Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1910-02-24

ing as bridesmaid. From that time
on. the Richard Harding Davis star
seemed to be In the ascendant. One
book followed another rapidly and eff.
fectively, and it was said that the
young wife was a great inspiration to
her husband.
Wife Tires of Her Part.
But OF recent years all this has
changed and Dame Rumor has been
whispering that acting as an inspira-
ton for stirring novels can pail even
on clever woman-that 1t Is one
thing to read picturesque tale of ad-
venture and another thing to live with
its author in the making of 1t.
Anyhow, the Davis home at Marion
was closed, Mr.. Davis took up his
abode in the Hotel Webster and Mrs.
Davis in an apartment at No. SO West
| Sixty-seventh street. Neither the gal
liant author nor the inspirational wife
would talk for publication, but 1t is
said that Reno will soon furnish a
haven for another wife glad to seek
relief from the artistic temperament
and eager to give her husband the
freedom that will mean seeking inspir-
alton elsewhere.
For weeks the telegraph wires have
sung melancholy tale of too much
artistic temperament In a certain cor
ner of the art world long occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Chris
ty-and the end Is not yet. Charges
and countercharges, rumors of recon
Citation and then fresh legal entan-
clements have marked this case, but
behind even the most sordid details
related to crowded courtroom at
Toledo, o., is written in flaming let
tiers the ubiquitous phrase. artistic
temperament"
The Christys, like the Davises, have
been married more than decade.
Mrs. Christy was Mabelle Thompson,
woman of striking appearance. who
was popularity supposed to have in
spired as well as sat for many of her
husbands pictures. For years they
were considered a model couple, and
it seems but few brief months since
the daily papers told of the wife's de-
votion to the artist during siege with
pneumonia in their New York home,
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street
and Riverside drive.
Seemingly Inevitable Break.
Then, like bolt from the blue,
came the domestic break, followed by
Mr.. Christys remarkable flight with
his little daughter, the pursuit by Mrs.
Christy and finally the unhappy meet
ing before an Ohio Judge. Mrs. Chris
ty alleged that liquor and too much
conviviality, with an afterdose of
Christian Science, had come between
her and her husband Mr.. Christy al
legged too much interference on the
part of his wife's family, his own de-
sire to live an outdoor, simple life in
Ohio, and his wife's fondness for the
light and gayety of New Yorks night
life.
But between the charges and the
countercharges was sandwiched the
reading of letter from wife to hus-
band which betrayed the fact that the
man was not the only member of the
partnership to possess the artistic
temperament. This letter said in part:
Il annoy you and you are miserable
with me, so why not end our relation
ship with some of the sweetness with
which we began it? Life is too short
to harbor malice. Personally | hold
only the dearest thoughts of you.
can only remember the best Of you,
somehow, and l am glad to forget the
heartaches.
Il am tired-tired of neglect, tired
Of living without love and care. And
want 1t because l can't take good
care of myself, somehow. feel like
little child tonight, all worn out
with play, and want somewhere to
lay my head and cry it all out /
want warmth and light. The darkness
frightens me-"
A veritable tragedy was the recent
separation of Mr.. and Mrs. James M.
Barrie. and one in which the possessor
Of the artistic temperament has not
yet been located.
Mr.. Barrie. author OF Peter Pan"
and other beautiful and whimsical
plays and books, stood in the very
front rank of modern English writer's.
In 1894 he married Miss Mary Ansell,
an actress who played in his first dra-