The sun., 1904-08-30
RIVAL FADS BROKE UP HOME.
HIRLIONANIA AND ADVANCED
THOUGHT COULDN'T AGREE.
troubles OF the Aiberts Aired In Court
with Shadow OF Reformed Science
Teacher in the Observation-Disclosures
wrote OF Blood and Says He Meant It.

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When Magistrate Higginbotham got
through hearing the marital troubles Of
Mfr. and Mrs. Robert Albert in the Gates
avenue court, Brooklyn, yesterday, he ad-
--rntted that he had headache Then he
MT the case over for a week to straighten
out the tangle Of testimony which had to
do with blood on the moon and waterbugs
in the pantry and the reformed method
Of healing and other things. Over it all
broods darkly the shadow Of Walter j.
yinall. Reformed Christian Scientist. who
-gasnt recognized at all in court, but who
has had his part in charges made out Of
court.
Mrs. Albert left home last June-or was
forced to leave home. Testimony varies
on this point. Anyway, Mr.. Albert is a
bbomaniac with craze for old prints
and uncut first editions, while Mrs. Albert
is a concert singer. Mrs. Albert was a
Christian Scientist and Advanced Thinker.
Mr.. Albert was and is Hard Shell" Bap-
1Nst. Albert stood for Christian Science, he
said, until Mrs. Albert's advanced thought
led her to Reformed Christian Science.
Now the Reformed Christian Scientists
are the Protestants of Mrs. Eddy's Papacy.
The regular Christian Scientists speak OF
them as q monk Of the Spanish Inquistion
would have spoken Of Martin Luther. The
difference lies, of course, in their treat
lsent of disease. If you are a regular
Christian Scientist, there's nothing wrong
with your broken leg. just peruse the
Key 10 the Scriptures, and you are as sound
as Jefres.
It is different with Reformed Christian
Science Send for a doctor, the best you
can get, and have him set your leg. Then
think Place yourself in harmony with
the universe And after five or six weeks
Of this thought, you'll find your leg getting
veil Remove the cause of disease-that's
the idea Advanced thought will do the
rest
If you have typhoid, remove the germ,
beat it out, exterminate it. Then indulge
in advanced thought, and after while, if
the germs are killed dead enough, you get
well and your hair comes in again. Some
miraculous cures have been made by this
system
The Luther of this Christian Science
sohism is Walter j. Yinall. He holds forth
in the Emmanuel Church at 27l Macon
street, Brooklyn. The church isn't
church at all. 1t is the ground floor of
fat. and is rented for the congregation
by Mrs Emma Jansen. a rich convert
Mr.. and Mrs. Vinal and Mrs. Jansen are
away on vacation just now. Albert
says that he knows why.
Mrs Albert left home in June and wouldn't
come back Before that time, husband
shd wife hadn't been speaking to each
other for a year. Their eighteen-year-
old daughter Aleen carried messages be-
tween them across the dinner table. And
Albert said that the trouble was the Re
formed Christian Science bug" in his wife's
brain. But Mrs. Albert sued for mainten-
ance and the case came up for hearing
before Magistrate Higginbotham yester-
day.
Mrs. Albert got her innings at once
\ She introduced into the testimony a few
letters which her husband had written
was his custom to leave them around care
lessly where Mrs. Albert would find them.
Here is sample: ~''
have had to throw away the small cab
bage. new potatoes and peas, as there were
the window sill This Is the way j am treated
when Sa nj put out my money! went out and
SSons s"i to He'll. Science, mental healinaM W
der}uii!i There The is blood on the face face Of the
6tone!!l
The mystic and mysterious reference to
blod meant, Mr.. Albert said, that "some-
body was going to get his face smashed.
That somebody, he admitted out of court,
Sas Vinall. In court he couldn't admit
II, because Magistrate Higginbotham re-
lentessy refused to admit any testimony
bearing on Christian Science. saying that
L. Il IL
Another letter contained this passage:
the tuition 9Th Of the LEWIS Lewis Avenue keverend rS
have done wonders for you. Curse him and
everybody connected with him. A day Of
tSs crazy Dutchman n party tonight. don't
a9ow yourselves to be intoxicated on Rhine
hs, wine "a most M SllalnoIs compoSSInd This s
an ass or damned fool.
On June is he wrote:
TO Whom IT Mau Concern:
The Undersigned has gone to Coney Island.
sny sh N The nf Hall fDse wheTe here are en YOU nexe to
ss % Of Week. pSa sSs shssa d.So sS
l e% Ge, for optppsIS1aiI, spspIdIdaKI money on you
about Mr.. vinall.
- ne Wouldnt give me any money, said
MRS Albert, -and he would cut out all the
articles about murders from the papers
and hang them on the wall for me to see,
and once he brought home three razors
and put them on the mantelpiece. / guess
you'd like to lie abed and hear him sharpen
ing razors outside. just after he'd been
talking about blood.
Miss Aleen took the stand to testify
against her father, and there was where
Albert made a scene in court.
fyingl"
. Albert's lawyer quieted him down. Then
1t was brought out that Albert had received
legacy Of 81 400, part Of which he had
invested in an old book business. He had
all the rest, he said, to support Mrs. Albert
i she'd only come home. But Mrs Albert
didn't want to come home. She gave that
out officially.
.,How much are you making out Of your
Pid book businessl" asked the Judge.
I've taken in about % these two months"
=, SO the Magistrate, with his hand on his
throbbing brow, played for time. He will
nand down decision on Sept. 2.
=, AS fine little woman as ever walked in
snoe leather, said Albert later in the day. |
But she got Reformed Christian Science
pad, and there was no living with her.
bood! Well, not to beat about the bush
l meant that Mr.. vinall was going to have