The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-02-10
RADICAL
UNMOVED
BY WEIRD
TRAGEDY
Heir to Millions
Says Wife Can Di-
vorce Him If She
Wants to
ny EDWARD "a. TuIERRy

The lives % five persons--and an.
unoorn hahy--are entangled IN tho
Evolutionary experiments OF Charles
Garland's love clinic"
Life and happiness for them hang
upon the fragile thread Of his whina
and theorseA-
The man who spurned million
dollars. who now has focused upon
him the eyes Of world shocked BY
his acts and thcories-and who daily
receives flood of letters from WON.
en- all over the country begging
either men~y or chance 20 Join
hini Ia founding a love coiony1'---
calmly goes on with hiss unprcccdent.
81 love experimental
SIX ACTORS
IN DRAMA
One. Of the persons Involved L.
Mrs. Nrenn Garland. who has fled
from Der husbands shack In the
woods Mrs. Garland took with her
their ycAr-old daughter. Margaret
she has gone TO Dcdham. 10 the
home Of her father. Philip w.
Wrenn. former president % the Bos
ton stock Exchange.N she - soon
10 become a mother again.
Tt. other three actors In the
drama are Garland himself and two
young women.
One Is Miss Lillian Ccnrad. PIN
aGeiphla art student and former sec.
rotary TO Carsand's mother.
The other r. Miss Doris B~n-on.
adopted BY the elder Mrs Garland
ssx years ago when she was rs. Gar.
land Is %. his wife 81. Miss Conrad
81.
QUARTET
SEPARATED
Garland peasant millionaire.
amateur philosopher. eccentric farm.
er and visionary alone in n
crude shack 10 miles from here. His
wife has left him
His soul t~in''--a. n. calls Miss
conrad-has gone back 20 her par
enis in Philadelphia.
Ills adopted sister IA attending
ciaxHes In vegetable farming and
home canning AZ Massachusetts, Arri
cultural college In Amhurat. where
parents Of other students have de-
fnanded her dismissal because she
announced that s'the ideals Of
Charles and Lillian are my deals
and that she II going back to live
with them az the farm.
What's going 10 happen7" I
asked Garland.
He got up from his chair In front
OF the kitchen table and wiped his
razor lie had been shaving with
hot water in a dIshpan and a small
mirror propped up against n bowl Of
cold beans.
I'm sure I don't know he said.
bored.
lie is very long. iran rlar--s
feet inches-and hts head OF black
hair scraped the ceiling tirnb~rs Of
the shack. He looks listiezs and his
gray eyes melancholy until nc
laughs. Then he strokes hts tiny
Fnustaehe and shows his teeth.
"EiGER FOR
MY MONEY"
Garland thinks II odd that people
should talk about him. He laughs
At the growing stacks OF letters.
most of which remain unopened.
my AsAtil NfN ana ANFJ pfAfSe
me- he said. but most Of them
want 70 help me spend that million
especially the women who want 10
join love colony. I want 20 cay
definitely that have no intention
Of spending the money that way
with love colony or any other kind
OF colony
April Farm r. the sort OF a place
where you might be willing 20 camp
for a couple OF weeks in the sum-
ner. You can't imagine man with
nearly a million dollars enduring II
five consecutive minutes.
Isn't It ionciy7" I asked. think
ing Of the road thru the woods. past
the cranberry bog, and the crudity
OF the shack and the desolation Of