The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-28
How Can a Hardworking God
of Love Reconcile $50
and 40 Pounds?
ROMANCE IS CRUSHED!
Mrs. MarclISSon Finds Nobody
Loves a Fat Woman"-Not
Even Her Hubby.

The rosc-tinted romance OF Mrs. Tes-
sic Marcusson. nineteen years old. was
bllghted when her thlr;y-six- year old
husband Leo, weight 40 pounds. and
spare OF build. pointed his long. thin
finger at her and cried n rlspiny tones.
you are too fat for ne to love-
Now Mrs. Marcusson is short and
broad. The scales-unSalant things
will have II that II takes something very
much like the 25o-pound weight at the
other end OF the beam to balance her
comely embonpoint. when she perched
herself upon the platform.
Il think It's a shame FOR him to talk
that way" she walled to-day. FOR I'm
not on bit heavier than was when he
made love to me-Oh. such desperate
lovo--and asked me to marry him. he
sides. I don't think I look 80 very fat
when I am all dressed up"
Mrs. Narcusson has sued for a separa-
ton, and in her complaint she sets forth
the writings with which her husband
inflicted her about her por;lness
II had no evidence on which to sue
for DIVORCE" she said. "e'se I would
told me he would rather put three bull
lets In mo than let me get a divorce.
think that shows he loves me. even IL
7 do weigh so mur h."
Mrs. Marcusson. as she wrunG her
chubby hands, was asked II her lords
taunts about her size were what led to
their nna' separation.
NO" she sad. 81, was not until we
had quarrcl'ed about other things that
he i3su',ed me that way. lie makes
abou, 500 a month. but he only gave
me . cents a day TO live on. was
supposed to get breakfast. dinner ana
supper out OF that. lie never bought
me any clothes
7. was suggested that perhaps Mar
cusson took that means OF placing her
on a Diet to reduce her to sylph! ke
proportions
~ DO not think So she said. "a'-
cause he never mixed his aest letic ideas
with his views about business. The
trouble was his stlngincss lie would
rather have three teeth pulled th1n
spend n single dollar that was not alb
so'utcly necessary to spend"
She said his relatives told her. h,v-
ever, that she should live on what he
gave her. and when she com claimed
about the poverty or her allowance. she
declares bittery. they made slig lt!ns re-
marks about her fairness.
you shoull not eat no much tlc%
said according to the young bu' over
plump matron.
Mrs. Marcusson IL In sore dread .:
publicity. Tia. made her hesitate be-
fore nl,nx her separation suit even
though the mcnorieJ OF the hungry
quartcr-a-daY times was stlll fresh In
her mind and the tauHts and 9.1cs
about her embonpont sim ranked. Ike
poisoned shafts. In her youns heart.
We were ''v'r' ~ rsf' "cw No"'.
several months ago" she sald, "and he
called me fat He showed n paper NJ
me. pointing to an ant!-ftt preparation
eryIng There. take son" of that.
Somebody sen, mo an dvertlscmcnt Of
ncsh-rcduri1g mlNture. ! am sure y
was he. SO | had him arrested and
tll,cr before the Domestic Relations
tn"ft
''Oh, there was 30 MI n said about m
being "a; at that time. II was ircal-
ful photographer tried to take my
pic ure. but made a face. - the pie
ture never could he used WHY should
he done that way. Just because
w ~
II people wan, TO see how fat I AN lust
let them come here--lf the dare
The Marcussons were married in the
sprlng of 1910. They hrs. lived on
East Eighty-sccond street ana later In
East.Ne YORK, Now. tho wife IL with
her parents NJ No 200 Broome stree,
~ bought all the furniture for their
fat" Mrs Marcusson's mother said TO.
day 81 even had to buy clothes for
her II was an outrage that MarcuH-
son should have called my daughtor
fat. II she In fat now she was jus,
AZ Eat when he took hcr away from me
and married her, Suppose she In fat?
1t Is her right"
The motler herself In not so light
that breeze could blow her aWay.
but sne LOOKS small and rather dainty
beside her heavy but handsome daugh-
ter