The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-12
Her HUSBAND TOO AMERICAN
GIRL FROM OVERSEE VARIES.
THEN OUTS MN.
AFTER Hs Three Years Here They Had
Only Their LASTING Promise IN Com
men Tan Ellis IslaBd sead Her Hack
Puzzle suba,nie,i TO MashInstsH.


Sophia PrxswarSSa. n comely Russian
girl Of N from one oi the Baltic provinces
and a graduate II a college In which she
learned TO speak German and French. but
no EnGlish. arrived On August - aboard
the Red Star liner Finland TO marry the
lover OF her childhood. Omfry NOmo.
He has been in America three years. has
become an architect. has learned the Ian
guass Of the republic and has fallen into
tbs ways u its people.
In the three years OF their separation
they wrote weekly letters in Russian
telling how much they thought % each
other Meanwhile the young man. who
had settled in Cleveland. was getting ac-
auaintsd with the vernacular % his neigh
bOrhood and the customs OF the Yankees
Hut he retained his affection for Sophia
and when she wrote to tell him that she
was coming to marry him he expressed
bic delight
IL was her intention 20 go from the
steamship directly 10 Cleveland. where
they were TO bs united by priest 81 the
on meeting an immi grafton inspector AZ
Quarantine. Who wanted TO know Why She
was travelling alone and where she Was
going She told him all about herself
and was taken Ia Falls Island. Omfry
told by telegraph that his sweetheart
vas waiting for him. came o,H " the West
more swiftly than Young LochinVar
He saw that sophia was good 10 look upon
and remarked in the finest CleN '-land'--
at his command that you could bet your
sweet life he Was going u marry the
young woman
Hs brisknes- rather startled Sophia.
Who had expected Ia greet the modest
youngst-r Of her memory He had studied
for u while for the priesthood and she had
expected To- find him a bit shy She did
not like the AmerioaniZation 81 him and
she told him So after a minister had mar
ried them He laughed Il on. and she did
not like the laugh He seemed like a
foreigner TO her On Monday last they
TOOK train for Cleveland
At Binghamton the bride left the train.
declaring that she did NOT love her hu--
band. She savs che did not tell HIM che
wa going 20 leave him and that lac prob
ably was unawar. OF her decision. She
wandered around BinEhAmton until
a friendly Dolcsman took her To pOlice
headquarters An interpreter unravelled
Der story and the Chief OF Police at the
young womsns request Photographed
70 the Rev Alois b. Kukol. secretary Of
the Slavonic Immigrant society t3s West
Twenty third street. who had married her
Mr. Kukol received the young woman
two DAYS ago and sent her TO "A MISSION
PENDING decision % her case 10y the De
psrttn-nt % Commerce and labor Her
husband wants to take her hack hat
SHE says che cannot live with him u..cat--
he IL not what she supposed he would
lie. that he - very much changed and
no longer a Russian. She says also she
does not want TO return 10 Russia.
The Immigration Bureau never before
has had problem II this kind to ppnder
IL permitted the young woman 10 land on
condition that she should marry an
Americsniy'-1 Russian. who had declared
his intention ~ becoming an American
citizen She was landed properly. ar
cording To law Nov can size lie sent
charge when her husband Il m the legal
phrase to- al Intent- and purpnse- an
American citizen Shs SAYS she will
not b.Cun. a pIbhC charge. she regards
herself capable Of teaching French and
German The Rev Mr. kuk al IN aW ai'inR
the DECISION of Washington with interest