The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-27
OLD ENOUGH
TO KNOW BETTER.
Mrs. OFT Claims to Have Lived in
Egypt 5000 Years Ago When
She Was Prln-
| cess.
ROMANCE OF PYRAMID
Met Her First Love There and Died Of
Broken Heart When Father
Kicked Young Man
Out


ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2N-Mrs. Ralph .
Chesley OFT artists wife who Monday
filed a divorce suit alleging cruelty
and undue jealousy, seemed appar-
emily happy today at her mothers
home. She hummed as she went
about household work but she declin-
ed to discuss the suit further than to
point out that the petition spoke for
itself.
Mary Jane, nearly two years old, and
Arcea, IL months, the two OFT chill
dren, were with their mother today.
.Arcea Is the euphonic representation
OF Otis initials, "R. c." The chill
dren are famed for their beauty, fay-
oring their mother, a brunette of at
tractive figure.
The couple were married February
5, 1910, after an elopment. OFT pre-
sented his bride with speedy tour
ing car. The envy of her girl friends
was still more keen when one Sun
day the papers of almost every large
city in the country came out with a
full page OF thrilling reading matter
and voluptuous illustrations about
i the $4,000 artist and his young bride.
She was quoted as believing she and
her husband were once dusky Egyp-
1 tians, she princess and he her
humble artisan lover. She could see
4 herself, said the feature" story
floating down the Nile on a gorgeous
ship ontrivalling Cleopatras voyage.
& 1--WE are reincarnations of those
two Egyptian lovers Mrs. OFT was
quoted as saying, and her happiness
/ was said to know no bounds.
In her petition, she alleges Oti
threw a percolator at her and scaldc6
her.
i Here is Mrs. Otis description o.
her life in Egypt 5000 years ago Will
her lover whose reincarnation threw
scalding percolators at her in 1912
leading to her divorce petition:
[By Mrs. Ralph Chesley Ott.l
/ know as sure as am alive nov
that / lived before some 5000 years
ago-in Egypt. was the Princess
Amneris. l can see in my dreams ant
every day recollections the tim'
when ! was a little girl, when m!
stern father, Pharoah Khufu, took MI
by the hand and led me through th'
large palace garden to the banks 0
the River Nile, and pointed out to M
i the sacred crocodiles.
] remember as though 1t were bu
| yesterday our first meeting on th
great pyramid. had accompanies
/ my father on a trip Of inspection
/ and we had come to the queen
r chamber in that big, dark tomb
I looked inside the door of the chan
J Der, and there, by the light of tn
: rushes saw the most handsome MAJ
! in the world. | loved him at once
: and 1 saw by his eyes that he love
! me. That evening he came to tn
palace. and our love that has Taste
through the centuries began.
7. too, have recollections of floa
ing down the river with my lover an
: I recollect quite vividly in my dream
the great anger of my father, tn
Pharoah, when he discovered my lo'
: !, er and myself together. He was take
:. away from me. Where he went c
what happened to me, ] know no
All / know is that here my recolle'
tions seem to break shortly off No
I understand 1t all. My lover wa
taken from me, and died OF brol
en- heart. But Isis, the ancient Egy1
tian goddess, watched over us throus
the centuries, and has brought us t
. gether at last.