Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — CHRISTY WAS CALLED MRS. STETSON’S JEWEL [ARTICLE]

CHRISTY WAS CALLED MRS. STETSON’S JEWEL

Artist’s Wite Arraigns Excommunicated Church Leader. New York, Nov. 26. — Mrs. Maybelle Christy, wife of Howard Chandler Christy, model for his famous “American Girl,” declares that their home had been broken by the teachings of Mrs, Augusta t E. Stetson, recently repudiated by the Christian Science church. “Please do not ask me whether I will seek a divorce,” she said tearfully. “I' love Howard, and if it were not for Christian Science, or whatever It was Mrs. Stetson taught, I would now be I living happily with him. “Mrs. Stetson and her practitioners have taught him that marriage is wrong; that there is nothing sacred in 1 it. He has come to lose all sympathy 1 and feeling; he is no longer the same' man. “First Howard was referred to as ‘one of the jewels ifi Mrs. Stetson’s crown.’ Then they began to run n.y house, “They said that we should get rid of our two Catholic servants. I said that they were good faithful girls with beautiful characters. F.ut the practitioners declared that there was error in our household just as long as they remained. Howard dismissed the servants, This was the beginning of the end. He was a cnanged man.”