Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-29
WILL SEEK DIVORCE
Her Child Taken, Mrs. Christy
Says She Will Fight.
CALLS ARTIST MIGRATE"
Wonders Why She Did Not "Stick
a Toothpick Through Him.
MADE HIM WHAT HE IS
Bitter When Told That Ohio Court
Gave Custody Of Daughter to
"That Creature"

NEW YORK, January 29.-Mrs. Howard
Chandler Chr.sty, wife of the artist, re-
ceived news of the GAINESVILLE, Ohio, court
decision giving her little daughter Ma
talie to her husbands sister with tears
in her eyes and a curl Of her lips last
night. She was at the home of her sister.
Mrs. C. F. hall. No. $50 West 10th
street, and was dressed for the street
when a reporter showed her the Ohio
decision.
ut doesn't make any difference what
that GAINESVILLE judge decides,'' she said,
struggling to keep back her tears while
she tossed her head disdainfully. II am
a southern woman and a fighter, and /
shall have my little girl. Furthermore, l
shall begin proceedings for an absolute
divorce atonoe. I won't have such an
insignificant creature as Howard Chand-
Ter Christy attached to me. / have re-
fused to talk for publication all along,
but now I am going to have my say
Don't you think, deaf" began her
mother.
Would Set Herself Right.
Eyes, 1 do think. mamma! You have
said Don't talk and so has every one
else. L don't see why I, shouldn't set
myself right before the world now
am going to. lawyers or no lawyers"
and. turning to the reporter, she said:
eyes, shall begin my suit for absolute
divorce at once. Will I begin it in New
York state? I won't say that. l made
the mistake Of trying habeas corpus pro-
ceedings instead of divorce at once. Now
will remedy matters-and it won't be
tried in GAINESVILLE, Ohio. either.
when 1 think all that l have suffered
from that man. 1t makes me wonder
why l never stuck a toothpick through
men with a little. fragile soul, and with
out any heart warmth at all. He never
loved Natalie. His heart is ice. He
married me when l was a little girl of
nineteen. All that 1 know of the ways
OF the world he taught me, and now he
turns and brings against me the very
things that he taught me, or tried to, for
getting the nights and days when / sat
beside his bed and nursed him when he
suffered as the result of liquor and other
dissipation.
Explains the Ozark Places"
"a great deal has been made of the
letter of November ID. 1909. which 1
wrote my husband and in which 1 spoke
OF the -Ittlc Qdrk places III my lie. WHO
has not little dark places in his life? All
the dark places in my life are little. They
are not the dark places of a man of the
world, or a woman of the world, but the
little unhappy things. the hastily spoken
and unkind word that one would like to
have recalled, the thoughtless act that
caused another pain-the little things that
cast momentary shadows of regret over
the sunshine of life. That was all.
Il never had a chance out there in
Ohio. They offered me $50 week if
would give up Natalie and withdraw
my case. Knowing that l was of proud
southern blood he arraigned against my
testimony the word of persons Of colored
blood, to humiliate me.
LAS for his sister having charge of
Natalie, l do not think she is fitted by
education, breeding or temperament to
have ,the care of her. Natalie does not
want to stay with this woman, and I
have her own word for it. Furthermore,
she shall not.
Il made all the manhood there is in
this fragile artist. / kept him on his
feet for years when he would rather
have given up and succumbed, and now
in return he takes my child away from
mo on the pretext that he has gotten
religion and / have not-and that his
religion makes him better than 1 am