Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-11

7, IL nIaln 10 see that this girl IS not
/ avan a Persian nor even French, FOR oy
/ be- ovr, confession she was born 10
/ canada and came TO the United States
/ whom she was only years old. She
! admits that she cannot speak ony other
| language than English. and yet Cheriifa
told a reporter that she was an example
NJ the highest type OF Persian beauty.
Posa herself admits that she learned
her dance from a French woman, who
was no less a parsonage than the real
and only La Belle Fatima.
Rosa is one example OF the gigantic
deception practced by the willy Ben
Deb. but here in st. Louis there Is an
other even more striking. Everyone
who saw the tame dance which the
Midway Company gave the day follow
ing the exposure Ia the Republic re-
members a modest appearing, 1.-The ana
graceful creature about whom the mys-
tic vaDor of the East seemed TO hover
ike film of incense, and whose long,
chestnut hair was thrown over shout
ders in enhancing strands. Her dark
eyes dashed mischievous glances at the
SPECTATORS, and the SWEETEST OF young
men TO the first row, with one accord,
leveled thsir opera glasses at her.
"She is Fatima," said one. "SOme OF
the rest may be Americans, but l know
that Girl is Persian, for l have seen her
at the Persian Palace, and she cannot
speak ole word Of French or English. "
They were sadly mistaken, for LA
Belle Fatima," the Persian hOuri and
eof 81 Of the haanfU
Of the Oriental race was born at LOSans-
port, Ind, and cannot speak one word
of any other language than that so
universally used in the United States.
She attempts a little Arabian, but has
never been able 20 correctly speak ten
words Of it. She does not know French.
It would seem that when the fact
that the Persian houri is simply Hoo
sier beauty was known that all OF the
mysticism and romance would vanish,
but. in addition, there is the crushing
certainty that she is Mrs. Mildred Scott,
OF Chicago, L. S. A., the wife OF feS-
tive commercial man. She disagreed
with him and left her domestic duties
to impersOnate one OF the Shah's beau
ties. II has been industriously circu-
lated that she made sensa-
tional escape from harem.
IL is possible that the incl
dent refers 70 her sudden flight from
Mr.. Scott Of Chicago and il is known
that the only harem that was ever
eladdened by the sight OF Fatima's fair
face and ilumiued by the light Of her
presence is situated somewhere ia Amer
lea, for she has never been out Of the
United States Her parents are living,
and any time she loses her job she can
20 10 LoganSport and milk the cows
and churn the butter as she used to DO
IN the days before she became a Persiau
hOuri.
Fatims was so named because the
great Partisan dancer who was al the
Plaisance was successful, and it was
thought that Mildred Scot: would sue
coed better under that name. This Fat
INA who is in st. Louis is very un-
happy little woman. IL is reliably as
serted that the chief cause of the battle
between her and the erStwhile husband,
j. Scott. was the acrobatic activity Of
her tongue and her cOpiOus flow Of lan-
guage. Since she has been in St. Louis
she has been forbidden to speak Eng
lish, aud she cannot speak any other
language. Therefore she is the silent
beauty OF the show. The strain is a
terrible one.
Almost any lady in the full possession
Of her conversational powers can read
ilv understand that it is almost worse
than death TO be deprived of the right
OF speech, and poor Fatima's> tongue
was almost psralyZed. The foregoing
explanation is a sufficient excuse for the
little episode which took place yester-
day az the Goddard hotel, during which
Fatima's tongue broke loose from It's
moorings and made a waiter believe
that he was crazy.
Since Fatima has been stopping In st.
Louis sne has carefully avoided speaking
any language At Entertainment Hall,
when reporter saw them Fantima man
aged 60 vent her wrath at having been
referred 10 q what she thought as an
uncOmpltmentary manner by shaking
her tiny fists and eXclaiming, "big
fight, big fight" She was not supposed
10 be able 20 speak any more English
than that, but the poor girl had large
wad of words slowed awav beneath her
lower Jaw that she could hardly sup
press. During another interview she
desired 90 convey the idea that she was
tired aud she said, "Fatima much IA
tigue, instead Of employing the term
she learned at the Hoosier schoolhouse,
"Tm alfred tired.
So cleverly has she practIce6 the de-
ception that it is reliably reported that
q venerable reporter on a morning pa
per has volunteered to teach her Eng
lish, but she rejected his offer. This
restraint pns upon Fatima's tongue has