The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-16
EXILES HIS DANCING WIFE.
A NO.DANCING CLAUSE IN HIS
MARRIAGE CONTRACT,
Says Harold Burnett. and He Won't Stand
for Any Violation Of It-And II Matt.
nee Girls Como Around He'll Turn
the Snakes on 'Enl-An Cltimatum.

for Any Violation OF It-ADd II Mail
nee Girls Como Around He'll TURF
tho Snakes on 'Eni-An UltimAtum
When Harold Burnett, a wealthy young
resident OF Brooklyn Heights, got mar
ried several weeks ago lie stipulated that
bis wife should give up dancing.
Young Burnett has number Of hobbies
and pursues most OF them so strenuously
that he has come to be regarded as a most
peculiar young man on the Heights. Snakes
bulldogs, gamecocks and broncos are his
almost constant companions, and he has
no use for the ordinary social diversions
of young people Of his age.
He has particular aversion to dancing
which he considers disgusting and i'm
moral He and his young spouse have
had numerous little tits growing out OF
her occasional violation OF his commands
on this subject.
Last Friday night Mrs. Burnett, who
was formerly Miss Cornelia Hull of $3.50
Sevente zenith avenue, Bath Beach, attended
a dance at the Brooklyn Polytechnic COM
mencement exercises. When she came
home Burnett says she confessed that she
had danced one waltz with Henry Journey,
nearly back OF the Burnett house at AZ
Livingston street.
Her husband upbraided her and ended
by putting on his coat and hat and escorting
her to the home Of her aunt, Mrs. Isaac H.
Cary, at SO Pierrepont street. There he
left her and he said last night he had not
seen her since and supposed she was still
there.
'All there's to it," declared Burnett last
night in allaghers livery stable in Scher-
merhorn street, where he keeps several Of
his fighting bulldogs, lis this: When got
married told my wife that she d have to
cut out dancing: I said that II she wanted
a goqody. goody fellow or any other kna OF
But she said she was satisfied and agreed
to what l said Then what do you think2
Why, right after the ceremony she went and
danced with Ernest Moore. her brother-in-
law.
didn't say much, but during the summer,
when my wife was at Bath Beach and was
at my ranch in West Chester, I heard she
had danced with a doctor in Harlem. l
called her down hard for that, and the
Harlem man, heard went around MAX
ing cracks about what he was going to do
to me. tried to find him, but l couldn't
get line on him"
MIR. Burnett intimated that there might
have been something doing In the line of
strenuosity between the doctor and himself
if he had succeeded in his quest. And he
added the young man, almost sadly:
But to get down to this Friday business
Burnett went on. Il told Mrs Burnett
before she went to the Polytechnic exer-
cises that there'd be trouble If she did go,
but she was determined, Very well, l
Il hnr oh do hNyt hn
quences She went with her aunt, Mrs.
Cary. and when she told me about the dance
she had with young Journeay we had some
words and | took her to her aunt's.
But she's good girl il left alone, and
she wouldn't have got into trouble but for
Burnett to dance with her son, and she
finally consented, after she had refused
three times. But she must get over this
habit of yielding,
IF gave in again this time it would be
the same thing all over again sooner or
I wasn't insistent enough the first year
l was married, and now I'm paying for
Burnett last night mailed a letter to his
wife w ad hsr pan sSd an ho ehs She
could have twenty-four hours to decide
whether she was coming back to me or going
to stay with her own folks. But she's got
to sign few written agreements before she
can come back In the first place. she must
agree to give up dancing for good and,
second to quit running down to her folks
to stay whenever she feels like It,"
Barnett said that he had falling out
with his wiic's people last summer, and
had kept them away from his fathers
home, where he lives, by the novel scheme
of keeping a large number of snakes, poison
Gus and otherwise, in the house ready to
be turned loose whenever occasion might
require.
They've given me a clear berth since
then" said he. The snakes were also
partly for the purpose OF protecting his wife
from the acquaintance and influence Of
number Of "stagestruck and matinee-idol-
chasing" girls, Mr.. Burnett has about az
little use for the stage as he has for dancing.
Both, in his opinion, do great deal to lead
girls to the path of inGuity,
Say" said the young man as the re-
porter was leaving, you might add that
I've got a s3-pound bull terrier that I'd
like to match for 500 to $500 side. Get
that in, will your
Henry Journeay, the youth whose dance
with Mrs. Burnett caused her exile, was a
member Of the reception committee at
fridays dance. Mrs. Cary and her niece
were his mothers guests.
Mrs Cary said last night that Mrs. Bur-
nett had left her home and gone. she be-
ieved, TO the home OF her parents in Bath
..i,