Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-09-02
.UPPY SUES WIFE
Sinclair Institutes Divorce
Proceedings.
WIFt'S SIDE OF ROW TOLD
Novelist. Socialist and Member Of
Ardsn's Colony in Delaware
Names Kansas Poet as
Co. Respondent.

New York, Aug. 29.-Upton Sinclair,
author and Socialist of Arden's col
ony, near Wilmington, Del, brought
suit against his wife. Mrs. Meta Full
Ter Sinclair, for divorce ON statutory
grounds.
Harry Kemp, the young. poet. from
Lawrence, Kan, is named as core
spondent. Mrs. Meta Fuller Sinclair,
the wife from whom he is seeking a
divorce, told her side of her troubles
with her husband.
She says that she does not intend
to fight the suit that her husband
brings. She says that the trouble with
her husband is that he is IAN essen
tial monogamist," while on the other
hand she is not. She says that she has
not made up her mind whether she
will marry Harry Kemp, the young
poet from Lawrence, Kan, whom Sin.
clair blames for their arrangement.
She says that like every other wo-
man she hungers for her real mate,
and that when she finds him she will
marry him. She does not know wheth-
err Kemp is her real mate. She Is go
ing on the stage as soon as she is rest
ed, she says.
Mrs. Sinclair said that she had not
been well for the last four days and
husband intended to bring suit was
brought to her
II have returned" she said, ito New
York to tell my own side of the story.
The trouble with my husband is that
he is an essential monogamist and OBJ
jects to my having my freedom in the
matter of sex. We didn't react against
the world in the same way. We were
married eleven years ago and for our
first ten years we tried to adjust our
selves to each other and the world"
Recently, she said, she had given up
all such attempts and had been seen
in public accompanied by other men.
She said that her husband had a
conservative mind" BY nature" said
she, The is conservative, but choice
has made him radical"
Then she went back to her essential
monogamist and defined him. She
said that such one had three quail
ties. These, she says, are the faults
of her husband: First, he is not able
to devote his time to his wife; sec
ond, he is so absorbed in his work
that he is not able to keep his wife
from being seen with other men, and
third, she said, her husband was over
deyaloned intellectually
She admitted that woman is an in
stinctive monogamist, but she said
that the hunger for real mate is so
strong-and she was most insistent on
the word "mate"-that sometimes a
woman has to commit sin before she
can find him. She said that such con-
ditions would not exist if men were
not so selfish and egotistical.
She refused to say anything definite
about the truth or falsity of the
charges that her husband had brought
against her. She said that she didn't
know whether or not she would marry
Harry Kemp. She might, she said, If
she found that he was her real mate.
She said that she was going away
for a rest and that after she was
through resting she would visit the
theatrical agents for an engagement
on the stage. 1t has always been her
ambition to go on the stage She said
that when she went away she did not
expect the Kansas poet to accompany
her.