The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-07-05

side boarding house to finely furnished
quarters in the Audubon apartments at
Broadway and Thirty-ninth streets.
The new beauty became the queen Of
millionaire Bohemia. She had fine
clothes and carriages and was wined
and dined nightly.
Sent to Private School.
Stanford White tried to help the girl.
She was beautiful, but she was I'M
educated. few years in the lower
grade Of P%ittsburg public schools fur
nished 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
vas scarcely 16 when she was sent off
to the private school of Mrs. H. c..
DeMiller, at Pompton, N. j, to learn
how to read and spell better.
It was like the transition to q nun
merry. A little girl with her head turned
by f1attery, by the glare of the foot
lights, by the dissipation of the fastest
set in New York, was immured in a
quiet school with girls from good ar
lilies, who never had been outside the
nurseries. But she conducted herself
well. Not a breath of her real career
entered Pompton. White paid the bills,
but always through the girls mother.
After six months Evelyn was taken
i'll with appendicitis. White hurried to
her side. She was removed to a pri-
vate hospital in New York and there
slowly cenValesced after an operation.
But she never went back to the school
The white lights of Broadway again
fascinated her, and in October, 1902,
she Joined the company in Mrs. Os-
born's playhouse in the production Of
Tommy Rot" wherein many Of the
stage beauties were her associates.
That was the climax Of stage dissipa-
ton. There were suppers and larks
Oiphf1U n ffar tina n11~tnt,, Poll TNIa -
who helped Stanford White act as
hosts included ~miIionaires Of both So
cial and business life. The child beau
ty rivaled even the stately Drina De-
Wolfe as an object Of attraction.
White Paid the Bills.
Brief as was the run of Tommy
Rot" Miss Nesbit's stay with the COM
pany was even briefer. She resigned
on November /, 1902, after playing a
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
he had met Evelyn Nesbit and become
fascinated with her. Always he want
ed to marry her, SO the testimony OF
Broadway goes. He worshiped the
child-beauty from the first and wanted
to drag her out of the dazzling mire of
millionaire Bohemia: Although he
never posed as a saint, he rose almost
to moral heights over this child, who
only laughed at him at first. He fol-
lowed her about. Evelyn was shipped
off to Europe, partly to be out Of the
way.
Much Of the past year was spent by
young Mrs. Thaw in study and gaining
society polish, so as to be ~presentable
in 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 n experience to furnish plots
for libraries of novels.
Entertainments for Venus.
Once in a while Mr.. White gave en-
tertajn1nents In the tower at which the
women and men of society were his
guests. But there were other enter
tainments on which Venus, not Diana,
should have looked down. At them, if
a girl anced on the table, she did not
scratch the mahogany. And she was
beautiful n danced gracefully, else
she would not have been there.
Stanford White may have counted
some of the Gerrys among his ac-
quaintances in society, but Commodore
Gerry was not n of them. Stanford
White vastly admired adolescence. His
death was a tragedy. and is a warn
ing. His last night was typical of his
method of life.
He dined with his son, he went to
his club. From his nearest kin and his
honorable friends he turned to 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 persisted
by her husbands hand. And the last
jangle that sounded to him was a
comedians song:
Il could love a million girls"