Connecticut western news., 1896-06-04
A FAIR PROPERTIES.
WHILE SHE TELLS FORTUNES HER
 HUSBAND SEEKS SEPARATION.

HUSBAND SEEKS SEPARATION. Mrs ouimby Personates a Gypsy Princess at the Festival For the Aid of Insur- rent.-Mr. QuImby Says She Made Him Wash Dishes
 MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., June a-The prettiest corner of the Cuban fair in Madi- son Square Garden. in New York, is occu- pied by Princess Marguerita," who tells fortunes A red and white striped tent stands on the rocky ledge of an artificial glade. Within sits the princess, beau tiful and picturesque. She has been the attraction of the fair. Dollars have poured into her lap in return for her rose colored forecasts of the futsre She sits smiling and serene, an ideal gypsy queen. But she has forssken her husband. her baby boy and her home to act the part
 Princess Marguerita" is Mrs. Edward Quimby of 1e North Prospect avenue, this city. Her husband is handsome, tall and blond. Her boy is blue eyed and winsome. Her home was a aluxuriously furnished fiat in the heart of fashionable Chester hill. She occupied a good social position. She has cast all this aside that she might sit in her tent at the fair telling fortunes to the crowd. She says with the air of a martyr, that 1t is for "Cuba libre." Her husband believes her action a sacrifice to vanity and love for admiration.
 Her husband forbade her appearing at the fair. But she snapped her fingers at Teddy and became Princess Marguerita- He went to the fair and pleaded with her to return to him. She said, Poor Ted dy" and laughed at him. Now he has begun action for a separation.
 ufs Ia Stanhan StillxVall 0f thfa city, accompanied by a process server, want to the Cuban fair on Monday night and. served Mrs Quimby with the papers Not only does he want a separation, but also the custody of Eddie, the baby.
 Mrs. Quimby, four years ago, was Miss Marguerite Jeanness, the belle of Chester hill. petite in figure, with lustrous brown eyes, pink cheeks and rose red mouth, delicate Grecian nose and prettily outlined oval face set in a frame of glossy black, waving hair. She painted prettily. sang sweetly, played tennis and danced grace fully, and her conversation was witty and entertaining.
 Had a Brief oourtship.
 Then Quimby, tall, handsome. easy go- ing and impressionable, met her. A month oourtship and they were married. A year or so later their baby was born.
 
 functions assiduousy. But after the ad- vent of the baby Quimby yearned for the quiet of his hearth. Not SO with his wife She still kept up the round of teas, card parties, receptions and balls.
 He accompanied her, but usually under protest He wanted her to remain at homo with him and the by. Many bitter quar- rels arose because of 1t. In his complaint her husband says that at various times between April and May II of this year Mrs. Quimby used abusive language, struck and threatened to kill him. She left Eddie. the baby, alone in the house under lock and key for more than two hours at a time and almost starved the child, he declares Further. he states that she refused to cook his meals and made him wash the dishes. He alleges also that she corresponded with men In no way re- lated to her, refusing to desist, although he requested her to do so, and she acted as though she was in love with "another man." In fact he says, she told him she was. Who this 'other man. is the com plaint does not state, and neither he nor Mrs. Quimby will tell.
 The Church of the Ascension, to which she and her husband belonged, had fair last January. It was here she made her first appearance as a gypsy fortune teller.
 
 Marguerite. Some one interested in the Cuban fair saw her then. was much i'm. pressed with her beauty and vivaoity, and when the Cuban fair was opened she was asked to assist. She accepted.
 Must Have Her Way.
 Her husband was averse to her doing any such thing. He oouohed his objection in strong language. She merely shrugged her pretty shoulders In reply. On the even- ing the fair opened Mir. Quimby returned home as usual from New York. The flat was dark. He lighted the gas. He saw an envelope tied to the chandelier. He caught 1t hastily and tore out the contents. It was from his wife. It read, Baby and have gone to Troy" Quimby crushed the letter in his hand and did not believe 1t. He went to the Cuban fair and found her there She and her baby were stopping with her uncle and aunt Mir. and Mrs. William Jeanness in West Forty. eighth street, New York. He asked her to come home. She refused he says. He asked for his child. Again she refused. But there was a wilderness about hls compressed lips, determination about her husband s eyes, that made her tremble little.
 She consented to let him take Eddie. He did. The baby is now with his folks in Rochester, having been taken there by his sister, Mrs. Scranton.
 When seen by reporter. Mrs. Quimby said: II will tell you-no, will let my husband tell you. You see him-but stay, l may as well tell you myself. Well. the whole trouble Is that my husband is pig headed, and, to be vulgar again, Pm not to be 'bossed.' He said I could come here at first Then he reconsidered and said couldn't We'll, l had ordered my costume and given my promise. What could l do but what did! My husband is down here every night. He wants me to 20 back to live in Mount Vernon. I won't doit. can't give 1t up. I am making more mon- ey for the fair than any one else. My hus- band must let me have my way or our ways separate.
 What's that Go on the stage Oh, dear. no! I know am beautiful dancer, but I have got heart trouble, and 1t would be like taking my life and my skirts in my hands, don't you know. I can't say | any more"