New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-30
Peggy Is Sad,
Done With Men,
But Likes joyce
Former Follies Girl, Though,
Sued by Third Million
aire Husband, Says She
Will File Counter Charge

Special Dispatch to Inc I110une
CHICAGO, April 29.-"Peggy" Hop
kins Joyce, show girl Of two continents,
staged an eloquent come back" to-
day to the suit of her third millionaire
husband for the annulmcnt of their
marriage.
She replied to all the charges made
by J. Stanley Joyce, Chicago lumber
man, in his suit and made all sorts of
counter allegations.
Miss Hopkins appeared at the Offices
Of her attorneys, Mccormick, Kirk
land, Paterson G. Fleming, to consult
about the formal charges they will file
for her when they appear in Superior
Court next week to enter an appeal
for temporary alimony and solicitors
fees.
She wants $685. 900 a month temporary
aimony She told her lawyers they
could write their own ticket on solci
tors fees. Fees Of 900 to 100000,
to be used to prepare her defense,
probably will be asked at once, to be
supplemented by larger amount when
the annument case is finished.
Miss Hopkins announced her inten-
ton Of fighting her husbands suit to
the last ditch. In addition to the
formal charges which her attorneys
plan to enter on the court record next
week, she may lie a counter bill ask
for separate maintenance. She has no
intention of seeking or obtaining
divorce
Exhausted and Nervous
Exhausted from her trip from New
York, Miss Hopkins, who is delicate
and slight, pulled nervously at cigar
cite as she sat in the law office and
told the story of Joyce's treatment of
her.
II was heart-broken when he went
away said She Il didn't know he was
never coming back when he Mft
wv hen he left me in Paris last Sep
TENDER he said he would be back the
very next month. And he even cabled
me from London, ordering me to en-
gage passage for the two of us on the
Cunard Line. And after that" a
helpless gesture, mad putting at the
stub of the cigarette, nothing, moth
ing, nothing, until this frightful suit
HE has never given me a penny
since he left me, and he was not nearly
SO liberal with me after he married me
as he was before.
"He was cruel, too, terribly so. Then
he would be sorry. And he would buy
me wonderful presents to make up.
Once, when we were dining rear
Paris, he became infuriated because l
smiled at one Of the men in our party.
He struck me SO hard on the head that
the tiara / was wearing cut my nose.
l didn't pay for that tiara in advance
like have paid for most Of what I
have. But I paid dearly for it after
ward"
Miss Hopkins has no feeling of
malice against her husband.
81 am just sad at all the beastly
things he has told" she explained. II
am still terribly fond of him, although
l would never think of going back to
him after all the terrible things he has
said"
Wants Country Life
She explained that her ideas of do
mestic bliss differed from her hus-
bands. II wanted place in the coun-
try, where we could live outdoors and
have horses and dogs and plenty OF
space and near enough to the city SO
that we could come in occasionally.
But my husbands-h otels, music, thea
ters-they are his life"
81 don't vamp the men," she insisted
when the formula for her success with
millionaires was asked for. 81 have
never known how to vamp them. But
l have often been accused of doing that.
"The way I feel now about it, Pm
through with men. After this horrible
mess is over / want to go away and
never see anyone, and just sleep and
forget"
Miss Hopkins is firm in the belief
that rich mems sons are the worst.
"1here's no such thing as an ideal
man." she insisted. "They all drink
too much or something. And rich
mems sons"-she recrossed her legs so
that the jade anklet, her identification
| tag, showed through the silk hosiery
"they have no ambition. They need
not work. They need do nothing. They
are degenerates."