The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-09
ale Did Not Outgrow Me! He
Just Changed Interests"
Ry Mrs. Oryille Harold, No. 1.

n, how happy we were when Orville was
driving coffin wagon in Muncie. 1ndl
It was my husbands sudden rise to
greatness and the 1attery Of prettier women
than which caused him to turn against me
this week. and to allow me TO obtain divorce
decree. the mother of his children. but
Tho had tc go his way. Still, suppose 1t Is
the common tate OF all wives OF famous men,
and will become reconcIled to It in q way.
l have seen this outcome for several years.
or vaguely felt It. Yet, last Summer, when he
took me and the children TO one OF the North
ern Indiana lakes. he treated me as though we
were newly married and then thought my
suspicious unfounded. For that brief
time We were bride and groom again and the
placid lake over whose waters we looked each
morning seemed to me to be fairyland.
I remember one morning specially, when he
said to me- Look out there, Effie, at the sun
rising IN oil Its golden glory. Isn't that
his reverent attitude toward nature. I do not
remember what said. so full of emotion
], but recall the memory of his sentiment,
and though parted from him. shall always re-
member that perfect hor In lives7
How women forget such things! There
are thousands OF little things in the life OF a
get--even If her husband does "outgrow" her.
That Is the tragedy. II one could wipe out all
the past, all memory of these exquisite mo-
nents Of harmony, the struggles together, the
triumphs-why then, It wouldn't matter But
the past keeps coming up
"For better for worse" says the ceremony
There is so much that Is better that II seems
a shame to fall victim to the worst.
Don't think that because am the wife Of
singer of international and have been
given a divorce by him that I shall become
Respondent. In my bed at night I recall
Stevensons couplet-
The 4oorld Is go fun OF q number Of things,
FIN sure Toe should all be happy kings
But wish Orvle had never attained fame
When he was driving q coffin wagon in Munce
for the Muncie Casket Company, and our chill
dren were coming on, he was Of the best
fathers anybody would want to know. Even
now am not saying anything against him as
father. although Judge Van Alta should not
to him. Still, maybe 1t Is better as 1t is-for
the little girl is being given n good musical
education in New York City by him. an advan
tage that could not have given her, with my
limited means. But as the mother OF the
brood, I'd like to have all my little chickens
at home
We were married at Cowan, which is q VII
lage Of about 100 Inhabitants six miles south
of Muncie. There we struggled and planned for
thu future together, and ideally happy In our
poverty. One day Orville said to me- 1--WE are
poor but proud" and asked him, why be
proud of being poor?"
Then he said, rive won't always be poor
Some day I'll BIZ famous and you shall dress in
silks and satin" I thought 80, too-but one
and my children poor. You see the prophecy
came out, but it was split up.
1t is not fair to accuse so many wives OF not
"gTowing" with their husbands. What do they
mean by growing? I have three children and
I am still young I have been good mother
and the energy needed to expend before the
children came and after they came left me lit.