Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-11
PRETTY, DESERTED;
FACING LOVE TEST
-. Florence Kays, Wife of
= Erring Aviator, May
Take Him Back
.,vs HE HAS REFORMED
,,,.O,.n Has Alternative oil
T0"1y Work or Reconciliation
If He Asks
Nv M'LIss

and rood to look upon
A woman, axiraordinarily lovely emu
sed win IVu, W., years OF happy married
tfen hs,oh the growls OF the Wvn III
" y hssrd at the door OF ne, ,U.n ,bs
~ ssrssif suddenly ca'apu'''
.,,on OF deserted w,ie. ho,r between
n ne ~. r,orning kiss OF her husoanu
Dc Eooooyy,.nio,is visit Of two women sne
sd ne ". pV.s.s.,or,orphosed from a Doctor
- nm Mr. Hyde. The veil OF illu-
Gshyl nv , a.Ide and the good man whose
80 y W. '...,,jngiy was only for her anu l
tensn,,, becomes suddenly the dope
IA playthlng OF many wotne"'
THE ERRANT AVIATOR
aha experlenco which Mrs.
lnh .ssxs bIl4 Baltimore avenue, was
!, undergo six weeks ago When ner
slse.S Harvey wilbur Rays. an avla'or,
t.l ,he climax Of her disillusionment oy
.-srins on II Is believed Win mann
s1Fist TN. Oh. was facing the
Ana hrought about by this experience
hls.uVm So n.ohtem OF getting lucrative work
--'Ns herreif and the children from
,ha, tho errant husband injected
~ .isrnent into the case by a lonB-dis-
-. islsnhone call TO assure his wie that
4, has not forgot her.
.spont worrys Florence came the tar.
yoIec IL haven't been with that
whsr woman for weeks ana l can Ie'
~. ard the kids go without Christmas.
~ sshamed 20 come back after what has
a..a.,sd hut III look after you. Take
: syaIlsr apartment. I'm on the trail OF
-osR and III send you money every week.
PERPLEXITY
,r.,, "a n wife to do in n case like this?
,rin .he take him back?
trhsss are the questions that Immediately
.,ess in the minds OF those Interested In
Krs Rayss plight.
"A man would never take woman back"
4, ths matter-of-faCt way In which she
eousders the case. but Mr.. Kays has not
aided mo to take him back-l think he
ms, be ashamed to--and so | cannot say
rAai / will do. | should have TO have n
tak with him before | made up my mind.
/ Az certain that no was not himself when
4, went away from me.
He had been living with this woman for
hvs months before knew It. Ho was al
vsys kind and generous. and a woman could
tOi help liking him. Whenever he stayed
asay from me at night he said It was
rscessary for him to be down at the navy
yard. where there was n valuable Rirship.
0t course. believed him.
Then these two women called on mo one
morning. They told me how he smoked
hop' and how he was planning TO run away
vim mAnicurst who worked in the same
Place that they did. They told me how no
haA been living with her downtown. in
Fsllgated and found that It was true.
LOVES HIM STILL
4 love him still. But do not love the
zla hat those other women loved. They
~ only the devil in hlm-they did not get
q real man. did"
BE mugglsd her youngest child. Ksrna,
~ two months UP to her. and the other
naa ollseta, Zelda and Veral, clustered
inand her knee. They are beautiful blond
a1aEen. with no particular feeling Of af-
ftilon for their father.
7 don't like him at ALL" said seven-yenr-
"a 0leeta emphatically.
ne mother Immediately came to the de-
f|nss Of the absent man.
Don't say that" she said, reprovIngly
PAPA was good to you. Last Christmas"
ne continued. "he went out and spent sew
"a hundred dollars on them. He gave
naa everything"
There Is hard practically about Mrs.
kays totally irreconcllable with the things
.he says, When she declares that she loves
hA husband II Is as though she said Bring
NJ glass OF ice water" Where another
sonan would be red-eyed and distralt
nom Indulgence In tears and recriminations
~ has kept herself exceedingly pretty and
an Apparently she Is all that man could
s,sfe OF woman, and yet the fact that she
~ been deserted does not rankle.
OF CURIOUS TYPE
am like that" she said Internationally.
cont know how to scream and cry.
Interested chiefly in getting n position.
=, vile and mother who is dependent on
han for every cent is In an unenviable
F4ioh That's where l am now
nave never been to a cabaret Mr.
e9s would not let me go in for that sort
uing But II my voice is stlll good
~ ! nope II isl would go on the stage II
sle necessary TO give the children the
r'hgs they need"