Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-22

E9iT'rrst eiopement on record in which
the brde-to-be ran the whole affair
driving away from homo in her
own car, picking mp her waiting lover from
MS hiding place in a city park and whisk-
ing him off 10 be secretly welded by a
suburban rarson-has ended in tho mos,
dismal kind Of unhappiness, poverty and
actual suffering for the wife and her Young
baby.
Miss Alice Drexel, daughter Of the very
rich and fashionable John r. Drexels, OF
New York, Newport, Philadelphia, London
and Paris, was the dashing heiress who
gave surprising proof OF woman's new
equality with man by managing her own
elopement with Captain William Barrett.
an American air veteran of the war with
Germany
And today, before society has hardly
recovered from its establishment al ber
surprising runaway marriage, young Mrs.
Barrett is 4 hear-broken. disillusjoned
~oman-heartessiy abandoned by her
husband when his love grow cold; left
practically pennless among strangers in
foreign land on The eve of her babv.s
birth; and now. living on the money sh.
formerly. seorned for love anxiously await.
ing news. OF. Her family's forgiveness for
what turns out TO have been most ill.,
ADVISED adventure in matrimony.
II is not for forgiveness of all her family
for which she watches the mails and
cables with fearful eyes, for her father
long ago forgave her impetuous. person
any conducted eiopcment. But her mother
the proud Mrs. John r. Drexel, has never
neen able TO pardon her hisl,.suirited
daughter for upsetting all her fondest
hopes and making a marriage which she
has always insisted could end only in
unhappiness
NOW that II has ended so much more
diSasirous!y than even Mrs Drcxel feared.
VIII the mother relcnt ana opcn hcr heart
once ltore 10 her prodIga daughtcr? ON
,hlS absorbing question opinion is divided
IN society al Newport. Nhore Mrs. Dreycl
mas been entertaining of late with unusual
"a ia .aAheSs' perhaps trying 10 find soface
III me gay social whirl for her bitter dis.
appointment, over Alicos unsatisfactorv
marriage
According TO close friends, poor Alice
DreAei Barrett is coming homo-perhaus.
however, probably not 10 Newport
"o!ii '!tAti "i'h unusual determination
mas taken the matter in his own hands and
sent one OF his secretaries TO France =,
Try TO bring back his sorrowing daughter
and her baby
1t is nor given TO many young girls
porn ana reared in The deepest. softnst
zap OF luxury TO run the camut of mlnan
suffering as Alice DrcXel has done in lie
snort space OF what Should have been tha
most Joyous season OF a womnn's Ire
INTO one short year has been thrIs, moro
tragedy than falls tothe lot of the ayararo
woman In whole lifetime
The peculiar environment in which ,1;oa
Drexci had lived all her life forced bn.
gossip says, TO Encet III sccrc, Tho man
she finally married, TO cope with hin, in
sudden haste and 10 Slip away 10 Euro,.n
with only her jewels and clothes and wha,
pocket money she had left OF her vcarI,.
allowance Before the voyage acrns. Ma
Atlantic was ended her woman's SOM ,,ne,
have senscd the fact tAat she had scrjonsiy
misjudged the devotion OF the man for
whom she had dared the disapproyaI ~
her parents.
Not long after reaching Europe She WA.
awake to the appalling realization ,h,.
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