The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-17
Cavalieri Is Blame!ess Says Mrs.
Leslie.
Human Goddess Is What She
Calls Her.
ATTRACTED.
Her Beauty CaptiVated the New
York AristOcrat.
MarvelS That Diva Ever Mar.
ried Him.

New York, Sept. 17.-That more
sympathy has been wasted on Sheriff
Bob Chanler than he deserves, and
less on Lima Cavalier, his beautiful
wife, is the opinion of Mrs. Frank Les
lie, widow of the publisher.
ALIAS, poor Cavalieri." said Mrs.
Leslie, discussing the latest interna-
tional marriage scandal which has
fairly set two continents buzzing.
America was the last place for her
husband to fly to, if he wanted to pre-
serve any secrecy in the matter"
Mrs. Leslie in her apartments in the
Chelsea, spoke with unusual enthu-
siasm (for woman) of the beauty
and charm of the diva.
II met Nine. Cavalieri at box par
ty about year ago." she said, and
without exception 1 thought her the
most ravishingly lovely woman l had
ever met. She looked as if she had
been carved out of marble.
LAS sat watching her it was diff
cult to believe all the stories with
which her name is linked. She as
naughty and unbending with the con-
sui general of France, who was also
guest, and when several younger men
were presented to her she preserved
the same attitude of almost offensive
Indifference throughout the evening.
This attracted the men as we'll as the
attention of the entire audience at the
opera. Subsequently heard OF her
marriage and was shocked.
II remember hoping at the time
that she had won a handsome dowry,
for 1 considered her husband had lit
tie else to offer the human goddess
who had condescended to grace his
society. Personally. if I were a man
I would pay any sum for the mere
pleasure of looking at so faultless a
creature" Mrs. Leslie added with con-
viction.
Was it the danger and the charm
and diversion of Nine. Lima that had
captiyated Mr. Chanler?"
81 think it was nothing. but her
beauty" Mrs. Leslie replied. Men
can talk as thew please about brains,
but it is beauty that holds them. An
agreeable European once told me that
for himself he loved beauty. Brilliance
wasnot necessary in women, because
one could get it in books.
There seems to be no moral to
beauty. Cavaliers beauty outweighed
everything. Chanler was not a strip
ling. He must have realized that there
was a lack of spontaneity on the part
of his fiancee when she told him it
would take her three months to make
up her mind to marry him, and then
she appeared in no hurry to cable him.
There is no doubt in my mind
that she must have been more or less
calculating and commercial If the
story of the pre-nuptial settlement is
true, Chanler must have regarded her
in the light of a jewel, for he was
willing to pay for her. We do not ex-
pect anything from a gem save beau
ty. Why should we expect anything
from a woman who is absolutely per-
feet? There are so few perfectly beau
tiful women in the world that she who
is thus endowed by nature deserves all
she gets-and she generally gets ev-
erything.
''I do not see why Cavalieri deserves
such harsh criticism merely because
she Is the victim of her own beauty.
Why should we scandalize a woman
who at least has beauty, and pity and
sympathize with a man who had moth
ing?
Everybody is saying. Poor Chan
ler.' I say. Poor beautiful Lima but
I say 1t only because it is so tiresome
to hear the world condoling with the
man and censuring the woman. They
are neither of them to be blamed or
pitied.
Men continually cry out against
the selfshness and vanity of women.
At least the vainest woman is hon
estly affectionate, while men are only
vain and jealous without affection
People marvel that Chanler married
Cavalier. The marvel to me is that
she ever married him. At least he got
the majority of the men ask for in a
woman. Connoisseurs have paid twice
the sum for dead works of art that
Chanler paid for a living Venus, and
they have never murmured."
Aged Army Nurse Dies.
Chicago, Sept. 17.-Miss Margaret
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