Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-16

years ago they arranged the divorce that
society had long expected.
He buried himself in his laboratory He
became noted for his concentration and
seclusiveness. lie would never speak of
one Of his inventions 10 anybody until he
had perfected It.
Then the charmer came. She was orig
inally Marion Andrews. of Southern fam
lily, and married DR.. Tedar Bruguiere a
California millionaire, who moved with
her to New York and Newport some years
ago. They were divorced at Reno, and
shortly afterward Mrs Bruguiere married
Stewart Denning, New Yorker lie dis.
covered that his first wife's divorce was
one OF those unsatisfactory affairs that
may be good in one State and not in an
other, and to make sure OF matters he had
his own marriage annulled.
The liberated charmer went TO Newport.
and the gayest bachelors OF the Summer
capital, such as James j. Van Allen and
Reginald Vanderbilt, fell under her spell.
Cooper Hewitt Joined them and, though
intellectually quite different from the 9th
ers. became her most devoted attendant
At the earliest possible moment and with
romantic secrecy liz was married to Mr..
Bruguiere.
The new Mrs. Hewitt was an adept at
dancing and singing and all the arts that
appeal TO the emotional side of humanity
She WAS prolific in pranks that would sur
prise conventional member of society,"
1t was amazing to see Cooper Hewitt, the
mature scientist, the recluse, enter into all
her playfulness with the most evident en-
joyment.
The charm OF frivolous woman for
serious man has been observed since the
dawn Of human history. Hercules, the
protean hero of antiquity Tt on women's
clothes and shaved three years for
Omphale, who was evidently a frivolous
character while she carried his club and
wore his lions skin. The mighty Samson
fell hopelessly into the snares of the en-.
chanting Delilnh, who Is said to have bear
q singer.
Coming to more historical characters
we find that the Emperor Justinian, the
most famous lawmaker OF the Roman En-.
pire, married woman who had belonged
TO wandering circus. To marry her he
changed fundamental law forbiddng
great officers OF the empire TO marry
actresses. Historians say that Theodore
continued her carouses in the imperial
palace, but on certain critical occasions
she helped Justinian greatly.
Antoninus Plus. Roman Emperor
famed for his wisdom, married the notori.
Gus Fausina. who was noted for her wit
and her improprieties. Antoninus enjoyed
all her caprices, and instead Of furnishing
her struck coins and built temples in her
honor.
Psychologists have long recognized that
there is law OF opnosites, according to
which men and women are attracted by
opposite qualities in one another II a
man possesses tremendous all-round force
and ability, his opposite In womanhood
may be nonentity. Too often he finds
her There is doubtless a woman of Ideal
sweetness and submssiveness who is n
fitting mate for the superman, but she ia
rarely found.
Mr.. Henry r. Finck, high authority on
love. says:
an men Of genius their own store of In.
tcllect is so great and their admiration for
beauty so intense that they are constantly
liable to marry silly girls, or before mar
riagc to firt with one beauty after another
without finding satisfaction"
To account for the amorous propensity
Of genius is easy enough. Genius means
creative power allied with taste for the
beautiful. This taste may be gratifed by