Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-12
MotherandDa
Pretty illusions of a Thirteen.
Year.Old Girl.
MRS. HUBBARD-AYERs TROUBLES.

| New Phase Of Their Developm ent-Her
Divorced Husband Suing to Have the
Custody of the Young Daughter Taken
from Her-Letters from the Child That
Are Nice Reading for q Mother, and
Nice Writing for the Writer.
CHICAGO, July l2.-The petition of Her.
bert c. Aver, the divorced husband Of Har-
riet Hubbard Aver, the proprietress of face
lotions, to have his wife removed as guardian
of their youngest child, Margaret, was made
| public IN the superior court yesterday. The
petition of Mr.. Aver is very sensational, and
Is supplemented by some very spicy CORE
spOndence from his daughter Margaret, and
from the novelist, Miss Howard, in whose
charge Margaret now is at Stuttgart Ger
many The petition says Mrs Aver contem-
plates removing Margaret from Miss How
| ards care, and charges Mrs Aver with
drunkenness and other vices. and declares
that she is not a fit person to look after the
welfare of her daughter. The petition asks
that Mrs. Harriet Seymour-Margaret's sister
of Orange, \. j., be appointed her guar
dian
Nice Opinion OF Her Mother.
In will be remembered that a month or 50
ago Mrs Aver won a suit against her son in
law, Allen Lewis Seymour. who married her
eldest daughter, Harriet. over the stock of
the face lotion company. 1t seems that her
divorced husbands suit is connected slightly
with the suit against Seymour, as letters
we're published at that time which are used
in this latter suit The girl Margaret is IS
years old and in letter dated June 4, ad-
dressed to her sister Harriet, she SAYS:
please tell papa to do all he can before be
lets me go 10 that awful woman Mrs Aver.
and she Mr.. Aver surely won't let me
stay with Wawie Miss HowartD any longer.
won't 20 on a ship until | am dragged, and
| won't lie dragged till can't walk. and I
have strong legs and I'll run away if get a
chance Tal papa not 10 let them try to
take me away. II / lose Wawie l lose all
the good in m, and therefore my motto is.
Hang on as long as you can and never say
dia don't see how We can ever thank ami
love Wawie enough and make up for this
that our mother has done TO her and her
clean name She is 80 calm and so awfully
lovely, hut we G rls are furious
Miss How ards Arch Fiend"
Another letter Is from Miss Howard and
refers at the start TO Mrs. Aver as the arch
hend, SAYING: Il am sure you will all agree
that IN addition to the public affront TO my
fair name, should hardly be called upon to
pay the arch fend's private bills As to
Margaret, she writes: The question now Is
II can legally keep her, provided Mrs Aver
sends FOR her. Has your papa the slightest
legal right TO the childl 1t would break nv
heart to give the child up. No one in the
world understands her as | do No one who
does not realize patiently and lovingly that
she Is the child of opium and some other
vices Of which YOU do not know can make
good woman Of her, for your mothers blood
runs freely in her. As TO the drinking,
Hattie, | simply cannot believe that II. II
A IS temperate, nor can DR.. Teuffel and DR..
DeahnL She Is an adapt in coucealing it. |
and drinks perfume IN large swallows. She
can carry quarts
Another of Margaret's illusions
To her grandmother, under date Of June
4 Margaret writes: |
DEAR GRANDMA suppose you have
read in the patsrs that l play the violin, |
but 1t l. great big lie like all the rest in the
papers about my Wawse / was very glad |
TO get your letter, but it's not for now only
that want to stay with Miss Howard. but |
always. She has done lot more for me
than any one else has. She's improved |
everything from my soul to my toe naf,s. Il
may have been nice little bit of a girl. but |
was a horrid big girl in the convent ami |
IN New York. / used 10 lie and cheat and |
do the horridist OF horrid things. When |
Mrs. Aver came Wawie tried to keen me |
from SEN. how bad Mrs. Aver was but / /
was old enough, and saw all Because |
| had not liked her loud manner and /
diamonds $50 many in Paris AMI here She
talked and laughed loud and sang on the
streets, 50 that | was ashsmed Of her. Mrs |
Aver lied at our table, and then she tried to |
make me lie, and l saw her drunk on our
hoor Christmas night, and she cried and said:
Margaret, You must love me. too She was
very jealous of Wawie, because didn't love
Mrs Aver. l saw her dye for her hair. her
rouge for her lips, her black for her eve-l
brows, and her Blanc de PerIes when She
pretended To faint And the day she tried
to be Hest she drank nine cups of tea The
Baroness Won Bollie wrote Wawie that Mrs /
Aver Is going to send me to a convent in /
Pans hate converts, and / am going to /
ron away"
Mrs Ayers Alleged Habits.
Besides these letters, the testimonial OF /
Marion ;. Smith, ami three other girls,
who are under Miss Towards tutelage. as
t. how Mrs Aver behaved on her visit to
Stuttgart, is given They say Mrs. Aver
had not been there long before she Disguised
them with her coarse talk, low jokes, loud
laughter and great excItA bility caused by
excess Of brandy. She walked the house at |
night like Gagged beast Christmas night
she Tell in drunken stGpor on tue floor. She
said she suffered from insomnia, and called
DR.. Teuffel, vino told her she had been
drinking too hard, and ordered her to bed
She demanded brandy. but il was refused
her, and she drank her tooth-wash and a big
bottle of beiiotrope toilet water. This is all
the statement of the four girls, who. like
Margaret and Mrs. Seymour, are entirely on
Miss Towards side
Other Facts in the Case.
The parties to the suit are well known in
this city, where Mrs. Aver was a belle before
her marriage The divorce was obtained BY
collu 'ion after Aver failed in business on
the plea of desertiou, Aver letting the case
go by default 1t is only just to say tina,
Mrs Aver in an interview at New York,
denies the charges against her, and says that
Aver has not so much as inquired after Mar.
garet's health since the ss.rsaration