The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-23
WE'D WIFE'S Child
Princess's Stepdaughter and
Husband Fall in Love.
Older Woman Willing for
Them To Be Married.
PRINCE TELLS Of Episodes"
Russian NObleman Explains
There Is Love and Love.
He Alleges Princess Bore Him
Heir at Sixty.
BY SOPHIA TREADwELL.

New York. Feb. 23.-The famous
boast Of the famous Amy Croker
e-GiIIlg-Gouraud. now the "Prin-
cess" Misklnoff. has always been that
she has looked life in the face. Mon
DAY in a cold. Unconditional court room,
life stared back at her
Ir was a strange story her young
husband the Prince Alexandra
AIiskinoff. amused. Indifferent. de-
bohair told upon the stand The cou-
pie are suing each other for separa-
tfon IL was a story of the eternal
triangle but twisted at a slightly new
angle
In it his wife. who is so, and her
I6-year-0ld stepdaughter. Hvonne
Csouraud. were the two women strug-
Cling for his love. The struggle end
ed according to the prince. in great
remuneration scene by the princess IN
which she gave" him the girl.
He said his wife sent him and her
stepdaughter away to Edgemont, L. l.,
20 test their love: to determine II It
had an enduring quality.
He said he and Tvoune went 20
Edgemont last summer and stayed
there four months at madaHe's dtrec-
ZION. Here they discovered their love
not TO be lasting. And Yvonue some
little time afterWard returned TO her
=tepruother. she was in court shaking
her small blonde head in petulent de-
prince was making upon the stand
\ Mother at so
This unusual triangle story has the
addition Of d genuine mystery has
the always Interesting Madame Mis-
kinOff added 10 her already lengthy
list OF surprises by becoming a mother
at 6O9 The prince today SOlemnIy
swore she was the mother of ten
months old girl named Verein-
The princess in her petition for q
separation from the prince says there
is no such child She asks the court to
establish the nou-exisJence of the little
princess
The prince also is suing for separa-
ton Each alleges cruelty. II it is
proved that Madame Miskinotf is in
deed the mother of such a baby the
prince viii have always a courtesy
interest in her fortune.
The existence or nou-eX1stence OF
this baby thus becomes the point of
keenest interest in the legal fight.
But the dramatic interest all center
ed in the extraordinary story of
Madame MislIuOff's giving her
Adopted daughter TO her husband
Madame said. accordingly to
lL-=ktnoff now it 10 absolutely ueces-
sary for you TO go to Edgemont with
Tvonne. She is in love with you and
viii XIII herself if You are not willing
to marry her. You must go away to-
gether and I viii arrange the divorce
Then YOU cau marry her
\ Favor to Madame.
ct told her" he went on. that I did
not want to go away with Tvonne be-
cause 1 did not love her. and, anyway,
in my couutry-in Russia-it is not
the custom for a man to marry a
woman and then to marry her daugh-
ter But madame insisted and I did
it as d favor to her"
he was asked what allowance he
demanded Of his wife for this favor
Of divorcfng her to marry her dauEh-
ter and answered easily:
Nothing at all: whatever she
wished 20
Attorney Malcolm Lawrence for the
Princess lfiskinOff. sought to have the
prince give expert testimony on the
subject Of love
WHAT do YOU mean by lcve2" de-
manded the attorney
All" said the prince. with \ shrug
Of his Russian shoulders, there is
love and love"
Well" insisted the attorney. did
you love your wife at this time -
Naturally, or 1 wouldn't have re-
manned with her"
And did you love Yvonnc. too2"
Yes. but that was the love OF a
man for the daughter Of his wife"
Well was this love for Yvonne hot
or cold o.
1T was medium smiled the prince
Letters were introduced in evidence
that were written by Madame Gour-
aud during the months she was alone
while her daughter and young nus
band in E.dgeuOnt were determining
the status of heir love
Honey Darling"
These letters all indicate a genuinC