The Washington herald., 1922-12-08
Piokford Romance Broken De.
spite PaIacial Apartment
on Lafayette Roof.
REsEETs DOLL" REPUTE
Pretty Helen Burch Back in
|, New York Determined to
Earn Own Livinq.
Continued from First Pase)

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nor any other kind Of money
through legal action in court-be
cause that is so. why should / b<
described as scrubbing floors?
Does any one think my parents
would let me suffer from poverty!
Besides" Mrs. Pickford said, and
her little head went into the air
cutely. II am perfectly capable OF
taking care Of my own self. Don't
think for one minute that am just
q little girl that can't do anything. "
Who said you were?" I cues
toned. sympatheticaliy.
"Oh. someone thinks I am just q
little KID" she answered with re.
bellion glistening In her black eyes
But I'll show them! Do I look like
a girl that would run home to weep
on some ones breast. helplessly?
KICKS BED CLOTHES.
Il hope DON'T" and the bride
kicked the bed clothes, emphaticaily,
Let me tell you somethinR-don'
you think the time has come when
q woman can be married and still
do thingsf
When I married Bill fully ex.
pected to give up the stage, but I
felt ! should be useful in some way,
Goodness, i don't want to be treated
like baby and always be reminded
that I'm not six feet tall and weigh
a ton.
now" the little bride smiled. 81
am positively on my own resources.
l want everybody to know that !
am not looking for notoriety or
that 1 am not instituting proceed.
ings against my husband for money.
will take care OF myself.
wouldn't take any alimony under
any condition.
TO EARN OWN WAY.
When look around at ali the
girls who are making good and
earning their own way and all the
married women who are succeeding
SO wonderfully. 1t makes me feel
useless to just be a bride and TO
nave a good time at the expense
of a wealthy husband. / feel | owe
more OF debt TO society than that.
But some, they just don't under.
stand. SO ! guess you would call
II incompatibility of temperament
all around. l have ideals and my
husband has set ideas. So there
you are.
And Mrs. Pickford looked at
me, you know Bill Is sweet. He's
Just as sweet as he can be-and
my people. oh. / love them so-but
just can't sit down and twiddle
my thumbs and be useless butter
fly. Even though a woman does
have money, l have made up nv
mind that IL she doesn't do some
thing worth while she Is q para.
site"
GOING TO GET FAT.
What do you expect to do now
that you have run away" l ques.
TONED her.
"WelT first thing, have fretted
so lately that / am losing weight
and I'm going to eat lots and vet
fat" She smiled as she broke a
poached egg and dropped three
sugars into her coffee.
Are you trying to return to the
We'll. I have my name with an
agency. But I would much rather
do something real useful. Please,
please. please don't think this has
all happened because am stiIl
stage-struck. I got over the idea
that was destined to elevate
drama years and years ago."
Helen Burch Is not a typical
show girl by any manner of means.
Her father is DIR. W. Thompson
Burch, OF Washington and it was
In that city that she met William
n. Pickford, the man she married
They did not meet as a result OF
her appearance on the stage, either,
but quite naturally in capital so.
ciety.
Young Pickford has been United
states consul at Berne and Mas.
sau. His father owns the Ia.
fayette Hotel In Washington and
Is rated millionaire. After the
wedding the couple lived for sew.
eral weeks In a specially-built
apartment on the hotel roof-buf
the spirit Of discord developed even
in that rarified atmosphere. and
soon after the little bride hacked
her trunks and departed to seek
her fortune single-handed.
The bridegroom still lives st the
Lafayette Hotel--and has main
tanned consistent and puzzIine
silence since the mafrinonieI az