Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-16
SUSARTIST Wife
AS sex ANTAGONIST"
We're We'd in Latin Quarter
Three Years Ago

New York, January 15.-Lewis c.
Stone, artist designer, critic and dealer
in art goods, who was born and reared
in St Louis and who married his
childhood playmate, has brought suit
for divorce against his wife, Florence,
on the unusual grounds of sex antag-
onism."
Stone conducts a studio in New
York and is known in art circles in
America and in Paris Mrs. Stone, also
an artist, has three children. 1t was
after the youngest was born, two years
ago in Paris, at Stones studio, that he
discovered the sex antagonism." Mr..
and Mrs. Stone have been married six
teen years. This is probably the first
time that sex antagonism" has been
named as grounds for divorce. But in
addition to the "antagonism, Mr..
Stone names two correspondents, Leon
ard Passano and Harry Washington,
the latter now in Japan.
Mr.. Stone yesterday told the story
of that terrible antagonism" as
though he were wishing to warn 9TH
ers.
Florence and | were children to-
gether in st. Louis" he began. I'VE
played together; We loved each other
with the simple innocence of child
hood. Then, as we grew older, cir
I cumstances separated us. l aspired
to be an artist and as | had nothing to
wish for in the way of support during
my studies, l went to Paris.
There in the Latin Quarter, l met
my old sweetheart. She was grown to
a beautiful young woman, talented and
rarely intelligent She was studying
art, too. We were married there with
all of our jolly companions of the
quarter to witness the ceremony. That
was in 1896
eve continued our studies together
for about year and a half after our
marriage. Then l returned to st.
Louis and left her there to continue
her studies, according to her wishes.
Then, after a time, she came to live
with me in st. Louis. We were happy
two years there After that we divid-
ed our time between Paris, st. Louis
and New York. She went back I'll
Paris first to continue her studies
still firm in the belief that she woull
become a great artist. l was with her
there and in New York, as we'll as in
ST Louis again.
Our children came. The first two
were perfect. The last was crippled,
and with it's coming came a change in
Florence. And the awful clutch 0f
that antagonism closed upon us more
closely. We talked it over quietly, and
we tried hard, but We could not get
away from it. We travelled back and
forth from St. Louis to Paris, and al
ways it got worse | saw the end in
sight, but | did not know how it was
coming. l found out.
Last September | asked my wife to
go with me to a summer home in
Hastings, n. Y. She demurred and
went alone, taking the two eldest chill
dren with me- After a week or so l
returned to our to house to find my
wife and little Patricia. the crippled
child gone
q hunted for her unaided for
time and then employed a lawyer,
Matthew Carmel, to institute a quiet
search In November he located my
wife, the little girl and Mrs. Keller,
her mother, in a rooming house,
which they were subletting to board
ers at 2O7 East Thirty-fourth street.
Passano and Washington were living
there as members of the family
When my lawyer served the papers in
the divorce suit upon my wife | ac-