Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-20

considerate of all women than any man
one meets in the ordinary course OF
events that his unhappy attitude toward
women and girls is a fault to be mini
mixed in summing up his whole life
career.
.-Thaw stole me away from White, just
the same as men in the stone age steal
women. For more than a year before that
Christmas night in 1908 I had seen White
only occasionally. But he was my pro-
tector-my patron IL you willard loved
him more than 1 ever had any man or
woman in my life. my mother and father
not excepted.
He was giving me a birthday party
the very night Thaw appeared with
revolver in my dressing room and tolo
me he would kill White before he would
allow him ever TO take me away from
him. There was nothing for me to do
lnder the circumstances but go with
Thaw.
DID NOT LIKE THAW.
II hardly knew him. I did not like him.
II was simply a case Of go or be killed.
That was the nature Of the beginning
OF our love affair. What an awful thing
for the sentimentalists OF the evening-ups
with the angel child talk is this. But
Il is the truth.
Before I begin the story of my life
with Thaw. though l want to tell just
what happened about Jack Barrymore
He was a dear, sweet. whole-souled fell
low and the first man anywhere near my
own age I had ever known since l began
TO understand the ways Of the world. But
Stanford White opposed the idea as marc
as he could. He got my mother TO SIDE
with him and before they finished damn
ing poor old Jack they had said every ter
rible thing imaginable.
THAw NOT GENEROUS.
After Thaw took me away from STAN
ford white. after found myself entirely
dependent on Thaw's benefcience, life
took on a very different aspect for me.
Never once in all the years that came
along after that Christmas night, when
he took me out Of the dressing room in
Garden theatre was Thaw generous to
me- Except that he was absolutely stingy
with me at all times, Thaw never abused
me in all the time we were together be-
fore our marriage.
''In Paris he refused to allow me to
20 to sec any of the things all Ameri-
cans take in. He said II 1 had not
seen them It would not hurt me any TO
miss them He took me to just two
places at the Cafe de Paris and to the
Rat Mort, and those who know, say
that they are Sunday schools compared
with what may be seen in Paris. I do
not say this in complaining spirit. l want
to be fair to Thaw. I honestly believe
II was because he wanted to keep me
away from all such things.
HORsEwHIPPED BEL BOY.
But see what happened next. We went
10 London and stopped at the Hotel
Carlton. Thaw told the clerk always
to send him a certain one OF the pages,
the youngest. in answer to his calls.
He tipped him extravagantly and SEEM
ed to be terribly taken with the child.
One afternoon he placed a big heap
Of golden guineas on the table in our
sitting room and then rang the bell.
when the boy came Thaw told him
TO stay in the sitting room while he
went In the bedroom, ostensibly TO write
a cablegram. The poor little fellow saw
the guineas spread out on the table.
Thaw was watching through the por-
there's. The page fell into the trap and
put two OF the coins into his pocket.
Thaw rushed out on him and told him
he would not send him to prison pur
would punish him himself. He dragged
the scared little fellow into the bath
room. stripped him and logged him with
a horsewhip until the child was bleed
ing ali over his body. Then Thaw put
him in the bath tub and rubbed sal
into his wounds. This is one Of the
things the people are going to bring out
IN the White Plains trial now under
way. II is the first of the proofs they
are going TO advance in support Of their
contention that Thaw Is a paranoiac. The
same incident Will figure I'm the suit OF
Clifford W. Hartridge. Thaw's counsel
Of record in the first trial. when Mr..
Hartridge's suit against Mrs. William
Thaw comes into court.
THE boys mother brought suit against
Thaw I'm London and he settled out OF
court for several thousand dollars"