New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
From q staff Correspondent.

PoHGHKEEpSlE, n. Y. June 15.--
The assertion that Mrs. Florence Law
Ter Leeds literally hypnotized her hus-
band and reshaped his mind was made
by Mrs. James A. Stillman this after
noon at the home of John E. Mack,
guardian ad litem for her infant son
Guy.
She branded the "coid sorrow that
has come into the life of her mill
Aonaire husband and herself as the
outcome of "commerciali1ed love'--
love that was guided and influenced by
the size of an emerald. In dispassicn-
ate tones she touched on the financial
career of the banker and declared his
success to be due to the fortunes of
birth rather than distinctive brain
power. Their unhappiness could also
be traced to the way in which he was
brought up. she declared. 1t was the
old-fashioned way of secretiveness and
self-repression that dried up the wells
OF human emotion and made him deaf
to the appeals of love, she charged.
Seeks yindication. Not Revenge
Even while she denounced him, the
wife who is in the throes of one of
the most sensational divorce suits on
record said she wished nothing but the
best for Mr.. Stillman. Revenge was far
from her thoughts, she said. She
sought only vindication,
These declarations were made at the
conclusion of the first day Of the re-
sumed hearings in Mr.. Stillman's ac-
tion for divorce. For hours Mrs. Still
man had sat in a stufFy office listening
to the testimony of Mrs. Percy A.
Rockefeller, her sister-in-law and of
the other witnesses who we're called
to assail the paternity of Guy. She
was fatigued but satisfied.
Picturesque as Romany gypsy, she
padded softly out to the veranda for
what she called an "informal tea
and green was wound around her dark
hair, which escaped from under its re-
straining folds. Her skirt WAS of fam
ing red plaid wool, topped by jaunty
smock of raiah silk. Everything about
her was striking and bizarre, from the
QUAINT Swiss necklet dangling around
her neck TO the Oriental fligree belt
rand the rows of silver bangles jingling
! on her slender wrists. A green ban
danna around her throat supplemented
her headdress and heightened the
gypsy effect. White running shoes si-
fenced her vigorous steps.
! With the utmost candor she voiced
her views on sociology and said that
men had the best of things because
women were three-Quarters EN- motional
and one-quarter intelligent Men, on
the other hand, we're the victims and
the dupes of flattery, she said. Refer
ring to her statement previously made
about the other women in Mr.. Still
mans life she said:
| III you are going to compete with
! fattery where your husband is con-
| cerned you will be out of the race
| Wives want to help their husbands. go
| they tell them the truth because they
care what happens to them. That is
what did with Mr.. Stillman.
Would Not See Him Crushed
"r still feel that l would like him to
| make q success of his life. / do not
want TO see him smashed. / would be
very small II felt that way. Naturally.
I am defending myself because | must.
/ Like the suffragists I must fight 1t
would be death to sit back. / would be
| knocked all over the place.
Mrs. Stillman denied that she ever
felt even momentary panic. She did not
feel confused in face OF the charges
leveled against her because of hel
!. strong sense Of right, she said.
my personal future in no way de
pends on the outcome of this case,
she added, and went on:
The loss of suit cannot possibly
affect you when you feel you are right
1t is what you put into IL that counts
| have courage because I am so certain
of right.
Frankly. think that Mrs. Leeds i: