The Washington times., 1919-11-30
the Fashionable Divor
Darling Son Weddi.

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their in frequent eo..uaisssssu, What did 4
meant
Finally day while Nrs Stokes was At the stesl
farm in Kentucky Mr. Stokes wrote fren New York hk
ippsnt alusion to Mrs Phil Lydie and her fatal uis
take in divorcing Stokes:
CHESAPEAKE WESTERN RAILROAD.
Office of the President
No. 262 West Seventy second Street New YorA
June -. 1915
Mrs W. E. d. Stokes Lexington, KY
Ny Dear Helen.
laid awake most of last night worrying thiaking ana
finally sweet sleep carried or and when awoks this
morning knelt at the foot Of my bed and offered mp
blessing to God that not Brigham Young Here h
wife No. she has had interview with religious r.ae
member of the Stokes family and he hss told her have
given everything in the world the children Of wife No
q and they have corraed everything except my old hulk
Here is wife No. 2 She thinks everything own i u
the of the SON of wife No l. Wife No. writes .
note to me- how dare get married the second time and
compelled to tell her that ventured across the
stormy Hudson and secured the services of missionary
Everything ausions and delusions tc wife No.
when she left She made fatal mistake she says bat
she has member OF the Stokes family and their
tornes and friends stirred up with the idea of dath and
cruel husband who kept her from seeing her The
instant heard all this got my boy and carried him to
kind member of the family has given aad she employs
that boy to deceive his father.
Wife No. thinks that every woman In town is to be
enyed except herself So there you have it, No suited
Now take good Of yourself and do not worry and
LET do the worrying Let know when you about
to have that operation.
Yours W. E u. STOKES.
little later Mr. Stokes writes again about his first
wife and makes the following interesting revelations
W. E. D. Stokes onice 2ea West 7ad Street, NY
August Is, 1916.
(ConfdentiaD
Ny Dear Helen:
We are in a city that is "childless" There are no
children anywhere No children in the hotel only few
raggamuffns In the street.
Now for Weddie, he is Just grand he weighs 155
pounds, straight arrow and rosy cheeks like girl
He has just been elected Of the - Compsnv
1t seems that Mrs. Lydig met Doctor - niue years
ago She told Mrs Lydg that for few thousand dollars
she could get for America the Process for curing
drunks especial ladies who were overindulgent The
money was trusteed for Mrs Lydig and they own
sanitariums all the United States and they license
their process and the money flowing in She has two
automobiles, beautiful garage library worth 100000
brc-a-brac worth S3O000 $4000 600 securities galore
and money galore She eePresident Of the company
and DR.. - is president. The payroll each month for
the servants in her household is 50 200 Now this
secret do not tell anything about IT, All the big
doctors in New York City send their patients there There
is city in the United States that does have wives
of the wealthy in these ssnitariums II is No
one knows anything about IT,
suppose her jewels worth 100000 She is build
ing addition to her house that Weddie will have
room there and that is the she staying at the
Plaza Hotel She cannot bear particle Of noise She has
fourteen fifteen in the hotel three four nurses
two or three maids and a doctor living with her.
Now do not say word about this 10 soul should
not have told you but just made up my mind that
would
| wish you could see Weddie BE is not that thin .
gaun palefaced boy that used TO worry the life out OF
me- but he is grand chap have laid
Wherever he goes everyone saws, Why, what hap
pened your he has grown big and LOOKS fine
Yours WILL (W. Z. D. ST0KES.1
Mrs w E. d. Stokes Lexington, KY.
(Note signsture) Poor woman. she has not long
to live, but mentally she is wonder"
But the meetings between Mr. Stokes and his first
wife mystery TO the second wife The young wife
objected and demanded to know what was going on.
Finally Mr. Stokes wrote formal letter TO his first wife
Mrs Lydig and takes pains to mail copy to his second
wife, in which he says;
81 do not think it would be polite courteous to Cap
tain Lydg to call upon you except with his permission
under the circumstances you viii agree with
me-