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EVELYN THAW TELLS HER OWN STORY
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For the First Time She Bares Her Real
Life in a Remarkable Autobiography
Starts From Childhood and Car
ries Romantic Story to the
Present Day.
By EVELYN THAW.
CHAPTER I.
HOWEVER anxious one may be j
record one’s childhood. that pe- |
riod of life is the most elusive. ,
I lived at Tarentum, on the All/*- '
gnany River, outside Httffburg.
My father was a lawyer. “Win” Nes
bit was respected from one end of the l
• ountry to the other, and had a repu
tation which extended beyond the
•me of local celebrity. A charmine’,
genial man. I have only the most
lender memories of him, for he died
when 1 was 10. and that is an a-’ .
when a child begins tn form the m >«♦ ;
roseate impressions of those she has
marked down for hero worship.
My childhood was the happiest time '
of my life. That is the impression I '
have now. I know that I was a tom
boy, very keen on prize fights (of al’,
things in the world}, and delighted in I
promoting combats in secluded spots
between children who were very
beautiful to me. but in the ey s
of my outraged parents, were th**
most impossible playmates.
My mother is one of the sweetest
women I have ever met. Artistic to
her finger tips, her home nas ev<-r
been an harmonious and beautiful
thing.
1 do not know exactly in what posi
tion my father left h« r. but my recol
lection is that my mother had to pay
frequent visits to court on account of
my father’s ffnirs.
At first, as far as I remember, we
.seemed to be in some prosperity, but
afterward there was a great deal <f|
xxorry. Whatever money my mother!
had was gone, and it was nec»« icy
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for us to rent a few rooms in the ’
nouse to outsiders. • * •
Mother had made up her mind th -t
ahe would leave Pittsburg and go to
Philadelphia. She was very artistic,
and she hoped to get a position as a
designer. We were sent to an aunt,
and afterward to a family which my
mother had known In Pittsburg
I was between 13 and 14 at the
lime, just old enough to take an in
telligent interest in my parent’s af
fairs. 1 do not remember exactly w hat
Idea T had as to our future when 1
went to Philadelphia. • • •
It was there 1 mot Mrs Dara h,
who was an artist. She was attract’ d
by my face, and asked tn If I would
sit as a model for her. Here, then,
itegan the great education, an educa
tion the fruit of whi h was to serve
me in such good gtead in later years.
Other artists would dron into he
studio on Chestnut street, and one
woman who came was very anxious
that I should sit for her.
Evelyn Thaw’s story of her life, of
which the foregoing is the beginning,
will appear in the Magazine Section
of THE SUNDAY AMERICAN next
Sunday. Do not miss this most re
markable autobiograph ' of one of the
most interesting women of modern
times. Order your copy of The Sun
day American from your dealer to
day. or, to make sure of getting it, call
up The Sunday American. Main 100.
Gets Money Wired
To Another Man
Atlanta Man Admits He Used Ficti
tious Name to Collect Tele
graph Order.
SAVANNAH. Sept. 20.—N. G Darn- i
ly has been remanded to the City
Court from Police Court, after ho had
admitted having used the name ot
’V. B. M Atkins to obtain money. ;
il» is being held on two charges of j
Obtaining n "n<-y under falsi prv
»*nse®. Darnly ,- v« ured S3O from the .
Western Union Telegraph Companv ;
• '•'aiming to be Atk ns and cashing I
an order for th** money le Atkins’ |
ame He got $lO from the DeSoto
Hotel aso bv using the assumed
tame, and left the hotel without pav I
Darnly f •
f rom Atlanta
Vicar Rehearses
His Problem Play
London Clergyman Is Author of
‘Should the Woman Tell?’ To
Be Produced Soon.
special Cable to The Agierlcan.
LONDON 8< • .
Woman Tell?” is the title of t prob
lem playlet by the Rev. A T Wei >
uron. a popular London vicar, who
has lectured In America
It will be produced at a West End
music hall nev month; the author is
busily rehearsing it.
The scene is laid in the clergyman's |
fctudy, there are four characters—a
woman, two men and the . lergcinm
''|L ’ called on to solve i subtle!
pts. .tin m wnich- sex enters ’
Latest photograph of Evelyn Thaw, who is telling the first
i chapters of her life story for The Sunday American.
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To Cash Bad Checks
Young Gainesville Man Blandly Ad
mits Getting Money, and Ex
plains His Scheme.
SAVANNAH. Sept 20. —Thurman
i B Young, of Gainesville, has been
halted by arrest in a series of clever
frauds bj? which he has duped Sa
vannahians out of small sums of
money. Young has calmly admitted
■ that he has distributed a number of
worthless checks in the city. He says
' he ha • just finished serving a twelve
• month sentence on the Hall County
I chaingang for a similar offense.
Y »ung posed as the prospective
' proprietor of a moving picture thea
i :<-r at Gainesville. It was in this
I role that he succeeded in securing
■a -h from unsuspecting persons. He
| would enter into contracts for fitting
i up his i -;abl:shment. always winding
up by professing to be short of funds
Hind a-king that a small ('heck be
i cached f»r him. In nearly every case
| be succeeded in getting a little mon-
C> I
‘will to fortune found
AFTER ANOTHER GOT RICHES
j Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Sept. 2”. —When repairs l
| were being made in the gardener s !
se on - ■ ■ i 1 . -
[Devonshire. »i Chatsworth th- will
••f John Chester, head gardener for the |
■ w.:.- f< ind in t ..»• celling. I'.v I
years ago Chester died and no win
could be found His is* atv of $25,000
j w‘ nt to a distant relative in Aus
| tralla.
T ; • will ju s ’t found bequeaths the ,
; property to Mis-’ Prince. Ch»-stvr‘.« j
| t •• sfk’-eper. who now lives in Chats- I
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Bands of Bandits
Overrun Sardinia
Son of Wealthy Victim Spends Time
and Fortune Running Down
Slayers.
Special Cable to The American.
MH.AN. Sept. 2” Fifteen of the
innumerable brigands who overrun
I Sardinia are on trial at Catanzaro,
| Southern Italy.
They surrounded the chateau of a
i wealthy lord of the manor of Sisoni,
, robbed and killed him. His son shot
; ne brigand dead, vow ing to
' avenge his father, devoted his time
j and wealth to capture the others.
The Government offers a reward of
i $6,000 for the capture of a brigand
I band which has long terrorized the
Nuova District of Sardinia.
They have had the eonisnuerie of
Orgosolo at their mercy for two
years. Eight women and twenty-five
peasants were arre ted for aiding the
j b igands not long ago. Next night
I the band murdered Antonio la> .t o,
the peasant who bad btira»<.u thun.
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1913.
' EXPERTS fflK
18 CUE JBl Tfl
' FSB'S IE
Progressive Ideas and Modern
Equipment Make Her Lot Far
Happier One.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 20. —On the
primitive farm the convenience and
welfare of the housewife is the last
to receive consideration. The farmer
builds a big barn and a small shack
for a house. The' well, which is the
only source of water for both, is
sunk near the barn The distance the
beasts have to go for water is meas
ured in feet, while the distance the
wife carries the house supply in a
bucket Is measured by rods.
It’s the exemplification of the rule
of the savage and the Indian:
“Let the women do the work.”
One of the purposes of the third
annual conference of the Bankers’
ComiJfittee on Agricultural Develop
ment and Education, held here re
cently, was to change that condition.
Later the more progressive farm
ers sank the well near the house, in
stalling a windmill or a gasoline
pump. Pipes were laid from the well
to the tank at the barn. The house
wife didn’t have to go so far for the
water, but she still had to carry it
into the house jn a bucket. She
lifted it to the shelf; lifted it from
the bucket by dipper into the dish
pan; lifted it from the dishpan to the
refuse bucket; then lifted it again to
empty it at the back door.
The modern idea is to sink the well |
and install the pump or mill so the
house will be between them and the
barn. Then direct the pipe to the
barn, which has a small elevated
tank. In that way the housewife has
only to turn a faucet fur the water
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supply. The installation of a drain
in the house will relieve her of all the
lifting of water.
And that all means relief to the
drudgery of the farmer’s wife.
It s through the farm expert, or the
county agent, as he is called in many
States, that the improving of living
conditions on the farm is expected
.He is to be the farmer’s business
! agent. He is to spread the gospel of
improved living conditions as well as
- I better crops.
BEAR CHASED FROM TOWN
, BY BEVY OF STREET DOGS
CURLEW, WASH . Sept. 20.—With
the usual Saturday afternoon crowd
of shoppers Curlew was visited by a
large brown bear. He walked leis
urely into town on the main road un
til within a half block of the post
office, w hen he was seen by a rancher
1 driving in. A bevy of dogs turned
him away in haste. The town was
temporarily depopulated, as people of
all ages started in pursuit of bruin. )
L Be soon made his esvape and quiet j
• was restored.
WALKER ASKS AID OF U. S!
FOR BRUNSWICK HARBOR
t.
■ BRUNSWICK Sept. 2’o. —Efforts
• civ being ma ; o by Congressman
. Walker, f the E enth Distr t, to
f have the Government deepen Bruns
» [ wick’s harbor. i
The Congressman has met with
' considerable encouragement, and if
: i® recommend,- ions . re carried out.
. i rrunswa k s h irbor will be one of the
• best or. the couth Atlantic Coast. j
8. S. SUMS
»THERE
CUREDLEPHOSY
Two Patients in the Philippine
Islands Recover From Most
Dreaded of Diseases.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—An ap
parent cure for leprosy has been
found by surgeons of the Public
Health Service at the leper colony in
the Philippines—in fact, so much of
a cure that two patients who showed
distinct signs of leprosy when they
were admitted to the institution have
been discharged as cured. However,
there seems to be uncertainty as to
just which of two treatments effected
the cure—a vaccine treatment or
ehaulmugra oil taken by mouth and
hypodermically.
The patients who were discharged
were given both treatments, but there
are said now’ to be in the hospital a
lumber of other cases which have
shown “negative” for the past twen
ty-two months, and these received
only ehaulmugra oil treatment.
Surgeon Victor G. Heiser, of the
Public Health Service, chief quaran
tine officer and director of health of
the Philippine Islands, in reporting on
the two cases which were discharged
says:
”Tw s o patients who had been con
fined to the San Lazaro Leper Hos
pital on account of leprosy, have been
pronounced apparently cured and dis
charged from that institution on pro
bation.
“The first case was that of a male
Filipino, aged 27, who was admitted
to the San Lazaro Leper Hospital,
Manila, May 29, 1909. On admission
the case clinically showed thickened
reddish spots on the nose and thick
ening and discoloration of the lobe
of the right ear. He received vac
cine treatment at intervals, beginning
in August, 1909, but at the expiration
of one year no change was noted in
his condition. From September, 1910,
to November, 1910, crude ehaulmugra
oil was given by mouth in increasing
doses.
“The case showed evidences of im
provement. November 10. 1910, chaul
mugra oil, combined with oil of cam
phor and resorcin, wras given hypo
dermically. By May 6, 1911, the le
sions above described had disappear
ed and leprosy bacilli were not found
in repeated microscopical examina
tions.
“On June 11, 1913, a most careful
clinical and microscopical examina
tion was maQe of the patients, which
resulted negatively for leprosy, and
as the patient had now been appar
ently cured for a period of over two
years, he was discharged on proba
tion.
“The other case was that of a
Filipino woman, aged 22, who was
admitted to San Lazaro Leper Hos
pital, Manila, January 7, 1910. Clin
ically this patient presented a suf
fused countenance, due to generalized
infiltration.
“Upon admission this patient was
placed upon a vaccine treatment for
a period of five months, but at the
end of the first month after her ad
mission crude ehaulmugra , oil by
mouth was given in addition to the
vaccine.
“After the second month the pa
tient began to Improve rapidly, and
on May 6. 1911, leprosy bacilli could
not be found on microscopical ex
amination.”
SECRETARY REDFIELD LEFT
A BIBLE AS LEGACY
PITTSFIELD. MASS., Sept. 20.
The family Bible and the stand on
which it rests is the legacy left to
Secretary of Commerce W. C. Redfield
by Mrs. Mary A. Redfield, his mother,
in her will.
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Greek King Keeps
Under Guard in Paris
Expected That Monarch Will Try to
Undo Impression Made
in Germany.
i Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Sept. 20.—King Constantine
I of Greece arrived in Paris last night
! under an almost impenetrable incog
; nlto, and was driven at once to the
>, Hotel Lotti, where he refused to see
any callers. The plans of the Greek
monarch were so well guarded that
there was no opportunity for the or
ganization of any public protest
i against him. owing to his recent
■ speech in Germany. However, his re
ception, such as it was, was unofficial
• and the reverse of cordial.
It is generally conceded now that
, Emperor William and King Constan
l tine blundered when they attempted
to pit the Prussian training against
French tuition.
The King will lunch with President
Poincaire on Sunday, and it is ex
pected he will make some effort to
undo the mischievous impression cre
ated by his subsldiency to Germany.
Doctor Gives M. D.’s
Credit for Slit Skirt
Campaign of Medical Men Against
Unhygienic Dressing Results
in Present Styles.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The editor of
The Chicago Medical Recorder, tak
ing note of slit skirts, diaphanous
gowns and other new fashions, con
fesses in the current number that "one
does see astonishing sights, much that
is startling, more that is ridiculous."
On the same page, however, is the
reflection that "observant travelers
say that modesty among many of the
savage tribes goes hand and hand
with nakedness.” And, anyway, he
finally rejoices. “Physicians have
made every effort to convince wom
en that their clothing was unhygienic
—and if these much-needed changes
can be brought about in the name of
fashion, why cavil?”
Forest Rangers
Are To Be Named
Examinations for Positions Will Be
Held at Blue Ridge and
Clayton October 21.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20,—The
United States Civil Service Commis
sion announces an examination for
Assistant Forest Ranger on October
21 and 22. In the Eastern States the
examination will be held at Blue
Ridge and Clayton, Ga ; Gorham, N.
H.; Andrews. Highlands and Marion,
N. C ; Etowah, Johnson City and
Townsend, Tenn ; Abingdon, Harri
sonburg. Natural Bridge and Wood
stock. Va., and Eikins, W. Va.
Candidates must be able-bodied
men between the ages of 21 and 40.
capable of enduring all the hardships
of outdoor life.
Milwaukee Ousts
Socialist Official
Tax Commissioner Is Accused of Re
ducing Bank Stock Valuation
in Report.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 20.—Louis A.
Arnold, Socialist Tax Commissioner
a hold-over official, is to-day removed
from office by vote of the Common
Council upon charges of malfeasance
in office and other charges. The
Council by vote of all except the sev
en Socialists voted for removal.
The most serious charge was that
the tax roll as sworn to contained a
reduction in tax of the Second Ward
savings bank stock valuation, made
against protests of the assessors. Oth
er charges include removals in vio
lation of civil service rules and the
swearing to the truth of incorrect
assessments.
HUSBAND MAKES
H HECOHD IN
ASKING ALIMONY
Boston Man Enters First Claim
Ever Known to Courts of the
Bay State.
BOSTON, Sept. 20.—Broken teeth,
attacks with utensils ranging from
rolling pins to hot flatirons, poison
threats and a variety of other com
plaints were embodied in the suit for
divorce, with alimony, filed yesterday
by Edward A. Blakeney, against his
wife, Mary A. Blakeney of Ran
dolph. /
Mr. Blakeney's suit, unique alone
In the fact that for the first time in
the history of Massachusetts courts
a man sought alimony from his wife,
proved the more unusual because of
the specifications which he detailed
to support his charge of cruelty on
the part of Mrs. Blakeney.
To secure his claim for alimony,
Mr. Blakeney also places an attach
ment for $2,000 on the Blakeney
house in Randolph, which he charges
was bought with his money and
merely placed in her name.
Though Mr. and Mrs. Blakeney
were married in March of 1883, her
"acts of cruelty” did not begin until
1900, according to his bill of specifi
cations. His charges Indicate that
then they began in earnest.
In Randolph, he alleges, she threw
a carving knife at him with such
force that Its handle was broken
when it hit the wall behind him.
Later in the same summer, he says,
she struck him in the face and forced
him to sleep in the bam.
L«ss than a year later, he claims,
she aimed a hot flatiron at his face,
which struck his shoulder and
scorched his clothing. The next
event was at supper time, when she
chose a saucer, which again missed
his face, but cut his ear as it whis
tled by.
W hen a building on the estate on
which they were living was destroyed
by fire, he says, she accused him of
burning it, and later abused their
son, and Insisted that he "lick” him,
so that they had to leave.
Early In 1903, he sets forth, she
threw a bottle containing a “very
heavy substance" at him, but on this
occasion also her alm was poor. She
had better luck, he claims, with a
beefsteak be brought home, for it hit
him In the neck.
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday
SATURDAY MATINEE
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New Novelties—“ Beyond Compare”
BERT SWOR, The Comedy Reflex of American Minstrelsy
BILLY CLARK, the Droll
JOHNNY DOVE, the International Minstrel
WEST AVEY, the Uncle Remus of the Minstrel Stage
JOE McCARTY.'EDDIE SIMMS and AL G. FIELD
THE SHEET ANCHOR OF MINSTRELSY
THE SINGERS
Unde* s he personal direction ot PAUL LaLOMDE
PAUL LaLONDE, the English Basso JACK M’SHANE, the Irish Tenor.
W. H. HALLETT, the American WALTER SHERWOOD, the Amerl-
Baritone, _ can Tenor.
JACK RICHARDS, the Welsh Tenor. G ' man V Bariton e ßGGßUN ' the ° er ’
WILLIAM ARGALL. the Australian HARRY FRILLMAN, the American
Tenor. Basso
BIRCH LOGAN, Lyric Tenor. BONNI MACK, the Coon Shouter.
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Monday and Tuesday
James Montgomery’s Comedy of Love and Thrills
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SEAT SALE THURSDAY. PRlCES—Nights, 25c to $1.50;
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Augmented Orchestra of 15
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SIOO,OOO Contract With Hali
Caine Amazes Literary World,
Says Manager of Cassells.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Arthur
Spurgeon, managing director of Cas
sell’s, London, arrived here on the
Cunard liner Caronla en route to ad
dress the Toronto Press Club in To
ronto on October 5. He said press
censorship of books was needed in
England, but thought from what he
had read of American book produc
tion that censorship was unneces
i sary.
He said William Randolph Hearst
had made a pronounced impression
with his publications In England. He
was especially interested in the con
tract between Mr. Hearst and Hail
Caine, at SIOO,OOO a year for four
years, during which time the novella*
will probably produce two booka a
year.
“The enterprise of Mr. Hearst ooo«
pels the admiration of all publish/-
ers in Europe,” he said. “But I think
an English publisher would hesitate
a lonfr time before emulating it at
that figure.
Regarding plays criticised In Nkw
York, Mr. Spurgeon said they could
not be tolerated for a moment In
England. A play that has to do with
consanguineous diseases he consldor*-
ed beneficial.
“It will come to pass,” said Mr.
Spurgeon, “that this country will
have to have a Federal commission to
regulate the matters with which that
play deals. In India regulations have
caused a striking decrease in dis
ease in the army.”
BROTHERS TRAVEL 2,000
MILES IN A MOTOR BOAT
KANSAS CITY. Sept. 20.—After
traveling 2,000 miles of a trip planned
to cover 7,000 miles in a 30-foot mo- «
tor boat, George C. Hensler, accom
panied by his brothers. Thomas E.
' and John E. Hensler. all of Great
> Falls. Mont., arrived here to-day.
The brothers have made (he jour-
1 ney In the Missouri River from Fort
Benton. Mont. Their destination is
Florida, which they expect to reach
1 by the way of Missouri and Missis
sippi Rivers and the Gulf of Mexico.
They have been on the way a yea.
and a month.