Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-15
HER MOON IN THE SHADOW
Man Bearing Name of Planet DOdEes
Behind n Cloud and Mrs.
Moon MOurns.
o, swear not by the moon,
TIL incOnstant moon!

A St. Louis woman, Ave times married,
paced the promenade in the Union station
midway and felt the force of Juliets argr-
ment Of long ago.
Eagerly the woman scanned the faces OF
the male passengers, for she was looking
for Allen Moon, her husband, who disap-
peared without warning and failed to re-
turn.
Allen Moon was tired of his work, he
said. He probably was tired, for when
Mrs. Moon went to the electric lighting
plant, where he was employed as watch
man. she learned that he had drawn his
pay and broadly intmated to friends that
he was going to Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. Moon straightwsy went to Union
station and kept UP patient vigil.
But Moon failed to appear.
Moon was Mrs. Moons fifth candidate
for nuptial honors. She had lived with
him ten months. Their married life was a
pleasant one until about a month ago,
when person appeared to mar the har-
mony of what had been happy union.
This person, whose appearance proved a
check on the peace and tranquility of the
Moon family, was not a deep-dyed villain
holding a mortgage on the home, or
feminine being, leading astray Mr.. Moon
with a fascinating smile but a man,
pretended friend OF the husband, who, ac-
cording to his wife, is a hypnotist, a person
of unnatural power who welded with sure
effect his mesmeric influence on Moon with
view to Turing him from his heretofore
| happy home.
This man, says Mrs. Moon, has induced
her husband to remain from home at times
when he should have been sitting in the
| family circle.
| She With bar
Then they quarreled. 1t was quarrel
over the alleged mysterious hypnotist that
led to Moons leaving home.
Mrs. Moon is a woman OF rapid impulse
In fact, she is about as changeable as the
fair Luna herself. At first she said her
principal objection was that her husband
| had left her with rent bill due, and not
| much of the necessaries of life, and with
| $2l5 all told to meet expenses. She averred
that she did not care to live with him.
Later she relented in her antagonlstic
attitude toward her husband and said that
| IL he would only come back and do right
she would be willing TO live with him.
| All OF Mrs. Moons strenuous endeavor
has not been devoted along the lines of
matrimony. During a ten months resi-
dence in st. Louis she says shet has con-
Quoted a total of sixteen boarding houses.
Mrs Moon discussed freely her various
matrimonial steps. Hers has been wide
! experience.
IAN men are alike after you marry
them" she said rather bitterly. once
they get you and then they allow you to
do the worrying. have been married FIVE
times and want no more of it in mine"
Mrs. Moon was 15 years old when she
made her first venture in matrimony. She
married in 1881 George Fields, a river
engineer. who was drowned by the cap
sizing of a log raft In 1882
Three years later she married Bud Heney
and within two years was again a widow
Heney died OF quick consumption.
One Jim Abbott was Mrs Moons third
: husband. He married her when she wa.
q years old and they lived together sue
cessfully for several years but finally dis
agreed over the disposition of certain o
her properties and she divorced him.
In 1902 Mrs Moon married Arthur Wag
nor, who was fourth in her line of hus
bands They had not lived together
year when Wagnor's relatives influence,
him TO leave his wife. They were divorced
With two husbands dead and two al
2 vorced. she still proved 10 be available o.
e the matrimonial market, and when Allie
Moon met her In Memphis, Tenn, les
. than year ago. he wooed her with grea
fervor. and finally led her to the hymenea
altar.