Arizona republican., 1900-11-25
SHE WAS AN ARIZONA GIRL
Ethel Hawkins Divorced by Sir
 George Bowyer.

London Dispatch: The hand of tht law has shattered another romance oi the London smart set. Sir George Henry Bowyer baronet. is free from matrimonial shackles, and Lady Bow yer-well. she took her freedom, wholly without legal permission, some months ago. and gave her husband grounds for the suit which has just been termi- mated in the divorce court.
 Lady Bowyer was an American. She was born in an Arizona mining camp near Solomonville. She was Ethel Hawkins there, but after having her head turned by the tlattery and admir- ation of the rough men of the camp, she was Ethel Aklow. Aklow sounded better than Hawkins, more romantic at any rate.
 Ethel Hawkins had an older sister. Evelyn, who went from the mining camp to the New York stage There Was also a brother, Dal Hawkins. Everybody knows how great he be- came as an exponent of the art pugi- hstic
 The two Hawkins girls at IA api 16 Were well enough satisfied wnh min Ing camp society, until somebody brought there a photograph of Mrs. Langtry. Some Of the miners re- marked how like the British beauty was Ethel Hawkins. She caught the note Of hattery, as a child achieves measles. She began to wear shoes and stockings, and long skirts, and coiled her hair in a Psyche knot low on her snow white neck. Then the miners re- marked all the more the relnarka ble resemblance to the Jersey Lily A dozen young miners paid court to her, but she would have none of them. She eXperimented with them to test the effect of her bewitching smiles. Then she concluded that if miners fell at her feet millionaires would trot their legs of in her train, and she determined to set out on d voyage of discovery-ob- ject a millionaire.
 Sister Evelyn, who had found a place in a New York comic opera chorus, wrote back to Ethel that two or three wealthy young men lived in that city. Ethel went to New York. She found a dozen or two of the young million ares. They paid tribute to beauty, but beauty was coy. She heard of Europe. She knew that ships went to Europe, so she packed her traps, went to a transatlantic pier, bought berths for two, and dragged poor old Papa Hawk lns along to Europe with her.
 Once in Rome she became a reigning belle, and as if to show her gratitude to poor old papa she made him a mill honaire-in his mind-and millionaire he remained SO far as Miss Ethel Ak lows suitors were concerned.
 When old Hawkins had been prop erly coached under the stage manage ment of his daughter the two appeared in London as the great American min ing king and the greatest heiress of the gold regions.
 The bait was tempting, and the fish, big and little, swarmed around it. The alluring heiress rode a thoroughbred Lord Somebody made her a present of it-and she was d figure in the parks and Rotten Row. Papa Hawkins smoked cigars, wore white shirts, with stiff fronts. which made him swear, and drank enough whiskey to warrant his daughter in keeping him severely fin the background except on special oc- casions.
 Papa is so rough" she said. How awkward it is to be so wealthy-he has millions year from his mines-and not have culture" the daughter eX- plained. and the rich young lords, with cultivated manners, manifested no fur ther curiosity They even neglected to consult Dun's, that Burke's of the American nobility.
 But with all of their trotting in her train none of the gailants caught up with the "heiress.' She dismissed their suits, accepted their handsome pres ents, and made "brothers" and "Gear friends" of them all. shes such a jolly good fellow" they said.
 Then Sir George Bowyer saw the naughty beauty. He was a sporting baronet. He was told that his suit would fail; that his divinity was cold as marble, but with speculative in stinct he took a chance, and won. The heiress gave her consent after three meetings. At 23 Ethel Aklow was Lady Bowyer. and Papa Hawkins left London to go back to his mines"
 Lady Bowyer was as cold and as cruel as ever. It is said that she went to an entertainment, and left cCach- man and horses standing in a snow SlOl III TUT GIlC WdS "dIIlSO llloil they might freeze to death.
 What if they do?" she said. Are they not hired for my pleasure? Let them stand"
 As Lady Bowyer she was courted by the men and avoided by the women, who had not beauty such as hers. She was the worshiped divinity of her hus- bands particular set. Brother Dal wis ited London on professional business at the National Sporting club, but he was not entertained at the Bowyer mansion.
 Lady Bowyer's reign was brief. how ever. She chose to flee from her hus- band and her devoted circle of society with Carrie Johnson, who was bound for the Klondyke. They went to New York, and thence went to San Fran cisco. It was there that papers were served on Johnston as correspondent in the divorce suit.
 How ridiculous" he remarked d h' accepted service of the documents "Slr George can prove nothing
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