Wife who Loved Too Much

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 256, 13 October 1923, Page 12

Wife who Loved Too Much

HAPPINESS WRECKED BY SACRIFICE. “1..) not love your husband too much! If yon do you will lose him. Let your man make all the love and all thi* money. I hen he will value you.” 'l'hiis Mis. Asia Peters (’lark, a lieautilul Swiss actress who followed her American soldier fiance from the Bhine to .Main-street, Concordia Kansas, warns women from her own experiMr>. Peters Clark was indejK>ndenlfy rich when she became engaged to Wellington Clark. a sergeant in the American Army on Hie Rhine. But he refused to touch her money. “I can’t let my wife support me,” In* insisted when she told him she had enough for both. Fine Maxim. lie went back to America, and started work under his stipfather, who is superintendent of construction for a bridge company. “\o seii-respecting American marries until he can support a wife,” ho had said, when bidding good bye to his sweet lieart. But Asia Peters grew tired of wait, ing m Wiesbaden until her soldier iover should send for her. So slut sailed to America to surprise, him. The beautiful Swiss actress wag delu cutely and expensively gowned and covered with jewels. But without hesitation she sacrificed her frock and t hrew her arms about her grimy sweetheart. They were married that afternoon, and went to live in a two-roomed shack, which was all her husband could afford. Since he still refused to touch her money, though they were forced to go without comforts, even some necessities, Asia began to buy little luxuries for him out of her own funds without, tolling him. Last Quarrel. He resented this. They quarrelled. She mot his protests with kisses, and continued to contribute more to their living than he tliuAt last, alter a violent quarrel, he left her. Her money spent, Asta Peters Clark went back on the stage under her old stage name, Asta Armgard.’ “But take warning from my experience,” she says to women at large, “when it is the girl who pursues, the wife who pours her riches at her husband’s feet, the result is a brokenhearted woman, like me. Too much love kills love. 1 squandered my love and my wealth on my husband, and I drove him away from me.” ® ® $