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pate , ‘Wilkinson, Scion of Dis- _ tinguished English Family, WIFE DENIES CHARGE. Admits Sharing Rooms With ~ Boer War Hero, but Explana- tion Satisfies Referee. Bie Wray Witkinson, scion of G@itinguioned Engin family and heir te am uncle's baronetcy, hae been re- fused o divoree, st was learned to-day, from his pride, Clarry Claire Wilkin- oea, whom he romantically marvied at Mobveken Oct. 20, 1911, after an impetu- ve courtship on the ocean when on his wey from London to look after some G@iining properties in Mexico. ‘The case has been heard in private be- fore Judge Herman Joseph, as referee, nd it te understood the referes’s rec- emmendation that the complaint be dis- Missed will be filed with Justice New- durger within a few days. Hardly lees prominent than the plain- tif $s the oo-respondent Wilkinson mameé, Harris Barton, one of Baden- | Powells’ chief scouts in the Boer war est a D. 8. 0. hero who won renown throughout England by his dare-devil- | try In carrying messages between Lord Methuen and Gen. Carrington in the thickest of the Gouth African campaiga. ‘When not following Mars, Barton is a Gurse, and it was in this capacity, wit- Reasee say, he appeared before the ref- and galiantly, defended Mrs. Wil- ingon’s name. 1@ WALL MIRROR THEIR “AGENT OF EVIDENCE. A Wilge wall mirror which reflected the interior of Mrs. Wilkinson's Weet One Hundred and Twelfth street apart- Mente is the basic agent on which the suit. was brought. A bellboy and a Janitress testified to having seen Mrs. Wilkinson and the Boer war despatoh Dearér alone in the rooms. Bhe woman explained that by iooking.from an angle down, the hallway into the mirror on the front wali of the apartment she had & full view of Mrs, Wilkinson's sleeping foom and an alcove in which Barton wlept, Mra. Witkinson, a petite and prepos- Sesaing woman, hardly out of her teens, Attacked this testimony Barton was her first cou husband went r practically he, another Moment she asked Harrie to come with her unt! she made arrangements to go to relatives 1X FOR COUSIN HARRIE. ‘To relieve any curious person of even @ moreel of suspicion, Mre. Wilkinson gald, witnesses repeated to-day that ehe hed painstakingly tacked the portieres Cousin Harrie she had caught the porti- together in the centre with a safety ‘The home-made pastition seps- thelr cooms, she sald, ae ef- ly as though a stone wall were thom. Witkineon further made the ‘that her husband's parents were @¢ the attack on her honor, Wil- Hi ff il 8 Rs eo 23 s- Et y ofcer while he was in Mexico, told Mrs. Wilkinson that hic came over on * ie mother “soc! tine “he sevens, braagt ghia of 4 consed and in their e came Karen, cruel words of criticiam and dis- respect. HE WROTE RY WEEK TO ly. to his Wnglish sweetheart, and then brutally confessed his constancy for the other woman when he brought eult r for & divorce. ‘Witkingon did not appear at the trial to face his wife, it was sald, He re- mained in Mexioo, and forwarded to ‘oounsél, Robertson Honey, @ certi- opy of his marriage certificate. WWitkinaon was represented by Jo- Podell, as counsel, and Arthur H. Hohell, who was specially appointed by the British Consul to look after Mrs, Wilkinson's interests in the suit. of Bennett vs. Broo! in the ca BS were the decision t coincides with age in Mrs. Wilkinson's favor, ‘There 5 fhe Court held that while the plaintift vidences of to show some was able eee lopportunity, he failed e1 . Wilkinson to- refused to tell Present whereabouts. It wi t Mr, Honey's office that Mr. Wilkis ‘was siill In Mexico, The lawyers important tebe connected with an ex- New York Honpital. If She Ie the Ruler in the Typical American Family, Is She Jiéetly Entitled to Dominion or Is She a Bold, Bad Usurper of What Ie Properly a Masculine Prerogative? Of Course the Czar of the Family Ie Generally the Baby, but if Any Wife Thinks She Is or Should . Be the Boss, Let Her Tell Why She Is of That Opinion. Mise Mary Garden, known to music lo joy the emigrant wife of the superior among our forelgn-born population. AVS FOREIGN WIVES GET NO- 1ONS FROM AMERICAN WOMEN. years ago with eo Jawish lawyer who was known at the time as the father Of ‘the Domestic Relations law. This earnest. man believed profoundly thet man is the heaven ordained head of the household end he expressed the ion that the foreign wife learns t he regarded as insubordination to ud-given authority from the women bern in this coBntry. BEEEES REE injsttee =si8ift th : i ‘women who seek the Dom = tions Court and they did not look iike Dosses of anything. They complained of beating and gross cruelty. Some- times their husbands were {n court, But often the women had been aban- dened and were asking fer summonses great masse of men m rather ruefuly whan they read, as they must, evesy little while, that the American wife 1 itoorat, After all wife beating is otf! e thriving in- dustry among us, And of course wives ete not the only women whe suceumd to the earlest and the most irrefutabdle argument in the world—the Gst. If the jected and dattered ‘autocrate one sees in court now and then would only open their hearts to us we ht get an ‘newer to Mary Garden that ‘would be worth hearing. wives are sutoorate.? . In my opinion the ideal American family should have no boss, male or female. It should be a much more genuine republic than the Government under which we live, for it woul Giequalify half its citizens ry yotoe in its affairs, The ideal family; has a House and a Senate which must agree on matters of general welfare, and if it hae a President it must be twosieaded Presidente domes’ novelty which would naturally im: preas the European as strange and ri. Giculous. But this is merely the ideal family. Actually, the most dieag: ble persistent mber of a househ establishes himself or herself as THE BABY 18 GENERALLY THE) Boss. ‘This person ts generally the Baby. Even though @ househuld be childless, | there is always a Baby, ‘an individual! who will scream and kick and make! everybody mii she—; ls properly appeased and served. generally speaking, the ” boss, and baby may be either pe. As Nietesche observes gongyos of the Christian martyre, martyrdom merely proves that somebody was extraordin- arily convinced, and this leads us to the. 1 recall a conversaion I hed s few] * (Copyetgny Siw bern Publishing Company. The New York World.) ~ ‘*American Home an Unlimited Monarchy with the Wife as the Ruling Autocrat” BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “An American woman is an autocrat in her owP hotsehold.” In its most recent ferm this astonishing declaration emanated last week fro’ vers throughout the world as a great Gramatic genius who enjoys singing in grand opera, Miss Garden has never marpied, but {a her present un- familiar role as @ etudent and critic of domesticity her remarks have the weight and the wisdom of numbers. For practically every foreign visitor to our shores makes the same state- ment or’ will make it r he has veen here two hours. “American wives are autocrats, American bus- bands are slaves.” 1 What do you think about it? In the typical American family is th: wife the boss? And, if so, is s! justly entitled te dominion or is s! a bold, bad usurper of what is prop- erly a line prerogative? Should he be boss or should the now almost mythical lord of creation be restored to his former prevalence and popularity? Waat any one of us thinks on this very modern domestic problem is sure to be interesting. There are Judges and lawyers in New York who believe that the sudden yealisation dignity and position of the American j woman is responsible for practically all the separations and divorces Weordinacily conviness 1s perfectly ag IF tho domestic Erg one person's is just If any wife thinks she ie the divine authority of husbands him expound his views. To me the average wife does not Present herself in the aspect of the autocrat of the household. As Gulliver waa chal to earth by @ thousand haire she ie pinned down by a horde of Ulliputian duties. Tied to the bab; cook. When she g: day she hae neither time nor energy to be the doss. As to her righte—— Well, I lea fe had Mn ia! ———>—__—_ WANTS $30,000 PAY FOR TRYING TO REUNITE AL ADAMS AND WIFE Policy King’s Widow Replies That Woman’s Bill Is For Clairvoyancy, Mrs. Marguerite Gilbert, @ stout, Pleasant faced woman, told a jury in Justice Platsek's part of the Supreme | Court to-day that the services for which Mrs. Isabelle V. Adams, the one joy king, consisted in trying to & reconciliation between the Adamees, She mpoke of many incidents among them an 14 @ son point- r. ‘a note exeeuted °@, 1901, which hereby acknowl- 4 @ revolver at the v Ore, Gilbert eues by Mra Adams Ja! read: ‘edge my indebtedness to Marguerite G! bert for services rendered by ‘When payment was demanded Mm. dante said that Mrs, Gfibert had not ndered any real service and that the strange psychic powers which would forestall danger to members of the Adams famify had not been proved. Mra, GMbert brought suit more than & year ago, but her complaint was dis- t™miesed by the trial judge, Later the Appellate Division directed a second trial, Mrs, Gilbert told of many visits she made to Adam. during which ehe sought to induce htm to return to his wife, She eald Mrs. Adams professed @ deep devotion for the samiler and urgeé Mra Gilbert to mare to win him frequently cooked and acted ag mai? for Mrs, Adams when the latter wae alone, Ofve. Adams repiies that the plaintiff fs a clairvoyant, to be t Barge & WeEIee j eel THe “Boss* SIE OS es AND VORGE ML DOES MINUTE JB Grinds Out Five Decrees in Thirty-Five Minutes After Court Scolds Lawyers. With © calendar of 119 cases before him to-day jn the first weskiy Unde- fended Divorce Matinee of the new year, Supreme Court Justice Newbur- ger took a firm stand for speedy jus- tloe and against the dilatory practices of certain attorneys, Promptly at 10 o'clock Justice Newburger began call- ing the calendar $efore the big court Toom, packed with attorneys, ag- were disposed of ia thirty-five minutes, Those useful nocturnal adjuncts, pa- Jamas, figured extensively in two of the flrat c Mra, Lydia Mey Cowles, a pretty, sad- faced little woman, took the stand to plead for a divorce from Harry Leon Cowtes, to whom she was marrieé in October, 1908 The Cowleses have two old, and Muriel L. Comes, nine. In her complaint, Mrs. Cowies alleged Cowles had been discovered by mut friends in a room at Columbus avenue and One Hundred and Third street with ®@ strange woman, and that both of them, at ith her case her attorney discovered an error in the papers, and adjourned unt! February. “PAJAMA PARTY” 16 EVIDENCE , IN THIS QUIT, | (Mrs. Margeret Dietrich of No. 66 East One*Hundred and Sixty-third street, the next applicam for divorce, was demure little Dionde, of ¢o youthful an appeaf- aoe that R hardly seemed possible she br a be the mother ef a eon @ve years o Gamuel N. Kurts of No. % Kast One jundred and Ninth street took ¢he etand {a her behalf to tell of the alleged grieved busbande and wives and wit-|eed nesses. Many of the lawyers, according to their immemorial oustom, pleaded for other. Tem ick and tired of thie delay,” the Court announced after half a dosen lawyers had presented the same spe- cous excuses, “This case,” he added, pointing to one attorney, “has been on the calendar several times before It has been adjourned time and again. If you are not ready to go on with it now I will dismias it.” ‘The lawyer admitted he wae totally ul for trial, although the case had been cited for trial half a dosen times, eo Justice Newburger diemissed twice or three times, the Court “ oft” the calendar, t: xt calendar. RAPIOFIRE DIVORCE JUCTICE. ‘At the close of the call, Justice Ne burger amplified his posttion. “The Justices of this court,” he de- creed, “aro going to do away with every unnecessary y and the attorneys might just ae to assist the Judges. The uscless delay in’ trying cases must be stopped. 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