Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-06
FORMER BELLE A HERMIT.
Beautiful New York Woman Lives
Alone IN CANYON.

-hhOhN IA
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5.-Tucfed
away in sequestered nook of the big
Santa Anita canyon where she is liv-
ing the life of hermit, is Mrs. Marie
A. Riedeselle, who at one time was
considered one of the most beautiful
of New York's long line of handsome
women.
This once famous beauty now
sleeps on bed of apine needles.
which she religiously gathers fresh
every day. Her food is fruit and
berries that she gathers from trees
and bushes around her hermitage.
When seen by an Examiner report
er yesterday, the hermit was at first
reticent, but finally was induced to
talk about her existence in her lone
ly canyon. She would not relate the
circumstances which led to her going
into seclusion, and firmly refused to
talk about her husband.
Il spent seven years in Alaska, -
she told the reporter, land those
seven years were the most miserable
of my life. l endured hardship after
hardship, and the only friends ]
I could claim for my own were the
dogs. When l left Alaska / could
not bear to leave them. l could not
ship them out of the country, so !
had them killed and skinned"
She showed number of Esqui.
maux dogskins, which carpeted the
floor of her cabin, as proof.
But then you want to know how
became an inhabitant of this lonely
canyon. Well, just came here, thai
is all. live on fruits and berries
nothing that is cooked-and some
times l go for days with nothing but
an orange to sustain me.
/ Then, too" she explained, Il an
La great believer in fasting. | wen
twenty-three days in June withou
more than a drink of water at time
and last winter / tasted for twent,
days. OF course, l lost much flesh
J but still kept on with the fast an,
! now feel like new woman alto
gether.
: You must not expect to see mucl
of home here in the canyon. Every
! thing ! have here is Handmade, ex
cept my piano, which I saved out o
all the things had in the East. TIL
instrument is great comfort to me
II suppose you wonder why liy
out here all alone. 1t does seer
strange, but, ali, this is the life t
live. 1t is the life of free woman
4 unchecked and free from the tram
mels of sordid civilization whic
binds its deyotees to the petty cor
| ventionalities of life.
t MY life is life-it is not mer
e existence. have something to liv
: for-the birds and the trees and tn
: sunlight. Some day am coming on
of my she'll and proclaim the real jo
u VI living TO the world.
), Three years ago was thought t
Q be dying. Now l am healthy and re
S bust. have studied to gain ments
control over my body, and have a,
}. complished that aim right here.
r During my hermitage l have rea
), all the authors" she asserted, poin
h ing to library in the corner of til
) room. Il love Plato and Shake
peare and all the rest, but the or
n author whose works have been of til
e most use to me are the immorti
= PHILOSOPHERS of Socrates
81 That she walks about fifteen mil,
/. day and lives entirely upon uncool
o ed foods is the reason Mrs. Riedesel
n gives for her remarkable health. ST
h shows evidences of having been
n beautiful woman in her day, and
d still handsome in a 1.-THE, sinuol
o, way.
81 She speaks with clear enunciatic