The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-05-01

doctor, absent mindedly, and he went
his way.
That night in his study he had
Jane Field Pembroke, and Jerome in
front of him and he read one of them
before retiring. He liked the books.
he always said so, and DR.. Charles
Manning Freeman never says anything
he doesn t mean, but he liked the au-
thor better. He liked her so well, in
fact, that on New Years day, 1902,
they were married at the little town
of Metuchen.
Readers all over the world were well
acquainted with the books and stories
bearing the signature MARY f. Will
kins. Early the next year after her
marriage another novel appeared bear
ing the signature = Mary Wilkins Free
man
That was a genuine tribute to Dr.
Freeman. Most women writer's main
tain their maiden names on their books
and stories after they are married, but
Mary L. wilkins Freeman did not do
SO. She married a good and capable
man and she was proud of him and his
name. In 1906 Mrs. Freeman wrote
| Doe Gordon, and there is no doubt but
/ what many of tie excellent traits of
/ her fiction hero she had drawn from
! life and DR.. Freeman had furnished
the good example
DIR. Freeman still continues his prac-
tice in Metuchen and Mrs. Freeman
continues her writing.
- i We got a greater insight into hui
man life," Mrs. Freeman once declar-
| ed; through becoming intimate with
my husband S practice than | believe
| al
At the time | married the doctor il did
not occur to me that the fact he was a
doctor would be of any help to me in
my literary work, but | find ii has
been of great help. If you want to
learn of the fads and foibles and the
joys and sorrows of mankind, watch
them when they are patients under a
doctor S care, or when they arc caring
for loved ones who are i'll.
| at is all bosh, - laughingly declar-
ed DR.. Freeman; ''anyone can be g
doctor, but it necessitates brains, LOT
lof brains, far more brains than l ever
possessed, to be able to write such won
Iderful stories as does Mrs. freeman
The way I look at is that in the course
iof few months | would have visited
lperhaps a hundred or two hundred diff
ferent patients and possibly have re
heved their suferings to certain de
lgree. A few [ may have been fortu
nate enough to have cured, but Mrs
Fireman will write book in si1
months and thousands, from fifty to {
hundred thousand people, will be giver
pleasure and entertainment as they
lperuse the pages. They viii share the
sorrows of the various characters anC
also rejoice with them, and they get
great pleasure out of these books an6
so will their children and their chill
dren S children. There is really moth
ing to say about myself, l am just {
country doctor who had the extrem,
good fortune to marry a charming wo
man. That she is clever author Their
is no questioning, but l did not TAX
into consideration the fact that sh
wrote when | sought her hand. How
ever, / can say this: Her name will b,
remembered and recorded as an autho
| years after we arc both gone and poo
lple viii never know whether she mar
Iried a doctor, or butcher, or min
lister. In fact, they viii not know thai
she was married. It IS pleasant to be The
husband of celebrity, but it is hap
lpiness in the extreme to be the hus
band of Mary E. Wilkins that was.
Boston Herald Magazine.