The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-11

81 wish it were "A bicycle or a banjo
or how to shoot" she began, but really.
to tell the truth. ! guess the press has
made me famous. but do you know some
very peculiar things have been said?
Think Of the feelings Of my husband
when he read OF my engagement to an
English nJbeman. Then the papers an
nounced my arrest in Queenstown for
carrying deadly weapons when was
quietly resting in New York. DO l look
ike | was dead and hurled in Buenoa
tyrcs? No? Well. tn press boys said
was when | was shooting In KEN.
England. Ii IS all right u write an ooit
uary notice. ! guess, so .ong as You do IT
well. That's what they did for me In
one hundred and twenty-cght newspapers
good traits really had before they
Killed me-"
Miss Oakley was asked about a rumor
that she intended to star next season
the papers did you? Well am moi
surprised and | wouldn't be II you had
asked me II was going to play shakes
pearian roles or take the stump fol-
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You have heard the old saying. killed by
kindness: well. that saying can be used
in my case, but no matter what the
press has said about me, 1t has always
been very good to me even II was bori
in the backWoods of Ohio, for even nov
the log house OF my motheT, who ye'
lives Is many miles from IA railroad. !,
be sure. the press seems to have founc
out that I could shoot as soon as ] did
for 1t commenced publishing things
about me then as well as telling thu
year In which | was born.
by the bye. while ] would ike tc
knock Il few years OF my age. for 70 tel
the truth | am nearly twenty-eight.
tind really can't do 10.
About five years ago | arrived from
London in New York after IA hard sea.
sons work. and WAS under the care OF
a physician. when ! found cable de-
spatch In the morning papers announ-
ing deadly weapons. The, truth OF !,
was that a woman who had more cheek
than brains, cndeavored to impersonate
me In the streets OF Queenstown while
her waist. or course, the report was
contranicted. hut even now once In Il
while | hear OF II.
"Dn my return to England II few years
| ago. report went through the press
that ] WAS engaged to marry an Eng
fish nobleman. The fact that l was al
ready married. and that my husband
was with me. made no difference. buI
the report went around, and ! had to
answer any number OF questions and
letters. regarding what they severally
termed my good fortune.
"A few years ago ] was on q zane.
shooting trip In Kent, England. On one
OF these days | was enjoying n hearty
drive. and never felt better In my life
Wh.n 'he man man Drought IN buhui,
Of letters and newspapers. | was much
surprised to ind my obituary in all OF
the latter, and to learn that | had died
In Buenos Ayres, a place that | have
never visited. Some OF the papers had
my picture. one of them had It draped !r
mourning. | lost no time in sending
and answering cahlegrams to- all parts OF
the world trying To stop the report. find
Ing II. however, a hard matter to do no.
Miss Oakley has made up her mind tina
the bicycle costume which she has re
Gently designed Is for practical purpose;
the best Of ALL and she can often h,
seen riding around the grounds OF thu
Wild West wearing II.