The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-19
Editorial Comment
Peggy in Search of a Home
Chicago Tribune)


Poor Peggy Joyce is about to make her fifth try
for ideal domestic happiness This time it is to BE-
with Stanford E. Comstcok Miami real estate man,
who has yachts and other property said to be worth
$1O,OOO.OOO.
Poor Peggy! She has tried so hard for Il happy
home. And the only result Of all her heartbreaks
has been collection of ewelry and marital record
that gives promise, with time, of rivaling old Henry
Wits.
Peggy, in case you do not know, was born May
23 1893, Margaret Upton the little daughter Of the
village barber of Farmvie, Va. She none
too happy child The boys did not like her. And
she dumb, terribly dumb When she six
teen she was only in the seventh grade. Arithmetic
was her chief trouble. She couldn't add two and
two She has improved since those days, of course.
She is probably the best lady subtractor in this
country and Europe
Marriage with Everett Archer, the millionaire
grocery salesman Of Denver the age of seventeen
was Peggys first serious attempt to gain the last
ing love she sought They divorced in less
than year. He got the divorce and shattered her
young dreams by charging scandalous things.
In Washington. a little later, Peggy met and mar
ried Sherburne G. Hopkins, Jr, also millionaire.
1t was only short time afterward that Peggy cried
out in anguish, "Girls, don't marry millionaire.
wife is only minor incident in milonaires life"
And thus was this second romance ended in the d.
vorce court.
Heartaches. of course. could not daunt the courage
with which Peggy faced tho world. Her stage ca
recr progressed. She attained to that pinnacle Of
dramatic fame. Follies girl.
In 1920 came J. Stanley Joyce, millionaire lun-
herman Of Chicago. In her desire for homc Peggy
forgot the tragic lesson she had learned about mil
lion Thn,y T., 1ecv fhon fu,n
years Mr. Joyce started suit. And he, tsoy charged
scandalous things. He heartless enough to
name other men, millionaires and princes and a
duke and dancing man. here and abroad. OF course
he settled about $1,5OO,OOO worth Of jewels and
things on her, but those things don't make up for
the loss OF romance in the case of girl like Peggy
Other men came into Pcggys life, Paris bankers
son, actor, Texas millionaire, another prince,
and a stage Adonis. There were others. but they
didn't count much. A Chilean millionaire commit
ted suicide over her; couple more were said to
have ended their lives because she spurncd them.
Peggy scanned the lot and declined fourth try.
Its not money want" she walled, ,"but love. the
great, grand, understanding, lasting kind of love-
For that the sort Of girl Peggy was, home
girl always.
1t was love Peggy sought when she accepted the
plea of Count Gusta Morner, a Swedish nobleman
Chicago. The count was net wealthy; Peggy, how
ever admired him SO for his viking looks. But, dis
appointment again. Two months the wreck of
that fourth frcnzicd attempt for cozy fresidc.
Their divorce granted in Paris not quite three
months ago.
Four vain attempts to gain domestic happiness,
and the result establishment, pitiless publicity,
and the unknd remarks Of people who call her a
female Henry VIII. But Peggy will not give up.
The desire for quiet, slippered peaceful matrimony
by the home fireside is too strong Perhaps Mr..
C0mstock-
But word just comes from Mrs. C0mstock that
may spoil Peggy's hopes again. Mrs. Comstock
says she and her husband never have been legally
divorced Poor Peggy! We did hope Mr.. Comstock
would give her what she so much desires. Perhaps
he will anywsy. Ten million dollars is quite lot
Of money evR fnost Of il H. invested n Flor'da
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