The Washington times., 1920-08-22
Just Like q French Farce in
Real Life Was the Most
Embarrassing Dilemma of
Fashionable Mrs. Phyllis Hare.
YarrOV-HOLzen1an When
Husband NO.l-Just Divorced
for ''Extren,e CrueHy'-Sat
AmOnq the AstOnished Guests
DOlUn Among the AstOnished Guests

On this eventful morning Phyllis was first, and
in her excitement she forgot to lock the door
leading to the hall AS she stood in her nightie
and negligee, the door burst open and there stood
her divorced husband! Again what scene for
the farce
Did Phyllis faint, as her grandmother would, or
slam the door in Yarrows face, some modern
near-wives would have done? She smiled so the
story goes, and said, "Oh, KEN, come in; don't
mind me, we used to be married you know.
Mr.. Yarrow however, did not accept her invita-
tion, he boted from the doorway and ran gibber-
ing to his room, his only Ineligible remark being
something about the "calousness Of woman
Yarrow's feelings said to have been further
lacerated when he found that while his former
wife displaying a comforting friendliness
toward him she was also devoting herself to Holze
Again, let us listen to Quaker City gossip.
And my DEAR" said dame to another, Il
heard that KEN faced Phyllis and asked her openly
II she intended to marry a man she had just met.
And Phyllis replied that she had met Holzeman
eight years ago in Washington and always re-
membered what nice hair he had!"
Be that as it may, five weeks after the Cape
May house party Mrs Yarrow and Holzeman
slipped over to Elkton, Md, the modern Gretna
Green, and we're married. Mrs. Brown and her
brother, Holiday Semple, were witnesses, and only
then did the former Mrs. Yarrow take her hus.
band home and present him to her stately
mother.
"Mrs Hare" say the gossips, was not only dis.
mayed and peeved, but frightfuly disagreeable to
bOlH the DTlue ana DTIueBIoom. Nuy' Suc udu
never even heard of Holzeman before and, my
dear, she certainly does not think much OF his
hair!"
The elopement, as has been said staggered So
ciety but the wedding dinner given the following
night by Caleb Fox, Jr. at the Merton Cricket
Club literally gave 1t the blind staggers.
Fox, it seems, decided to get the "old gang" to-
gether and give the newly weds fine send OF.
And as the guests seated themselves at the big
table in walked Yarrow and took the chair directly
opposite the bride
CONSERVATION struck every one dumb but the
bride. She beamed over the table and smiling
sweetly, sad
Hello, KEN; you met my husband at Cape May,
l believe"
Knives and forks ratified In order to drown the
deadly silence OF that dinner party. Fox, who
has been separated from his wife for severa!
years. did his nobest to dispel the frozen gloom
but even his sprightly wit failed. and the last
courses were served in a silence so deep that the
former husbands thoughts were actually audible.
The party broke up In sudden haste and, con-
trary to report, Yarrow did not invite his sue
cessor and wife TO ride home in shs car. No.
they went of by themselves In charming road
ster leaving the club to resume Its gaiety.
Such happenings as these can not help but have
a tremendous effect society and It's conven'
tions II is but natural, therefore, that Phiadel-
phia. and even New York, Chicago and Boston,
should consider them seriously. The question
heard on AIN sides Is this: HAS society grown so
callous that divorced couples will meet In the near
future with absolute nonchalance and accept each
others new partners on friendly terms?"