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f 1 THE ATLANTA GEOFGTAN AND NEWS. FROM YOUTH TO EXPERIENCE—Wh HAT A Lor vIG, HAR < O oc lo D Dancing Today in Vaudf viile. As Chorus Girl When Thaw Met Her. As Whits First Saw Her a Year Later. When She Reached Fourteen Years of Age. Evelyn Neshit at Five Y ears. CASE EVELYN FRANK FIERI Lawyers Want Rest Before De fending Woman Accused of Poisoning Rich Husband. Postponed four week* ngo until after the clone of the trial of Leo Frank, It is probable that the re opening of the famous Crawford will case, *n which Mrs. Mary Belle Craw ford Is charged with poisoning her husband. Joshua B Crawford, will again be delayed until after the hear ing of the arguments for a new Frank trial on October 4. Should Judge Roan decline to grant a new trial. It Is probable that the Crawford case will be postponed until after an ap peal is taken to the Court of Appeals, at the request of Attorney* Reuben Arnold and Luther RosMer. who are counsel for both Mrs. Crawford and for Frank. Colonel J. S. James, one of the at torneys for the heirs at law in the Crawford case, stated Wednesday morning he did not expect the case to be reopened until the Frank case was definitely settled (me way or the other. He will confer with At torney Rosser Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, and it Is prob able that some agreement will be reached regarding the reopening of the case. When Col. J. L. Anderson, who is serving as auditor in the will case, announced the postponement of the case several weeks ago. he stated that in resuming the hearing of the testimony he would be governed by the wishes of the attorneys It is known that Rosser and Mr. Arnold favor delaying the Crawford case for several weeks, if not until the final disposition of the Frank case. Colonel James met Mr Arnold several days ago. and during a con versation about the reopening of the case, Mr. Arnold remarked that he would dislike to resume within three weeks after the closing of the Frans trial, as he desired to get a much- needed rest Mr. Arnold left the city Tuesday night for a month’s stay, and it is probable that Mr Rosser will leave shortly also for a vacation. Colonel Anderson, the auditor. Is a o out of the city, but will return Sat urday. While many of the attorneys on either side have been busy with th* Frank trial, the search for Fred Lumb, the New York barber, who. it is charged, was an accomplice of Mr- Crawford in a plot to poison her husband, has continued without suc cess. Colonel James has given h great deal of time to the apprehension of Lumb, and practically the entire Eae»t has been scoured by detectives acting under his orders. New York detectives and detectives of other Eastern cities, have thrown their drag-nets out. but have found no trace whatever of the barber. HELD FOR BOVS DEATH. COLUMBUS.—Fred Riley, the ne gro chauffeur of David Rothschild, a wholesale dry goons merchant o lumbua, w'ho ran down and kill© Willis, a young negro boy bound over to the Suj on a charge of manslaugli THAWS CAREER IS LESSON TO AMERICAN GIRLS By DOROTHY D!X. Does It pay to be good? Tens of thousands of poor glris avid for pleasure, longing to ride in luxurious automobiles and feast on dainty food in gay restaurants, mad ly anxious for the lovely clothes that would enhance their charms, as a flue frame sets off a picture, are asking themselves that question. Does It pay to be good? They know that, like the milk maid In the old song, their faces ar« their fortunes, and that beauty and youth are assets that a woman can cash In at sight. The streets of every big city arc the Mount of Temptation upon which the Devil takes every poor, pretty little drudge, and shows her, spread out before her. all that the foolish, feminine heart can crave of ease and softness. And It is all hers for the taking He shows her both sides of the pic ture. He shows her Virtue hanging on to a strap in a crowded car, while Vice roll/ bv in a limousine. He shows her Virtue, shabby, fainting with weariness behind the counter, while Vice lolls In front of It. buying silks and satins. He shows her Vir tue going to bed hungry in a dingy hall bedroom, while Vice sups at h lobster palace. He shows her Virtue clutching its thin little pay envelope, while Vie* draws down Its thousands, and flaunts its name In electric let ters a foot high along Broadway. No wonder that poor young girls ask, Does It nay 'o be good? The Case ot Evelyn Thaw. For answer let us consider the case of Mrs. Evelyn Neshit Thaw, who furnishes the most cynical illustra tion of this subject that what* we call civilization has ever seen. For no woman of our day has been so written about ami discussed; no woman—not Bernhardt, nor Julia Marlowe, nor Maude Adams lias ever received such a preposterous salary as she gets for a few minutes’ appearance on the stage. Yet her sole claim to distinction ‘s that her very garments drip with the slime of the gutter, and that she !«? the heroine of the most hideous and decadent story that was ever told upon the witness stand. In all her life she has done no noble or worthy act. From her very child hood she has passed from scandal to scandal Her once great beauty Is gone. She has no talent. Yet thou sands of people pay nightly to see her do a foolish little dance that anv debutante can do ns well with thr^e lessons. There’s simply nothing to her but the dark aura of her past. No other woman ha* ever capital ized her sins at such a figure as Mrs. Thaw has done. But after her little dance, when she waved her hands to the audience, whose e^es had been as hard and cold as daqaers stabbing her. I wondered if she thought that it paid. I wondered if she thought that she had paid too dearly for all she had had end all she was getting, when ! she knew that every woman in the i house would draw her skirts away ! from her, and everv man would rather ! see his own oauohter dead in her eof- I fin than to be winning such a success j in such a way. Believe me. she. and women like I her, KNOW whether \\ pays to be good. Hers the Story of Many. The story of Evelyn Thaw is an in teresting one in this connection be cause in Its setting and in its poten tiality's It is the story of the chance, and the temptation, that comes to so many poor and pretty girls. It is the eternal problem of the woman who wants lb* good things of life, and who can get them only in one way. by buying them with her soul. Evelyn Thaw is a type of woman that is peculiar to America and com mon in this country—women who ome of j*oor and humble families, hut who are born with the ,instincts for luxury of a princess and the bear ing and presence of the great world. J You see them in every little village— j girls who are as chic as Parisiennes, | who w ear their little home-made 1 * lothes is if they came from a cou- 1 touriere of the Rue de la Palx, and Devoid of Talent, Evelyn Thaw Capitalizes Sins “ No other woman has ever capitalized her sins at such a figure as Mrs. Thaw has done. In all her life she has done no noble or worthy act. From her very childhood she has passed from scandal to scandal. Her onee great beauty is gone. She has no talent. Yet thousands of people pay nightly to see her do a foolsh little dance that any debutante could do as well in three lessons. There is simply nothing to her but the dark aura of her past. “ But after her little dance, when she waved her hands to the audience, whose eyes had been as hard and cold as dag gers stabbing at her, I wondered if she thought it paid. I wondered if she thought she had paid too dearly for all she had had and all she was getting, when she kpew that every woman in the house would draw her skirts away from her, and e\ery man would rather see his own daughter dead in her coffin than to be winning such a success in such a way. “Believe me, she and women like her KNOW whether it pays to be good. “Be sure that she has paid for all the loaves and fishes she has gotten. Evil collects its debt inexorably. No one, least of all a woman, is so thick-skinned as to be impervious to the seorn of her fellow creatures. Evelyn Thaw has had that in full measure, and under it and the life it has driven her to she has coarsened and hardened.” —DOROTHY DIX. who are as irresistibly drawn to the bright lights of a great city as a moth is attracted to th* flam*. Evelyn Neshit was on* of these. She was born on a Christmas Day. in Al legheny. a suburb of Pittsburg. Her mother was beautiful, her father a gay ne’er-do-well; and from the one. parent she got her looks and the oth er her mercurial nature—as danger ous a combination as evil itself could bequeath a girl Th«y Were Very Poor. All her early life they were very poor, and when the father died which he did when Evelyn was 10 or 11 years old—they were poorer still. Mrs Neshit tried to make a living with her needle, but berely succeed ed in keeping the wolf from the door. The little family went from Alle gheny to Philadelphia, hoping for bet ter things, but luck failed to smile on them. They were so poor that Mrs. Neshit cut up her sheets to make un derclothing for herself and Evelyn, and her bedspreads to make them dresses. Then someone who noted the girl’s rare loveliness got her a position to pose for some photo graphs. The migration from Philadelphia to the larger artistic world of New York followed naturally, and, Armed with letters to palners here. Mrs Neshit came, bringing Evelyn, whose beauty was flowering day by day. But. In spite of the romances Mr Robert Chambers writes about it. the life of an artist model is not one glad round of pleasure and profit, and the Nesbits were still very poor They lived in one room, where they cooked and slept and Mrs. Neshit took In such sewing as she could get Then a newspaper reporter ran across Eve lyn and wrote a big Sunday story, il lustrated with many picture* of her. which he called "The Most Beautiful t«’ Model In New York." Fate did the rest She was engaged by a theatrical manager on the out look for beauties for his chorus— and she had reached the dividing line, the place where she had to choose be tween poverty and hard work and flic gilded life—the place where she had to ask herself, as the poor, pret ty girl does under such circumstances —does it pay to bo good? She decided that it did not pay. and took what she thought was the easiest way. Where it has led her all th* world knows. Certainly she has had the cakes and ale of existence. First there was a millionaire who used to take her out on his yacht for week end excursions. Then came Stanford White, and for a while, at least, it was all like a fairy tale. She. who had not had carfare, rode in cabs and taxis everywhere. She who had not always had even bread to eat feasted at th* smartest restau rants. She who had worn the shab biest of shabby clothes had fine gowns and Jewels lavished on her. Another turn of the wheel of for tune brought Harry Thaw into her life with more money', more Jewels, more trips to Europe, and finally a wedding ring. Being Pittsburg-born, the Thaws had always been the big gest people on Evelyn’s horizon, and to belong to that august family, and queen it socially in the very town in which she had been poor and humble, doubtless filled the measure of her ambition. Evil had prospered with her. and vice, had brought her what virtue never could. Then her sins began to find her out. and her world, built upon a founda tion of wrongdoing, commenced to crumble under her feet. Pittsburg society would not receive her. despite the Thaws’ financial and social posi tion. Women, good women, would have nothing to do with her. The scarlet letter was branded upon her Eckman’s Alterative \ FOR THE THROAT AND LUNGS. J Eckman’s Alterative 1* effective in Bronchitis, Asthma, Hay Fever, Throat and Lung Troubles, and In upbuilding the system. Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit forming drugs For sale by all lead ing druggists Ask for booklet of cured cases and write to Eckman . Laboratory. Philadelphia. Pa.. for additional evidence For sale d; J of Jacobs' Drug Stores. y^all ^ too plainly for even the Thaw mil lions to cover it up. Also she began to know the oruel fact that while a man, obsessed by passion and in order to get a woman, swears that he will forgive hep past lapses from the straight and narrow way and forget them he really never does. When he is married to her he make* of th©m a whip of scorpions with which to scourge her. The tor ments of hell can have nothing worse than the months in which Evelyn Thaw combated the jealous suspicions of her husband ana endured his re proaches. Then followed the shooting of Stanford White and the two long- drawn-out trials, during which, to save her husband and to earn a fee, Justly earned and never paid. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told a story of her life that for utter degradation has no match in all the annals of sinful hu manity. She stripped from herself every vesttige of decency and left her self without so much as a rag of honor to cover her. That this story was not true does not alter her status. She held herself up before the world as shameless be yond all belief until the wonder of it was that any woman could tell such things of hersvlf and live. And now she is coining that story into money Be sure that she has paid for aU the loaves and fishes that she has gotten. Evil collects its debt inex orably. No one, least of all a wom an, is so thick-skinned as to be im pervious to the scorn of one's fellow creatures. Evelyn Thaw has had that in full measure, and under it, and the life it has driven her to, *he has coarsened and hardened. The wonder of her at the trial was the expression of wistful, childllk-5 innocence she wore. I asked a great alienist to interpret that to me. and he said that the reason of it was that her soul was unawakened, that she was morally dead and had never real ized the import of the things ?«he diu. Hence they had not set their seal upon her as they do upon women wno consciously tread the primrose path. But that trial stripped the veil from her eyes. She came out of it knowing good and evil, and the knowledge has dimmed her beauty and taken from it the ethereal charm that was its high est note. There is nothing remark able about her now. You may meet a thousand like her any day along Broadway. I wonder how Evelyn Thaw, in view Funeral Designs and Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Atlanta Floral Company 455 EAST FAIR STREET. Weak, Nervous and Diseased Men Permanently Cured DR. HUGHES is an experienced specialist. * Dr. Hughes success- fully treats and per manently cures Pre mature W e a k n ess. Blood Poison. Kidney, Bladder. 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