St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
HAVE NOT PARTED.
Stanley and His Wife Are Living
Together Happily.

Together Happily.
LONDON. July 26.-Henry NJ. Stanley
met with serious accident at Muerren
yesterday. While climbing the noun
tain ne slipped and fell quite distance,
fracturing his left lower thigh bone.
Muerren is over 5000 meters above the
level of the highest bamlet with one ex-
ception in Europe. There is no railroad
to 1t and no carriage road, and it can
only be reached up a preciptouS path
with Sure-footed horses after nearly
three hours of climbing.
Stanley was shown the telegram from
Lucerne which said that he and his wife
lad separated. As he read his face ex-
pressed surprise and indignation and
finally amusement.
What is your reply to the state
ment?" asked the correspondent.
"That it is pure invention"
He was going to say more, when sud-
denly he stopped and said:
why, there is nothing for me to
answer. In such case the woman can
best give the reply"
In moment, following out the i'm
pulse, be called Mrs. Stanley and Mrs.
Myers, her sister. Then all four sat
down. Mrs. Stanley said:
"Oh, | do hate those kilograms so
much. They always make me fright
ened.
''No need to b nervous about this
one: it is amusing"
Then Stanley, with a laughing face,
read the dispatch, and everybody
laughed when it was concluded, for, in
truth. never was happier family party
seen.
No Happier Married Couple.
Mrs. Stanley, after pause, said:
MY husband SAYS this is a charge for
me to defend. | don't believe that there
has ever been a happier married couple
than myself and husband"
She looked at him, and he replied:
81 don't believe there has BEEN"
She resumed:
81 would like much if some stop could
be put upon American newspapers in
respect to the way in which they discuss
purely private family matters. When |
was in New York lady reporter put
words in my mouth which had never
uttered. She made me say that Amer
ican women were i'll dressed and the
men vulgar. | had to contradict the
whole in letter. This present charge
concerning myself and husband is
laughable. 1t does not, therefore, ,iseem
worth contradiction"
The corresondent here reminded Mrs.
Stanley that the false, malicious para
graphs would probably be widely copied
in other papers, and begged her to con-
slider the matter more seriously. upon
which she said:
"The only reason for such areport can
be that l came on here ahead of Mr.
Stanley. l followed nv husband all
through America on his lecturing tour
1t was exhaustive work. When be came
back to England there were claims upon
him for another tour. l went with him
for two weeks. Then my doctor said l
must absolutely stop it, as l needed rest
and q change of air. So l came to
ers, and her boy, and awaited the ar
rival of my husband You see l have a
swollen face from cold which pre-
vents ME laughing much. What pity.
! got also black eye by accident, so
terrible story of Mi. Stanley's violence
to NE might be worked up by the news
papers"
1t was then suggested by the cores
pOndent that some signed statement
Should be given to Mr.. and Mrs. Stan
lev, which would, over their names, set
at rest once and for all the reports such
as these cabled by imaginative menda-
eiOus correspondents. The family party
were then left together.
Statements From Stanley and Wife.
When the correspondent returned he
was handed two statements, one from
Mrs. Stanley and the other from Henry
Stanley. Mrs. Stanley writes a bold,
clear, slanting hand. Her statement is
as follows:
lam much astonished and disgusted with
the report in the New YORK paper that my
marued life is unhappy. and that I am sep
arated from my dear husband. 1t is indeed
high time step were put to such shameful
fRbrications, as there is no protection from
these newspaper insults.
DoRoTHY STANLEY.
sit must be mentioned that Stanley
lad studiOusly refraIned to assist his
wife in any way to construct her state
ment, aud had not even read it over be-
fore it was given to the correspondent.
This was done that it could not be said
thai he had in any way biased her, and
that what she expressed wrote nothing
but her own feelings. Stanlev's state
ment was in small, upright hand. 1t
read thus:
The statement reported to have been pub
llshed about separation and domestic in
felicity in my married life is absolutely false
and without any foundation whatever. 1
have no hesitation in saying that each day
Of our married life has been one OF pure con-
tent and unalloyed happpiness.
HENRy NJ. STANLEY.
"And why don't you get indignant
about such repOrt?" said Mrs. Stanley
to her husband.
''Ifit rgere true, or partially true, l