The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 10, 1922, Page 11

The seattle Star SIX HEARTS ENTANGLED IN GARLAND RADICAL BY WEIRD TRAGEDY Heir to Millions Says Wife Can Di- vorce Him If She Wants to BY EDWARD M. THIERRY MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Feb, 10.— The lives of five persons—and an adorn baby—are neled in the evolutionary exp. nus of Charles Gariand’s “love clin Lite and happiness for them hang) Upon the fragile thread of bis whima | and theories. ‘The man who spurned a million | dollars, who now has focused upon him the eyes of a world shocked by his acts and theorier—and who daily receives a flood of letters from wom: | qn al! over the country begging either money or a chance to join him in founding a “love colony!" calmly goes on with his unprecedent- ed “love experiments.” SIX ACTORS IN DRAMA One, of the persona involved ts Mrs renn Garland, who has fled from per husband's shack in the Woods. Mra. Garland took with her their year-old daughter, Margaret Bhe has gone to Dedham, to the home of her father. Philip W Wrenn, former president of the Bow , ton Stock Exehange.. She is soon to become a mother again. The other three actors in the drama are Garland himself and two young women, One is Miss Lilian Conrad, Phil- @éeiphia art student and former seo retary to Gariand's mother, } ‘The other ts Mies Doris Benson, adopted by the elder Mra. Garland *aiz years ago when she was 15. Gar. land is 22, his wife 21, Miss Conrad 36. ) QUARTET SEPARATED «+ Garland — peasant mmitionaire, amateur philosopher, eccentric farm- er and visionary—lives alone in a ck 10 miles from here. His nas left him. “soul twin'—as he calls Miss His Conrad—has gone back to her par- ents in Philadelphia. His adopted sister ts attending classes in vegetable farming and home canning at Massachusetts Agri r where ave de. her dismissal beeause she cod “the ideals of Charies and Lillian are my ideals” and that she is going back to live with em at the farm. “What's going to beppent™ 1 asked Garland He got up from his chair fn front of the kitchen table and wiped his razor. He had been shaving with hot water in a an and a small mirror propped ainst a bowl of cold beans “I'm sure I don’t know,” he said, borrd He is a very long, lean man—6 feet 2 inches—and hi# head of black hair scraped the ceiling timbers of the shack. He looks 4 and his waray eyen melanch until \ he laughs. Then he strokes hia tiny mustache and shows his teeth. | “EAGER FOR MY MONEY” G lariand thinks it the money that way colony or any other kind Farm ts the sort of a place ou might be willing to camp fe of weeks in the sum n’t ima) a man with ion nduring it secutive minutes. it lonely?” I asked, think ¢ the road thru the woods, past cranberry bog, and the crudity of the shack and the desolation of | still has SATTLE, WAS EXPERIMENT | | PRINCIPALS IN ODD HEART ' the clearing In the woods where he is hidden away a mile from the Ply- a bit.” he smiled, “I'm happy.” What do you dot DOESN'T WRITE FOR PUBLICATION “Read. And writ sometimes, thought of p I'm not a mit author there's not much work now—only feeding the cow and the chickens, sawing stove wood, drawing water from the well, and flown my ideas with the cooking. In the spring I'll have a kitchen garden.” He said he expected te be « father again “fairty soon.” “Rather rough here for Mra. Gar land and the little girt—and Mrs. Gartand not in good health?” I sug: gested. Garland looked at the stove and| | mud nothing. ' “Divorce?” he mid, answering an- other question, “Well, I don't knew what she plans to do. I'll do noth ing about i if she wants a ¢ He wouldn't discuss the pe of «@ re but he said bi wasn't 0 leave April Farm. and. remains in sectusion, she has life there was “abhor t’ to her, Nor would he discuss the future of Miss Conrad or Mins Benson “L've been misunderstood.” he eald, “My views have been wrongly inter preted. E ything’s all mixed up. VIEWS 0 MARRIAGE “No, T haven't changed my views. I do not may the marriage ceremony ought to be abolished. It's all right for those who believe tn it. I don't It te hypocrisy to promise to love when you don't know whether you will love permanently or not. Yes, | I wuppose that means a belief in di vores. Trial marriage? Well, per. hape—I don't know. “Yes, I'm conducting an expert ment. Life is a series of expert ments. We know so little about everything. I don’t know whether I'm going to find out anything or |, not “Free love, some call ft say whether it's that or not. It pends on what you mean by love. It may imply promiscuity I don’t believe in th Middleboro police bi to arrest Garland out to April Farm to de. free and © threatened any women go He laugh worry him. Jed $200,000 o and said it 4 n his close to a million left. 1,000 Cases of Rum Seized at Border | Armed guards unc of Prohibition Dir were. stationed at 8 keep watch over le arload of Hi ining 1,000 cases, customs of night as it was abe enter Canada, The liq ened to Silay Rorenfeldt, Calgar: berta, from Owensboro, Ky. THE CORNISH SCHOOL Drama Roy Street at Harvard Music Dance Telephone Capitol 0240 Piano, Voice, Violin, Violoncello, Harp, Dancing, French, Span Moderate Tuitions—Faculty ish, Expression of S Eminent Members ° THREE hundred years ago spectacles were $75 a pair and the service poor Today you have the COLUMBIAN OPTICAL SERVICE and glasses at a price any purse can afford Conscientious Personal Service <Columbian 1309 Fourth Avenue eeeeerTTTT Tyrrel Optical Co. ec! Charles Garland, his wife and his “ I can’t | )), soul twin,” wrong. “A man’s a hypocrite to make a promise when he's not he will keep [t,he This is the vow he QUESTION: Wht thou hare this woman to be the wedded . to Jive together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her in sickness and health; and, for aking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live? ANSWER: I will, THE VOW: I ¢ —) to my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward. for better, for worse, for richer, for er, In kness and we and to cherish, t, necording to and thereto I plight thee my troth ) take thee Garland aid he couldn't keep the vow. His wife has left him. What do you think? No Decision on Lillian Conrad (at CALLS VENOM right) , A LUNG CURE Tuberculosis Victim Gets a Rattler to Bite Him RINGS, Feb. 10 ree Burke. 4 declared health, | COLORADO Dexpite the exeatior, 4 live to be improving in al physicians are unwilling to admit his “rattlesnake cure” for tubercu Wats in eff 9, Three mi 0 Burke, tubereu lar victim, allowed a rattlesnake to bite him, in @ desperate “kill or cure’ attempt. Physicians are} wary about admitting that the man has been benefitted by the treat- ment Burke is up afd around now, apparently helped by the snake venom that entered hie veins nh ans admit that he has im health, but are inelined other causes than ke bt should not in sufferers from the to go to elmilar ex © experiments nee other ad disease tremes When Bur ke obtained bin Arizona © he notifiel p after th Autobus Permit) With the city contending autobus line gives practic ney Seattle a hy the application of A. J, McCu & certificate service in or The matter was taken und viserment by the commissioners, Representatives of City Are Appointed Former Senator el H. Piles ler the direction |ton, Ma Receiver Permitted to Sell Perishables Petition of D, C. isu to of the ¢ 1) uns r human ¢ imptic turned over to the Millionair club. Money-back guarantee with every suit. Laff, the Tailor, 1106 3rd.—adv. 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Fp avd re baa oe by the /oteh 416 Seventh ave, and the city morals committee to the city |XFk hotel, First ave. and Pine st, | | commis Charles Grove, 19; Ed Grey, 19; | It ts in Jack Forrester, John Bower, 24; | complaints city lais Williamea, . an actress; uby | Nuby, 1, and Mra, H. Sha by and Patrolman ( Sergeant Reyni police sald such da ing th requ provided York hotel, they found a quantit Lower . coties on it hotel Motor. Dancers must keep a “proper die-| Dench and tance apart” while dancing, the J. Woodiand, | idea being to prevent the “cheek to| t+ ¢ m Bowman, Will- |cheek” and embracing postures of in, James Walker and nm exaggerated dances, Any per Woodland and Crosce son bringing liquor into such a hall with gambling and | | violates the ordinance and may be | Were rel on $50 bail each. The Naccewroar) other four men werd released on $10 Ba, | In addition, girs who are under |?! ee ay aos 116 will be required to leave the hal ae i This photo just received from Russia shows P. P, Cl a area One wuarented aime =! liansen, the Farm Labor party's presidential candidate at bs before going on os last election, conferring with Lenin. Christiansen is r la tour of Russia. at 9 p. m, and the entire party must dispense not later than 1 a. m. Further amendments are proposed !to be made t ¢ ordinance before Come Saturday! Startling Values in Lundquist - Lilly’s $100,000.00 SALE No such outpouring recalled in the annals of local merchandis- _ ing! Only super-bargains could arouse the public to this intense _| buying pitch. We must keep on, however—price cutting, sacrificing clothing to the limit. We are not yet over the top. The $100,000 must be raised by March 1, and you, dear public, are our bankers. || Come Saturday! The “peak” of values ought to be reached Saturday. 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