The Washington times., 1920-08-22

Z TEw times bring new manners and society
nj has become hardened to manners that are
both new and strange
But when lovely Phyllis Hare, of Philadelphia,
whose family is one of the most ancient of that
city and whose brother Truxton Hare, one
of the national football heroes, sat down at her
wedding dinner with Husband Number Two
beside her and Husband Numper One only few
chairs removed fashionable society paused to
wonder whether the limit of the freedom had
not been over-reached.
Could it be, Philadelphia wondered that the
divorced husband was in the future to be included
in the nuptial gayeties when his former wife took
on a new partner? Think of the possibilities in
yolved when a bride had more than one divorced
husband to her credit! Or, the other way around,
was the bridegroom going to include his former
wife or wives when he took new partner?
What could be the explanation? Only few
weeks before the former Miss Hare had divorced
Mr. Kemble YaTow-Husband No. 1-on the
grounds of extreme cruelty" Then, rapidly, she
had eloped with Mr.. William Frederick Holzeman
Mr. Yarrow is very rich and moves in the same
high social set as his ex-wife. Mr.. Holzeman is
very rich but, as a New York broker, does not
move at all in the same set Had the recent Mrs.
Yarrow invited her exhusband to look upon the
happiness of her present husband as reprisal
for the cruel treatment she swore he had inflicted
upon her? And IL it sight calculated to
make him miserable, why ala MT. harrow dCCept'
Was 1t through an idea Of doing penance Tor MS
alleged matrimonial sins? Or did this former wire
think 1t would be gracious little way OF enter,
tanning him and taking his mind off his troubles!
And how on earth did Mr.. Hozeman take 1t and
the guests?
That question can be answered at once. Never
did party all rgged to be most joyful ever freeze
up quicker and break away more uncomfortable
But to resume the questions. Had Mr. Iarrow
invited himself? And II so-why? AS another
instance of postmarital cruelty? To annoy his
successor? Nobody who knows Kemble Yarrow
and what true gentleman he is ever considered
that possibility for moment
Then there is another story. That Mr. narrow
had been a guest Of some of those invited TO the
former Phyllis Hare's eopement feast; that In
mood induced by efforts to forget his shattered
iyusiors he had been dared to join and go to his
ex.wifes partys And that reckessly, Thought
essly, ne DID. - -,
the parental Hares, who are utraconserVative
and consider Vanderbilts and Astors, and even
Riddles of Philadelphia, mere climbers, when
thew heard that their beautiful daughter had un-
mistakably welcomed her recent husband to her
elopement dinner
Here too was just exactly the kind Of situation
that makes the French farce-somewhat highly
sniced droll and impossible" Impossible? Yet
here n was-in real life And looking at 1t from
the standpoint OF a critical situation in the farce
~ s interesting and necessary to review the little
known action of the scenes that led up to IT,
PHYLLIS Hare has always been high spirited.
There are Philadephans who say that her high
vnirits are due to the restrictions placed upon
her in her girhood by the Hare tradition. Her
reactions TO the rarefed atmosphere surrounding
the Hare family may, therefore, be classed as per-