Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26

chuckled with satisfaction when hi
son, James A. Stillman married FIJI
Potter, the slender, naughty princes
of the world called society.
He built the magnificent home a
270 Park avenue to be occupied b,
the young pair. Here came th'
young, loving bride. Here wa
woven the gossamer romance o
their honeymoon. And here littl,
fAnne Stillman, their first baby
was born on February %, 1902. Sh,
game at the height of Mrs. Stillman'
love-life, blue-eyed, titian-hairet
girl baby with tiny, clutching hand
and a seeking mouth.
Her mother held her against he
breast and gazed up proudly at th'
man for whom she had borne thi
child. And James A. Stilman showed
himself an ideal husband and father
He gazed awesomely at this wet
miniature of his wife and marveled a
her beauty. He held her in his arm:
under the jealous eyes of the youne
mother, and told that mother how
much he loved her and her baby.
Love Burning Out.
James A. Stillmans love was burn.
ing out, even as his wife made her.
self ready to preent him with Their
second baby. This baby was born
on anuary "a, 1904, man-child with
the hair and eyes of Fiji Potter Still
mar. He was James Stillman, the
= r - 1fifs Ssalrous Bud" who later was to
hurl defiance at his father and dis
own him because of the way he had
treated his mother.
The hnancier came again to marvel
at his wifc's bedside and to take his
chubby son breathlessly in his arms
and thank the fates for sending him
a man to carry on the Stillman name
1t was old James Stillman's dream
to found Stillman dynasty of wealth
and social leadership. He carefully
trained his son to the belief that il
must be done. In the soul of James
A. Stillman today there reigns that
ambition, intensified thousandfold
by his life OF unbroken wealth and
success and what his wife has termed
''the power complex"
At the time of the birth of his
daughter Anne, Mr.. Stillman was
working as a bookkeeper in the Ma
tional City bank. the institution
founded by his father. whose tenta-
clcs even then were winding them
selves about the business of the
world.
So with his sweetheart wife and
his charming baby he lived and en-
ioyed life as the conventional. home
loving husband. And Fiji Stillman
remembers that period.
World in Half Light.
About this time the young man
who started as clerk in his fathers
bank had learned all there was to
know among the ledgers of the busi-
ness. He was moved up, not be-
cause of his relation to his father,
but because the officials of the bank
realized that he had absorbed all he
could in that place He was given a
minor executive position and fur
nished with all the information that
49, sith it.
There Slowly opened before his
eager gaze world in the half-light,
peopled with women who we're will
ing and anxious to aid men of wealth
and captains of industry to while
away the hours Of their leisure. Into
this world the young executive
plunged with all the ardor of his
intensive nature.
And in this world he was to live
4 rrl, .,f
scandal when he tried to brand his
last the baby son born with the bar
sinister.
4 The children, Anne and Bud, were
entrusted in the hands of gov
Srncss. But the trust was not abb
sclute.
Fiji Stillman was much with her
children. She guided their first foot
steps and thrilled them at the hair
breadth escapes they had in learn
ing this new method of locomotion.
She led them into the open as soon
as she could. Nature called to her
and through her to the children. She
obeyed the call. The Stillman chill
dren are "out-of-doors" children,
able to ride and swim and shoot.
They know plants and flowers and
the lore of woods and fields. This
is their gift from the heritage and
the teachings of their mother.
Sees History Repeat.
!, Fih Potter Stillman saw history
\ repeat itself and learned well the
A. truth of the adage, Like father, like
y son." For James A. Stillman was
following in his fathers footsteps
and the second Mrs. Stillman, as her
,nother-in-law, Elizabeth Rumrill
Stillman, before her, came to know
that her husband was entertaining
hSer women lavishly and often.
THTsc were many of these other
women. And there was the yacht,
the "Modesty." :.
Rumors Of these parties" reached
the silent wife and mother through
the underground of scandal that un-
derlies any stratum of society. She
came upon people who halted their
conversations suddenly. And she
knew they were talking of her hus-
band.
Names Of actresses and chorus
girls more or less prominent and
those of women of her own circle
were linked at different times with
that of her husband. The "Modesty"
cruised about New York, taking sud
den surprising voyages to unknown
parts. to be absent for indefinite
periods.
And her husbands absences be-
! came more and more frequent. As
! time went on he became less careful
&4as. concealing his affairs with
other women from his own world
and from his own wife. Slowly to