The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
ARTISTS MODEL GETS DIVORCE
Violet Ellicott Admits She Was Foolish to Marry
 Wealthy Founder.

New York, May 23-Even the un- clean flavor of the divorce court must be an acceptable choice when unutter- able Humiliation is the only alterna- tive.
 Such is the conviction of Mrs. Vio- let B. Ellicott, lately known wher-
 ever artists gather as "The Girl With
 the Angel Face" And such alone
 persuade her to the action which yes-
 terday ended in her divorce from
 Charles B. Ellicott, wealthy mine
 owner. of No. 1 Broadway The de-
 cree was granted by Justice CalIaghan
 who gave to Mrs. Ellicott the cus-
 tody of their two beautiful children,
 Marylyn, who is II, and Marguerite,
 eight.
 On the veranda of her home at 1O3o
 S4th street, Brooklyn, surrounded
 with the fragrance and verdure of spring, Mrs. EIlicott told a story that
 mfrrored the 12 years of her welded
 life in this manner:
 Girls are so foolish to let their silly young heads be turned with the
 mad love making of men who have far outlived their youth I was inst a crazy little thing to marry a man
 with the past MT. Ellfcott had. I knew all about 1t. too It shows how
 seductive the attentions of a man of inc world can be. He dazz1ed mo with his splendors.
 ''I knew he had been divorced and 1 loathed the idea of divorce. too. have loathed it all my life. But the veil of romance was too rosy and ] wouldn think of it much, oh. I should have known better But ii is too late now and I have paid and paid for my folly with every day of the last five years
 When I first thought of divorce I couldn't bear the idea. mainly be- | cause of the children. I knew how bad it would be for them I could hear their playmates at school jib~ 1 ing. Your mamma is divorced But i what alternative did I have. Their 1 father Haunted his shame in our very 1 faces, almost. They were riding l with me one afternoon and here in I Bay Ridge when he passed us in a l beautiful automobile with a woman
 at his side, We all knew her. The | children had seen her a thousand
 times. She had visited in our nome ] My husband used to telephone me ] at all hours of the night. or morning
 to meet him at the subway with the car. I didn't have a chauffeur and | often 1 have gone for him at one | o'clock. two o'oclock or maybe three
 o'clock in the morning. He was glib with excuses. Now I know that
 many times he came right from he1 l to me. 1 T do not wish to criticize this girl
 I cannot know what has prompted i her to do this thing, and certainly | could not judge her. But I could not bear the shame my husband was | putting on me. If he had only come | to me openly and told me he loved
 some one else, that he TO longer was l happy with me, I gladly and willingly would have released him. I had nc | desire to keep him chai,ed to me" i Mrs. Ellicott led the way around the
 big green lawn to a great white cage | where hundred furnished pigeon: were just smuggling down for the i night. Wisteria climbed over a 1 enarled apple tree in one corner, and 1 the skylight barely peeped through 8 | huge white canopy of dogwood bIoss- 1 oms.
 The first Mrs. El1icott, who won g | decree of divorce from Ellicott sev. ] eral years ago, now is living in Phil | adelphia. | The wedding of the second Mrs. Ell i licott came as a surprise. It was an
 nounced January 13, 1907, at a sur | prise birthday party given for-her by 1 friends at the Knickerbocker hotel
 and then and there the ceremony per 1 formed. She is the daughter o1 | Major Casper H. Conrad. once com l mander of the Eighth L. s. Infantry | who was killed in the Spanish-Amer- 1 ican War.