The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-15
MRS, PETERSON
TO WE'D AGAIN
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ton went west and intimately brought
up i'm Chicago, where today he is
leader i'm society, a popular clubman
and an all-round good fellow.
Helen White. meanwhile, had been
going her way, the path that she has
trodden unfortunately not having been
always one of roses. But the White
family has rung the curtain down up
on those days, and the divorce court
has done the rest, all but permitting
the young woman to resume her maid
en- name.
When Mrs. L. c. White, with her
daughter, sailed for Hawaii just about
six years ago, it was with no thought
that before their return Miss Helen
would meet what she thought her af-
finity, only to later find that she had
been mistaken i'm her choice. The
rather romantic story of her marriage
i'm Honolulu, in April 1899, on the very
eve of her departure for this country
again, to Robert G. A. Peterson, is still
fresh i'm the minds of Worcester's So
ciety set.
Young Peterson-the prince as he
was known by the select coterie of his
| Hawaiian friends-was a gay young
man i'm every sense of the word. His
blood and his family were of the best,
| but his ideas of life were not alto
gether in accordance with those of a
| conservative New England mother-in-
| law. Through lucky speculation he
has amassed much wealth to a fortune
| that was rapidly diminishing at the
! he XHvaG
counted a shrewd. sharp financier.
That shrewdness and sharpness he
carried from the game of finance into
| the game of love and through it wooed
/ Helen White and won her hand, while
mother White looked on, little realiz-
| ing that a clandestine marriage was to
! be the closing chapters of the court
| ship. 1t was not until the boat upon
which Mrs White and her daughter,
now Mrs. Peterson, was leaving her
mornings that Mrs. White discovered
that her daughter had been married
! and to Prince Peterson.
The groom did not accompany his
young bride back to this country. He
stayed behind in Honolulu to tell of his
triumphs, the understanding being that
he should come to the United states
and to Worcester i'm the fall of that
year, 1899, and take a happy bride to an
island home. With Mrs. Peterson,
however it wasn't a case of distance
makes the heart grow fonder."
She realized that perhaps, after all,
she was not on as intimate terms with
her own mind as she had imagined.
Her Harvard-street home, her Wor-
cester friends, her saddle horses, all
began to appeal to her more strongly
than did Prince Peterson and the Ho-
nolulans.
At last Prince Peterson came to
Worcester to claim his own. And for
a few brief days he was domiciled at
the White mansion on Harvard street.
Some said he had come to take his wife
back with him; others that his mission
was to FIX it up
The details were never officially an
nounced,l but when Peterson boarded a
western train at union station, for Chi
cago and the coast, he had no one there
to keep him company Peterson and
Worcester had parted company, and so
had Peterson and the Whites.
And now comes the Superior court,
where, i'm October. 1860. just about a
year and a half after Miss White had
, became Mrs. Peterson, libel for di.
Vorce was filed, and I'm April, 1901, a
: decree nisi was granted. Six months
later, just year from the time the
original libel was filed, that decree was
made absolute.
| Shortly afterward there appeared in
Worcester an Englishman who claimed
title. and looked perhaps as though
he possessed one, though little else He
tarried for a time, travelled frequently
toward Harvard street and the west
side set thought perhaps there might
be another wedding i'm their midst. But
no. The Enslishman went as he haC
come, and Mrs. Peterson continued in
single blessedness.
Last winter Mrs. Peterson went tC
Mexico to avoid the rigors of the New
England climate. While there she
, contracted typhoid fever, and for weeks
and weeks was critically ill., Then she
began to recover. and last May hel
= strength was sufficient to permit her &c
! travel home again. She arrived in
i Worcester the latter part Of May but
b the long journey had been too much foi
: her weakened constitution.
Shortly after arriving at her parents
: home on Harvard street, from which
, she is to be married next week, Miss
; White had "a relapse, more severe thar
the original attack and during most
of the summer she was on the sick list
This fall, however, her health has en-
tirely returned.
e The first time that Homer Earl Sar-
gents name was mentioned as a sutton
p for Mrs. Petersons hand was shortly
p after her return from Mexico. 1t was
noticed by the neighbors that he fire.
quently called at the White residence
and the gossips did the rest. But only
week or so ago, when the formal am
nouncement of the engagement was
made were they sure of their facts.
Mr.. Sargent has many friends in
Worcester, while In the adjoining tow
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