The Indianapolis journal., 1904-01-27
EBERT HUBBARD's MARRIAGE.
East Aurora Freaks Possible "Brown
Bread"
mercfaI Advertiser.

New, York Commercial Advertiser
Ebert Hubbard has married the other
woman. The marriage was performed on
Wednesday by justice of the peace at
Bridgeport, Conn, the bride being Miss
Alice L. Moore, who was named as CO.
respondent in the divorce suit.
a newspaper interviewer who called on
Miss Moore last summer found her living
at Concord, Mass, in artistic surround
ings-that is, the evidence Of Roycroft were
all around. The typewriter was prominent,
and the loose sheets of yellow tinted manu-
script scattered everywhere seemed to give
evidence of the report that the occupant of
the room contributed not a little to the
Philistine, and has written the major part
of the Little Journeys"
For the permanence of the new union,
however, it is to be hoped Mrs. Hubbard
the second has no literary ambitions OF
her own, but will be content 70 burn in
cense before her gifted husband. This was
the cause OF the whole trouble between Ira
Elbertus and his first wife, il will be re-
called-not content with having a genius
for husband, she had strivings upward
of her own.
In the June Philstine of last year Mr..
Hubbard told US something of the trials
OF being a genius, and at the same time
entered his plea OF defense for the divorce
trial then pending.
To define a genius. Mr.. Hubbard said. is
Impossible; a man who is a genius is born
that wayne simply can't help it, But no
man is genius all the time-there are
whole weeks, months, when he is just plain
ordinary man, and it is this that makes
everyday dress as we'll as in the glorious
garb of genius. She sees him use a tooth
brush and make horrible grimaces before
the mirror when he shaVes She sees him
as he is. in short, and thus it makes her
furious TO have silly women all over the
country writing for his picture and his au-
tOgraph. The wife of a genius soon be-
gins to ask herself where does she come
in. Is not she as good as the genius, who,
after all. is only plain, ordinary man
She will see She will show those silly
women who write for autographs and the
rest OF the world that she is just as clever
as he. She begins to write papers" to
sing, and recite in public, and receive the
attention of clerks from the ribbon counter.
players on the clarinet, and tenors, who
sing in amateur operas. But still the
women write only for his autographs, his
pictures.
The wife OF the genius becomes desperate.
Jealousy gnaws at her heart. She be-
gins to open letters and take the servants
into her confldence-and her heart becomes
an abyss OF cruelty and revenge.
Whose the blame? The mans of course.
He should never have married the woman
in the first place. At least. if a genius mar
ries he should follow the example of Goethe,
who used to refer to his wife as "a conven-
lent loaf of brown bread" OF course the
ideal would be to find woman whose mind
matches his own-but this. if you are so un-
fortunate to be born Fra Elbertus, Is i'm
possible. The result is, the genius marries
just plain, ordinary wOman-and the
trouble, as has been SAID, begins. The or
dinary woman tries TO keep pace with the
swift gait Of the genius. She cannot and
seeks to hold him back. He tries to carry
her. but finds he cannot. She wishes Ia
minister to his higher nature" but how
can she when he seems to want nothing
but to be let alone?'
The moral of it all is Please pass the
brown bread" when it comes to a genius
choosing wife. When the Paris mob as
sailed the palace of Versailles crying for
bread, and Marie Antoinette in her inno-
cence asked, why don't they eat cake? ??
she revealed a gastrOnomic fallacy-cake
as a steady diet is not advisable; brown
bread is better Therefore please pass the
brown bread'-the clerk at the ribbon
counter may be won by frosted cake with
frills. sprinkled with red sanded sugar and
caraway seed, but not so the man of power
He wants brown bread"
AS was said in the beginning IL is to
be hoped for the permanency and happi.
| ness of the new union. that Mrs Hubbard
| No is brown bread and not frosted cake