Believe It or Not—She Wed Fifty Men!
How Ring No. 51 Brought Disaster
i in Adrienne’s Astonishingly j
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SHATTERED TEMPLE
Wartime Photograph of the Cathedral at Mont, France, Where
Soldier- Bel.eved a “Patron Angel” Walked ot\ Moonlit
Night*—the Legend From Which Adrienne tot Her
Flattering Title, “The Angel of Mona.”
BRUSSELS.
LWAYS a bride and never a ,tf
vorce—C25 "suitors” and fifty
marriage ceremonies iyt which
she said “Yes” as casually as if she
had been assenting to a, tennis match.
This staggering record has been
rolled up by a frail, lo\ely girl, wiue
*nd-t rusting-eyed, with a voice like m
’"’gel's. Her name is Adrienne tiui
marche. In Belgium ten years ago
when she was eighteen—she began her
career of high-pressure marrying; she
pursued it assiduously all over the world
until one of her former “husbands"
hanced to walk into the church where
rite number fifty-one was being per
formed. There she was arrested aTld
her trial will soon take place.
Adrienne’s mother was English and
her father French. She was—and is
—a singularly lovely girl. Intelligent,
too, weli-brought-un and intensely
feminine. Several languages, spoken
almost withou> hccerrt, are at her com
mand. Looking back at her early life
it is hard to find the reason why
Adrienne wanted to collect wedding
rings more than anything else in the
world—unless it Life her insatiable crav
ing for luxurjv
As a debutante in her teens Adrienne
was wooed an(j won by Paul Guyot,
a respectable and prosperous man who
" «s rather gratified when his beloved
fhsisted upon a marriage ceremony be
fore yielding even a maidenly kiss.
But that was the beginning of her
strange nuptial complex.
M. Guyot had a substantial income.
He was not rich but he was able to
indulge his young wife in theatres,
r
'balls, the races
and a mildly
fashionable
whirl. He was
able to, that is.
until Adrienne’s
appetite for luxuries
got out of bounds. Al
ready she had been
called by enraptured admirers
“The Angel of Mons." Invi
tations flowed to her with
every mail and new frocks,
sown*, expense money had to be forth
coming. M. Guyot was at the end of
his rope.
Then it was that Adrienne met Mon
sieur Duclos, who was unaware of her
husband's existence. He was attentive
to the beautiful girl from their first
meeting; there were flowers, theatre
parties, gifts. Then Adrienne had an
idea. Why not—? She made it known
that she could not accept M. Duclos’
munificence any longer unless he made
known his intentions. Promptly the
dazzled swain proposed.
They were married at once. The
Angel regretted the pain that depar
ture from M. Guyot would cause. But
after all, didn't one so lovely need
closets of expensive gowns, limousines
and luxuries beyond the purse of poor
M. Guyot, whose bank account was
considerably smaller than it had bcPn
when she was first married? She left
a note which declared she could not
hare to have him see her suffer—and
departed for the domicile of M. Duclos.
As souvenirs she took with her some
$40,000 worth of jewels.
Daring
“Nuptial
Argosy
SAMPLE CLIPPING
This Extract Prom an
English Newspaper's
Version of Adrienne
Guimarcho's Unusual
"Marriage Comples”
Is Typical of Many
Press Items.
HOW THEY'D
LOOK
Artist'*
Conception of
Adriann* Guimarche’s Slender Finger*
If She Chose to Wear the Rings of
All Her Fifty Marriage*.
Monsieur Duclos did not find his
marriage with ‘‘The Angel of Mons”
any more economical than had her
first husband. Soon she was casting
about for another source of income.
Sure enough, one presently appeared
and Adrienne would not hear of ac
cepting money from him without mar
riage. No. 3 believed her to be un
married, too.
This time there was no heart-rend
ing separation. The Angel decided to
keep both her husbands, quieting each
with a story of a sick aunt in the
country. Th* lick aunt lasted
until both men had been re
duced to poverty, by Adrien
ne's demands.
Marrying was becoming a habit
with her by this time. * Sho derided
that she would have to ply her as
tounding career in a much larger terri
tory if her craving for the hem of
everything was ever to be sated. She
went to Brussels, therefore, and
promptly got herself husband No. I.
The victim this time was en
elderly man, more wealthy than any
of the spouses she had taken in the
past. She explained to him that the
dream of her life waa a world tour.
No. 4 responded with a check to cover
all expenses of an extended itinerary.
He waa himself too busy to go, but
every need of the beloved Adrlennr
would be looked after.
Even now the marrying Adriaun*
was not satisfied. She must hsve more
husbands, more source* of cash. She
began to marry now with an amasing
assiduity. Almost every port visited
on her tour produced a husband, and
all of them earned at least (10,000 s
year. Adrienne saw to that.
In a little book this strange, charm
ing woman put down her successive
ceremonies. She entered the names of
Capital for Success Not Merely Money, It Is Experience; But |
Experience Is Not Merely Length of Service—White
By
President of Armour & Company
THE AVERAGE man would like
to be a capitalist, but regards his
outlook rather hopelessly because
to the average mind capital is money.
A* a matter of fact, capital is not
money alone. It may be knowledge,
or experience—and these play even
more important parts in the creating
of wealth than does money.
Experience is the capital of the
salaried employe. It determines where
he shall start In business; it guides his
promotion and controls his salary.
Most men are placed and paid in ac
iord with their experience—and the
broader their experience the greater
a their salary.
Too many mon rata their experience
in terms of days or years. Experience
is not the time one puts in on e job.
One may do e certain task ell his life
■ nd yet be lacking in experience. !
know of an elevator conductor who
has been taking people from the first
floor to the twelfth, end beck again,
for twenty years, but be is not an ex
perienced man. He doesn’t know any
thing about the different kinds of ele
vators or the intricacies of their work
ing parts; he never repaired one in
bis life. Practically ell bis experience
r
was acquired in hi* first
hour of work, whan ha
learned to pull the lever
to the left to to up, and
to the right to go down,
and half-way in between
to stop. He hasn't had
twenty years’ experience.
He has merely been work
ing for twenty years on
the experience he gained
in an hour.
Experience i s really
knowledge acquired
through practice. When
one of our office boys
learns the names and
whereabouts of the va
rious executives and de
partment heads, he has
started getting experi
ence. If he keeps his
eyes and ears open, he
learns something about
the business, and pretty
soon he becomes a junior
clerk in some department.
That gives opportunity to
acquire more experience,
and when his age and ca
pabilities warrant, he be
comes a buyer, or sales
man, or staff assistant
depending on the kind of
work he has followed. If
he continues to gain ex
irciienuvs ironi uuy to uay, nm foes
right along, and hi3 capital increases
and draws, greater dividends all the
time. But whenever he stops ac
quiring experience, ha limits his div
idend earning power, and even though
years roll by they do not of them
selves make him more valuable as an
employe.
The point I seek to make is that ex
perience is not a mere matter 6f doing
a job a certain length of time. Ex
perience is learning now to do the re
quirements of the job.
When experience has been gained
through careful study and diligent
practice, one may then put it to work
just at money is put to work and the
owner of the experience can begin
seeking additional experience, while
keeping an eye, as it were, on his in
vested experience to see that it re
mains at work. Don’t misconstrue
what I have just stated. Experience
will not work without being watched.
I would not want my chauffeur to
drive with one hand and one eye while
using the other hand and the other
eye to study a book on motor
mechanics. That would be wasting it
Great organizations will always
have need for men of experience and
will always pay good dividends for ex
perience. Advancement and salary
will never be based, and never should
be based, on mere length of service.
Knowledge of the fundamental* of
the business and of its detail*; knowh
edge of it* relations with the rent of
the business world, and with the pro
ducers and consumer*: knowledge of
competing businesses, their capabilities
and shortcomings; knowledge of fi
nance, of engineering, of selling* of
advertising, of plant operations—these
are what constitute valuable experi
ence and the man who has this Vind
of experience invested will always get
dividends on his investment.
Every man can be a capitalist
FI Ldton White, author of the fore
going nr title on tha proper technique
of achieving tuccrtt in butinett, it in
ternationally known at a pocking ex
pert. Born in Peoria, III., in 1873, he
wat educated in the local public achnolt,
entering , the packing bull nett with
i'.ndel 4 Sari when he arot tevenleen
yean old.
Petitions at department manager for
the Hetttrn Meat Company, of ban
f'ranrlu-o, and Armour Sc Company fol
lowed rapidly. He hat been head of the
Armour concern for tha last fix yean.
He it alto cice-pretident of tha Armour
Leather Company and a director of the
Continental and Commercial Rational
Rank, the Stork Yardt Rational Hank,
the American Surety Company of Chi
cago and the Chate Rational Dank of
Raw York.
The ABC’s of General Knowledge
Penalties for First-Degree Murder
Showing the Method* Used hv the Forty-eight Staten, the
Dutriet of Columbia and the U. S. Government.
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Chart by FREL1NG FOSTER
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Capital Punishment Will Do It
When a “Lifer” Commit*
Another Murder in the Prison.
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CwjtljM. iw-a. laiuiiaiuniu fMiur* Mum*, lot. trait until* hum* Ihimm,
unruccc-tjfu) suitors, often regretting
tha> their income? m*d» them in
eligible. Ten, twenty, forty time* she
had gone before, a marriage officer
and become tome benighted wooer'*
"wl»." Once, in Australia, she nar
rowly mitsed disaster when she hap
pened to marry two brother*, living in
different town*. , But ahe left the
country in time.
Then, bark in Brue*els, she was
about to take husband No. 51. It wa«
?JlUart church w^ding; the binding
nmdY7lre upon the lip* of the priest
Out of the crowd stepped a man who
fr
M.n
MUCH.
MARRIED
BEAUTY
The Delicate, Aimed
Spiritual Feeturee
Revealed fcr Tkia
Racant Phota af Adrieene
Guimerehe, Wka Marriad Fifty
and Had 625 Suitara, Balia Hat
Startling Caraar.
cri^rl. "Adrienne, my wife!"
Alas, poor Adrienne, “The Angel el
Mom," did not even remember hi*
faee—there had been ao many. Bui
he quickly proved hi* “marriage” te
her. All tho other "marr:ages’r came
to light in the process.
What is probably the most-married
woman In the world was apprehended
at once and will *®on ba tried for—
what would on# call it?—“quinquag
amy?” Or merely bigamy?
*1 am an Idealist, a dreamer" pro
tesU Adrienne nowadeye, “and I try
to live up to my name, ‘The Angel
of Mons.* H fifty huebands do not
secure for a woman the position 01
an honored matron in society, I am
afraid respectability is a sham and 1
shall refuse all future husband*.
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By OWJMffl'GiHMArtet
VACILLATION
=“ (On theRicerbank)
‘‘Wa» it really only a weak ago that ! tteod aloof and lonely?”
L l:\ir tvun near,
The rapid evenin'/
Presses on I he earth,
t sit inert,
And uish. myself a thousand miles
a n ay—
Far in lhe Forth
Where winds blow cool
And nights are starry
And air is clear.
Was it only a season ago
That 1 shivered here
And thought of the joy
Of basking in tropical sun?
Buried in solitude,
And far from the tyrant city.
g i wmmi at iasr
fy Lon ft empty hours
To fdl with whatever j
choose,
l wish to he bach again
Adventuring deep in the turmoil,
t'ould U be merely a month ago
That 1 wished for untroubled peacet
Tossed in the storm of love,
Torn between faith and fear,
l try to recall the serenity
I felt in my former days.
ITas it really only a week ago
That I stood aloof and lonely,
Scanning the far horizon.
Eagerly looking for love?