Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-23
"He has been a wonderful husband,
father, friend and loUer; 1 loUe him
too dearly to usurp a place he longs
to glue to another"

of advanced women who have given up their hus-
bands to other women for the happiness of all.
Those who know her slightly fall easily into the
habit of referring to Mrs Robert Edeson, wife of the
eminent actor as "NIrs Bob She is little and dainty
and good to look at and dresses smary that other
women try emulate her But she is rather of the old
school than the She has had personal ambitions
q know | can't write, she said, although she is the
daughter of Lynn Boyd Porter, the Boston editor and
author whose fame the novelist "Abert Ross" was
wide and lucrative. 81 know can't act she said and
content to marry actors She has been the wife OF
two. Charles Mackay was the predecessor OF Robert
Edeson in her love and welded life But she added al
ways the negaton ~ know that keep house and
entertain. / content to be good housekeeper and
hostess
She is of those women, small petable, whom IS
natural to address by diminuve
Now comes 'NIrs Bob the pretty, petted daughter
and wife, into the role of a matrimonial martyr From
giving house parties beautiful Srongheart House. her
stellar husband handsome home Sag Harbor she has
risen the lone and painful heights of remuneration
Voluntarily she has renowned the handsome, gifted pop
uar and successful actor whom she oized because she
has been convinced that he would be happier with
other
II love my husband will always love him. - she
says. But will not stand in the way of his happiness
She retained attorney through whom she brought
suit for absolute divorce She mentions AN unknown
woman If the law grnds its slow way without hind
she will in June final decree and Robert
tariy released him, and of whom she said:
She is young, pure, so brilliant, so beloved by
hm!'
Perhaps she will even display the generosity evnced by
Mrs Grace Humston who congratulations upon her
husbands marriage to her rival By her act pretty little
Mrs Bob has lifted her small blond head to the stature of
those female followers of Ruskn Mrs. Marion Craig Went
worth who renowned her husband that he might wed the
who had suppanted her in his heart and Mrs Me,
Ivor Tynda, who yielded up her husband to her rival
and babe them goodbye and godpeed on their wedding
day
For eight years Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blossoms
deemed of the happest of marriages with without
reference to the stage They who like to quote traditions
named them ''the Kendals of America, although the
comparison wholly fitting since Mrs. Edeson
related the stage merely by marriage When her health
permitted she accompanied her husband on his tours.
On the coast to-coast tour with the all star of
'Fine Feathers Mrs. Edeson forsook Stronghear House,
and with their little daughter Roberta submitted to the
hardships of travel for long
She became expert chaufeuse and while Mr. Edeson
was playing in Baltimore and Philadelphia and Washing
ton often drove him to the next stand Their DEVOTION
sgnfied by thousand signs, complete that hard
eyed cyncs said IF all marriages like Blossoms the
millennium would be here"
Again and again Mrs Bob said to her friends 81 will
never let my wishes stand in my husbands way His hap
piness in all respects my chief concern in life When
last season. Mr. Edeson began his tour in his o~n play
My Brothers Keeper she remained behind 1t surprised
her friends.
''The Southern is hard Bob thinks it is too
hard for the baby and me- she explained and went to
her moth"r home where the late Albert Ross wrote his
many novels in Brooklne Boston, for the Winter
In the Spring when Mr. Edeson closed his tour to create
each other in New York Outwardly they were happy.
Only few her closest friends suspected that the light
had gone of the sky Of Mrs Bobs happiness She
still gay still vvacous The Edesons continued their de-
1ghtfu parties at Strongheart House But cloud
no larger than womans hand had arisen above their
horizon.
But Mrs Bob for few cries wrung from her when
the tension hardest uttered complaint Her little
blond head housed worldly philosophy.
''No earthly power, nor heavenly. can kindle love
that gone out" she said with apparent detachment
at is folly seek it amid ashes The oveess marriage
no marriage 1t is unhoy Better end it, Why should
three suffer when make two of the three happy
In the flush of her second honeymoon, while receiving
the heartfelt wishes for happiness of her friends and his
she had said frankly We greatly in love. But do
not know how long keep him. Love is vagrant No
one can promise that Cupid will not wander
When the bitter test came MRS. Bob game
ssWomen have always loved Bob. They always will " she
said HE is Of the kind that women will love to the end