St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
30 ETHEL BECKMAN EXPLAINS
BERGGREN'S SLEEPY AVOWALS
Of LOVE.
PROTESTS HER INNOCENCE,
AND INSISTS SHE WAS WORK
ON BANFIL STREET AT THE
TIME.
WHO WAS BERGGRENs MATES
TITS godfrey N. DalIis and Wife,
at u Hotel in Still
water.

Miss Ethel Beckman has curls with
The CLINT of Guinea gold. She has also
p yearning for the stage and an air
of injured innocence. Moreover, she
is only fifteen years of age. These
were her attractions Christmas day.
With the Happy New Year she added
cumulative charm and she is now
The heroine Of a real romance. For her
Eake it was, as rumor went, that God
frey Berggren cruelty abandoned his
young wife and his three innocent
babes and fed to Chicago and the re-
n1orseful delights of love. But when
general sympathy had been aroused for
the wronged wife, even when local pa
! pers were reveling in the joys Of hav-
ing actually unearthed a fact, Miss
Ethel turns up, as in the last act Of
Dne of her beloved melodramas, rips
In two the mystery's cheap veil and
stands forth blushing yet guiltless. Sir
Eodfey's enchanted castle by Michi-
cans shore becomes a rude shoe fac
bory near the muddy ST. Croix, and
The wicked enchantress with the heart
lnfiaming curls melts away into an
Industrious nurse girl, whose highest
inhibition is to keep the baby asleep.
This, at least, was the transforma-
Hon scene portrayed in the words of
Miss Ethel herself when she was seen
yesterday afternoon at the residence
of her father, John Beckman, 638 Pine
street. And whatever may be mans
Histrust Of a new woman, whose clothes
kvi6pntlU RI har nd
whose disdainful air is a mere imita-
don of papa, no one could possibly
aoubt the positive assertions of small
fed-cheeked maiden in short dresses,
whose eyes were as brown as her fash
bonable little gown, whose vast sleeves
Jeemed wings to watt heavenward her
llender form, and whose tangled locks
IRE so sentimentally golden that for
lhree long weeks she has been 'Matil-
ia the Heiress." the loved Of sill lovers,
lhe electric star in Married for Mon
~" Anybody that would doubt her
)imple tale must want proofs, and
proofs are vulgar and smack of con-
fabulary and afidavits.
mo, never knew, really" said Miss
Ethel, that Mr.. Berggren was a mar
c1ed man, that is, not till very lately
Why, when we were rehearsing down
Pc Sam Johnson's I said once behind
fhe scenes Ghfs last very slowly,
la1d married men are simply dread
full? and he looked at me so-o!' Miss
Ethel looked at the reporter $780,"
end 1t certainly was a look filed with
bitter disappointment and melancholy
ceproach. You see," continued Miss
Ethel, Il never met him before until
Just about four weeks ago, or, say,
was it three weeks?" turning to her
elder sister. Anyway, he used to
know me when L was only five years
pId. L don't remember, but he says so.
And you know when l went to the
cleveland school to take part in the
Dialogues and I even spoke in dia-
togue in a Good Templars' lodge at
Butte, Mont, once, SO, when Sam
johnson, who runs the news stand
down at Broadway and Van Slyke
eourt, when he started in to form a
Dramatic company for giving play
et Turner hall he wanted me to be
Matilda
Matilda? Matilda who?''
why, don't you know? Matilda,
fhe heiress in Married t. Money
Yes, I'm an heiress and got lots
pr money, and Sir Robert Melliboy,
hes an old man, just sixty-one, and
me and keeps pleading. He was
MIR. Berggren, and when he was max
Ing love to me in his sleep"
I'm his sleep?"
eyes, of course, what Mrs. Berggren
said he used to. When he was MAX
ing love that way he meant Matilda,
because he. was pleading with me to
marry him, and I didn't want to, only
4 thought all along that he was plead
Ing for Robert Royland who was an
awful pretty boyle was really-and
4 intended all along to marry him, but
when Sir Robert says to Miss Mopus-
Ehe was his siSter-that my lover had
gout, and Robert Royland, OF course,
hidn't have any govt, then I knowed
That he was pleading for himself, but
he never made love to me off the
Btage, never, never, never! He took
me home first about two weeks ago,
fances-no, I won't say where-and
be took me once down to YerXa's one
hight juts before Christmas, after the
rehearsal, so I could see friend Of
mime about going to work there, and
he took me home every night-it's only
live blocks from here to Sam John
bon's-but he always acted just like a
perfect gentleman. That's what he
was. perfect gentleman. Deed I
thought he wasn't married at all, he
hcted SO nice"
did he ever make love to your"
go, yes, lots-but only Oh the stage,
y lid 1t it wasn't in Swede. either Mrs
Berggren says she don't know Swede,
BUT that her husband made love to me
b Swede in his sleep, but it must have
been the play he was saying and that
was all in the American language. Yes,
Ind I met him Saturday night on Sew
NTH street-just northumberland he