Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1911-08-28
she WANTS
A SOUL MATE
Uppie Fails to Fill the Bill
So Mrs. Sinclair Will
Try Again
HE'S OVER DEVELOPED
INTELLECT SHE SAYS

NEW YORK. Aug. 2s-Mrs. Meta
Sinclair, the wife OF Upton Sinclair,
the Socialist author. from whom he
says he intends to be divorced, last
night told the story Of her troubles
with the Socialist. She says that
she does not intend to fight the suit
II her husband brings one. She says
that the trouble with her husband
is that he is an essential monogamist
while on the other hand she is not.
She says that she has not made upf
her mind whether she will marry
Harry Kemp, the poet from Lawrence.
Kan. whom Sinclair blames for their
estrangement. She says. like every
other woman she hungers for her
real mate" and when she finds him
she will marry him. She does not
know whether Kemp is her real mate
She Is going on the stage as soon
as she is rested, she says.
Il have returned" she said TO
New York to tell my own side of ths
story The trouble with my husband
is that he is an essential monogamist
and objects to my having my freedom
In the matter of sex. We didn't re-
act against the world IN the same way
We were married eleven years ago
and for our first ten years we tried
to adjust ourselves to each other and
tho world"
Recently, she said. she had given
up all these attempts and had been
seen in public accompanied by other
men. She says that her husband had
been a conservative mind" by
nature" said she, che is a conserva-
tive. but choice has made him a radi-
cal"
Then she went back to her essential
monogamist and defined him. She
said that such one had three quail
ties First, he is not able to devote
J his time TO his wife; second. he
shouldn't be 80 absorbed in his work
that he Is not able TO keep his wife
r from being seen with other men and.
a third, she said this kind Of husband
= was overdeveloped intellectually and
p the rest OF him was not developed uK
q to his intellect
r She admitted that woman Is an IN
q Alncfive monogamist. bur slse--1S.asi I
= that tho hunger for a real mate Is S,
strong-and sho was most insisten
on the word mate-that sometimes Z
= woman has TO commit sin before she
can find him. She said that such
y conditions would not exist II men
y were not selfish and egotistfcal.
She refused to say anything definite
y about the truth or falsity Of thu
= charges that her husband had
{ brought against her. She said sho.
= didn't know whether or not she would
> marry Kemp. She might. she said, in
L. h.4t. 10
She said that she was going away for
: rest, and that when she was done
resting, she would tour the theatrical
: agents for an engagement on the
! stage. n has always been her ami
hiton to 60 on the stage. She said
= that when she went away she did not
expect the Kansas poet 10 accompany
n her.
n Upton Sinclair has given up ALL
r. hone of a reconciliation with his wife.
! "There Is no truth in tho report that
4 am after publicity" he said yester--
day I'm New York Il must decline
n TO say anything about Harry Kemp
II bovond that I will suit for divorce
e and will name him.
Y Asked If he expected measures or
y reprisal, he said NO
y u have done too much for Harry
Besides. he is a husky man. He play
IS ed on the University Of Kansas foot
e ball team. while I am small and deli-
Is cate and sensitive. No, he would
IL not strike me-
II "And your son?
S. 'I shall have charge Of him..
Mr. Sinclair hopes to leave for
Europe as soon as his divorce suit -
= started