The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-28
ARE DIVORCE TENDENCIES
 INHERITED
CHritten by IMAGERY REX fo

New York, April 2S-Many mothers leave their daughters an inheritance jewels and old Ilce. Some women relinquish wealth to their daughters, some a proud name.
 Is it possible for the tendency to divorce to be left inheritance from mother to daughter?
 The story of the Stillmans is now common property, AS prologue to the unhappy drama is the life story of the beautiful and accomplished moth CT of Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman. She is Cora Brown Potter, divorced by stern husband who did not ap- prove of her espousal of a stage ca reer.
 Now ''Fif," her daughter is under giong much the saIne experience, eX- cept that James A. Stillman makes charges of a nature entirely different than those upon which the Potter di- vorce was secured-in that case aban- donment.
 Tendencies run through families. Even divorce would appear to be in herIted if one were to judge by some noted examples of amily groups in which marital happiness seems inn possible to achieve.
 Disposition Can Be Inherited.
 While the actual desire to divorce would not, of course, be inherited. nevertheless the disposition 0f char acter that would demand freedom from an unpleasant situation could
 
 We know that certain diseases which are supposed by many to be tinherited'' positively cannot be hand ed down from parent to offspring.
 Ru: a predisposition can be trans mitted from a mother to her chill dren.
 People may say, for instance, that i,i such and such a family they have all inherited" a certain malady, but the fact probably is that from one or the other parent the children have received a tendency to develop such a disease, and perhaps living in such conditions as foStered the disease in the parent, have, Hhemselves acquired 1t.
 It is quite likely that a tendency to social disease, divorce for example, might be present well the dis position to develop a bodily i'll.
 Powerful Force of Example.
 A proud and independent spirit which would make a mother break away from marital bondage, when irksome, might be transmitted to might find life so unpleasant with her husband that her high-strung na- Norce or, in the event of her leaving such a husband, might cause him to divorce her.
 Added to such a spirited nature there would be one of the greatest forces in the world, the force of ample.
 The mothers example will always impel a daughter. In a moment of doubt she will be very apt to do as her mother has done in a like quan- dery.
 Daughters of divorcees, deep in marriage difficulties, will be likely to decide upon divorce themselves.
 The "Fashionable Frenchs" of New York and Newport exeInplify one case in which mother who was di- vorced had two divorced daughters. q divorced aunt, and numerous other matrimonial complications throughout various branches of her family.
 Mrs. LeRoy French in 1914 divorc- ed Amos Tuck French Mrs. Julia French Geraehty. one of her daugh ters, in 1919 divorced Jack Gerashtv. her chauffeur husband. Mrs Polly French Wagstaff, known the beau tiful Pauline IeRoy French, divorced Samuel Wagstafe in June, 1920.
 On March II last Mrs Wagstan was married to Donald Oliver Me Rad, a clerk employed by the Central Union Trust Company, five years her junior.
 But the first of the French family ter of Amos Tuck French. Elsie, who married and later sought freedom from the late Alfred Vanderbilt. In 1919 she gave society a shock when ten years her junior, Paul Fftz-Simon.
 One of the great difficulties, so it is said. in the problem of the Huhns living anicably together was the fact Huhn's children by a first marriage did not like the idea of Ethel Huhn, the child of the second union, in heriting any of the Huhn wealth
 Bailey FIuIln Romance Shattered.
 Then came little Ethel Huhn's TO- nance. Joseph w. Bailey, Jr., in a camp met Ethel not long ago when she was a debutante. Bailey was the son of a former Senator from Texas. The affair was called a "per- feet story book romance.'' The two were married, but last Fall it was that the young people had separated and that a divorce action would be begun.
 Family heartburnings and money wrangles are said have separated the parents Of pretty Ethel Is it surprising. then, that when her own marital problems became troublesome she thought of divorce?
 Huhns daughter by his first mar riage also followed in her parents divorced from Andrew J. Carty, of with whom, according to statements made to friends, she be- came "frightfully bored" A son by that first marriage of Huhns is also separated from his wife, who refuses, h however, to divorce him.
 In a family that has never known the panGs of the legal rending apart LI-iI COIlSlllultS IL SttiIlS I strange and terrible thing. It looms up az q devastating. scandalous af- fair, something to make every mem Der of the family hang his her head in shame.
 But, once experienced. this legal process does not seem so terrifying.
 When a daughter of a divorced mother is herself suffering from un- happy marital experiences, is it sur prising that she seeks the solace that she knows divorce gave her mother?
 "Because they were papers that he could not negotiate.''
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