The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15
Ex.CONYICT ONE OF HER MANY
i LOVES. SAYS CORLISS PALMER

Macon. Ga, Dec S.-Sitting at the
feet of Eugene V. Brewster, ner lover
beautiful Corliss Palmer sent Il mes
sage today to her old. Macon friends
from the pretentious residence in
Normandie Heights, MorristOwn, \.
j. where she and her mother, her lit
tie sisters and brother and brewster
all live happily together. The inter
view with her was teleGraphed nero.
She was dressed in simple blue
bingham gown and looked just what
Brewster calls her--the most beauti-
full girl in America. Her gay auburn
tresses flirted with the breeze and
her rose-kissed lips formed Il smiling
Cupids's bow. ..-
1T isn't my fault" she said demurc-
w.. "if Mrs. Brewster is jealous of
me. can't help it il | am better look
ing than she or quite Il few years
younger.
Mrs. Brewster charges that |
yamped bv dear Bruce. Tell my
friends at Macon that it isn't true. ]
never vampcd anybody. Bruce and l
love each other dearly, and we viii
never he parted until death comes be-
tween us.
People arc saying he will tire OF
me. that he tired of his two wives
and that l will be the next one. Tell
nv friends not to believe it. Bruce
never loved his wives, not to really
love them.
He is not a tickle man, but he new
er knew what love was till we met.
And | never dreamed OF real love until
/ knew him"
Tell rs about this Middleton. who
SAYS YOU were engaged TO him. was
suggested.
Richard Middleton" she said, was
! lust friend like four or five other
boys ] knew at Macon. He thinks we
were engaged. Perhaps we were, but
a girl has a right to change her mind.
| suppose. We first met at Douglas.
ga. when | sold him a ticket for a
football game.
He never gave me ring like 9TH
er boys did. He was going to, but we
had little tiff and he kerr the ring
for himself. 1t was just boy and girl
affair.
Then poor Middleton got in hard
luck. He violated the law and was
StsIl ~ itil. tlJI want W tFAlh ibOGt
that. Please don't ask me about il.
But we know" she was told, ''that
Middleton served a term at Atlanta
for forgery. You visited him in the
penitentiary, didn't you?'
Il don't want to talk about that. &"
she answered sharply. s"Why not let
him alone.
I've been engaged three or four
times, | suppose, to differnt hoys
down South, but they didn't take
never had more than three or four
engagement rings and gave them
all back to the boys. Middleton was
Just one Of these chaps. PFC
Il may have given him hopes We
would be married some day. but when
he went to prison that ended the,mat-
ter Tor me. OF course, it almost broke
my heart. He told me he was innocent
and took the blame when two other
boys should have been convicted.
Il wrote Dick lots of letters, but
they weren't the mushy kind, / don't
write that kind OF letters. Never did.
/ visited him in the penitentiary once.
yes. But what of it? II was an act
of mercy. that's an. The poor chan
was so glad to see me-
Then when he got out of Jail he
went TO Europe and wrote me letters
I from there. | didn't answer those. il
while ago he came to New York and
kept calling me up at Mr.. Brewster's
office. Finally | told Bruce's secretary
not TO conner' him with my phone.
i'After Lrar ne bornereu Mr.. Brew
ster He wrote me a letter asking me
II | wouldn't tell him to his face that
our engagement was OFF. He wanted
Mr.. Brewster 10 help him. Oh, it has
been miserable, sordid affair.
I Mrs. Brewster. believe, got in
touch with him and wanted to get
the letters | had written Middleton.
She got his name through prying into
my private letters when | was stop
ping at the Brewster home in Roslyn.
That's the kind OF woman she is.
Then, | suppose. she got Middleton
to come here. But that won't do her
any good.
There are lots of things | could
say about Mrs. Brewster, but i won't.
| remember once she said hat paid
$50 for. velvet hat, didn't become
Inc. Then she borrowed it and wore
/ il, in the rain. She ruined that hat
She said | was jealous of Bruce,
Why should | be jealous of him? He
loved me. not his wife. | didn't have
to be jealous. And now she Is saying
all the unlind things she can think Oh
about me, though at first she pretend
ed to be my dearest friend.
You know. it was really she who
picked me out in tile beauty contest,
mot Bruce. Only after he had agreed
to her choice did he and | come to
know each other we'll
L Brewster believes he can get di-
vorce in Jersey because of the laws
which accept ineompatability as a
cause for divorce. Then he will marry
Corliss Palmer. he says.
The publisher spoke at length of his
great love for the beautiful Macon
girl and of his vain efforts to give
her up.
e"I couldn't slcep or cat" he said
III walked the streets. walked tn
! floor at nights, thinking OF her ant
trying to give her M, but realizing