The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
From the St. Louis Times.

From the St. Louis Times. IN December, 1910, Mrs. Ralph Chesley Ott, wife of the slo000 a year artist
 A for E. G.. Lewis & Co.,, looked upon her sweetheart and husband in far dif-
 ferent light than she does today. Two years ago he was her ''reincarnated lover" the paragon of all that is lovable, dear and sought for in life. He was her hero. She worshipped him. for she be- lieved that 5000 years before Christ was born he and she were loving together on the banks of the River Nile.
 But now all has changed for Mrs. Ott. who, Monday, filed petition to divorce her husband of five years. alleging cru city and undue jealousy, and telling of how he abused her on several occasions. The Egyptian sweetheart of December, 1910, is an altogether different person than the Ralph Chesley Ott who is told of in the divorce petition
 The story in the magazine section of the newspaper which told of Otis love for Miss Schaufert is headed .'The Rein | carnation of Love" It begins Five thousand years ago on the banks of the Nile-they met--loved--. She, the beautiful Princess Amneris and he a handsome but humble artisan in the em- ploysof her father. Pharoah Krufu.
 Alas. twas in vain. She was the Roy al Princess and he was of base birth.
 Five centuries elapse and nothing do- ing
 But wait. In tho State of Missouri was born Ralph chesley Ott and in the same state Jane Schaufert, destined to be his model.
 "They meet.
 Fifty centuries is long time between kisses At last in my arms" "she throws herself on his manly bosom.
 1" o my handsome newer of wood and chseler of stone, she>cries at last-at last
 And don't forget both are from Ms souri,"
 The article says touch of reality was given the dreams of the young couple
 when E. G. Lewis gae Ott commission to so to the country of the Nile and study Egyptian architecture This Ott did three years ago, and in his own narrative, sim | liar to that of Mrs. Ott, he describes his feelings 'at home in the land of the Cheops. He again sees the same visions of the past in his study in the Italian
 quarter
 1 Ott also tells in his narrative of how
 he laid under the trees in the country
 surrounding his home town, Springfield,
 Mo-, and dreamed the same dreams which his sweetheart of long ago-his future
 wifc-was dreaming fin her home in St.
 Louis. He often wondered if his dreams
 would ever come true and if he would
 ever meet the little Princess of the River
 Nile
 It was in the Queens chamber in the
 Lewis building. Says, that his dreams past was vividly recalled to him, and
 when Jane schaufert entered the ! Queens chamber he knew the little
 Princess Amneris had returned from the
 dark vista of bygone ages. Ott was as dreamy in his narrative of
 the history of bygone days as was his wife, but his dreams tally in every point
 with her story.
 Neither of the Otts dreamed of the humble artist" getting intoxicated. but 5000 years later Mrs. Ott declares her husband often becaYe intoxicated. The young artist drawing hieroglyphics
 on pyramids probably did not notice the
 army of other artists and Egyptians con
 gregating about the little Princess, but
 in her petition Mrs. Ott says the mod ern artist accused her of attempting to
 attract the attention of other men. Five thousand years ago he thought the little
 Princess was affectionats and he lossa