El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-06-21

TUANTTA MILLER, the charming
daughter Of the late Joaquin Miller.
The Poet Of the SierTas," has just
Been granted divorce from her trial hus-
band, John ReaTis-
M. Reavis is an American residing in
tie Philippines. He was supposed to be
the owner Of a rich plantation, sundry
mines and a bungalow where his comfort
Vas looked after by three Igorrote ladies
whom he called Pickles. Peaches and
~Cita-" During the legal proceedings some
doubt was cast, If not upon the riches Of
mines and plantation at least upon his
generosity in scattering their proceeds
The interesting IgorTote trio did not fig
ure as correspondents They we're sort
Of sultry. dusky background to the fevered
romance Of the poets daughter But ike
a thunder cloud. they leaped forth at last
when Mr.. Reavis, so the disiIlusioned trial
bride told the court, informed her that he
vas going home to them. together with an
affinity he had found in Texas. but that
~that need not prevent her from going. too,
4 she cared"
twas then that Juanita decided to with
draw nom her wedding bargain and to call
the trial marriage a mis-trial. She had
fixed the date OF her final wedding oere-
mouy for the April full moon, the old
-matiug moon" Of the extreme ancients.
in the shadowy forests Of "The Hights,
the wonderful Miller estate fR-the Pied
mont Hills. overlooking Oakland, Cali
fornia. But some Of the friends she had
invited thought ~she couldn't get OF as
easv as that. Her legal advisers con-
nrmed them,
And so all the time that Juanita had
thought she had been living in what the
Greenwich Village parlor Bolshevists call
the "enhghtened, advanced relationship Of
the sexes" she had been Just as respect
ably married as tie most commonplace
citizenl
Instead Of being decorated with an orna-
mental little bracelet that she could slip
OF with CELEBRITY and ease when so minded,
she was firmly bound by the chains Of
matrimonyi
Profoundly distressed by her discovery,
Mrs. Juanita Miller Reavis lost no time in
carrying her letters to the legally con
stituted locksmiths who knock of such
things if cause can be shown She charged
mental and physical cruelty and neglect"
And the California courts, not holding
against her the fact that but few months
before she had declared her mating was
quite beyond such mundane institutions
as legal marriage and divorce, decided,
sfter hearing about Pickles, Peaches and
Cita and other things, to knock EN- Of
OF course. say Miss Juanita's friends
she has been allowed TO resume her
maiden name-if Juanita weren't the true
daughter OF her poet father and poet and
musician herself she would never have
gotten herself into such tangle as this
e-that-wasn' tone, April mating
moon. Igorrote harem and so on thing.
But Joaquin Miller had. as the old phrase
goes. his own ideas"-and so has his
daughter The two were entirely devoted
to each other, and if she worshipped the
picturesque, gray old man, clinging to his
mountain TOP, his ways and costume Of the
frontiersman and with the true spirit Of
poetry within him, he no less Yorsaipped
this brilliant, fun blooming beauty who
was his only child II was with a struggle
ne allowed her to 90 to New York to COM
plete her musical education, and it was his
last illness that cut short the career she
had planned for herself IN the East and
sent her back to the little cabin on 'The
Nights" where the old poet lay.