Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-12-04

Boston, Dec. 3.-The sacrifice made
by Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth, dra-
matte reader, playwright and one of the
leading suffragists in this city, in CIV
ing her husband, Franklin H. Went
worth, a prominent Socialist lecturer
and writer, to woman friend, Miss
Alice Chapman, continues to excite
comment in social circles here.
After mutually planned divorce had
been procured Wentworth married
Miss Chapman. Mrs Wentworth ar
ranged to live apart from her husband
a year in the West. This protracted
absence constituted legal desertion,
which, with incompatibility, was the
ground set forth.
Mrs. Wentworth's sacrifice is the
sort of matrimonial martyrdom suffer
ed by John Ruskin and Sir John Mil
lais. Mrs. Wentworth's prominence
locally gives emphasis to the extra
ordinary pact. She surrendered her
home and her right to wife's support
to further high ideal
She felt her husband loved the
younger woman, Miss Chapman. Like
herself a professional reader of this
city and a cherished friend of both.
Her home had been happy. There is a
child, Brandon a lad of six, but under
the agreement Mrs. Wentworth got the
custody of the son.
Mrs. Wentworth is quick to refer to
Mr.. Wentworth as a model husband
and father" Mr. Wentworth is as
eager to praise his former wife as
faithful, devoted and painstaking.
Since the separation Mrs. Went
worth has written a play. 1t is called
THE Flower Shop" and it has been
well received in amateur circles. The
most vital feature of the play is that
it deals with Mrs. Wentworth's own
life and experience, according to her
friends.
Miss Chapman, whom Mr.. Went
worth married, is twenty-five, and
comes from Portland Me.
Wentworth is in his early forties. He
is a Socialist, and is called one of the
best speakers in the party.
The Wentworths were married in the
West eight or ten years ago. Mrs.
Wentworth is about thirty-nine, sensi-
tive. high strung and intellectual.
Like Mr. Wentworth she is a Socialist.
She is a native of Minnesota.
Here is Mrs. Wentworths story of
her sacrifice;
Il love Mr.. Wentworth today as fer
vently as ever did He is my dearest
friend and comrade. Why couldn't he
be. shall always look up to him. And
Miss Chapman, his new wife, is one of
my closest friends.
ITO outsiders, to those who do not
know the facts, it may seem queer, but
it was all very fine, very quiet and
very natural. Yes, 'ine''is the word
1t was too fine to be misunderstood or
misinterpreted. A human impulse, a
spiritual principle, was behind it all,
and it has left us three the most loyal
OF friends.
Il felt it was my duty to them, to
him, to our child and to myself. Miss
Chapman was often at our home. We
both thought a lot of her. | noticed
Mr. Wentworth's deep attachment for
her about two years ago. | thought it
all over very carefully. | discussed i
with Mr. Wentworth. He was frank
with me and J was frank and to the
point with him. We had a great
many conferences over the matter.
Miss Chapman figured in some OF
these conferences. She was honorable
in her stand. They admitted their love
for each other. Miss Chapman said she
would go away from us. She said she
was willing to &c to the other end Of
the world, but what sense would there
have been in Bat?
There "1,>o's between them VIZ