The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-26
Summers Unhappy Narriage.
From the Boston Courier.

From the Boston Courier.
"A correspondent writes O long letter
in reply to a paragraph that appeared
some time ago concerning the widow Of
Charles Sumner. In that paragraph it
was stated that there was always a mys-
terry about the divorce that Mrs. Mason
obtained from Mr.. Sumner. This or
respondent declares there was no mys.
terry about it to those who knew both
the parties to the marriage, and, among
other things, says:
"Mrs. Mason had money and beau
ty, but was not an intellectual
woman, and did not belong to the circle
of Boston society to which Mr..
Sumner had the entree. She was spoken
of as a frivolous, fashionable, society
loving woman, ambitious of the position
in Washington society which a marriage
with Charles Sumner would give her.
But she had the innocent, winning ways
which many pretty women, when they
have an object in view, exercise. and
with them she accomplished her object
and became Mrs. Sumner. She had
married for Washington, and intended
20 enjoy it, and when Mr. Sumner, who
did not dance, would mildly suggest
chat it was late, that he had important
duties for the next day in the Senate
and would like to go home to rest, she
would tell him to go and she would
come when she had danced her list
down. In Mr.. Summers eyes this was
too INDIGENOUS for endurance, and, to,
with the prestige his own endowments
had given him in politics and literature,
he naturally supposed there was an at
traction about him superior to balls and
society beaus. His self-esteem was
wounded and his sense of propriety
shocked, and particularly so when Mrs.
Sumner chose a cavalier who could at
tend her in society.
"By the advice OF friends, Mr.. Sum
ner endured his wife's wlim for gayety,
hoping one winters surfeit would be
sufficient; but when the actions of his
wife provoked the voice of scandal ne
sought redress from official quarters.
The youth whom Mrs. Sumner had
chosen for a fayorite was one of those
younger English sons who are attached
to the British legation that the position
may give them opportunities in society
here which they could not otherwise
have. Mr.. Sumner represented to the
then secretary of state, that this young
Englishman had stepped beyond his
diplomatic duties, and stated that his
conduct was unbecoming q gentleman
and representative of Her Majesty. The
matter was reported to the home gov
eminent, and Earl Newcastle, a person
al friend of both Mr.. Sumner and the
secretary of state, In his official charac-
ter as secretary of foreign affairs re-
called his young countryman. This gave
offense il many ways to Mrs. Sumner;
she lost an admirer who was her con-
stant attendant, it deprived her of her
personal liberty of action, and implied
that her conduct had met the disapprOv-
al of her husband, and forthwith she
asked to be returned to her father-in-
law, in Boston. 1t was afterward de-
termined she should join q sister living
in Europe, and there she has been with
her daughter, whose eligible marriage
was noticed a little over a year since.
The Sumner marriage and denounce-
ment were society talk for q season.
Mr.. Sumner had the sympathy of his
friends throughout the whole, aud their
approval Of his course in requiring the
dismissal Of the English attache. After
Mrs. Summers departure he returned
to the society of his more intimate
friends and appeared the same as IN has
bachelor days"