Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-25
Lowing Mrs. Porters 8 Ery1alune1na Plan''
Marriage a11d How The Courts Have all Last
Ended Her Wan6Ierings Between

w eided few days ago ii mat s Mrs re ts
Zeitler Porter was clearly entitled to a
decree OF divorce, the curtain was rung down upon
the most curious romance that surely a woman
ever went through. For nearly eight years Mrs
Porter was migrating bride She enjoyed am
intermittent honeymoon. Her love was undoubt
edly OF the peripatetic school In short, Mrs por
ters married life was "on again. on again, Fnne
gan she knew not what an hour would bring
iorth and whether in that brief space OF time she
would be husbandcd husbandlcss
One DAY she would occupy Il suite in one Of the
most expensive hotels in Of the larges, cities.
ana on the next she might he dejectedly taking a
nus 10 me railroad station or carrying her travel
parents quiet little home in New Jersey
Most brides when things 20 wrong threaten to
go home TO mamma" Mrs. Harry A Porter
was regularly sent home 10 hers by her husband
AND NJ Porter isn't an everyday bride. She
is mod L"eAtraordimary So extraordinary that
her remuneration is several times as much as tina,
received by the rank and file Of models in cities
The artists for whom She has posed say her brains
are as remarkable as her beauty And that if she
had not been model she would have been an ar
tist for her sense of form and color is unusual
You have seen her iace book covers ma gazinc
covers and Illustrations by such great artists rs
Charles Dana Gibson HARRISON Fisher Clarence
Underwood and penrhy SanlawS
Her beautiful profile is to appear on the
ne" CANADIAN coins Sh" vas picked out by the
canadian board as The perfect medium TO unite
hard cash with aeStheticism
What a tate Tor ole so beautiful, And why
Tas she so treated? Well here are the facts a
gathered from Mrs Porter herself
There u no question that Mr. Porter loved her
IT seems "
You luxurious luxurian. luxury. mv
darling ne would say hat can no longer AFFORD
YOU This phase Of honeymoon is over .au
reyo'r sweetest one" This in effect. if not in
the exact
For eight years-ninety.six long months four
hundred and sixteen long weeks-his romance
shone, occasionally. spasmodcally, with Gtful
hght Then The wife went home for the last time
That Was three years ago Occa sionally She rc.
ccived letter from her casual lord More often
she dld not receive such letter When she did
receive one. her first act was to snake il vicor.
Ousi! ana note whether from its folds check
would DROP Seldom did il drop. I.attcry not al
all. With the action Of the special Master in
Chancery al Mon liiIl. y. j. the Interrupted
honeymoon has cleared for all time its spasmodic
shining
Reha Iet!er and Henry A. Porter we're married
OF The Church OF tho Strangers, known as The
Hotel Chaplain. lie vas an institution that yiod
With the Little Church Around the Corner for the
nunbeI OF !mpulSlve marriages contracted
Inc hnneAmo ros" brightly above the Wal.
norlAStnrla for the beautiful model and the crran,
EnGhSnman For three weeks il shono ire
mendously. then set.
inc bridegroom said: My dear i, riicyos mo
10 Sd! 'iai nave hecu disappointed in certain in
Ncstments and that my funds are low ! sha
scho you back 10 your papa ana mamma for liz
+ tie "hiIc. ne demand for the mining stock
= represent is not strong Just now"
MRS. Poricrs beautiful brown cvce Gnod vim
lear6' out she smiled, huncd her nose with a