The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-07-05

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side boarding house TO finely furnished
quarters In the Audubon apartments ut
Broadway and Thirty-ninth streets.
The new beauty became the queen OF
millionaire Bohemia. She had fine
clothes and carriages and was wined
and dincd nightly.
Sent TO Private School.
Stanford White tried TO help the girl.
She was beautiful. but she was un-
| educated. A few years In the lower
grade OF PittsburR public schools fur
nishcd her only education. Her mis-
| takes Jared on the sensitive nerves OF
/ White and the men like himself who
| gathered round the little queen. She
| was scarcely l6 when she was sent of
TO the private school OF Mrs. III. c.
! DcAilller. Mt Pompton. ~. j., TO learn
! how To read and spell better.
II was like the transition to a nun
merry. A little girl with her head turned
| by fiattcry. by the glare OF the foot
| lights by the dissipation OF the fastest
set In New York. was immured In n
quiet school with girls from good fam
| lilies who never had been outside tho
nurseries. But she conducted herself
well. Not n breath OF her real career
! entered pompton. White paid the bills.
but always through the girls mother.
I
! III with appendicitis White hurried 10
\ her side She was removed TO a pri-
/ waite hospital IN New York ana there
| slowly CunValcgccd after an operation.
/ But Sh" never went back tn the school.
! The white lights of broadway again
! fascinated her. ana In October. 1902,
/ she Joined the company In Mrs. Os-
! horns playhouse In the production of
| Tommy Rot" wherein many or the
| stage beauties were her associates.
| That WAS the climax Of stage dissipa-
| ton. There were. suppcrs and lRrks
| nightly after the curtain fell. The men
! who helped Stanford white act ns
! hosts included miillonaircs OF both So
! Cial and business life. The child beau
| ~ rIvaied even the stately Drinn De-
Wolfe as an object OF attraction.
White Paid the Bills.
| Brief rs was the run OF Tommy
| Rot" Miss NesbIt's stay with the com
pany was even briefer. She resigned
on November !, 1902. after playing
| little more than two weeks. That was
| the close OF her stage life. Paris now
was her desire. Accompanied by her
mother. she went abroad. ostensibly to
study music. Stanford White paid the
! bills.
But there was another reason. Harry
Thaw had appeared on the scene.
! Somewhere In the round OF gay life
ne had met Evelyn Sesbit and become
fascinated with her. Always he want
| ed To marry her. SO the testimony Of
! broadway goes. III" worshipcd the
| child beauty from the first and wanted
To drag her out OF the dazzling mire OF
millionaire Bohemia. Although he
never posed as saint. he rose almost
20 moral heights over this child, who
only laughed Mt him at first. He fol-
lowed her about. Evelyn was shipped
OF TO Europe, partly 10 be out or the
| way.
Much OF the past year was spent by
young Mrs. Thaw in study and gaining
! society polish. 81 as To be prcsentable
I'm the rich society OF her husbands
family circle. The white lights Of
broadway seemed forgotten: the old
life fading farther back into forget
FITNESS, when suddenly with the sharp
crack OF pistol shots the whole horrible
past was barred To the public. Between
the age OF Is and 20 she has passed
through enough phases OF human emo
ton and experience TO furnish plots
for libraries of novels.
Entertainments for Venus.
once In n whiic Mr.. white gave en-
tcrtGinmcnts ia the tower, nt which the
women and men OF society were his
guests But there were other enter
taInments OF which Venus, not Diana,
should have looked down. At them. u
| n girl danced on the table. she did not
scratch the mahogany. And she was
beautiful and danced gracefully. else
she would not have been there.
Stanford White may have counted
some OF the Gcrrys among his ac-
auaintnnces In society. but Commodore
Gerry was not one OF them. Stanford
White vastly admired adolescence. His
death was tragedy. and Is n warn
ing His last night was typical OF his
method OF life.
He dincd with his son. ne went 20
his club From his nearest kin and his
honorable friends he turned 20 the
structure his genius had raised where
was hid in his studio" The lights
and music OF the roof garden enticed
him. In the presence OF the woman
who vows he ruined her life he pcrished
by her husbands hand. And the last
jangie that sounded 20 him was q
Comedians song:
II could love a million girls"