The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-31
BRAVE LITTLE GIRLS
Zabelle Mangasarian and
Louise Evelyn Lease
WORKING IN NEW YORK
To be Famous Some Day; To
Do Good Always.


parental example and become famous
Both bid fair TO be successful. Both ar,
of the talismanic age, 10. Both are hand
some in an individuol style. Both hav,
talent which is likely to develop into gen
ius. Both are energetic and ambitious
Both are working tireIessly to reach The
goal of fame long since attained by thei,
parents.
one Is Zabelle Mangasa rin, the daught.
er of Mangasar Mangasarian, the great
Armenian scholar and preacher. The
other is Louise Evelyn Lease. daughter
or Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, the lectur-
er, stateswoman, and reformer.
Miss Mangasarian is svelte. low-voiced,
| OF ready and graceful speech. On Broad
way, IN New York, or at home, she seems
the well-bred Ct ever American girl. But
a word of her "reminiscences or her arnbi-
tons and the Armenian daughter of the
Armenians is revealed
Mangasar Mangasarian her father, has
the reputation of being the most learned
Armenian in the world. He is the author
OF IA Study Of Harem Life and of his
tories Of Turkey and Armenia He was
the leader of the Society for Ethical Gull
ture in Chicago for many years. 1t was
ne more than any other one man who en-
listed the active sympathy Of the United
States for Armenia in the latest mass
acres by the Turkish soldiery. A tempo
rary blindness has afflicted him, and he IS
now in ths East for rest and trea tment.
With him are his wife and daughter "a
belle Their home is at Orange, n. ].
Zabelle left 1t last month to go to New
YorA as small boys have run away from
nome, in pursuit of fortune She was
more successful than the average small
boy, for already she is installed in the
profession of her choice. Her feet are on
a rung, even though it be the 10 rest one
on the ladder of fame.
Gifted unsteady and with musical grace
of movements, she has chosen the sage
as her vocation. She is playing small
parts with the Castle Square Opera com
pany at the American Theatre in New
York. Critics have already noticed the
fresh, strong, young voice, with fute-like
notes in it. Miss Mangasarian is sure Of
that voice, as sure as she is of her de-
terminadon-the golden means to a great
ambition, to sing before the Sultan. If
she gains an audience with the Turkish
monarch she says the double object of
her ambition is assured. She will awaken
his sympathy for the Armenians by show
ing him that one ambitious Armenian
girl can do, and she will manage a com
pany that will play at giant benefits Off
poor Armenians.
Miss Mangasarian has large black eyes
that are the home of seriousness. A
great purapose fills those eyes as it fills
her life. She is the most earnest girl of
10 one may find among thousands. The
reason for this is not a mystery. The girl
has lived in the shadow of massacre and
horrors all her life. Her grandfather was
a famous physician. 1t was that fame
alone that saved him from death by a
Turkish scimitar. Possessed Of the name,
DR.. Mangasarian, he was still forced to
fee from his house to escape being burned
to death.
Her uncles were driven through the
streets, pursued by Turkish soldiers. and
one of them was killed. The young girls
with whom she played when they were
babes have met horrible deaths. All this |
the young Armenian girl is never permit |
ted to forget. 1t is in the atmosphere of |
her fathers home. in the pictures on the |
walls, the books on the shelves, the con-
OF the family. and in her own |
dreams.
So she has set about with girlish can
nestness that is half pathetic, to cary out |
She works hard at rehearsals every morn |
ing, and at the performance every night. |
She takes music and dancing lessons, and |
in the half-hour daily rest she thinks al /
ways of the time when she viii sing be-
fore the Sultan in his palace and so SOFT
IN his heart toward the Armenisns.
ct will take me about five years 70
achieve my aim and head company Of
players in Turkey" she says. "I am
working hard, and I shall think Of moth
ng else until it is done. The Sultan IS
not a cruel man. but he has bad advisers.
Matters in Armenia have been misrepre-
sented to him. Once his heart IS softened
through music It viii be easy 10 tell him
he eruth I will have no trouble IN get
ing an audience. because my family is
veil known in ConstantinoDle. pray
very day that God viii give me health
md preserve my life until that time
Miss Louise Evelyn Lease wants 20 60
lpon the lecture platform but her plan
some intermediate stages.
After she is graduated from the Narnal
school with her 2. A next year she viii
Zach for year or two. write for the
BE- vspapers and magazines. and 50 grow
(, actually into the stature OF a lecturer
N et5~m topics.
Miss Lease resemble her gifted mother
IS 20 features. though she e q wee girl.
nd her mother IS % commanding height
;hs has the face Of a dreamer. but the
nina OF a political woman % affairs. Her
lotion IS pure. her style OF conversation
rife declamat9ry- She Il modest. but a.
eterruined a. her Armenian sister
u shall work for municipal reform 7 (
N IN favor OF municipal ownership %
ublsc franchises she says saEely. Y
hall always raise my voice for purity OF /
e FOR men and weneu-uea AZ vel as /
-orea- 7 be,ieTe n woman suffrage. CT
a1Irse although I doa't think al women /
- ready for suffrage 7 would have wo-
Ten vote. but would restrict she ballot.
here should be an eaCcatsonz1 qusga-
alton fer the franchise. I think be-
eve that cs1stzi punishment should be
boEshsa. and w0uld like % see our -
,rma.ory institutions really reforuzto-y,
stead q breeding Places OF crfne- T.
l4azA Son't think what a. zusf-esg-
.ax~-T zoaI4 IKE 10 eosys-t ths zrorIs
) vegctzr5anlsm-
Sftvs Lease vas born AMID surrgss-s-
- -az..r flrs-ent f-srn fhaee q he