The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
THE. STILLMAN CASE
? course you've been reading about
 Eff Potter Stillman and her Dig millionaire, bank president hus-

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 millionaire, bank-president hus- band, and all the turmoil which has seothed and boiled in the cauldron, like smoking flax, until finally climax has been reached. and friend husband openly accuses his wife of the most abominable and outrageous things
 It is another of the big scandals fur nished by the four hundred" where they marry and divorce with the most delight full spontaneity-shake off the shackles like an old glove or worn-out bonnet
 But this case especially gives food for thought" for each new case swells the list of divorces, and the onus of the divorce wave has become national evil, and it would seem to largely land flatly on the head of women. Theirs the re- sponsibility of the increasing number Of divorces which are granted on any trivial subject, such as dancing, short skirts. marrying a "slacker," ncompatability or just any old thing that happens to come up.
 I'm always on the defensive for women, heart and soul, and while I don't know single, blessed thing about Eff Potter Stillman, it is inconceivable to my mind that girl of her birth and breeding could so far forget herself as to com init the unspeakable things that the au- gust and imposing MT. James A. stillman accuses her of.
 fIo-a hoe xxr11N Nxrrfll ca, that Eff Potter Stillmans beautiful mother was divorced which is true; and that in her time she was perhaps the most talked about woman of the day, for she was. to say the least of it., uncon- ventional. But imagine society wincing at the discrepancies of which Cora Ur- quhart, the beautiful southern belle was accused-wearing too few clothes, reciting incredible poems-when it countenances the things that it does today!
 But, of course, that was in the long ago.
 After Cora Urquhart married the elig- ible and elegant "Parti," MT. James Brown Potter, with great lines of august ancestors back of him, and she was transported to Washington, it is an his- torical fact that the aduiation and ad- miration she received turned her beauti- ful head right straight around on her more beautiful shoulders.
 She was invited to take part in private theatricals,' of which she had always been very fond; and accepting. startled the world by committing the fearful atrocity CD or reciting "Ostler Joe
 Mercy! sakes alive The quidnuncs winced and the "grande danes drew aside their skirts and gasped! The wires went clicking all over the wide world telling the story of how the beautiful Mrs. James Brown Potter had startled society by her unconventionality and shocked it to it's foundation stones!
 Glance at couple of the lines of "Osler Joe" the poem which created all the talk:
 stood at eve as the sun went down
 By a grave where woman lies Who lured mems souls to the shores of sin
 With the light of her wanton eyes; Who sang the song that the siren sang On the treacherous Loerlei heights, Whose face was as fair as summer day. But whose heart was as black as the nightr
 Is it broader or more suggestive than the 'sVers Libre," which we read and hear read today?
 Of course, the James Brown Potters were divorced, and the beautiful Cora Urquhart sought her hearts desire, the stage, where for many years she and the Adcnis-like Kyrle Bellew, played to- gether the old stage favorites, Camille "Divorcons' and other plays
 I must tell you story which was told of Mrs. Potter, who was conspic ous in her day for the clothing that she did not wear; forerunner of board
 To see what the fashions might be-; But when she got there, the ladies were bare.
 | Oh. how Mother Hubbard did-flee."