New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 13

Q -Did 70 evor mke I wa. ynferior pecause sh8 glliote? ) -y o Q - And ¥® tnougat D stock? Y08, t inferio? 1o the R1110 5 - Toss she was.. Q - You sal A =-As2 2amily, JO8¢ Q - And wesn't you clsimed 70U - zigh Q - Wasn' (and the o8 L= 20s8iblye g =g e ) - Tot alweys. An Extract from the Court His “Superiority Complex” and Constant Quarrels Over Heredity Hastened Their Domestic Smashup. 66 Y family is tter yourgita e This de ing marital spats in many households, is generally passed off and soon for- gotten. But in the case of and _blue-blooded Elliot an families, of Boston Back court testimony indicats from a molehill of irritation to a moun- tain of recrimination. This family superiority conflict has been called chief motivations of a ser that led to the break up romantic courtship and whirlwind raige of lovely Mildred How and her handsome young Harv. band and in the creation of one of the most astonishing wills ever filed in New England. The Elliots were married at about the time the student-hu working his way through ¢ selling pots and pans and other com- modities. The will was opened recently after the death of thy and some- what eccentric rgaretta Rebecca Howard, foster n er of the young wife in the money-love-eugenics tangle. Years ago the ancestors of Mr Howard came over in the Mayflower, or some other proud ancestral ship, and founded Howard Seminary, now one of Boston’s exclusive educational institutions. When the executors examined Mrs. Howard’s will they found she had left a good slice of her fortune—$100,000 —to pretty Mildred Howard Elliot, providing Mildred would divorce her husband or if young Mr. F ) happen to die. Until one of e events takes place the girl-wife is to receive only $100 a month. curious clause wa: with astonishment by the a friends of the two membered only too w “cugenics testimony” that marked the suit for separation brought by Mrs. Elliot against her blueblood husband more than two years ago. In the will the rich Mrs. Howard ex- plained pointedly: “I make the above provision for my daughter due to un- pleasant experiences with said Robert Raymond Elliot (the husband) and knowing he would squander all moneys Mrs. Elliot, at Right, Photographed with a Friend Leaving Court After ® " Her Famous Separation Suit. our wife T s 8 Hovard 3nd cause she W88 4 sbe vas infer tnat the cause © received £rOB you y bhave nesR ¢ tnis constant cutcheon, 1f 8 1aim the BlL o salize tnat she TS not equal ¥° the 1 my have- a Roward 88 &8 8£0CK? 1or? ¢ the constant nagging r wife? sparring over the Blliot of the Cerre? ots to be superior? Cross-Examination of Robert Raymond Elliot During His Wife's Suit for Separation. Mrs. Elliot Charged That that *came Into the daugh- But the ‘“unpleas- ant experienc: that d to have hard- {rs. Howard late Mrs toward her Har: son-in-law are sai h: have had their basis in the continual “my- ments court testi showed marked . A the life of the blueblood were At present the out- standing figure in the whole money-love-eu- genics tangle is the captivating blonde Mrs. Howard., At the ugenics snield o, 66 leof the ofs-and- Will to Force a Lovely Daughter to Divorce Her “Superiority / ~ Complex”™ oy v, - Mate. e o HE . Through Harvard Y Selling Pots and Pans and Other Commaodities. age of twenty-four she finds | living apart from her b her little son and faced with the native of divorcing that husband or doing without a fortune. Yet Mrs. Howard is in love with the Harvard pots-and-pans s hom he charged with possessing * suceinctly expressed her att other day by saying: “Raymon love is more to me than mother” money. I'd give up anything in t world to be back with him. My moth never understood. It was not my to start procee =z These ‘“‘proceedings” are ence to her separation suit whic! parently, she began reluctant! attitude may bear out, indirec contention of her husband that “too much mother-in-law” was partly re- sponsible for his split with his bride. Yet even he did not deny in court that the bickering in the two farous fami- lies had its basis in conflicts over the two escutcheon: Had the families been unknown the case would have caused little com- ment, but the background of both the Howards and the Elliots is notable for the names of figures celebrated in New England history. Gossips in the exclusive Back Bay istrict of Boston found much that stimulating in pretty Mrs. How assertion that her huskand called amily inferior, and in his come- back that she twitted him with not being a member of the Eliot fam that spells its name with one 1. The distinguished head of this Eliot family was the late President-emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard. The basis of young Elliot’s - proval of his bride’s family was the fact that Mildred Howard only the foster-daughte. of her aristocratic and rich mother. This fact, he , he found out only forty-eight hours before his marriage. But in order to understand fully how the resulting germ of dissatisfac- tion over this disclosure brought about domestic battles, it is best to o into the story of the courtship and strange marriage of Mildred Howard and Robert Raymond Elliot. They met while Robert was attend- ing Harvard and while Mildred was a student at Howard Seminary. Mildred was blonde, blue-eyed, slim and grace- Money While Selling Kite P2t tro 1 T 331d Ropg iving 0paras, docreg op . ® Raymong Ellreg '8 ang * the coypy “7R0% uagey » tt 2 finay Pretty Mildred £0 satq yy), M8 iy vy x 1o Howard Elliot, "o Hovarg g1 ovent 4 Si 2 { P Through in % Spite of Her X Marital Mix-up An Amazing xtract from the Will of Mrs. Elliot's Foster Mother, and Her Foster Mother's Curious Wiil, . Which Forces d L the Young She Must % Bride to Divorce Her Choose Husband i Order to Inherit tune. a Fortune She!Hag Estimated at Chosen the $100,000. The Husband, Although the Superimposed Couple Are Drawing of Pots and Pans, Money and Hearts, Symbolizes the Elements of Her Domestic Troubles. and had supp cant Bit from Younz s Court Testimony, Ex- His Ability to Make s During His plais n e Harvard Days. ful, the handsom a month wh on the Har Back Bay d to be m dently Mrs. Howard, who seemed t 2 a liking for him, summoned ) The house. She told him, he test t she was al to undergo an and be e she did so woul sce her adopted daughter 1 that it would be a good th a man around the house.” riage. Mildred was retty, and they believed found a wc ) gossiper did not know of the f T