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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

All these assassins-Thaw, Mrs.
Birdsong, Mrs. Bradley and Favrot-
go back for a precedent to the first
great case Of the ''Unwritten Law" a
classic In murder trials Of Gen.
Sickles, for killing Key, son of the
famous author of "The Star-Spangled
Banner"
Sicl1les, then an honored congress
man, came into possession of knowl-
edge that his wife was intimate with
Key. Returning home, he caught the
younger man waving a farewell to
Mrs. Sickles, who leaned from win
dow to say good-by Pursuing Key,
Sickles told him that such an offense
could only be atoned for by death, and
shot him down.
Public sympathy, with Sickles from
the start, was heightened when, dur
ing the trial, it transpired that Key
had bOasted he cared little for Mrs.
Sicllles, but gloried in his crime. Sick
les was acquitted, and then chivalrous-
ly offered to take back his wife and
give her the shelter Of his name She
lived good wife to him till she died.
This probably began the "Unwrit-
ten Law" 1t is almost the favorite
precedent, and if Thaw should be freed
on the same plea it's popularity will
take another bound
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
1T is THE DAY or. THE DANCER
Educated Fees Bring More Salary Than Brains Of
Il
College Professor.

circular on account of his persistent
attentions to Otero, and it was even
said that the crown prince of Ger
many, now the emperor, was victim
to her charms.
Otero, after long and varied ca
reer, in which at various periods she
has been lionized in every capital OF
Europe, has finally decided to settle
down and marry wealthy English
man named Webb.
But she will not quit the stage. Like
women who once taste the JOY of reign
ing as an empress of the dance, she is
determined to continue to piroutte her
way into the applause of the multitude
and more now than everosince as part
result of her own inimitable art, dane.
ers all over the world are reaping a
harvest such as none could have pre-.
dicted ten years ago.
The Spanish girl is generally es-
teemed to be the best dancer, with the
Italian second. The daughters of Cas-
tile have dash and passionate aban-
don that seems to be lacking in other
women, who, while they may possess
limitless grace, do not Undue the meas
ures Of the dance with the proper fire.
In Spain they have never ceased to
love the dance. The composers of that
country have neglected opera in favor
of dance music, because they found in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

She was not plastered over with paint.
The Chinese must have their feet
as dininutive as those Of a goat, and
to render them thus their youth is
passed in tortures.
In ancient Persia an aquiline nose
was often thought worthy of the
crown, and if there was any competi-
ton between two princes the people
generally went by this criterion of
majesty.
In some countries the mothers break
the noses of their children and in 9TH
ers press the head between two boards
that it may become fiat. The modern
Persians have strong aversion to red
hair. The Turks, on the contrary, are
warm admirers of it.
In China small, round eyes are liked
and the girls are constantly plucking
their eyebrows that they may look
thil. and long. ~
The Turkish women dip a gold brush
in the tincture of black drug which
they pass over their eyebrows. It is
too visible by day, but looks shining
by night. They tinge their nails with
a rose color.
An African beauty must have small
eyes, thick lips, a large, fiat nose and
skin beautifully black.
An ornament for the nose is con
sidered by many as absolutely essen.
tial to beauty. The Peruvian women
wear nose ring, the thickness of
which is proportional by the rank of
their husbands
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
NOW HAVE PRESS AGENTS.
Valuable Addition to Staff of Depart.
nnent Heads.

An entirely new feature in the big
government machine in WASHINGTON,
the departmental press agent, has
come into existence in the last few
years. It is growing. The reclama~
ton service, which has charge of gi-
gantic federal irrigation projects in
the West, was the pioneer.
When this work was undertaken it's
vast Importance and the millions to
be expended made it of national inter-
est. But the nature of the work, the
language of it and all the details were
brand-new. Director Newell was ov-
erwhelmed by Washington correspond
ents and others seeking information.
1t was hard to find time to do any
work. In desperation, after many con-
ferences on the subject, he solved the
the problem by giving a newspaper
man an appointment and making him
publicity agent. 1t worked well for all
concerned.
Clifford Pinchot followed by placing
press agent, former newspaper
writer, in the forestry bureau for the
diffusion Of useful information. The
agricultural department is thinking of
getting press agent to exploit it's
work in intelligent fashion, and the
postofice department is experiment.
ing with copy" telling about depart,
mental affairs. The press agents IT,
tie is not officially recognized, but he's
in the service and doing valuable
work.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

age of people would be glad to see the
forthcoming trial.
In casting about for counsel to fight
his case Thaw went to California for
Delmas, lawyer who has made his
reputation by cases won on the plea of
Justification
This case, although it still remains
untried, and may have a different end.
ing from that expected by the defense,
Launched the "Unwritten Law into
the fashion in homicides.
The case of Mrs. Angie Birdsong of
Mississippi, which has been decided,
may indicate this.
Her physician and close friend, DR..
Butler, was discovered by the lady to
be circulating SANDER concerning her
character. Evidence of his guilt in this
tatt!ing role must have been satisfy
ing to Mrs. Birdsong, for she at once
took means tc properly punish her ira
1ucer.
The average woman would have
gone to her husband and suggested
that he adjust the matter, but Mrs.
Birdsong was made Of sterner stuff.
Instead, she sought Butler out and
shot him down in the public street,
firing shot after shot into his body after
the first bullet had brought him to the
ground.
This happened in Mississippi, state
famed for it's chivalry to the fair sex.
Fullest effort was made to get the SYM
pathy of the jury. The children of the
defendant hung to her skirts while the
case was being tried, and a star at
torney pleaded the Justification of the
"Unwritten Law" with commanding
eloquence. The lawyer and his associ-
ates in the defense were so confident
of an acquittal that they were prepared
to. submit the case without q defense.
Yet the jury found verdict of gull
ty of manslaugnter, and Mrs. Birdsong,
unless an appeal brings some relief,
must spend five years in Jail, at hard
labor, because in this instance the
"Unwritten Law" did not hold good.
Mississippi has also furnished an
other case of a similar kind, only in
this case the husband himself executed
the vengeance. Baton Rouge society
sustained it's greatest shock of two dec
AIDES recently, when Congressman
elect George K. Favrot shot to death
DR.. H. H. Aldrich.
Favrot was man who should have
known the law, for previous to his
election to congress, he had been a re-
spected judge. Yet when arrested he
said that the dead man had injured
him in a way for which the processes
of the law furnished no adequate re-
quittal He had slandered his wife.
This, Favrot said, was abundant ex-
cuse for taking Aldrich's life. Forth
with Judge Herman, who advocated the
principal of the "Unwritten Law" at
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Dancers enthralling kings; dancers
wedding millionaires; dancers buying
yachts and automobiles; dancers tax
ing cities by storm and drawing highe,
salaries than tenors and prima donnas!
This is the recordsfiom day to day
The dancer was never more feted
more sought for than now
Truly it is the age for the muse OF
terpsichore.
For time it looked as though dane
ing were lost art.
For half a centurss the art as it has
been practiced in the brilliant days of
Ellsler and Tangliom seemed to have
passed. True, the grand opera at Paris
still had it's ballet, and in all parts OF
the world the ballet show, as an ex.
cuse for displaying the glories of the
feminine form divine, continued to
hold sway. But it was the loneliness
of the woman, not the art of the
dancer, that formed the prime requi-
site.
Now the dancer has come back to
her own. The poetry of motion is the
aim of the amusement purveyor He
wants the performer who has mastered
all the beautiful evolutions that appeal
to the eye. She ought to be beautiful,
OF course, but this is not essential, it
she can but dance.
The names Of dozens of dancers
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the latter an easier and quicker road
to popularity. And the women of the
South of Spain will go through in or
der to master famous step.
For the great dance of the flamenco
they regard it as no hardship to begin
practising i. childhood and work for
eight years, in order to finally obtain
perfection.
There are some figures in this dance
that really. put the performer to a ter.
rifle muscular strain, but the delight it
gives to the throngs and the resulting
applause is always felt to be liberal re-
payment to the artist.
Alfonso will have to make battle
in order to monopo]ize the star dane
ers of the capitals of Europe. At the
opera house, a dozen theaters and
dance halls, Paris has use for as many
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1907

Utah, refused 8aaelp Mrs. Bradley,
with whom he hads for years, and
who was the mother of his chill
dren. 3s
This tragedy took place il 9s Hotel
Raleigh, Washington, and the laae of
the victim made it a sensation. !
An examination into his life showet.
it's unworthiness. He had been mar
ried twice, deserving his first spouse
for she who became his second, after
divorce had relieved him of ties of his
first, marriage.
The second wife introduced to
Brown Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, a wo.
man of ability, who was secretary OF
the Republican delegation from Utah
to the national convention of 1896 that
nominated Mckinley
From that time Brown lived a life
divided between the two women. In
1905 the wife died, and Mrs. Bradley
demanded Brown marry her. He re
fused, and the quarrel lasted until it
ended with the shooting in the Wash
ington hotel.
Before the breath had left the body
of Brown, Mrs. Bradley had decided tc
base her defense on the "Unwritten
Law"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
ROUGHiNG 1T AT KINEO.

The city man sojourning at Kineo,
grown tired of the ridiculous fashion
Of DOMINIC evening clothes for dinner
i'll backwoods hotel, fancies he would
like to strike into the woods and
rough it while.
Whereupon he hires a guide, with
whom all the arrangements are natur-
ally left-the buying of provisions
and supplies, the selection of the
route ,etc.-and paddles away in a
canoe to camp out.
BY happy chance, says Outing,
they reach the comfortable farmhouse
on Chesuncook lake the first after
noon, where; since there will be no
mosquitoes to bother, and every COM
fort Of home to be had, the guide sug-
gests that they put up for the night.
The next morning it is little rough
on the lake, perhaps; SO they wait
until after dinner for the water to be-
come smooth enough to paddle across.
Dinner at the farmhouse. In the after
noon they proceed leisurely and, by
another happy coincidence, reach the
comfortable cabin at Mud Pond at
about shutdown, where they put up for
the night.
After week of this sort of camping
out, the sportsman, having been guild
ed from one comfortable camp to an
other, returns to .Kineo, and presents
his unused supplies and $40 or $50
worth of fishing tackle to the guide.
Then he goes home and tells wonder
full stories of his adventures in the
Maine woods.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
"UNWRITTEN LAW THE
NEWEST FASHION IN DEFENSE
From Sicktes-Key Case to 7haw- White Murder
How 1t Has Progressed.

Much is heard now of the phrase,
The Unwritten Law" Hardly is there
committed any crime of violence, to
avenge woman wronged, into which
can be injected sympathetic circum-
stances which seem to palliate the
murder, but what the assassin pleads
for his justification The Unwritten
Law"
When Harry Phaw on that summer
- Square Garden, drew his murderous
pistol on Stanford White, he did more
than remove hated rival. He put
into criminal court procedure phrase
which, although not new, had been but
seldom heard. put where it is now
destined to figure often in murder
trials in the next few years.
'The Unwritten Law" They are all
using it in their pleas. Mrs. Birdsong,
Judge Favrot, Mrs. Bradley suggest
themselves Immediately, and not a
week passes but the press gives the
name of others.
Briefly expressed, the "Unwritten
Law assumes that over and above
any earthly regulations to be found in
the works Of Justinian, Coke, Little
ton or Blackstone, is higher law
based on an abstract justice, which
provides that where the law does not
specify proper revenge for woman
wronged, it is within the right of the
wronged woman or her male defender
to execute vengeance.
The plea is absolutely one Of senti-
ment. Nowhere in the entire range Of
legal lore will be found a word that
supports it. 1t is opposed to the belief
of the courts that the worst thing that
can happen to community is for indi-
viduals to take the law into their own
hands, even though it be to punish
their wrongs.
Yet the 'Unwritten Law" is popular,
not only as a means Of defense, but as
an appeal for sympathy.
The Thaw case is an illustration.
The life of the entire trio concerned
in the drama was subject to gravest
as to deserve public sympathy or even
tolerance. Thaw had been a wild
devil-nlay- care, whose extravaganza
and moral lapses were often subject
for comment. His wife, the beautious
Evelyn Nesbit, at least up to the time
of her marriage, led the existence Of
the butterfly, model, actress and rich
masculine trifler's boon companion.
White, though a man Of great ability,
had INDUCED himself in habits of loose
living that could not but grieve the
nservative.
The manner Of Whites killing was
not brave. The assassin walked up
behind an unarmed, helpless man
out warning.
Yet the instant Thaw pleaded justi-
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whose services are being eagerly
fought for in Europe Immediately sug-
gest themselves as votares of the
graceful art who have profited by the
new prediction of an art that reaches
way back into the haze of antiquity,
when dancing formed part Of the re-
ligious ceremonies.
Otero, Guerrero, De Mendes, Aragon,
Rocca, Westergaard, Hero, Deja are all
worshipped now, just as were their
predecessors of hundreds Of years ago
The revival in dancing has been
about ten years reaching it's climax
Undoubtedly Carmencita, La Loie Full
er and Otero had much to. do with
bringing it about
Europe's kings have not been with
out influence in favoring dancing. En-
peror William of Germany has always
delighted to pay honor to the queens
CT the fairy feet, so has King Leopold
of Belgium, who heaped limitless
wealth before the pretty feet of Cleo
de Merode. and now the young King
Alfonso of Spain has given orders that
there shall be assembled for him in
Madrid a corps of dancers, who for
beauty and ability shall be without
match in the world.
Il The young ruler of the country of
the Dons loves music and dancing
more than any of the other arts, and it
is his purpose to award the highest
salaries and privileges to those who
will help to keep Spain. foremost in the
art of graceful motions.
Its the plan of the king to keep out
of the repertoire the dance music of
the foreigners, and confne the work Of
his troop to strictly national dances.
1t has been the usual experience of
the dancer to come up from the ranks,
to have been an humble performer at
first, child dancer, prodigy. OF
such a kind is Merode, who began as
an inconspicuous member of the ballet
at the Grand opera, Paris, and worked
her way to the top.
Otero, who is mentioned as one Of
the stars that Alfonso hopes to take to
Madrid, is a noblewoman, daughter of
the Count and Countess Carassaw. She
was born in Italy, and gained fame as
dancer when only eight years old.
She married the marquis of Otero
when she was only thirteen years old,
eloped from him at sixteen, and was
divorced from him in 1889.
Many men with royal names have
involved themselves in serious trouble
for love Of this siren of the dance The
brother Of the empress Of Germany.
the Duke Ernest Gunther Of Schleswig-
Holstein, was omitted from the court
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Had to Have the wherewithaI.

Senator Beveridge OF Indiana went
lup into Wisconsin to fish and COM
mune with nature, with no companion
but his guide, who was cook in the
camp also, says the Washington Star.
The senator is not good fisherman.
He was out one morning trying to get
some trout and making poor fist od
1t, when another boat came along and
the fishermen in it began q converse,
ton. They talked on general topics
for a time. and the stranger finally
asked: e e
rs your man good cook?'
He Il" broke in the Beveridge
guide, as he looked scornfully at the
senator's empty creel, The is-when be
has anythi1. =. =s-ok. . s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
NEEDED FRESH AIR
cHIVALROUS OLD SECRETARY
HAD RECEIVED SHOCK.
Was Not Used to the Presence of Fem
mime Writers of Anonymous Let
ters-Herce His Instruc-
tions to MESSENGER.

A good story is told concerning the
treatment a chivalrous old cabinet Of
hcer from the south, who served in one
If the Cleveland cabinets, dished out
to a writer of anonymous letters. A
few months before this cabinet officer
accepted hts portfolio a woman had
been dismissed from his department
for INSTRUMENTATION. Not long after
this Woman's dismissal a woman clerk
in the same division began to receive
shocking series of anonymous let
ters. The letters were obviously writ
ten by woman, but the recipient of
them had no notion as to what woman
could be the author of them. She
finally turned a batch of the letters
over to the chief of her division, an
elderly and kindly man of family.
The courtly old southerner carried the
letters straight to the secretary.
The latter picked up one of the let
ters and started to read it.
"Now, here is an odd thing he said,
and he touched the bell for his secre-
tary. Bring me-" he said to his Sec
rotary, "the letter I received a few
days ago from that woman who was
discharged from the blank division be-
fore l came here and who applied to
me for reinstatement"
The clerk brought the letter his
chief wanted. The secretary compared
1t with one of the anonymous letters.
Both were written in an odd back
slanting handwriting, and there could
be no mistake about their being writ
ten by the same hand. The secretary
sent a special messenger to the ad-
dress of the woman who had applied
to him for reinstatement, and she was
at his Office an hour later. The secre-
tary, a cavalier Of the old south, rose
from his desk and gravely greeted the
woman when she entered his office.
Madam" he said, "I do not know
whether the position you formerly held
here required that you should be a
Judge of different sorts of handwriting.
At any rate, should like to ask your
opinion of the handwriting of these
two letters" and he handed the woman
her own letter applying for reinstate~
ment and the last anonymous letter re-
ceived by her victim. The woman took
the two letters and she saw that she
was in trap.
Since You ask me, Mr.. Secretary, 50.
she replied, undaunted, 'I reply that
these two letters were unquestionably
written by the same hand" and she
bounced out of the Office.
The old secretary sat tilted back ia
his chair, his head on his bosom, and
reflected for a long while. Then he
touched the button for his negro mes
senger.
"Mose," he said, when the messen-
ger appeared, "open all of the win
doWs," and the negro opened them.
looking surprised, for it was midwin.
ter and the snow was thick on the out
side stills. And Nose, start those two
electric fans a-going."
What's tn mattuh, subj" incurred
the darkey, a privileged old retainer.
Nothing, Nose, nothing" replied
the secretary, thoughtfully, Except
that something unfragrant was just in
here, and want to fumigate and dis
pei the memory of it."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
Following the Furniture.

An lrishman whose wife was fond OF
moving from one house to another was
met by a friend the other morning
while walking behind a van load of
household goods and saluted with:
Hello, Mick! Shifting again? Where
might you be going this timer
Il don't know, begorra,'' said Mick:
I'm following the furniture to find
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

high-class dancers as it can get. In
fact the supply is short of the demand
1t is the day Of the dancer, a time
when the properly educated feet of q,
pretty woman are worth far more in
salary than the cultivated brains of a
college professor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
ODD NOTIONS oF1BEAUTY.

Painting Teeth, cramping Toes and
Breaking Noses Resorted To.
Some ladies in Japan gild their
teeth, those of the Indies paint them
red and in Guzerat they are died black.
In Greenland the women color their
faces blue and yellow. However fresh
the complexion of Muscovite may be,
she would think herself very ugly if
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
+. Something in the Name

Something in the Name.
"Hallo! ! see you have put 81 a
week more on the rent of those new
houses of yours
eyes, friend of mine in the munic-
ipal Office told me they are going to
change the name of the street from
Binns road to Arundel avenue"
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the American Bar associations annual
meeting, was retained to make the
fight for Favrot.
This case is still pending; so is that
of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley.
In the latter tragedy the conditions
we're somewhat different. Here the
grievance was that Arthur G. Brown.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
Accounted For.

She-Mr. Dudeleigh is looking more
like himself. don't you think?
Chappie-Ya-as. His twin brother
is dead.-Puck.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
Why He "HolIered. y

What makes the old deacon hollel
so loud when he plays in meetin'?''
Why, he thinks there are few an
gels up thar who are opposed to him
an he wants to make himself heard
over their ingin'."