South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-17
"He has been a wonderful husband,
father, friend and loUer; | loUe him
too dearly to uSurp a place he longs
to glue to another"

DRETTY Mrs. Bob" has joined the small vanguard
of advanced women who have given up their hus-
bands to other for the happiness of ALL
Those who know her even slightly fall easily the
habit of referring to Mrs Robert Edeson wife Of the
eminent actor Mrs Bob She is little and dainty
and very good look at and dresses smary that other
women try emulate her But she is rather of the old
school than the new She personal ambitions.
Il know | can write, she said, although she is the
daughter Lynn Boyd Porter the Boston editor and
author whose fame the novelist ALBERT Ross was
wide and lucrative Il know can't act she said, and
was marry She has been the wife of
two Charles Mackay the predecessor Of Robert
Edeson in welded life. But she added al
way to the negatOn, know that keep house and
entertain I content be a good housekeeper and
hostess"
She is one of those women small petlble whom it is
natural to address by dminutive
Now Mrs. Bob the pretty petted daughter
and wife into the role Of matrimonial martyr. From
giving house parties beautiful StrOngheart House, her
stellar husbands handsome home at Sag Harbor
risen to the lone and painful heights of remuneration
Voluntarily she has renowned the handsome gifted pop
uar and successful actor whom she dozed because she
has convinced that he would be happier with
other.
It love my husband l will always love him. she
says but will not stand in the way of his happiness"
She retained an attorney, through whom she brought
suit for absolute divorce She mentions an unknown
woman If the law grinds its slow way without hind
rance she will in June secure a final decree and Robert
Edeson may wed the young for whom she volun-
tarily released him. and of whom she said:
''She is young pure so brilliant, so beloved by
himg''
Perhaps she even display generosity evinced by
Mrs Grace HumisOn who sent 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
female followers of Rusn Mrs. Marion Craig Went
worth who renounced her husband that he might wed the
VIII had
Ivor Tynda who yielded up her husband to her rival
and babe them goodbye and godsPeed their wedding
day.
For eight years Mr. and Mrs Robert Blossoms
deemed of the happest of marriages. with without
reference the stage They who like quote traditions
named them 1.-The kendals OF America, although the
comparison not wholly fitting since Mrs. Edeson
related to the stage merely by marriage When her health
permitted she accompanied her husband on his tours
On the coast t0cOast tour with the allstar cast of
Fne Feathers Mrs Edeson fOrsook Strongheart House.
and with their little daughter Roberta submitted to the
hardshipS of travel for long season.
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,
sgned by thousand signs was so complete that hard
eyed cyncs said If all marriages like Blossoms the
millennium would be here"
Again and again Mrs Bob said her friends: Ct will
never my wishes stand in my husbands way His hap
piness an all respects my chief in life. When
last season as Mr. Edeson began his tour in his own play
MY Brother Keeper she remained behind it surprised
her friends
'The Southern tour is hard Bob thinks 4 is too
her mother home where the late Albert Ross his
many novels in Brookne, Boston, for the Winter
In the Spring when Mr. EdesOn closed his tour to create
the role of the physician THE Knife they reoined
each other in New York. Outwardy they happy
Only few her closest friends suspected that the light
bad gone out of the sky of Mrs Bobs happiness She
still gay still vvacious The Blossoms continued their de-
hghtfu house parties at StrOnghear House But cloud
larger than wOmans hand, had arisen above their
horizon.
But Mrs Bob for few cries wrung from her when
the hardest uttered complaint Her little
blond head housed a worldly philosophy.
No earthly power, nor heavenly can knde a love
that has gone out she said with apparent detachment
It folly seek amid ashes The Oveless marriage
no marriage 1t Is unhOlv 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 can keep him. Love is vagrant No
one can promise that Cupid will not wander.
When th bitter test came "Mrs Bob game
Women have always loved Bob They always will " she
said He is of the kind that VIII lsve to the end