The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-23

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| light hair.
On summers day in 1887 young Han
ma showed Enthusiastically his preference
by clipping with Miss Harrington. The
extreme youth of both the bride and
groom was the reason given for the un-
/ conventional marriage, which was sol
emnized three months before 1t was an
| nounced at Escanaha, during a sailing
| party on the lake. To-day the divorced
Mrs. Hanna is not more than twenty
eight years of age. while her former
| chum is only twenty-six
1t was a long time before there was
any suspicion that this house was not
an ideal one. Three children were born
to the young couple and the angel OF
peace seemed to hover above their heads.
Young Hanna became more and more
powerful. He advanced in his father s
coal business until he had been placed
at the head of it. Meanwhile Mrs. Han
mas chum had married also
Long before Mrs. Maud had given the
least evidence of any lift in the marital
Lutte Mrs. D. R. Hanna was granted a
divorce from her husband
1t had been led up to by gradual steps,
Jealousy terrible and open manifesto
tons of temper and even discolored eyes.
The mutterings grew darker and darker
until finally, somewhat more than a
year ago, Mrs. Hanna charged her hus-
band with extreme cruelty. On several
occasions, she said, he had knocked
her down. She said he had beaten her
so badly as to make her I'll.
No defence was made. The hearing
lasted less than fifteen minutes and the
decree of divorce was granted at the
end of it.
'1ncompatibility Of temper Is to be
the plea upon which Mrs. Wolcott will
sue for divorce. Again the gossips are
busy recalling and exchanging their bits
Of news. AS we'll try TO stem the cur
rent of a mighty cascade as to hush the
murmurings of those set upon making
conjectures. Their opinions are like
murder-they will out.
1t is said, then, that Mrs. wolcott il
extremely Jealous of her handsome nus
band. To justify this statement there
is this story: One cold night at a CO.
tillion in the National Rifles Armory
Senator and Mrs. Wolcott were pres
ent. The Senator was promenading with
a very lovely woman when Mrs. Wslcott
stopped the pair a1 publically upbraid-
ed her husband. She left them in a ter
rible rage. The Senator remained for
some time after her, trying to dissipate
the impression that she had created.
When he called for his carriage several
hours later he found that it was not
there and he was compelled to walk
home, Mrs. Woloott having given orders
to the coachman not TO return for her
husband
Some ten years ago the match, which
was declared to be founded on love, was
solemnized between Mrs Lyman K
Bass widow Of one of President Cleve-
lands former law partners, and Senator
Wolcott. Now Unsuitable rumor insists
that their marital unhappiness dates
back to the very earliest days of their
honeymoon, that they bore it for nine
years, and finally decided to give the
gossips something tangible for their
tales by appearing in the divorce court |
In Washington all last year Senator
Wolcott occupied apartments at the Ar
lington Hotel, while Mrs. Wolcott con-
tinued to live at their hondsome resi-
dence on Connecticut avenue. Both |
maintained a dignifed silence, while |
their friends discussed the possibility Of !
a reconciliation.
Although the report which links the |
Senator's name with that of Mrs. Wal |
ter de S. Maud has been Indignantly de- |
MED, it continues quite as strenuously /
to be reiterated.
1t has been spread so frequently that
it has gained with repetition credence.
There is no smoke without a fire."
say the gossips. And they are directed
from consideration of Senator Wolcott's
union with the lovely Mrs. Maud only by
a cloud of smoke from another source.
1t announces that Senator Hanna's son
is also a great admirer of the divorce
This, although Mr.. Hanna too, disclaims
any matrimonial intentions.
Does a man or woman ever confess
to being in love till the engagement is
Ask those who are inter-
ested in the conundrum. What will
Mrs. Maud do now?" they question with
obstinate pertinacity.
She is very beautiful woman, very
attractive woman, a very rich woman.
She is divinely tall with the carriage
that one ascribes to the queens of fairy
land. Mrs. Maud is five feet eigh
inches in height, and so well proper
toned that she seems no taller than the
woman who may be near her. There
has never been a breath of scandal
about her, when she was the lovely
lands belle. Nor since, when she lived
there a grass widow.
Only naturally, as waters flow TO the
pecan. men have lavished attention up
On her. Since she began TO sue for di-
yOrce gossips have allotted her first to
one and. then to another, until finally,
although denial has been persistent from
all three, the divorce of Dan Hanna, the
admirer of her youth, and the domestic
troubles Of Senator Wolcott. the friend
IF later years. have balanced her name
between the two.
Silver Ed" Wolcott, once accounted
he gamest sport in the United States.
n spite Of his fifty-one years. is en-
lowed with many characteristics cal
2Ulated to win the heart of young wo-
man Of the world. He is highly educat-
I'd, a man of polish. refinement and grit
He is one of the most eloquent men in
Congress, and has enough personal mag
letism TO be credited with hypnotic
gifts. He is absolutely fearless. gener-
oUs and rich. The silver State Senator's
erm expires in 1901 Until then he will
remain mare or less in Washington.
Propiniquity has since the world he
gan been accounted a great advantage
n the conduct OF love. "Out OF sight.
1ut Of mind is more frequently proven
20 be losical than the equally terse ad-
age: Though lost to sight, to memory
lear"
Daniel Rhodes Hanna only son OF Sena-