The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-06
GlDDY GIRL WANTS DIVORCE
Married TO SO to Paris Exposition
and Now Repents It.

/ vorce from her husband, nephew OF
United states Senator George Turner. Of
the state Of washington
1t IS a story remarkable as ever vas
told that Mrs. Turner here relates
4 she alleges. and viii so swear in her
1 suit for divorce, that her husband whom
! she welded only last March, has already
forgotten his marriage vows.
/ she declares, 70 that he has certainly
! forgotten other VOWS h made to her be-
f9.e their wedding.
+ He solemnly promised her she says
I that she should be MS wife only IN name
I and that he would release her from the
marital bonds as soon az they should re-
/ turn from q visit to the Paris Exposition.
whose beauties ard wonders she intense
/ II desired % see she married him sole
/ Iy because she yearned to go 10 Paris and
the Exposition.
Now. she says. although she has been
his wife only IN name, he refuses % re-
lease her, although she has again and
again pleaded with him 70 keep his prom
ise. telling him she can never love him;
that tied 70 him she Is utterly unhappy.
As a last resort, to regain the freedom
which he promised me, win sue my
husband, Walter P. Turner. for absolute
divorce
with the ala and by the testimony OF
ny friends viii prove his inhdelity.
To make plain my position must de-
scribe what was year ago. There can
Re no vanity Ia that. for this calling
bond 70 my husband has changed my ap-
nearance. my disposition. Twenty-th-ee
years Of age, I have become an old
woman.
was born At xeuia- Ohio. and IN that
little town lived q secluded home life It
became necessary to earn my own living.
and more than two years ago went 10
washington. D. c. Through the influence
Of political friends Of my family, Of
whom Senator Turner was one became
a clerk in the postofice department. Life
and the ways Of the world were new 70
me; I had no one TO advise ne, 70 cor
reot my youthful errors Of Judgment.
Before the Paris Exposition was OPEN
ed 7 read much of Il, saw many beauti-
ful pictures Of what its buildings would
Be- OF The maryels they would contain
longed TO go 10 the Exposition to see
PARIS.
formed the plan 81 getting an appoint
States Commissionerxzh f7nvbgqkjcfw7-p
ment 70 ths Exposition from United
states Commissioner Peck. The idea ap-
realed with wonderful force to my 70
mantle fancy. The more thought OF It
the more attractive Il became, until It
grew % be irresistible But there was
one obstacle IN my wav The United
states commissioner positively refused to
employ young and unmarried women for
service IN Paris. However. was given
% understand there was ore way % at
tain the ambition of my life % realize
the one subject Of my thoughts
II married my husband might secure
n place under the commissions and take
me to the Exposition.
had met Walter Turner 81 his uncls's
committee room. where I went occasion
ally 70 write letters Like the senator.
his nephew knew Of my intense desire to
81 % Paris Walter Turner was nothing
more than an acquaintance 7 called him
1Ir. Turner then. I have called him 8Ir
Turner ever since
on the night of March ? last NTr. Turner
walked houe usrh ne. He proposed mar
rlase To me.
's3Iarry ma" he said. ard I viii take
you 10 the Paris Exposition
At first 7 thoaeht he was joking. he
vowed he was In earnest. I was fano-
cent. ignorant. thoughtless Of the grar-
'tr Of the marriage relation.
FTe solenniy promised me that we
would rot assume coniueaI relations and
tlat when we returned from Paris. the