The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-25

lost my position because Of a
change Of system, making each
magazine unit responsible for its
own scripts. I was never Snyder's
stenographer. worked several
months in the same office with him,
but not, as many may have pic.
tured, his personal private secre-
tary. I sat in big, open room
where everyone could see what
everyone was doing.
TOyed With Her Hair
Snyder evinced a decided interest
in me from the first. He would
stop at my desk on every occasion
when he passed through the room
and made many when he didn't have
to on business. He was 80 years
old and was 10. He had an easy
approach. The first day that
was in the office, on the Job, he
came up behind me and tOyed with
my hair, which at that time was
thick and cOiled high on my head,
And he invited me to 20 with him
to the Kit Kat ball. q rather wild
annual affair Of artists and stage
people.
I declined. Some Of the other
girls came to me, one by one, and
warned mo that Snyder was q bit
Of q heart-breaker.
Don't go stepping with him,
Brownie" one Of them whispered
in my ear, cor you won't come
back the way you went out"
did let him take me to luncheon.
must confess that his attitude
was not highly respectful. He had
no idea or intention OF marrying
me at that time. But he was
keen for an affair" At this he
was no novice.
Showed Serious Intentions
It was after I had left the
magazines that Snyder began to
show serious intentions. He tele-
phoned me several times daily to
where had my new position, with
the Rushing Wood Company, at
21S William Street, and would come
downtown to take me to lunch and
often to take me home. I began
to like him. When he got 1t
into his head that 1 was a self.
respecting and respectable girl, his
manner toward me turned very
pleasantly. He was a man Of
brains and culture, had read tire.
mendously. was artistic, and made
the silly boys / had been chummy
with seem utterly unimportant.
He proposed to me the week be.
fore Christmas. I did not accept
him. On my twentieth birthday ]
invited him to my party at home.
| He brought me a pound box of
chocolates. remember thinking il
was a rather shabby gift from the
man who was pressing me to marry
him. But when opened it
found inside it jewelers. little
box and in that a diamond soil
taire.
Ring Won Her Heart
| It represented fortune as values
went in my life. I think it had as
much as any one thing to do with
my consenting. / wouldn't have
given that ring up for anything
after once / had it on my hand.
1 didn't know much then about
what counts in this life.
| 1t felt, moreover, that l was at q
stage when l should step off on my
own. So we were engaged from
March ~ to July "a, when we were
married in my home by Pastor
Young. l was sick at the time anG
had taken an overdose of quininC
and felt wretched. was too III
for any honeymoon journey, or any
honeymoon at all. My husband went
home to his bachelor apartment ar
hour later. for the night. Next day
he came and took me to our new
home, on Sixty-first Street, Brook
Ign, which my father had given me
as wedding gift. My people put u:
on our feet. My husband scarcely
had a dollar in the world. I had
made all the curtains and many
other furnishings, and my mother
gave us our furniture and othel
household equipment.
Tragedy Was Inevitable
AS look back on that first night
in my own home, with my husband
see so clearly how the inevitable
tragedy was born right then.
l was pure, unawakened girl.
had always thought that marriage
must bring with it wonderful joys
thrills. sense of almost divine salts
faction. For me it brought stun
lining and numbing realization that
| udA IIldOc q LElSHILu1 ulSIak0s
From almost the first, my hus
band was cold, Indifferent, occupied
with every other interest except
me. Sometimes when / put my
arms around him, early in ouI
union, too, he actually repulsed me
and pushed me away. At OtheI
times, when / held myself away
from him because Of his conduct
| he would seOld me bitterly and say
| / had no affection, that was
chunk Of ice and that he hat
married . cOld-bloOded shell Of 8
woman with nothing inside.
IL ever two poor human creature.
were misnated, IL was Albert Snyder
and !.
Dreamed Of Babies In Vain
! had looked to marriage to oper
doors of pleasure and contentment
Both were denied me far beyond
what I had known In mH own