The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-04-23

Beautiful Tenderioin Product-Hsr
Collapse on Witness stand De@
cribcti "a Intellectual Emotion and
"A Tribute to lie Own Hi-trionic
Ability.
Samuel HOPKINS Adams In World-)
For = human b4tng ) attempt ihe
measure Of another human being =
commonly a folly. not infreau'ntiy
an impertinent presumption NJ
apology for presenting N estlt"aic ~
the complex and subtle character
whose name appears at the head d
this artfcie-a woman with tlnufl !
have never - much as eHch2HEei 4
Word-les in the fact that fof thret.
days ! sdW her If stripped % al
those trappiugs Within Which "a" s5n
aHd daughters 81 earth hudd-e ana htde
themselves: stripped and revealed q
perhaps 70 WOman's life has ever De
fore beer exposed in public That ana
certain outside information as - 11n-
damental facts are the bases ot this
Study.
The M Central Figure.
Throughout the Thaw trial one fig
ure was central in the public = inter
= anu Guf4DSilA II3A J<kf4N II -
Thaw been herself at hazard OF Ter
life instead 81 her husband, II conld
have dominated the stage of THIS eN-
traOrdlnafy tragedy no more tt.itl SIC
has done. Partly this is due 70 her
youth. beauty and eminence in the
half world which was her natural e.
yironment; partly. also TO q really re-
markable personality and intellect
For this child of sordid beginning,
this chattel in the slave mark I Of
vice, is no rIore butterfly driven hithef
and thither ny the breeze Of chance,
but q woman Of force and mint, re-
s~ourcefuI, devoid Of those things which
seemed to her good in life, and pur-
poseful To work out her W
or damnation upon her oWn lines AMI
in accord With her own shreNti l.tlle
philosophy.
Not Pretty, But Beautiful.
OF her physical characteristics ;hcre
q be no iHo opinions. Early in tae
trial, when ! had seen her only
through the abominable white ven
hat n then wore, | described her a
being only u cheap and acid sort OF
prettiness. 1t was Il radical error
Evelyn ThaW is not pretty: she *
beautiful. with q beauty that, growing
uDon the observer with q SLOW real
i~zation, unforgettably impresse78 Mira.
a man who has known her for years
ecently said 10 me-:
IsbtlsI - ttat I'm INC i ~ "
Of whom one couldn't give sowe idea
by saying She looks a good deal lie
SO-and-so.' Evelyn has no 1cs"n,bianre
to any other woman | have ever
seen
That expresses, in part, her extra
ordinary individual charm. Her type
OF face with its sharply accentuoted
but soft and pure lines; its hent%-
lidded, lanGuOrous eyes: its hami3,
parted lips. and its effect OF taperins
down to almost i~nfantile weakness
IN the lower parts of the face can he
found in some Of the old Italian mas
ters. Added to the fOvelincSS of her
features is Il delicate charm Of ex-
preston winch | am inclined TO attri-
butte largely 70 art, and the softly ap-
pealing voice. coupled with exQuiSiteiE
clear enunciatiOn. Finally, there IS
about her an indescribable air Of
purity. even of virginity. grossly and
3hocliingly Al variance with her duto-
biography, forced from her in court.
Sne looks like 4 carefully clustered
schoolgirl Even at the end of her
racking ordeal on the witness stand
she eemed not q day beyond he-
eighteenth birthday.
She Svayed Mems Wills.
In one Ct his letters, Thaw, with the
fatuous esOtism that has always been
characteristic Of him. mentioned his
ambition to become United States Sen
dNoI II lille. ana SuSSC9A9 b4AoL ENSiS IL
might easily be a reigning beauty. At
FIRST that seemed the elfusfon o. a Graz
ed brain. Yet it may we'll be that
ThaW. knowing his wife as he did,
saw the potentialities Of THAI strange
and keen character, n could she
nave wiped out the memOr of her
past-as he foolishly thought she
couid-sne might have gone far. have
even become q power as few Amerl-
can women do. not in fashion or So
ciely, but in politics of finance, In ne
world of action. for n was already a
woman who Swayed mems minds and
wills. But her environment and her
century were Unmatched She should
have lived in France when the demi-
monde Was in itself q sphere OF power.
Or had she been born an English Wo-
man Of the eighteenth century, she
might have become q star of the stage,
reisning toast and dictatreSS, q Pcrdita
or an Elizabeth Farren, queen Of a
realm that was a quarter Of England.
Free From Handicap of Shame.
One handicap of her sex she is free
from. In a former article ! spoke Of
her as beng psychologicaly atrophied;
of having no nerves TO her soul. That
opinion | sec no reason to change.
During that awful cross-eXamination
of District Attorney Jerome, that tear
ing OF the rags from the nakedneSS of
a human soul which he, driven by
49, ooN ~ CFc
carried through, she showed very lit
tie emotion. OF shame, in the ordin-
airy sense Of the word. she evinced no
trace. She told of becoming ThaW's
mistress quite in q matter-of-fact
tone; detailed the intimate relations of
their a~nte-nuptial trip around Europe
unconcerned. and indeed narrated her
whole career with him as if il were a
matter of curse. | believe | do her
no injustice in saying that her sense Of
name IS reflective rather thar inner
emf. When she suspected thai Jc-
rome was attempting 10 force teSti-
HnonY from her which would render
ner despicable in the yes of others
she resented it. Despicable in her
own eyes her acts evidently never had
peen. By her own statement she
pardly realized that any wrong had
been done to her by Stanford White
until ThaW's grief over the story of
her wrongs awoke her TO the reaIiza-
ton.
only once in the cross-examination
olo she flush up painfully. That was
When the district attorney brought out
Htr school diary. That touched her
PRIDE Of creation, a very real pride in
hef. Twice she broke down and
cfled a little in the course of her story
On the witness stand. but not from
shame or distress at the astounding
exposure Once II NIac u hon cbo III