Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-02-18

set. especially since I gave my commits
spl to 7 haa Been
ly hinaered by the rains this week"
,etrsF which pr LOWS
ending as follows: - > -' -
don't fopget to address nave req
not Miss. That would be fatal. Be care
full Of that Care Mrs. Bodenhamer, 400
broadway, Cincinnati"
In that letter she had arranged with DR..
L ioTEy to meet her at her boarding place
ranged six; or eight different meetings. The
s Chicago New York and at varions other
happened to call the doctor; Sometimes he
business TO transact at that city.
Two days after the letter just quoted from
Miss Smith wrote again: =
to address right. Can hardly wait to see
YOU. precious. 1t is just time for dinner,
SO will not write much. since can tell
YOU everything in a day or two. I have a
secret to tell you when you come back.
BE sure and address me MRS. MARTHA
SMITH. or 1t is all up with me here. Good
by. my love: have been SO worried for fear
yon might forget what my name is at
present. Tear this up.'
,,a,t,d At the end Of this letter was a perpen-
tended probably for kisses.
Think This Is Damaging.
Another laughable letter. and one which
DIR. Lowry's lawyers think ought to be
Damaging. is the following. written from
Albany. n. Y. January 49, 1s9S:
II think the people around this locality
must have gone to sleep when Rip Van
Wrinkle did. only these people have never
walked UP. This place is utterly dead, ex-
cept when the legislature is in session.
Il have Just been thinking of the old
soul was worried. To have a man and his
wife come for few days ostensibly on
business. and have the husband proceed to
get sick in bed Immediately. and stay in
his room all the time. instead of attending
TO any business. Maybe the poor old soul
thought he had been taken with yellow
to escape it. 1t must have seemed strange
TO her after all-ha-ha-ha! Or maybe
she thought he had been on a jag. and the
sober him up. as they both went in with
their breaths laden with Sen-Sen. as they
had eaten young onions that evening. And
we can write book. 1t would make
FaWy stsers ansh read&E as &
to be found in the entire package OF
eighty-seven. Frequently, Of course, she
grew very effusive and her terms Of en-
est: In one Of these moods she writes:
You are all live for or think of. How
I would love to be folded in your arms
glossy hair, and feel the delicious thrill
that seizes me lovingly and kindly"
She Was Sometimes Discouraged.
Occasionally she was blue and discour-
aged and then she wrote as follows: TO-
day I got only one order. I went over to
Minneapolis again, and Of those four I
had pending I did not get one. was so
disappointed and had such poor luck that
just came home at noon and cried 1t out.
I have never had men anywhere receive
me in such an uncivil manner as have
mere. / feel every day like crying my eyes
out
This letter was written from st. Paul.
ing to new town and mentioned that the
fare to Cincinnati was only 80. She SEEM
ed to have fancy for travelling about
sss the e es x one of
times she said: ~ -.
1'Darling, understand that the fare from
New York to London is only $50. Isn't that
But DR.. Lowry couldn't see. 1t in that
light. At least he didn't give the siri that
travelling elm for him the OF
Writing Of * the "countrified" folk of SYRIA
cuse. N. Y, Miss Smith says: Sweet
Vs. SecemmSSdaens snlaS aasay pretty
mon. Sold three more piyers yesterday.
The people here are awfully countrified.
fort fort ! my " sad Sou soul with, and when look at
the racing picture and see our horse COM
ing in, 1t reminds me of that nice warm.
summer day and feel almost warm"
Is a Good Dentist Herself.
Every bit Of Miss Smiths extraordinary
ability was applied energetically to the
close study of dentistry during the seven
years that she was in the ofice with DR..
Lowry. from 1889 to 1897. And she mastered
it. She is said to have a thorough under
standing Of the work and an m& Is skillful as
Citw, who knows both DR.. Lowry and
Miss Smith Intimately. said:
Miss Smith is scarcely less proficient
than DR.. Lowry. She is the most compe-
tent dentists assistant / L know Of, She
ofag bs f a hs and da
much toward making his fortune of $4,000
or $4,000 as he did ! am a good friend
to to Gvde his money ens WITH this
Part of letter that shows how well
Miss Smith understood the details Of dem
@ tistry fol- follows It was written dii from from, New @
fore DR.. Lowry wrote the letter breaking
the engagement: "Sweetheart:-I found
man to-day who wanted to use the set.
let him use it for a crown he was making.
Those contour dies are altogether too sharp
1t left a line on his gold, almost cut It;
and again those zinc male dies seem to be
out of my set, whether I used it myself
or let them use them-the first time used
the member is destroyed. and then there
trouble. what dies they belong to. Couldn't
they be made of your hard metal? In
eyery case the rod has been used. but
the first blow Of the hammer obliterates
at all-of course was disguised with the
idea OF splitting the gold. But he likes
the dies for caps and trial caps, and
G a tHa yn1xyo aft
He wants a set without contour dies, in.
'0' 0i's anu p''e's' 'tasiy,rHA" MARTHA"
The letter continues for several pages,
and has to do with technical details Of
dental work. that would be Ineligible only
to dentist.
In her testimony concerning a revolver
said that she would have killed herself
II IT had not been for her fears of the eff
feet the shock might have upon an invalid
sister. She did not refer to her father or
mother. Yet her father sits near her in
the court room, and when they parted last
night, she. kissed him good-by with a
smack that could be heard all over the
When Mr.. Beebe asked for an adjourn
it was run rumored that the case sew Was bdas about to
any further: Attorney 6. R. thompson, ssss
Eether with J. Y. G. Karnee M and H'Ei Frank lI
Walsh, stated that no compromise was
contemplated. - -.--
me WI When n we re- started into this his" cssse,a % said ID
Mr.. Thompson. was that he wanted no
compromise. There is no probability what
ever that the suit Will end In such man
ner."
The lawyers in the case think It will not
be concluded sooner than Wednesday or
Thursday. -
MISS SMITH AT LEAVENWORTH.