MET IN PYRAMIDS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 244, 14 October 1912, Page 2

MET IN PYRAMIDS.

FIVE-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD

COURTSHIP.

REINCARNATED LOVERS

NOW SUING FOR DIVORCE.

The New York correspondent of the London Standard telegraphs:—A courtship which, according to the principals, began five thousand years ago on the banks of the Nile, culminated yesterday in the St. Louis Divorce Court, when Mrs R. E. Ott brought a suit for a decree against her husband for the custody of their two children.

Mr and Mrs Ott believe in reincarnation, and they maintain that their shattered romance had its inception in a former existence when both,-were Egyptians. , Mr Ott is >an artist, and his wife was an artist's model. He married her in 1910, after - his return -from Egypt, where he went for local color to reproduce. Egyptian (architecture for a wealthy art patron, of the university of Missouri. The husband declares that he had strange dreams both in Egypt and after his return, and when he met his future wife he knew her immediately as PHnocss Ainneris, who was his love five thousand years ago. "We first met during our previous incarnation in the queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid," he said; "then we used to meet in the palace gardens and wend, our way to the Nile, where she loved to throw sweetmeats to the sacred crocodiles. I recali that great tragic night when Pharaoh discoveredl us. There wero torches and guards, and. I was .seized. After that my impressions are hazy. I recall wandering through sandy wastes with strange people, and. that is all. My wife has the face, figure, and manner of the Princess Amneris. When I saw her I was transported back to ancient Egypt when we first were lovers." Mrs Ott, at the time of the marriage, was also convinced that their romance dated' back five thousand years. She said:— :

"I remember how we went to the river together and fed the crocodiles. I remember our first meeting in the pyramid. I had accompanied my father on a tour of inspection, and on looking into the queen's chamber I saw the handsomest man in the world. We loved at once. That evening he came into the tfoyal gardens, and our love, which has lasted through centuries, began. I have beautiful recollections of days spent on the royul barge, and I vividly recall my father's anger when we were discovered together. It must have been Isis, Egypt's great goddess, who watched over us all these centuries, andl finally brought us together." It is now alleged by Mrs Ott that her reincarnated husband, soon after their twentieth century marriage, began to throw crockery at her, and grew insanely jealous, often insulting her m the presence of guests, so she desires that her five thousand years' romance shall be terminated.