The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11

the time when Miss Graves went to
st. Paul to visit friends, early in 1899
while the young woman was there
Bennett took a run up home, and then
went over to st. Paul to pay a visit to
the young lady. They met, and half in
jest, half in earnest, a marriage was
proposed, and the young people, with
out the knowledge of any one, were
married in st. Paul Feb. 5, 1899. After
the ceremony they separated with an
agreement that one one should know of
1t until some future time, and there
the romance ended for a brief time.
Bennett went back TO Chicago and
Miss Graves did also shortly afterward
But while they kept silence, they cor
responded whenever they were sepa-
rated by distance, and all was we'll
until a third actor appeared in the
shape of the young man the parents of
the young woman wanted for her hus-
band Then in the complications that
followed the Graves family became
aware of the condition of things and
there was trouble.
Pressure was brought to bear upon
Bennett, and George L. Matchan and
young attorney named Lewis were
selected to bring divorce proceedings.
one attorney appearing for each. Ben
nett brought the action in Hennepin
peared for the wife. The cause of the
action was desertion and Judge Har-
rison tried the case.
Now the peculiar part of it all was
that all the time that this was going
on the most loving letters were passing
between the young couple. Not silly
epistles, but lovely missives filled
with endearments that were gems of
womanly and manly affection. Both
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the old folks, but their hearts cried out
against their hard fate.
But for judge with a keen eye to
facts the divorce might have followed
and the young woman have been mat
ed to the wrong man. But things
shaped themselves right, after all. The
two hearts that beat as one cried out
in letters, and one of them found it's
way into court, so that in Judge Har-
rison's findings he refused the divorce
on the ground that it appeared from
his reading of human nature that the
proceedings were friendly, and that the
young folks were in litigation to please
the old folks. So the divorce was de-
MED.
Both the young couple were happy.
They wrote more letters. They We're
more in love than ever, and finally the
parents relented, and they were al
lowed to see each other. The result is
that they are to be husband and wife,
after all, but in order to keep the whole
affair from becoming public they We're
married just as if nothing had hap
pened. The ceremony took place at
Evanston, a suburb of Chicago.
All of the big new resort hotels have
large corridors and Hobbies where men
and women assemble. giving a sort of
drawing room atmosphere to them. The
only trouble with the plan, so far as
the bachelor guest is concerned, is that
they have so little accommodation for
men exclusively.
There is little, if any, space set apart
for what might be called the club life
of a big hotel-having in mind the Eng
fish Bishops definition of a club as a
place where women cease from troub-
ling and the wicked are at rest. Men,
for one thing, feel themselves under
constraint in the matter of smoking.
The clerk of one of these hotels had
a good deal to say when this situation
was brought to his attention the other
day.
Where can you smoker" he repeat
ed, indignantly, in answer to a ques-
ton. why, smoke right here, right
where you are. If the women who are
swarming all around here get smoke
blown in their faces it's their own
fault
do you see that elevator there?
Well, all the space this side of that
elevator is free to smokers. On the
other side of the elevator are the long
corridor half a dozen room and al
coves and at the end of it an enormous
parlor. All that space is reserved for
women who wish to get away from to-
bacco smoke.
And yet just look at it! It's a black
desert of carpeting and furniture. Not
a woman in sight Now look at the
women here where they know the rules
of the hotel authorize me to smoke
They are so thick you have to pick
your way about among them.
1--WE set apart room here on this
floor for men to write their letters in
and smoke as they wrote if they want
ed to. In less than a week the women
had deserted their own writing room
and taken possession of the one 1e-
served for the men.
Then we gave the men big loung-
ing and smoking room away off at the
end of the hall down on the ground
floor and equipped with writing desks.
I'd like to have you go down and look
into that room at this minute. If it
isn't swarming with women I'll receipt
1.-THE women have now deserted the
waiting room UP here out of which they
drove the men and if one of 'em has
a letter to write, or makes believe sic
has, she'll walk a quarter of mile to
get into that subterraneous lounging-
room downstairs. 1t was mans last
stand, that lounging room, and when
the women stormed that citadel and
took it, we gave the thing up.
Am / a woman hater? Well, no, not
much. l like 'em all the better for it,
bless 'em. They will be where men are
and that's just where they belong.
Smoke where you please, but If you
really want to get away from women,
go down into that saloon there be-
yond the elevator, which is reserved ex-
clusively for women"
my wife has never spent half her
income" Harry Lehr is reported to
have said to a Paris dressmaker, land
that is a great pity. A woman should
dress to the full extent of her for
tune"
The scene was the interior of the
finest establishment in the French cap
ital. The person to whom Mr.. Lehr
was speaking was the foremost dress
authority in Europe.
Within, in the hands of the filter,
stood Mrs Lehr, patiently putting on
and taking off the garments, one by
one, as they shaped to her beautiful
form.
Mrs. Harry Lehr, when she took off
the black of widowhood as Mrs. Dahl
gren and stepped out into the social
world as Mrs. Harry Lehr. tacitly