The Washington herald., 1915-02-01
DR.. Chase, His Wife and Her
Soulmate Have Lived as
One Family on Isolated
Farm-He Calls Golden
Rule Triangle a Success.

East Alstead. y. H., Jan. I.-The
iolden Rule Triangle is pronounced a
success by its founder Here in the land
Of winter-Iong snow. the country of saw
mills and OK teams and maple groves
and of New England rigidity, spiritual
love has been proved a Iivable reality,
according to those VINO have tried it.
The natives have learned to call the
place Mount Plato. Fifteen miles from
Bellows Falls, Vt. the nearest railroad
station. with only miles and miles OF
silent forest-covered hills and valleys and
singing Cold River for company. the OAR
ing social experiment has been worked
out
DIR. H. Lincoln Chase today assured a
reporter that peace and harmony and
happiness have come to dwell upon Inc
mountain top with the little group OF
actors in this strange comedy drama in
which the conventions have been detied
and outraged to degree that would NIL
the soul of George Bernard Shaw with
glee and draw forth whole volume Of
inverted ESSAYS from Gilbert X. Chester
ton.
Cast of Characters.
Their roles are: Husband. Wife. Soul
mate, Shadow.
Inc W Nie-MIS. Margaret NudSt'. difouI
fifty. In the words OF her husband,
wise. womanly and witty
The Soulmatc-Hartley Denuctt. Boston
architect Of good Glmily. About forty.
trim and athletic of figure. smooth
shaven with a mop of rOpey. toW-colored
hair standing out back of his ears that
would draw attention to him in any COM
pany. bennett has bright blue eyes that
readily become dreamy and the face OF
a student and an artist.
The Husband-Dr H. Lincoln Chase.
Fifty-five, physician, tall. slim with a
sIoping forehead and a fringe of brown
whiskers that convert his face into a
heightened oval. His expression is
placid. with hint of enduring stub
borness: the faded eyes telling of a
life that has not been altogether tran
quill.
The Shadow Cas viewed from Mount
Plato: in New York she is very much
reality)-Mrs Mary Ware bennett,
who divorced the soulmate. Former
ly an actress, later corresponding sec
rctary OF the National Suffrage $50
citation and organizer Of the Twilight
Sleep club.
Minor actors whose eventual parts
are matters Of keen CONJECTURE" among
those interested are the two Chase
children, Herman l.. aged eleven, and
Mary. aged seventeen. living or the
parents and the sOulmat". and
TWO bennett children. Carleton. four
teen. and Devon, nine. in the custody
of their mother. the shadow" and
being educated at FraminEham. Mass.
Dr. Cha%c's announced final de-
cision to retire altogether from his
formerly busy professional life in
boston and its suburbs and to live on
his East AlStead farm with his wife
and the soulmate. who have already
dwelt there together several years,
led 10 the reporters visit.
The Prologue.
More than a year ago Dr. Chase
closed his attractive home at - Ken
nard road, BrookIine, Mass. He posted
a scrawlcd note on the colonial door,
stating briefly that any one could com
municate with him at East Alstead.
y. H, and went to the farm.
To-day. after more than "a ga there
with littl" to break the unaccustomrd
round of rural monoJu.y after assuc.a-
tiOn day after day and Week after week
with the other two sides of the triangle
that had twisted his life 81 "rotesquely.
nr. Chase declared with conviction that
his retirement is permanent. that moth
ing will ever interrupt the spiritual mar
mUny Of the tho.
The Chase bennett affai~"-with lift
cd eyebrows and pursed lips they call
it that in prime Brookliue-began in
l"l4 when Br. Chas" decided to build
himself tho horne that is now abandoned
and for sale.
Il have mo- time to he the building
committee. nc ~aI to his wife. but
il You will attend to that we shall have
the house YOU have craved so long"
Enter the SouImntc.
Accordingly. the Chases engaged Hart
lev bennett TO b,. their architect. bennett
then thirty-iIVc or thereabOuts. a Har-
vard graduate. whose studies abroad and
achievements in Boston had won him
professional commission or two from DIR.
Eliot. was charged with designing and
experimenting the erection Of the home.
As the structure was slowly reared
Mrs Chase and bennett became friends.
Then Dr Chase and bennett discovered
bonds ur sympathy.
Few suspected the progress their inter
relations lad made till one day in 1903
an application for custody of the CoU-
pies two children hy Mrs Mary Ware
bennett was. called for hearing in an
East Cambridge court
Boston wa~ shocked and amazed when
bennett boldly took tn" stand and de-
Clared:
Il love Mrs. Chase. My love for her
goes beyond anything in the world. But
! love my wife none the less. Between
my wife and me there has heon for sew
eral years a growing conviction that our
iraI are different. ] can't adapt my
self To her way OF thinking, nor she to
mine My ideals Of love allow me,
though married to love all women. l
proposed to my wife some time ago that
We each take one of the children and go
our separate ways, still loving each
other"
The shadows story.
Mrs bennett. on the stand. showed
neither sympathy nor tolerance for
her husbands broad ideals. She was
the outraged wife, bitter at the inter-
ference with her domestic affairs and
making no effort to conceal the fact.
Our home was happy until this old
woman came into my husbands life"
she told the court. IF she would
drop her influence all would be all
right again. My husband tries to
tell me when l Chide him for his in
fidelity that he can love another wom-
an more and me none. the less. and
that his love for Mrs. Chase should
not disturb the happiness of our
home. This condition of affairs is
not compatible with the beliefs of the
state of society in which was
reared"
Mrs. bennett got the children.
II Puritan consciences were shocked
at the proceedings thus far. it re-
mained for DR.. Chase to add the last
touch OF incredible unconventional