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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1904)
ttenlasea Khoald Mot Wr4. CCORTINO to Mrs. Kate Upson Clark, nn eastern wrltor, who talked to thft North End Art club of Chicago on "Thw Relation Be tween Art and Morals," the way to ho happy, though u genius. Is never to marry. Mmotlon In the outpouring of genius that knows neither conventions nor restriction!, nor so-called morals, and tho person of genius who marrloM Imagines hla helpmate lack sympathy and has a tendency to "nag." The port's wife," said Mrs. Clark, "does not care for poetry after the flint week any more than the grocer's boy does for figs. She never wishes to tell of the Neighborhood gossip, liut she Interrupts rome great tlimiKht of her tiu slaml. Then lie Imuglnc In; I bereft of sympathy ami looks for It In the wives imd daughters of Ms neighbors, and. If lie be handsome, he usunlly finds It. The genius should not marry. A woman want her husband, not Ms urt. "Genius Is Insanity." said Mis. Clark. "In order to be genius it lives most of the time In a world of deep emotion. It is linrd for people of article temperament to conform to ordinary rule. Thus, divorces, nul litis, drunkenneHH and Impulsive vices nro found uinnux -oplc of genius. The. lrnp:vsiblo temperament Kceui.i to be ab solutely necessary to urt." ,t I. oe sod rrlnoH liars. Mrs. I,ucy IX I'erkliiH. a young lowit idow, walled four years at the door of the Kurt Madison penitentiary for Kmlt Jen mit t t. Then she married him, In spite of the fact that he lind been a convict. Now they are on their way to Switzerland, leaving behind them unhappy memories, to tlnd peace and happiness in a little homo in the old country. Joannett was at one time a resident and merchant of ltonuparlc, and while there met Mrs. Lucy H lYrktns. He befriended tier when she was In trouble. Her first married life had not been happy and she learned to love the young Swiss. Trouble came to Jeannett about this time. It Was financial trouble. He forged a check, was apprehended, convicted and pentencod to serve four years in the state prison at Fort Madison. Hut Mrs. Perkins did not forget Mm, and her love for him remained true. Bhe waited for his reletuie from prison. He was liberated Tuesday evening and Bhe was the first to greet him as he came out Into tho world again a free man. A marriage license was procured, with the assistance of the county attorney, T. II. Johnson, and the prison chaplain performed the ceremony making them man and wife. kommw on the Prairies. The society event of this season In Syc amore, 111., took place at the home of Mrs. lWnjaniln Ntlson on March 1, when lier daughter, Rcrtha Kdessa, was unllej In marriage to August IVterson of Har vey, N. I. This event was the culmina tion of an experience both romantic and Interesting. Miss Nilson is a native of Sycamore and in her home town she Is a great favorite. Bhe Is of Swedish parent age and, like the sweet singer of Sweden, Christine Nilsson, to whom fhe Is related, she Is a vocalist of great merit and wtJely known. About three years ago. In a Joking way, he suggested that some of the young wo men go west and take up government land. The Idea was so foreign to her manner of life that a great deal of amusement was created, hut she was In earnest and went to North Dakota and took up 100 acres of land. She had a "shack" put up and the first year re mained there, according to the require ments of the government. She then re turned home to spend the winter, fully Intending to return when the allotted time came. When her friends learned of her Intention of returning to her "shack" In the wilds of Dakota they gave her a "shower" party of farming utenils (In miniature). Kverything In the Implement line was presented her, but they could not daunt her. She said she would com pleto what she hnd stnrted to do nnd have a farm. Her experiences were varied and not one young lady in many would dis play the pluck that she did. She stiyo.l In her "shack" when storms raged that not only flooded her little room, but when winds would sway the hut and she would expect nt any moment to be swept aw ly. Storms molested her, she had prowlers around her building, hoping to po frighten her that she would give up staying there, us the claim was an extra good one, hut her nerve, determination and firearms won tho duy. Nor were her charms lost upon tlio peoplo In th it sparsely settled part of the country, for the friends that sho mado were many. In October lust she proved up on her claim nnd the land was deeded to her. The previous summer Khe had it plowed to wheat nnd flax, which netted her a neat sum. She came back her home at Christmas apparently "heart whole and fancy free." She Is one of Sycamore's finest soloists. For years she was the hading soloist In tho choir of the First Congregational church. February 18 a ripple of surpriso passed over the city when her friends re ceived Invitations to her marriage. August Peterson, one of North Dakota's respected citizens, had stolen a march on the many Sycamore admirers and won her heart. Mr. Peterson Is a member of the state legislature of North Dakota. He Is pop ular In his home town, both In business and social life. Ho is cashier of the First National bank. They will be at home to their friends at Harvey, N. D., after April 1. Mark Wedding- Revealed. The strange problem of a mwk wedding, hatched from a conspiracy on a lake steamer last rummer and performed at St. Joseph. Mich., was given to the Chicago courts In a hill for annulment filed by Mrs. Kmnia Held. G31 Wast Seventeenth Dace. If Mrs. Hold's story Is true, she Is not Mrs. Reid at all, but Miss Emma Jakes, and she has teen duped Into believing that she was a principal In tho wedding In which she was only a witness under a dif ferent name, and In which the contracting bride assumed her name without her knowl edge. Miss Jakes In 18 years old. Charles Reid. 45 years old, ostensibly her husband, is charged with having originated tho conspiracy. "Jack" Wetter and his wife, whose addresses are not known to Miss Jakes, are charged with having fig ured In the plot by Impersonating Miss Jakes and her alleged husland In the cere mony. 1'ntil a decision Is reached Judge Tut hill has Issued an order forbidding ReW visiting or disturbing Ma supposed wife, who Is now at the home of her jtster, Mrs. Mary Rlrh ter. In addition he Is charged with having another wife. One day last August Miss Jakes, or Mrs. Reld, relates she crossed the lake In com pany with the Wetter who, as since dis covered, were married at the time and Reid. On board, Reid is said to have told her that the Wetters wished to marry at St. Joseph, and proposed that they act as witnesses. To conceal from their relatives at home the fact that they had taken part In the ceremony he prevailed upon her to take the name of Mary Dirtna, while he took that of J. Jones. Miss Jakes says she consented. She knew nothing of the arrangements for the cere mony, and, as she understood nothing but Bohemian, was not aware of what was said. A few days later her sister, discovering her name In the list of wedding licenses is sued at St. Joseph, reproached her. Subse quently Reld appeared and declared that they had been legally married and that sho was obliged to live with him es his wife. Feiring him. she did so until February 27, when, she declares, she discovered he had another wife. In the meantime, she also says, she dis covered that In the wedding In which she was a witness Mrs. Wetter had taken her name and Wetter had posed os Reld, ex plaining the appearance of the license. I.iisch Diamonds, Find Husband. May Joyce, the actress In the "Four Cohans" company, lost n diamond ring at Williamsburg, N. V., and while seeking It found a husband. That Is, she lost the ring two years ago and found Itho husband a few days ugo, but the Intervening two years is a part of the story. The romance began behind the scenes of the Amphlon theater two years ago. Miss Joyce was filling an engagement at the playhouse with the "Four Cohans," and while changing her costume lost a "diamond ring. She searched everywhere for It, but In. vain. She was heartbroken because of her loss and appealed to Treasurer Mac Fadden. When the company left the Amphlon theater MacFadden made another search for the ring. He found a knothole In one of the boards in the dressing room floor, and with a crowbar removed the board. There lay the missing ring. He sent it to Miss Joyce and received a letter warmly thanking him. Many letters were ex changed between them, and last week she gave up the stage and they were married. Hatching; a Romance. If Robert Dowd of 145 Kerry street, Brooklyn, N. Y., hadn't liked sherry flip, and hadn't been a baclinlor, and If pretty Kmellne Merry of Colombia, la., hadn't written her name and address on th rounded surface of an egg, this little romance might not have been written. Rut all these things happened, undoubtedly, Just as Cupid planned that they should. And now Robert Dowd declares that his fate has been sealed. It was on the coldest night of the last cold spell when Dowd, who is 24 years old, sat before a cheerful grate fire In his bachelor quarters. His eye fell upon a bottle of sherry on a stand nearby and he decided he needed a sherry flip. His land lady, at his request, sent him two eggs. Just as he was about to break one of them on the edge of the glass he saw the girl's name neatly penciled on the shell. It was written In a woman's hand and was enough to set the bachelor's ideas moving In new lines. There was some thing sacred about that big, white egg and it was set aside. Another was used to make the bachelor's flip, and be sat down to think the girl's name over as he quaffed the savory decoction. Twirling the egg about In hla hands, Dowd examined the name from every point of view. "Ret she's a beauty," be mused sententlously. "Farmer's daughter, maybe, with the red cheeks, blond hair and laugh ing eyes full of health and life." Solilo quizing in that fashion, he fell In love with the name and the vision he had set up as its owner. The next step for a man thus smitten is to write to the unknown charmer. That Is what Dowd did, and, after waiting like pome gallant standing on a cold corner watching for his belated mistress, he re ceived recently a coy and well studied letter, which bears none of the earmarks of the farmer's daughter, addressed "Kind sir." Never mind what was In the letter. Emelino refuged to send her photograph until he had sent his own first. He has sent it, and is now waiting for the end of the romance. Leap that Won a Husband. Several years ago a 'tall, slender young man airlved at Provincetown, Cape Cod, to take charge of the little district school there. Pretty soon a number of young women of the place celled on him in a body, ostensibly to give him welcome, but Just pos.sibly with some idea of having a little innocent fun at his expense. However, they had not been with him long when nny notion they may have entertained of play ing pranks on him gave place to respect for his evident superiority over other teach ers who had come and gone. For his part, he thought he hnd never seen another such bevy of fresh, bright, buxom girls as those Cape Cod beauties were. Ky way of prolonging the visit he pro posed that they all take a walk; so they set out merrily along a country road. Now, this poor young man, scrimping along on the scant salary of a country schoolmaster, had not yet begun to consider marriage as even a prospective possibility. Rut these girls with th Ir rich out-door complexions, their unfeigned and unrestrained vivacity and their simple good sense were a tempta tion to him, us well they might have been to any real man. And, naturally enough, there was one pmong them who seemed to stir even deeper emotions than any other did. They had not walked half a mile the en tire acquaintance had not exceeded half an hour when this particular temptress, pre sumably urged by that fate which directs the course of romance, coveted some flowers that grew beyond the roadside fence. If she had only mentioned the desire to the schoolmaster he would have been glad to bring the flowers to her. Rut that was not fate's way. No sooner had the young woman wished for them than she laid a hand on the top rail and, with out stopping to think how such an act would Impress the dignified young man, vaulted the fence as easily and as grace fully as a professional athlete could have done It. Ex-Governor Frank 8. Rlack of New York tells me that the schoolmaster in stantly said in his heart: "I am going to marry that young woman." And ex-governor Rlack ought to know what he is talking about, for he was that tall, slender young schoolmaster and Mrs. Black was the young woman who leaped the fence without stopping to think leaped the fence after pleasing flowers and got them. Brooklyn Eagle.