The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31

dedicating it to MY Sweetheart, Friend
and Wife,"
Like pure white rose leaves are her
cheeks in hue;
Lace garnitured and edged with elder
down;
Upon her throat pearls CLEAN like sun
kissed dew;
Her ermine cloak half hides white
suede shoe,
While valley lilies and white violets
crown
The splendor of her beauty, whose re-
nOwn
Is great as that which Titian's models
knew.
AS slowly she descends the marble stair,
A radiant vision in the brilliant light,
She looks like some white statue fraught
with breath;
And I. who marvel she can be so fair,
Know that her vestal soul is just as
white.
And that she will be faithful until death
After the honeymoon DR.. Woods visited
his daughter and son-in-laW and induced
them to accompany him on a summer trip
to Alaska. They went by the way of
Yellowstone Park, spending a few weeks
there, and then to Seattle and by steamer
to Alaska and up the Yukon river. After
this trip Mr.. Grissom rented a pretty cot
tage at Glen Ridge, n. J., directly across
the street from Admiral Simpsons home,
and installed his bride there He resum-
ed his writing, and into his work put all
the originality and energy Of which he
was capable. He says that at this time
he was earning $3.50 a month. Mr.. Girls
som declared that his wife lived in better
style here than ever before in her life.
She was entertained by Mrs. Frank Les
lie. She spent two weeks with Mrs. Ella
| Wheeler Wilcox at 1.-The Bungalow in
Bar harbor. George w Cable and other
writer's of note were guests at the Girls
som home.
DR.. Woods was guest there often, too.
| The following extract from the petition
filed in court by Mr.. Grissom is his YER
sion of what resulted from those visits
from the father-in-law:
After said marriage defendant did ma
liciously deride and scott at plaintiff to
his said wife, because he was a poor
man, was magazine and newspaper
not in the line of making large sums
of money. Plaintiff was living happily
with his said wife in Glen Ridge. N. ].
Plaintiff was engaged in the pursuit of
his profession, writing newspaper and
magazine articles, and was earning from
| $3.50 to $3.50 per month, which was suffi-
cient for the ordinary expenses of plant
ifs family. Plaintiff and his wife were
| comfortably housed and were happy in
| their mutual esteem and love. But de-
PENDANT, greatly envying their happy
| condition. with malicious intent to cause
| the separation of the said husband and
wife, insinuated himself into their house
hold, and by smooth words and fair
| speech persuaded them TO break up their
| domestic arrangements at the place
aforesaid. and by fraudulent representa-
! tons, that he would provide means for
the advancement Of plaintiff in more
profitable literary lines if plaintiff would
remove to Kansas City, induced plaintiff
to cancel advantageous contracts with
Eastern publishing houses and surrender
his business.
But the defendant maliciously ard
wickedly failed and refused to perform
his contract and plaintiff on removing
to Kansas City. fell into Strengthened
circumstances, and defendant wickedlY
and maliciously did taunt plaintiff in
the presence of his wife with his poverty
and did say of him that he was poor
and could not make money and did re-
Duke plaintiff for his inability to &C
! cumuate wealth. such as he, defendant
had. and said likewise in the said Julia
presence that on account thereof she
could not have respect for plaintiff. By
all Of such malicious doings defendant
intended and desired to cause plaintiff s
wife the said Julia, to cease to love and
cherish plaintiff as her husband. and to
regard him with contempt and hatred.
Mr.. Grissom then goes on to tell how
DR.. Woods promised to buy the Kansas
City World and make him managing edi-
tor, and that he failed to keep this prom
Use. Then Mr.. Grissom began the publica-
ton of the Independent, a weekly paper.
Last summer Mrs. Grissom went with her
mother on visit to the East. She was
to return Sept. 1, but at that time she
was in Philadelphia with DR.. and Mrs
Woods. Mr.. Grissom wrote to DR.. Woods
demanding the return of his wife and his
child, Gladys. To this the reply came
that the stay of Mrs. Grissom in the East
would be indefinite. Then Mr.. Grissom
sent this telegram to Dr. Woods:
Send my wife and child at once, will
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