quite deserted
him when Charlea Gilpin. Ill, of the
wealthy and exclusive Philadelphia fam
ily, manifested strong admiration for
Mrs. Caffrey'a dancing, and a deep regard
for the dancer. Her Irish husband apoke
with bitter finality when Mrs. Charles
Gilpin, III. named hla wife in her ault for
divorce.
"I might aa well make off and lave ye'
free, Nance," he aaid. "Sure It'e only a
matter or time. Ye raymlmber what the
Hindoo fortune teller aald." He divorced
her. Her precipitation might have been
regarded aa Gilpin's opportunity. Perhapa
the Phlladelphlan might In time have
availed himself of it But upon the
matrimonial horlson simultaneously ap
peared Charlea Romer Williams, once an
officer of the British army.
Copyright, lilt, by the Star Connt
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"Miss' Gwyn in the Costume of
a Dance That Thrilled Even
a Mrs. Gouraud Ball.
Misa Gwyn didn't like the English
flavor of the mixed nationality matri
monial banquet. She, an Australian, had
wedded a Scotchman, a Welshman and an
Irishman. After two years of being Mrs.
Williams she said of Husband No. 4:
"Mr. Williams is a nice man, but he's
an Englishman. An Englishman ia a
perfectly dreadful person to marry. He'll
do anything in the world for you before
he geta you. Afterward he is willing to
buy you two black dresses, one for day
and one for evening wear. His attitude
la a supercilious. 'Is It possible you are
not content? Preposterous. Why, ma
dam, you have the honor to be my wife."
There were material reasons why the
oft-wedded dancer should cling to her
fourth husband. He was sole heir to
several large fortunes and would ulti
mately become a multi-millionaire by the
easy road of inheritance. Further, he had
a tidy Income of $25,000 a year with
which to fend the howling wolf from the
door. But Mrs. Stuart-Traffordwyr-Caf-frey-WIlllama
snapped her fingers at
mere pecuniary considerations. She waa
tired of being the wife of an Englishman.
And "Just to be horrid," aa one of her
dear enemiea cooed, ahe revenged herself '
upon fate for having been "named" by
herselfnaming a corespondent. Nanette
Sucre Femme (the sugar girl) suffered
that Indignity. The courta freed the
dancer.
Fifth to be in the tandem gaily driven
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"Miss' Gwyn as She Waa When She Took Destined Husband No. 8.1
by the still girlish-looking dancer is
Collins Suter HU1, a retired mtnlng
operator from Cape Town, South Africa.
The genius of her many marriages waa at
work fashioning her changed future, even
while the present argued a pleasant and
undisturbed future. So, brief is the
vision of mere mortals in matters that
Involve matrimony.
"Mr. Hill was a dear friend of my third
lusband." the for-the-nfth-tlme-brtde
elect explains. "I met him while Tom
and I were on our honeymoon trip to
Cape Town."
Mr. Hill, who is considerably hla
wife's elder, haa an unshakable prefer
ence for the quiet life. To that prefer
ence hia experienced betrothed cheer
fully subscribes.
For ber, she says, there will be no more
of the fevered, changeful sort of exist
ence. No more character dances like
those given by the former Mrs. Jackson
Gouraud and the present Edmund Rus
sell, where Miss Gwyn thrilled the guests
by her Salome dance of the seven veils.
No more admirers like ' Arthur Carew,
who, because their love was spurned,
tried to commit suicide on the dancer'a
doorstep. No more Jealous Philadelphia
wives, nor wives of any other city.
'My husband abhors dancing, and I am
going to give it up. He aaya he lovea me
despite my dancing instead of because of
It as ao many fools have done. I am quot
ing Mr. Hill. He'a ao forceful. I have
promised to lead with him the quiet life
he lovea. We will live near Los Angelea.
Our honeymoon will be a world tour. I
have given away all my dancing coatuuiea
-affd my Jewels. Mr. Hill hates to aee a
woman decked with Jewels. He saya ahe
Is aa interesting aa a dummy in a
Jeweler's window and no more. He aaya
Jewels only detract from a woman'a
beauty. He ia the first man "who ever
understood . me. In gratitude tor that
understanding I mean to be a serious
minded wife."
No doubt Miss Owyn's speech had its
root in a sincere purpose. But there are
eavilers who would bar that world tour.
"Men admire dear Nance ao much. Mr.
Hill would better put her In a Blue Beard
closet than take her on a honeymoon
tour of the world. Didn't she meet him
on her third honeymoon? And may not
ahe meet No. 6, and, who knows, maybe
No. 7, on her world honeymoon tour aa
Mrs. Hill!"
Also, so suspicious Is Imperfect human
nature, some there be who see an omen
in the Cape Town man's betrothal gift.
There was no engagement ring, no en
gagement bracelet, because Husband
elect No. V. dislikes Jewels and the bride
has eschewed them. But he gave her
what she asked, two dogs, the list of
whose perfections the. writer will spare
you. Some of their friends find comfort
in the fact that Princess Fill and Prin
cess Txu. the Pekinese Chinese spaniels,
get on amicably together.
r'w.'u had 8ked for ca "1 dog it
might have foreshadowed the end of No.
v., ' said a raven-like bachelor.
Yet It cannot be denied that according
to the Hindoo aoothsayer two more hue
bands of the quota of aeven Impend. Un
easy lies the head of the husband that
according to the palms and stare, is not
the last of the matrimonial series. He Is
not necessarily a coward If. hla number
being less than aeven. he grows anxloua
when he catches cold, and loses his nerve
lest his gun be untrustworthy when he
goes hunting. Death may be prepartna
to give bis wife her next Interval of
freedom. He la not a churl If he rrow
peevish when hi. wife ahowa wearlnesa
at hla stories or supplements his conver
sation by means of words of one syllable
She may be clearly seeing what be fear,
he perceives, the Damociean sword swin
tag directly above hU imtow'? baMSS'
That man would be much more thai
human, much higher than man. who dii
not reflect upon his four predecessor
and the methods of their passing '
Death or divorce, which? .Ha '....
the thought of the men who tlr,, !!
before, but he quake, at th? J
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