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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. 3 % F : R0 M YOUTH TO EXPERENC E-Wh HAT A 1 L0 N< 3, 1 HA R D ROA D Dancing Today in Vaude ville. When She Reached Fourteen Years of Age As Witness at Murder Trial Evelyn Nesbit at Five Years. EVELYN THAW’S CAREER IS Of LESSON TO AMERICAN GIRLS T Lawyers Want Rest Before De fending Woman Accused of Poisoning Rich Husband. Postponed four weeks ago until after the close of the trial of Leo Prank, 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 Attorneys Reuben Arnold and Luther Rosser, who are counsel for both Mrs. Crawford and for Frank. Colonel J. S. Jarpes. 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 one 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 thq Crawford case for several weeks, if not until the final disposition of the Frank case. Colonel James met Mr. Arnold several days ago, and durmg 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 FranK 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 also out of the city, but will return Sat urday. While many of the attorneys on either side have been busy with the Frank trial, the search for Fred Lumb. the New York barber, who, it is charged, was an accomplice of Mrs. Crawford in a plot to poison her husband, has continued without suc cess. Colonel James has given a great deal of time to the apprehension of Lumb, and practically the entire East 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 BOY’S DEATH. COLUMBUS.—Fred Riley, the ne gro chauffeur of David Rothschild, a wholesale dry goous merchant of Co lumbus, who ran down and killed El bert Willis, a young negro boy. ha- been bound over to the Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter. By DOROTHY DIX. Does It pay to be good? Tens of thousands of poor girls 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 fine 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 are their fortunes, and that beauty and youth are assets that a woman can cash in at sight. The streets of every big city are 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 crav- 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 rolls by 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 dingv hall bedroom, while Vice sups at a lobster palace. He shows her Virtue clutching its thin little pay envelope, while Vice 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 pay -;o be good? The Case of Evelyn Thaw. For answer let us consider the case of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wiio 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 and discussed; no woman—not Bernhardt, nor Julia Marlowe, nor Maude Adams—has ever received suen a preposterous salary as she gets for a few minutes’ appearance on th? stage. Yet her sole claim to distinction *s that her very garments drip with the slime of the gutter, and that she is 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 . j scandal. Her once great beauty is gone. She has no talent. Yet thou sands of people pay nigjitly to see her do a foolish little dance that anv debutante can do as well with thr^e lessons. There’s simply nothing to her but the dark aura of her past. No other woman has ever capital ized her sins at such a fiqure as Mrs. Thaw has done. But after her little dance, when she waved her hands to the audience, whose c v es had been as hard and cold as dagoers stabbing her, I wondered if she thought that 't paid. I wondered if she thought that she had paid too dearly for all sho had had -nd all she was getting, when she knew that everv woman in the house would draw ier skirts away from her, and everv man would rather see his own cauahter dead in her cof fin than to be winning such ?. success in such a way. Believe me, she. and women like 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 tialities 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 the good things of iife. and who can get them only in one way. by buying then) with her soul. Evelyn Thaw is a type of woman that is peculiar to America and com mon in thLs country—women who come of poor and humble families, but who are born with the instincts for luxury of a princess and the bear ing and presence of the great world. You see them in every little village— girls who are as chic as Parisiennes, who wear their little home-made clothes as if they came from a cou- touriere of the Rue de la Paix, 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 once 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 kijew that every woman in the house would draw her skirts away from her, and every man would rather see his own daughter dead in her coffin than to he winning such a success in such a way. “Believe me, she and women Jike 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 scorn 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 the dame. Evelyn Nesbit was one of these. She was born on a Christmas Day, in Al legheny, a suburb of Pittsburg. Her mother was beautiful, her father a gav 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. They 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. Nesbit tried to make a living with her needle, but barely succeed ed in keeping the wolf from the door. The little family went from Alle- ghenv to Philadelphia, hoping for bet ter things, but luck failed to smile on them. They were so poor that Mrs. Nesbit cut up her sheets to make un derclothing for her.self 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 painers here, Mrs. Nesbit came, bringing Evelyn, whose beauty was flowering day by day. But, In spite of the romances Mr. Robert^ Chambers writes about it, the life or 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. Nesbit 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 pictures of her. which he called “The Most Beautiful Artists’ 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 the gilded life—the place where she had to ask herself, as the poor, pret ty girl does under such circumstances —does it pay to be good? She decided that it did not pay, and took what she thought was the easiest way. Where it has led her all the world knows. Certainly she has had the cakes ^nd 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 the smartest restau rants. She who had worn ttie 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 whic h she had b^en poor and humble, doubtless filled the measure <»f 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 too plainly for even the Thaw mil lions to cover it up. Also she began to know the cruel fact that while a man, obsessed by passion and in order to get a woman, swears that he will forgive her past lapses from the straight and narrow way and forget them he really never does. When he is married to her he makes of them 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 and endured his re proaches. Then followed the shooting of Full Blouses to Imitate Wings. X-Ray Skirts to Continue Pop ular, but With Flounces Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS. Aug. 27.—The butterfly idea dominates the coming styles. Having forsworn the use of legs, women will cultivate wings. A sur vey of the leading dressmaking es tablishments indicates the following autumnal metamorphosis: Hats* will be small and round, like the butterfly’s head Blouses and jackets will be extremely full and loose at the back and shoulders, sug gesting wings. The jackets will be long, with a belt, but not drawn in at the waist. Skirts will be plaited, the plaits opening wide at the knees, but nar rowing again at the ankles, in imi tation of the butterfly’s abdomen. Most of the skirts will be flounced to the knees, while some will be so full at the back as to give almost a bus tle effect. Some gowns will be ornamental at the back with large butterflies or bows of silk set just below the waist. Evening gowns will be lower than ever. They will be open to the waist behind, Dut very wide and loose over the shoulders. Diaphonouses over pink tights will continue popular, but flounces will In sure opacity as far as the knees. The color of suits will be less bright. 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 vestige 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 herself and live. And now she is coining that story into money. Be sure that/she has paid for all 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 h©r to, she has coarsened and hardened. The wonder of her at the trial was the expression of wistful, childlike- 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 she did. 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 andjiaken from it the ethereal charm that'was its high est note. There is lothing remark able about her now. You may meet a thousand like her any day along Broadway. I wonder how Evelyn Thaw, in view of her life, and all it has brought her of good and ill, would answer that question: Does it pay a girl to be good ? I think that no one could preach such a homily on the subject as this poor girl, who sold her birthright for a few silks and a rag of chiffon and good times, and who knows the price she has paid. > Kentucky Feudist, Reported Dead, Lives LEXINGTON. Aug. 27.—Green Mc Intosh, feudist, charged with the mur der of Greenberry Combs in Breathitt County, and who was reported as shot to death while resisting arrest by a sheriff’s posse, was not killed He is being hidden in the Breathitt Mountains by friends. Word of his death was telephoned from the moun tains, the officers say, to cause the search to die out so he could escape from the hills. 265 CASES TO BE TRIED. MACON.—There are 265 cases, of which 100 are for alleged violations of the State prohibition law. to betried fluring the September term of the City Court which convenes Monday and lasts for two weeks. Only 50 of the defendants are in jail, the oth ers having given bond. HELD UP IN DAYLIGHT. MACON.—A white man giving his name as Joe Jackson reported to the police that he was held up and robbed of $119 near the business part of the city at 7 o’clock in the morning. He said his assailants wore black masks and black clothes. Macou Merchants to Tour Georgia Towns MACON, Aug. 27.—Macon m»r* chants are making plans for another booster trip through south and rniddio Georgia in September. The trip will last for three days and the merchants will travel in a special train, mak ing short stops at each town en route. The j route will embrace Sanders- ville, Tennille, Brunswick, Milieu, Waycross, Fitzgerald, Thomasvill^ Moultrie, Cordele and other towns. JULJJi'.JJ—'.l'l -! '■ ■Li..- ■ J Special Sale Any Suit $17 At this price you have unlimited • choice in the matter of selection—in cluding plain colors and fancy pat terns—sizes to fit most every man. Every suit an Atterbury Suit* Bear in mind t too, that suits of such fine quality and desirable pat terns are not often obtainable at a reduced price, SPECIAL REDUCTIONS ON HATS AND FURNISHINGS Cloud-Stanford Co. 61 Peachtree St.