The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-21
FORQUER,
! READ YOUR W|FE'S
P|TEGUS PLEA!
Though You Left Her and Your
Children Three Years Ago,
She Loves You Still.
SHE SAW YOU TWICE;
DID YOU SEE HER :?
Then You Were Lost in Crowd
and, New Hope Blasted, She
Went Home Weeping.

Twice in the past week has Mrs
Cecile Grange Forquer, of Hasbrouck
Heights, caught a glimpse in this city
of her husband. Alfred, for whom she
has been searching the past three
years, ever since he bade her and the
children an affectionate good-by, and
left the house in his usual manner.
The first time was in a Newark
trolley car when she was in another
car. The glimpse was fleeting, but it
completely unnerved her.
The second was today when she saw
him board a Roseville car at the Pru-
Dental corner and ran seven blocks
to catch it,
Here is woman whose heart Is
breaking, who loves and believes In her
husband in the face of the most dam
ming kind of evidence of desertion. He
is feet 10la inches In height, weighs
lS5 pounds, has a prominent nose, dark
brown hair and eyes, a heavy mustache
and walks with slight stoop. If you
can help her to find him you will win
the everlasting thanks ot a wife, and
an aged mother, who watches and waits
for him away out In Pennsylvania.
Like romantic best seller" runs
the story of the life of Mrs. Cecile
Grange Forquer. who though only 80
years old. will celebrate the nineteenth
anniversary Of her marriage in August.
1t was love match pure and simple.
Her boy husband, only five years
older than his child bride, was de-
Votion Itself. When the first little girl
came. now sixteen years younger than
her child mother, the three enjoyed life
together. Wonderful games played
they, three children together, but when
others came father and mother settled
down to an appreciation of the serious
things of life.
They came to this country, where AL
fred Immediately began to find sue
cess. They went to Pennsylvania, in
little town called Sunsbury, and
there a cozy little home was built. AL
fred became a travelling salesman,
making tidy sums of money and all
was happiness and contentment. Then
they moved to New York, where times
were not quite so good, though Alfred
still made plenty of money; after a
while the family went to Jersey City
to board with brother of Cecile.
For a time everybody was happy.
Then Alfred began to offend the broth
er, who was strong upholder of the
total abstinence theory, by taking Just
a wee drap" too much. The unpleas-
antness grew, and the wife was wretch
ed, to see those two she loved so well
on such cold terms.
Then the baby, Alfred Milan. named
for his father, sickened and died, when
he was just 4 years old. From that
time on the father changed. He was
silent most of the time and melancholy
One Saturday night Alfred sat all
night in a chair, looking at the ceiling
and blowing clouds of smoke, thinking,
thinking, thinking. and making no
answer to Cecile's remarks, only now
and then looking at her with all the
tragedy of the world In his eyes, 1t
seemed to her, thinking of it later.
A few days later he arose one morn
ing. pale and quiet, lingering about the
house until long after 1t was time for
him to start. Finally he kissed Cecile
and the children good-by, started for
the door, returned and kissed the small
ones second time, and put on his hat.
"Good-by, dearest: I'll be back by 4
O'clock" he said. and turned away.
That was three years ago last April,
and Cecile and the children are still
watching and waiting and hoping for
a sight of the loved. familiar form.
Out in Groves City, too, a woman
watches and waits, with a strength
which day by day grows less. 1t is
this aged mother who longs to see
her boy before she starts alone on the
last, unknown journey. One day she
feels sure that no is dead; that if he
was alive he would write to her: the
next day she is positive that he is on
his way to her. and the next day she
fears that he has lost his reason. Thus,
always pondering and conjecturlng. she
waits. and listens for the footsteps that
do not come.
Mrs. Forquer the wife. was found
with her children at her brothers home.
Heights. where she has
been for the last three weeks.
you see this gray hair" she said. |
the heavy locks which were |
coiled on top of her head. "It has all |
come since Alfred went away. I'm |
only S2 l love him so. and I'm sure !
know. he loves me. Why people used |
to say our happiness was too great to
ast. We were ideal lovers. and are yet, |
Tor know that wherever Alfred is, he
still loves me as unselfishly as ever. /
He was so kind. so considerate. so at
ientive. 1 would swear that his mind /
wandered when he left me like that"
She was asked to tell about the day
The saw her husband on the street car.
"Why, I was in one car and was
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