The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-01-30
MRS. FOLSOM PENS
TALE Of NEW WOE
As LOVES EXILE
Deserted by Ranchman With
Whom She Left Home of
New York Lawyer.

CHICO. Cal. Jan. 80-Deserted and
destitute In this little Northern Cali
fornia city. Mrs. FlorenE Bluxome
Folsom. whom Charles Dwight Fol-
som. a lawyer at No IS John street.
New York, divorced three months ago.
has written another tragic tale OF her
life during the last year.
Folsom won his divorce on the
strength Of hh wife's declaration Of
her love for A. q. williams, a Nevada
ranchman, OF whom she said In let
ter TO her husband:
II love Gus williams. He has
treated me with crushing brutality.
I have suffered hell at his hands. I
sincerely and earnestly believe that
he 10 the one human being who can
control mo. A. his wife I shall have
10 endure rough language and usage,
but shall be happier than you made
me. for Williams 10 a being of my
own kind and species"
Since last November Mrs. Folsom
has lived at No. sss Fifth street. Chi.
60. She was discovered there months
after she and williams had parted
on the very day that Supreme Cour'
Justice 0iegsrioh granted her hus.
hand his divorce. From thu address
she has written another Il ter. u
follows:
prom love 70 hate. From plenty
A. A1AAaAAAAnA AS
the stark estate Of . pariah. . lsper
From horseback riding to kitchen
drudgery. From the sand and sag
Of . Nevada desert to the bleak desc
lation Of British Columbia mountain
SHOWS. Such has been my expert
snos within the last year. 1918.
Prom April - to Nov. 1. I was n
exile from all who knew me. I an,
my son nsd. hid. starved and toilsd
that w might remain together. W
have achieved our purpose. We hav
now what " earned. We are 70
gethes.
hAs Passed ThRoUoH TUNNEL
TO oUNoNiNg AND HOPE.
Looking back on the past year.
seems 70 me that I and my heroi
boy have come through . long. dar
tunnel on Mfs's progress
I'VE learned much In our tunne
We saw the West - rioh folk canns
~ II. We wsrs sheltered. fed. chez
ished. projected. here and thsra. b
splendid charaStsrs. We learned
work. TO save. to b patient and q
during and brave.
These are good things. am gis
that We learned them. Some day
shall b giad that everything hi
happened - Il has-all the grief. q
the sorrow Of the broken homo
New JeEusy, the severed relationshi
the brutal horror Of ksno. the Ion
trail on which w st out April
MANY years ASp saw Q play.
vas The Great Divide and It Va
Indeed, for me Q great divide Up
that event I had cared nothing &
America. had been wholly and sol
" absorbed In the study OF Eestel
oountriss-Ngypt India, japan. vi
an Oriental student
II saw The Great Divide. and su'
denly knew why. In this life. I hi
been born an American. I. on th
date. was really born . oitisen. ., p
triot. For In the character Of 6teph'
Client ! heard. ! saw al that b.
needed and wanted In my life. u
that I had missed.
~ did not consciously Of deliberat
~. with my objective mind. ct o
70 anA Stephen Client: to leave n
husband. to break my mothers heal
and stArve my con. But whom "a
that play. knew wanted to
happy: I know that I wanted to
tho wife OF . real. true Steph
Client. wanted him TO be my 10
and master: my comrade and Low
and attend him. to bear him beautii
and healthy and loving children:
be his friend.
Il am not an evil woman. I am
lover Of little pct animals. Of ole
and open nature. OF hearth fires q
cradles. OF the sweetness Of won
and Of the innocence OF children.
sought God and found tho devil.
we Dc net attract whet ~ ~
but what We :rs. Undoubtedly
drew e me emily shst , deserve
partly from what ! had neritsd
THE Ne. Do net ssHi that the cru
~ and trsseksry which have sffIiot
me reesntiy through the past ysi
YES the fruit Of my, this Ives. sssd
FOR the rest Of my life I m,
stand In the streets of tho woF
looking In from the outside throu
the bright panes of the worlds hom
] shall b stranger. an outcast.
exile. AND FOR WHAT
because ! too greatly desired
Gfve. and to receive. love-"
Charles Dwight Folsom refused
comment to-day on the latest litert
effudon Of hts former wife and
sisters. the Misses Bluxome. who !