The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-19

1t is this expression OF suffering that
her friends say has made her seem even
more lovely than when she first became
the gay, happy wife of Samuel Sloan
Chauncey.
In the little home In Leavenworth
Alice Carr knew what 1t was to be de-
MED anything but the bare necessities
Of life. She learned 20 watch over other
girls nursing wax dolls while her own
most beloved ones were built of rags.
She must remember vividly a certain
day that came early in her life when she
saw rejoicing in her mothers eyes and
visible lifting Of care from her fathers
brow 1t heralded the moving OF the Carr
change for the better in It's fortunes.
Her father, who was a small politician
and office holder, had obtained a place
as pension agent in Louisville, a great
city compared TO the little town OF
Leavenworth.
With misgivings mingled with excite
ment Alice Carr said good-by to her COM
panions. This move though she did not
then realize its Importance. was the
turning point in her life. It gave her
the friends who finally introduced her
TO Samuel Sloan Chauncey.
In the blue grass country Alice Carr
finished her education at the public
school among a score Of beautiful girls.
any large function there and it will
bring forth tales Of her great beauty at
that period. Out OF her fathers salary
as pension agent she had nothing 10
adorn 1t in but made-over gowns and
turned ribbons. She struggled and plan
ned, even as girls endowed with less
good looks, all unconscious that in her
the old adage. Beauty unadorned is
beauty most adorned" had found its
exponent.
She was lovely when she appeared in
a many times washed cotton gown at
garden parties; she was adora BILE when
she rode in an ill-ftting habit to her
fathers office; she was a dream when
shegraduated in white swiss that she
herself had sat up nights 70 trim.
There are those who can summon her
before their eyes now. They say she
beautiful women.
She made asensatIon without money.
What viii she do now that she has
them all?
No wonder it is predicted that the
press Of two continents will herald her
name. She has been famous for betuty
at every stage OF her career-at school
at Leavenworth. as a debutante in Lou
isvile as a bride in Brooklyn, and now
as a widow in Paris
Alice Carr. added to a presence bestow-
ed by the gods, had the happy faculty
OF making friends II IS denied some
times TO a beauty, but this one seems
to have plunged her hand into a sack
held wide open by good fairies and TAX
en- Of everything. No one speaks OF her
vet to be discovered. Misfortune has not
developed them. There Is some curios-
ity to see what good fortune Will do.
Throughout her girlhood misfortunes
crowded upon Alice Carr. Just after
she had graduated her father was TAX
en- 81 and died. The little family was
once more plunged into poverty. They /
did not dare TO brave wan: in big
city. 80 they returned once more 70
Ieavenworth, 70 renew the struggle %
early years upon a small life Insurance. /
Imagine how this young girl must
have despaiTed 20 20 back again 70 - .
gin, as It We're once more where she .
thought she had ended the struggle FOR
existence. II PROBABLY all looked ~
black 70 her as the proverbial cloud
without silver lining. vbens ssss- sssss
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1ther charming willows. she was invit-
ID "a return 10 Louisville on a visit
This invitation was tribute 70 Alice
,arr's beauty. i had attracted the at
eDtion Of Or. and Mrs George GriftA
who have a charming house In E.os5fs-
lille Il seemed % them that 40 much
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