Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-16
GARLAND SATISFIES
HIS MENTAL NEED
millionaire Socialist Turns to
Soulmate as Wife
Departs
LOVE ENTIRELY PLATONIC

Boston. Oct. 1G.-The mystery sur.
rounding the sudden departure for Eu.
rope OF Mary Wrenn Garland, wife o.
Charles Garland, millionaire NOrtl
carver idealist, was solved Snturda,
night when It was learned that tn,
young farmer hermit has returned tc
one of the objects Of his former loves
MIR. Garlnn,L is now living under thu
same roof with Doris Benson. twenty.
Ecnr-old ward Of the Garland family
ana who year ago frankly confesse,
that, although she loved Garland. sh,
believed that her love was hopeless
Garland at that time had astoundet
the world by his admission that he hnt
put aside. his legal wife and his lega
millions for his soul mate" Lillian
Conrad, beautiful young Philadelphia
artist.
Yesterday Garland admitted that the
Lillian Conrad chapter in his life was
closed. For the present. he added. his
love for women. as he understood love
year ago. is closed. And 'platonic'
love has taken its place. Doris Benson,
nc informs the public, is merely "men-
tai mate"
am searching for better UNDER
standing of human nature and more
honest basis for human relationships
So far I think I have been successful.
My need now is for mental mate,
friend, n companion. have no de-
sire for woman in the physical sense.
but l want comrnde of the mind,
an intellectual, a platonic relationship.
This need / have satisfied. Miss
Benson. who is living here and sharing
my theories. understands this relation :
| ship. We work together, we think to-
tfpf,, lat, IS
individual soul, and these are the high :
est claims.
IF had 1t to do all over again
would do just the same.
when / married my wife I needed
what she could give me. / priced In
her those qualities which exalted and
inspired me.
There came time when it was time
to seek another and greater compan.
ionship.
This I found with Lillian Conrad.
She gave me the deepest, the most pro-
found inspiration. She was my mate.
in both physical and mental sense With
her. too. came a time when we had
given each other all that we could.
"Now l have a new need. Miss Ben
son satisfies that need. 1t is not for
physical mate, it is for companion,
a mental equal. am happy. and SO is
she. We understand each other"
And now another feminine star has
appeared on Garland's horizon. Miss
Alice Edgerton, blonde. pretty and
athletic. who says she also is his "men.
tai mate" is working side by side with
Miss Benson on Garland's Cape Cod
farm. and shares with her the young
hermit heir.
81 am staying here with Charles
Garland because I admire him, and
believe his theories should be carried
out Miss Edgerton said yesterday.
She and Miss Benson are experiment
ing with Garland in a new "plntonic
love colony" and are supplying for him
the mental stimulus which he claims he
needs to replace the inspiration Of his
lately discarded Lillian Conrad
Like Miss Benson, Miss Edgerton
is college graduate, and n radical
idealist. She is content. she admits
to share Miss Benson's mental claim"
on Garland.
Miss Benson and I are working an
ideal experiment in human compan-
ionship," she said. 1.-THE entire ex-
pertinent is on Il platonic basis. We
work here In complete intellectual SYM
pathy. We believe in life unham-
pered by capitalistic motives. We are
very happy living the simple life of the
sOil.'