The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
NOW she is FREE.
Former Shawnee County Girl
Returns to Single Bliss.
Hilda Peters COurted Muse and
Husband Was Jealous.
KICKED OUT OF BED.
1t Was Then She Pleaded for
Final Separation.
Poems Submitted as Matter of
Self Defense.
KICKED OUT OF BED.

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 10Th
daunted because her husband did not
lift his voice in peans of praise at his
good luck in having a wife who pos
sessed imagery, Mrs. Hilda Young,
longtime resident of Shawnee county,
Kan, and who was married in Topeka,
in 1901, is now writing verse under
her maiden name of Hilda Peters.
Judge Houser in the superior court
granted the divorce, when the woman
set forth in her petition for decree
that her husband had kicked her out
of bed, and told her that her poetry
was rotten, when she had an inspira-
ton at o'clock in the morning TO
write a poem on Morning"
Now that the court has made ner
free, Mrs. Young is permitted TO write
poetry at any old time without having
a husband to dare to kick, and this
Morning" poem which caused all the
trouble, was not even asked for by
the judge as exhibit 23.' He granted
the divorce at once, evidently thinking
kick too severe penalty Ior tne
crime; else he writes poetry h1msef.
And this is the way that the poem
that caused the trouble reads:
One Morning.
One morning, while nature yet SUM
bered,
awoke by voice of distant thunder.
1 saw Sons of God
That were learned from God all in all.
They reached out a rod
And built the milky way
For globe osfall
Between two magnet layers.
And in the ring / saw
A ruler like king.
One more form I spied
Mid Venus maids so shy
How is that kingdom to be known z"
/ asked the King before the throne.
A mystic wave the globe goes out,
And independent N its flight,
The bridal couple brought host 7o1
friends
On the wedding trip to unknown
lands;
There twelve in circle ring.
Twelve angels on harps did play and
sing;
Deceitfu1 order also came
On that globe to be known.
Paradise and serpents rules are play
ed on all the globes
The Sons of God can use the rod
And change the serpent into copper
mould
In looks the poem resembles wait
Whitman for it knows no feet, and
therefore shows no bunions. still this IS
the way Mrs. Young refers to 1t;
INV husband, who was, is a gross
man. who knows nothing of the beau
ties of nature. nor of the world
Tie was a GOOD naSpdHu lOI llAO III o
few years we were married, but lately
he changed, and treated me very
badly, especially SO when L wrote
poetry.
ST have to write when the inspiration
comes: this happens at all hours.
zone morning before daylight L had
an inspiration, and wrote this poem
THE Morning I had paper and pencil
on a chair by the bed, and l sat up and
wrote the lines as they came into my
head.
INV husband did not like this, and
treated me badly; yes he kicked me-
but 1 do not like to talk of these de-
tails. He did not like my poetry.
Things became so bad that I was
forced to bring suit for divorce and 1
guess he thought he had no case for he
did not put in an appearance
Spurns Lumberman's Wealth.
IT did not ask for any of the prop
ertv nor any alirnony; L do not want
anything from him. and would not take
penny from him
''It is a sad thing when man is
without any sense of the beautiful"
And then Mrs. Young recited 1.-THE
Morning"
The effect was perceptible to the
naked ear.
IT seems that she does not have 10
write out her verses unless she wishes,
for once an inspiration seized, the mes
sage is imprinted on her memory, and
in turn is apt to stay with that of who
ever hears it after.
And her husband did not like her