THE WIFE'S SACRIFICE.

NZ Truth, Issue 889, 9 December 1922, Page 10

THE WIFE'S SACRIFICE.

Names for War Babies.

A packet of marriage, annulment papers m tho ateel filing- boxes of the County Clerk's office, where they wore placed last June, were discovered recently to contain the record S)i Mrs Naomi McLennan de Linden's .sacrifice of. her husband. Jerome Oreste lo Linden Scott, for the sake of his two sons born to him by Bertha Meyer m Paris, during- the world %var, says a San Francisco daily. Mrs McLennan insisted that their marriage celebrated two years ago m ilexiea City be annulled m order that *he -might marry the mother of his children and provide them with a home and a name. .. . Tho annulment of the marriage of Jerome Oroste do ' Linden, formerly an, Italian officer m the French Aviation Corps, and Naomi t)o Witt McLennan de Linden was ordered by the Superior Court on June 6 last. Five days later do Linden, who 'then gave his surname as Scotti, was married m 'Frisco to Bertha Meyer, j Tho annulment was obtained by Mrs McLennan through her attorney, and Was so quietly negotiated that no inkling escaped of tho romance lurkIng bohind the perfunctory proceedings. immediately after the decree was granted Mrs de Linden, resuming her former name of McLennan, went to Ogden, Utah. . According to Attorney Getx, de Linden, or Scotti, was never married to Bertha Meyer until the coremor.y performed m 'Frisco on June 10 last. Ho met herein Paris during the war. His boys are now 8 and 7 years of age. „_,Ho came to America and while In Tucson, Arizona, about two years ago met Mrs , Naomi McLonnan, a widow. Mrs Scotti said that she was marriod to Scotti In Paris. She blames tln» other woman and declares sho has .suffered, but that' her wholo object m lifi> now is to mako a good wife to her husband and a. good mother to \ her boys, forgetting the past. I