The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-15

They will turn over In their SrdVes' Forget 1t all and come to Eufops with me-" The name of well known eastern society matron was signed.
 Do you want to know what l wired back to her?" A merry laugh, and she went on. T said, a change of position might do my an- cestors good!
 When She Met Candler
 But to so on with the story. When 1 attended the confederate re- union in Atlanta, in 1919 l met MT. candler. who lavishly entertained for me. We became very good friends Later after l left here. different members of his family said to him slyiy. remember the charming woman who seemed so fascinating to you at the re-union2 Well, she's In Henderson, North Carolina now, hay ling a gay old time with some very peculiar people. A little later they changed the place. but told substan- tially the same tale But, they didn't know where l was. ana Asa did, in fact, we were corresponding at the time, and l was abroadl So the first attack had no effect. l spent seven months abroad at that time. touring England. and France and Belgium and Italy, at the Identical time when l was supposed to be at tending gay parties in the Carolinas or Virginia. or any place in the Eastl
 If they would stoop to such lies before our engagement, one can see to what extent they would go after arrang ements had been made.
 "After the engagement was pub Holy announced, poor MT. Candler was the recipient of many letters from members of his family, urging him to break the troth. He forward ed on to me several letters from Judge Candler and Bishop Candler, in which they accused me of every thing unorthodox.
 .They said I smoked and danced land played cards and drank, and did all of the things one would naturally expect of a society and political leader. They said l would naturally have the qualities of frivolity and vapidity which accompany those vices. They said as a suffrasist, as a Catholic and as a divorcee l was surely unfit to be his wife.
 .Stiii my fiance remained loyal. Even those terrible charges did not phase him. They had absolutely no effect on him. He merely sent them tn me so that could see what he was up against In Atlanta,
 The next episode was even more vicious. They attacked the legality of my divorce from MT. Rocquet, my first husband. You see, left New Orleans and established myself as a legal resident In Reno. Nevada, when I wished to get the. divorce. l lived there for two years. had my bank account transferred there, and all of my business was carried on In Reno My grounds for divorce were many, but for the sake of cleanIi- ness l based the plea on non-sup- port. The suit was not contested and I was granted a default decree. This according to the Gamblers, was not legal so they proceeded to i'm vestigate. In the meantime I gath cred together a half dozen testimon- ials from attorneys whose authority could not be doubted, which cleared me of that charge. They were foiled again.
 "After that q rumor was broad casted to the effect that MT. Rocquet was going to sue MT. Candler for alienation of affection, and all that sort of thing. Preposterousl That W1S PACNoa AAAAAtt " AnAs N~NhNiEA Q satisfaction.
 Congressman Investigates
 '-The next move was to send Eze- kiel Candier, the congressman from Missouri, to investigate the laws of Louisiana It was his object to prove that my divorce decree would not be recognized there, and that If I married again I would be a bigamist
 
 ''Of course they failed there, be- cause even the congressman had to admit that there was not the re : motest possibility of my being a bigamistt
 Then followed sinister cam paign of annoyomous letters. both to me and to MT. Candler. The instiga- tors must have come to the conclu- sion that they could not break the engagement by appealing to my fi- anee, so they proceeded from a diff ferent angle. They wrote me das- tardly things about Asa. dragging in atrocious scandals which were supposed tor have taken place in his life. They painted him as the most immoral man living, and as a black guard. I disregarded the letters, for I did not believe them. As this method did not bring about the de- sired result. the letters ceased to come to either of us"
 She stopped the narration tos sign fr.r Ia x-