The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-06
HOWAGALLANTIJUN WON HER
THE THRILLING ROMANCE OF MR..
VILLOW-BTRD'S WHITE WIFE.


Brooklyn Flat-A Happy us st That.
The news got over to Manhattan last
right that Miss Marion Lush had married
an Indian and Ia now Mrs. willow Bird.
Mrs. Willow-Bird and her husband. Mr..
Willow-Bird. are at home in a fiat at gao
Emerson place, Brooklyn. Not until Lost
night were all the thrilling details disclosed
concerning the romance that led up to the
marriage of Miss Lush and Mr.. Willow
Bird. who opened his season this year as a
snake dancer at ~Bostock's, Coney Island.
Nine months ago the marriage took place.
tut Press Agent Bill Hull of Bostock's has
Just come on the Coney Island job.
Bill Hull says that Mr.. Willow-Bird is n
.lpqui and that he can speak six languages,
Indian. German, English. French, Spanish
and P~ressagent. But when MIR. Willow
Bird was sought out at his Brooklyn home
Yesterday afternoon for the story OF his
life he made only two remarks. How. 4"
and "No Bostock."
lie means TO cur OF, the Bostock part. =
explained Mrs. Willow Bird. "He isn't in
the show now"
Mrs. Willow-B Bird said that her romance
VAS most absorbing and she graciously
told all about IL. She wore a fetching
White gown throughout the recital Of the
story, but her husband, whom she pro-
dlced from a back room at the most
dramatic moment. wore a sombrero trimmed
with wampum. silver key rings in each
ear and strings Of wampum.
Howl" he exclaimed solemnly and sat
down. Even in the Willow Bird Moqui
country il is the fashion TO answer the
How" with the merry quip, And Hum
mel. at the same time laughing heartily.
But Mr.. Willow-Bird seemed to be taking
everything with 30 much solemnity that
10 one present had the heart to be witty.
Eesides, Mrs Willow-Bird, who In young
and good looking, already had begun her
story of the romance. On the table beside
her vas a large photograph and n copy Of
zen cent muck raking magazine, but Mrs.
Wlliow-Bird talked, surrounded by silence.
Out among the pueblos Of the Moqui
country Of Arizona il was a dark night and
u stormy. Also il was early fall in 1905.
Little did Marion Lush think when she
Started out for a walk with three Eastern
friends what horrors were to befall her.
Put now across the sands advanced a band
ct the terrible Moqui Indians. Gsudy
blankets draped their forms and 6rewster
seo'hed through their brains, for alas!
This band Of a noble people that has sworn
eternal enmity toward all the white race
was soused to the guards.
What became Of Marion Lush's three
friends never. perhaps. will be known
i ant tell you even who they are re-
GREETED Mrs. Willow-Bird. because that
would b. %intruding." But to return 10 the
known facts.
n..l E-.~L.fal -. Al. V-A.... 1870
upon the fair girl and bound her to a great
tree that stood la the desert. Cruelty they
began to beat her.
"Stop!' cried the maiden. and again.
'Stop!' and yet again. Stop So they
kept on beating her.
Each Indian took hold Of the lash as his
predecessor dropped from exhaustion and
brought the cruel thongs upon the fair
girl, who was now in much pain. Her head
sank. and as a Brooklyn paper. speaking
Of the incident last night. truly said. she
again was at an end and so she gave herself
up for lost"
But look who's herel Have you not
glessed that over the desert, fighting his
way through the wild night. Willow Bird,
The Beautiful Snake Dancer, is approach
ing' Yes, il is no other than he. With
gun and knife, fist and foot. he has scat
tered the noble Indian stews 20 right and
left. and now the whole tribe 10 on its knees
praying for mercy. And then into his
arms he gathered the fainting girl. And
they were married and hav lived happily
ever after. And the bride and bridegroom
came blithely East. for in the young bride q
heart had come again that intangible, wistful
MISERY that 10 the call Of Brooklyn.
TIE ale came TO an end and Mrs. Willow
old, sweet strains Of the Washington Post
March fioated about the room she told OF
Der plans for the future. Again tho call
of the wild, which IL much like the call Of
Brooklyn, but more Persistent, has filed
the brave Willow Birds heart and he would
90 away from here TO see his old friends
and relatives Of the desert once again and
TO pick up a few good house broken snakes
10 use in his dramatic profession.
Out In he far southwestern land OF his
people there is a little niece that weeps to
se him once again, the beauteous little
fawn eyed Starfoam-Of- The Yeast. Bill
Hull says. too. that every day another tiny
niece. the charming little Bullets
ln-The-Face. writes the most ~pleadingly
pitiful letters to uncle to conn back and
that there ia no news Of Genevieve. the big
python that escaped from the show last
Sunday.
o The way James Presgrave Shesgreen
and his assistant, Freddy Schader. violate
W. oio0ito hSohh ~
continued Bill Hull. They're stealing
my business. Last night l dropped a
remark about the marriage Of Mr.. Willow
Bird and along comes this j. Presgrave
Shesgreen person and Freddy with a story
that one OF the Days OF Forty-nine girls.
q daughter OF an alleged James Maloome
Of Wilkesbarre. Pa. has Just married an
Indian. There isn't any James Malcome
in Wilkesbarre; TAX 1t from me. l lived
there for six years and I know every one OF
the twenty-eight married men in the town.
And you may quote me freely as saying.
continued Bill Hull when pressed for even
more details about Willow Birds romance
that If this j. p. Shesgreen or Freddy
Shaier find my loet python In Luna Park
i'll bring charges against not only them,
but against Fred Thompson and Fred
Mcclellan az well at the next meeting OF
The Committee Of Violation Of Professional
Ethics q the Bureau Of Reprisals Of the
trdrs nj the next meeting. That crowd
wouldn't stop at anything. 1t would be Just
Ike them to get Fred Thompson to blow
IN $500 for a python and then have IL found
aboard his yacht or in his Luna apartments
Ray maybe, they didn't hut IL all over that
yacht by the way. In the Bermuda race
Ell, What? Don't make me laugh, kid.
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