The Washington times., 1922-01-15
YEARS NO BAR
To TRUE Love,
SAYSD|VORCEE
Titian-Haired Youthful Beauty
Is In New York Seeking $780,
900 Yearly AIimony.
NOW DEVOTED TO FAMILY
December Can Mate With May,
She Declares, Although Her
Own Experiment Failed.
BY MILDRED NORRIS.
international News Service.

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Notwith-
standing her own stormy marital
experience, Mrs. Helen Elwood
Stokes, who secured a divorce from
her aged and multimillionaire hus-
band, w. E. d. Stokes, after a sem
sational trial, still believes mar
riage a wonderful institution.
Asks 100000 Per Year.
The beautiful, illuminated young
woman, who has come from Denver
70 continue her fight against Stokes,
I announced today that she will press
Tor speedy action on her claim for
100000 year for the support of her
self and her two children and the
restoration of her dover right in
Stokes millions.
Il do not think marriage Is a failure
despite my own tragic experience"
she said in an interview. II think
everyone should marry. can imagine
no happier experience than a happy
marriage.
Marriage Wonderful Thing.
Il believe the institution of mar
rage q wonderful thing.
May God save other women from
my tragic experienced l underwent
Understandable suffering, and yet 1t has
not made me bitter against the world.
IT has made me more tolerant. l can
not feel bitter even against those
women who perjured themselves to
testify against me in court. / pity
them. The day of reckoning comes to
everyone"
1t was the mating of May and De.
!cember when the young Western girl,
who inherited part of the fortune Of
her grandfather, Isaac Elwood, the
barb wire king" married Stokes. a
man about town, angel of chorus
girls, already twice divorced and old
enought to be her grandparent.
i never said 1t was disastrous for
q girl to marry a man much older
than herself, and l do not say II
now" the young woman said, con-
tinuing her interview. Just because
my own experience was unhappy 1t
does not follow that another girls
would be. Everything depends on in
dividuals and circumstances. Every
one must frame>his own life, and no
one can use his own case to give ad-
vice to another" ..-.... .,.,
Divorce Looks Youthful.
As she sat in her suite in the Hotel
Ambassador, Mrs. Stokes looked as
young and lovely as in the days when
she was one of Denvef's most sought
a1ter pelieS. her blue eyes, however,
had grown older and sadder. 1t was
suggested that the past had gone,
and she still had her life before her.
But can any one ever forget the
past?" she asked. THE painful
memories and heartbreaks always re-
main.
81 have come to fight for my chill
dren's rights. For their sakes I shall
see It through. 1t is for them / ask
for 100000 q year-a sum that will
be adequate to our needs-and the
restoration of my dover rights IN
property worth many millions. I sign
ed q document which Mr.. Stokes now
claims was a release OF this dover
right. was not told this when !
signed 1t. My attorneys will press for
early action. so that / may quickly
be done forever with these painful
court proceedings and return to Dem
yer to live in peace with my little
ones.
my future plans? I have none. I
have no ambitions for myself. live
now only for my children.
After all, children are the great
est compensation In life"