The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-02-02
She Unveils InnermoSt Secrets Of
Tortured California Won.
ans Soul.
RAN AWAY WITH NEVADA
RANCHER FROM NEW YORK
Deserted Wealthy Husband With
Good Home.-- To-day She is PEN
niless and Wanderer.

LOS Angeles, tal., FeD. 1.---I he
innermost tragedy of a tortured
woman's soul was laid bare here to-
day.
The woman is Mrs Florence Fol-
som Williams.
Her story is the anti-climax of
a weird reversion TO the cave-wom-
an type, which startled the whole
country by the fierceness of its sud
den resolve when she left her hus-
band ten months ago.
Mrs. Folsom tells how she became
infatuated with brute strength in
man by seeing the play, THE Great
Divide.
Her ruthless vivisection of ner
own heart and her own mind re-
veals her temperamental nature
the nature which prompted her to
destroy the humdrum peace OF ha'
wealthy and refined household in
New York to run away with Gus
Williams, Nevada ranchman.
She tells how she was fascinated
with Williams strength and his SUBJ
lime brutality. and how it beat
down all the barriers between her
and the open road with Williams.
Was Wife Of Rich Lawyer.
At that time she was the wife
of Charles Dwight Folsom, a rica
New York lawyer. Today she is
penniless, wanderer upon the face
Of the earth, with only her fifteen
year-old son as her hope.
Without mentioning Williams
name once. she told how, from lows
to nate. from plenty to starvation.
from happiness to the wretched state
of the social pariah, her life had
been ruined by her passions.
or Williams she once wrote to
her husband in the famous dawn
letter."
Williams has treated me with
crushing brutality, but he has
also treated me with the utmost
kindness. He is a man IN whom
good and evil are strangely
blended. | love him in every
way. I never loved you one-
tenth as we'll, nor any other. He
is my natural mate. / suffered
he'll at his hands, but | shall
say nothing further of him.
The strange recital begins with
the story of her flight from Viii
liamc.
After She Left Williams.
Il and my son fed" she said, |
slowly and lifelessly. I'VE starved |
and toiled to be together, and We
have achieved our purpose---we arr
together.
Looking back upon the past year
it seems that my heroic boy and | !
have come through dark tunnel !
upon the progress of our lives. Our
experience was a tunnel, blasted hv
my will and my boys answering
devotion.
We are out again---together- =
free in the good clear air and under |
the clear, blue sky of hope. Yes, VT
hope in spite of everything
I'VE have learned to work and |
save aud be patient and enduring
They are good things and | am glal /
we learned them.
Just Dreams, Some Day.
Some day we shall look back |
upon all these things---the grief. the
broken home in the east, severed re-
lationships and the brutal horror of |
my. life in the west---as dreams. We |
shall forget the terrible hours Of |
privation and heavy labor and my |
disrupted life.
"All these things were needed tor |
US all---- for my family and myself
TO give up enlightenment and full
fillment.
Il am only sorry that the rest |
must share my degradation.
'Oh, am sorry that they must !
stand by my side in the market |
place OF. the world. where there are |
only curses and jeers for such as I. |
Il could not sell myself. | had |
to give. am not commercial. |
therefore am pariah, an outcast. a |
lepcr.
Once I saw great play "The |