The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-02-22
OPEN SOUL GIRL
O|SL|KES FATHER
Miss Parsons Says Parent
Lavished Money, Not
Love, on Her.
$4,000 FOR A JOURNEY
FAIR LASSlE ALSO TELLS OF
TELEPATHlC MESSAGE~FATH-
Err OF YOUNG WOMAN VIRTUES
UNDER LASH.

Salt Lake City. Utah, Feb. 22.-
When Miss Geneva Parsons. the girl
with the open SOUL" took the stand
in the divorce suit between her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Parsons.
she displayed evidence of an unfilial
feeling toward her father.
Once, asked as the relations exist
ing between herself and her father,
she said:
My father never lavished affection
upon me, only money-like man
would bet on race horse when he
hoped to win something. He wished
to make me attractive for social pur-
poses--that was all"
Stewart d. Walling conducted the
cross-examination of Miss Parsons in
an extremely considerate manner, but
the witness, quick-witted and sharp
tongued, did not spare her inquisitor
in her replies:
No Moral Tape Measure.
How do you explain the measure
of your affection for your father?'
asked the attorney.
ling" she replied. smiling. You can
not measure affection by inches I
know of no moral tape measure
Did you ever tell anyone that you
thought your father was criminal?'
asked the attorney.
Il may have said that to you, Mr..
Walling, but l said it as would have
talked to an attorney, or a doctor, or
priest, thinking it would be sealed.
And | think if you were gentleman
it would not be used now"
But Miss Parsons later answered the
question as to the measure of affec-
ton between father and daughter
when she described a scene at the
Brown Palace hotel in Denver on the
return of herself and mother from
Europe On that occasion, she said,
she refused to kiss her father when
they met because she felt he was in
and herself. too.
Unpleasant for Papa.
Her father sat ten feet away during
all the time Miss Parsons was testify
ing and writhed under the tongue
lashing he received.
Among other things Miss Parsons
told of how she and her mother spent
nearly $4,000 in three years in Eu-
rope. She told of having a special
tutor in Genoa and later, when they
went to Paris, she took up fencing,
| riding, painting, French and Italian
and few other studies and pursuits.
Miss Parsons went over the ground
| previously covered by her mother and
told of telepathic communication re-
ceived by her open SOUL and of
dreams that shed much light on the
conduct of her father. So vivid were
these dreams the mother was convinc-
ed that her husband was being black
mailed and she wrote him: Denver
probably has fresh food for scandal
Miss Parsons confirmed the state
ment that her name had been used
in a play written by D'Annunzio. She
had translated the names for him her.
self and she told her mother of the
incident. She also testified that D. An
nunzio's plagiarism of her poems was
a fact. Her mother had previously
testified that certain poems in book
of verse published by the poet were
really written by Miss Parsons and
that the great Italian poet has obtain
ed them by telepathy.
Parsons Takes Stand.
Mr.. Parsons then took the stand and
told how, instead of deserting his wife
and daughter, he had repeatedly cabl-
ed them to come home. warning them
that their extravaganza would drive