Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-26

the girls had an aquarium filled with
lizards and goldfish. One day when
she was changing the water in the
aquarium Amelia, her pet lizard, dis
appeared down the escape pipe OF the
bathtub. The girls always expected
Amelia to come UP again, though she
never did. But, of course. the possi-
bility added to the interest OF taking
a bath. | wrote my essay on Taking
a Bath at Pamlico.'
After a while Miss De Forrest re-
turned and took the composition away
with her. The same afternoon Mrs. De
Mile, the principal of the school, sent
for me. went UP to her bedroom.
She was lying down with a handker-
chief stuffed in her mouth and my COM
position In her hand. She laughed and
laughed Finally she Strengthened up
and told me, with great pomp, that I
had n talent for literature, which
must cultivate. She said had a de-
cided style.
chum Of Her Father
II went to German school for lit
tie while. My father was very anxious
to have me learn German, and used to
give me a half hours lesson every
morning. I was very fond Of my faith
err" said Mrs. Thaw. I'VE were great
chums. Then he died and we became
impoverished. My father had always
made a baby of my mother. She was
very helpless when he died. She used
to sit and cry. She tried to get along,
but she was not successful.
somebody had TO do something. The
chance came for me to pose after we
moved to Philadelphia. AT first posed
only for women artists, like Jessie Will
cox Smith and Elizabeth Shipper
Greene. Then we came to New York
and l met Carroll Beckwith. He was
very kind and nice and told me not to
go Knocking at studio doors; that he
would give me letters to artists.
After a while got all the posing
could do. I posed for Mr.. Beckwith,
irving FWiles, Carl Blenner, J. Wells
Champney and many other we'll known
artists. =
Then went on the stage. In Pitts
burg, even as a child, had longed to
be a great actress. 1 used to cut out
actresses pictures. / thought was GO
ing to be Sarah Bernhard No. 3. My
first rehearsal where I had any lines
cured me of that idea. Mr.. Jerome told
the jury l was a great actress. wish
he could have seen that rehearsal. It
was in The Wild Rose and had one
line to speak. 1t was something like
Here comes the brider When 1 said
1t Mr.. Lederer looked up and stared.
Then he laughed and made me say 1t
over again. It took him all morning
to teach me to say that one line. I
lisped the ma little and 1 would say
'b-wide.' 1 lost my stage aspirations
by being on the stage"
IF you had to make your living
again, would you go back to it?"
asked.
mo, indeed!" said Mrs. Thaw We
hemently. "I would do anything else
first" She smiled. daniel O'Reilly
told me a manager almost wept on his
shoulder the other day. Think of all
this notoriety going to waste!' he said"
Wants to Live on Ranch
IF Mr.. Thaw is acquitted on his next
trial what will you do?" asked.
"I will tell you what 1 would like"
she replied, her eyes sparkling sudden
ly. Bronco busting in the far west.
would love to live on ranch and go
around in a short skirt and sweater. 1
saw a good deal of the west on my
honeymoon" she added 1--WE went
through the Yosemite and I climbed
way out on the Overhanging rock.
Harry insisted on holding me by one
foot. He was afraid would fall and
I almost cried with rage. will show
you picture Of it,"
She got little album of photographs
taken on her honeymoon and we looked
them over. In the picture then Thaw
held her back as she hung way out on
the Overhanging rock and gazed down
into fathomless abyss. q.
In the picture as we view it today 1t
is Harry Thaw that has strayed far
out on the Overhanging rock; the fra
gile Evelyn that stretches out a saving
hand.
do not pretend to know what Evelyn
Thaw is, to guess the answer to the
eternal question, she has been called. I
think, after talking with her several
times, that she is an undeterminate
problem, with more indefinite number
of answers-none right to the exclusion
of others. 1 believe there is different
solution for each one who attempts
the problem. But, knowing nothing,
feel that an essential tragedy wraps
her eevn in her lightest moods and has
made her the central figure in the
greatest life drama Of our time.
"Good-by, 'Swayer of Men," quot
ed as l left her, and she smiled family.
But behind that smile, as behind ev-
cry movement, gay or solemn, of her
unquestionably able mind is the haunt
ing fear, the terrible anxiety for the
man she loves, which, since the even
ing of June 25, 1906, has never lifted.