The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-02

Brentsno's establishment is for
those with money! sort OF de luxe
emporium. where you are not wanted
IL you ask the price OF what YOU pro-
posed. Miss Arnold purchased a book
called the story OF Lady Mechanic.
written by Gcllctt Burgess. The the
DRY has been advanced that she walk
Ell from Fifth Avenue to Central Park.
sat down and read the Burgess satire.
If she did she had complete con-
tempt for weather conditions
Al any rate. 50 far as Is publicly
known. she has not been seen since.
and 60 find a parallel OF her case one
must turn to that Of Charlie Ross.
The world has been searched the
money Of her father Is said TO have
been spent by thousands. her mother
is said to be i'm an institution. pros
rated with grief. George Griscom
the man she is alleged TO have loved,
FASTENED to America from Italy.
where. for some reason. a brother OF
Dorothy Arnold smashed him on the
nose; detectives have failed TO detect;
rewards await a claimant, and police
men OF New York have been with
drawn from the search.
Miss Arnold's disappearance is as
complete as that Of a pebble dropped
into the Pacific Ocean.
And why?
There's the real mystery.
She was pretty young woman
her age Is twenty-four. She had money
friends. admirers. little 10 burden her
life, and, so far as is known, no en-
tangling love affairs.
Miss Arnold had everything to live
Tor, nothing, presumably. TO die for,
unless II was a disappointment in lit
erary aspirations. She " shed 70 be an
author and one New YORK newspaper
genius has advanced the brilliant idea
that she had forsaken her wealthy
home to meet the burdens OF the
world in order TO familiarize herself
with life's conditions, that she might
depict them in a book. Hunger and
want. however. are q quick and GER
tain cure for am billions Of that variety.
Most people would surrender literary
intentions and write soap advertise
ment in order to eat Miss Arnold,
however. was not required to do this
The suicide theory, If ii ever ex-
listed. has been eliminated, though no
one explains why. The girl was too
old 10 follow silly, impractical, fanci-
ful ideas of romance; she did not
carry with her much of money. and
she left her home in a quiet manner.
Every newspaper in New York has
printed articles with a refrain of
where and why" Their search has
had about the same reward as their
questions
1t seems inexplicable that anyone
could disappear from the upper por-
ton OF Fifth Avenue inVoiuntarily and
any attention to anyone else in New
York, and Miss Arnold could easily
have gone TO another portion of the
city and may be there yet, for there
she could be hidden as completely as
in the catacombs OF Rome and lost
as totally as in the pyramids Of Egypt.
The question is-did she want 10 be
lost?
You can do anything in New York
IL YOU have the money.
Rut dead or living Dorothy Arnold
pet of society and prospective heireSs
OF millions. has created a battling mys-
terry. whose solution seems an impos-
sible task
This book she is alleged to have
bought-Lady MeChante-would not
troubled mind 10 read--not a woman.
at least. for Lady Mechanic would
make any woman jealous.
II, presumably. is an enlargement OF
witty, almost bitter, satire that an
peared in popular magazine last Oc-
tober a year ago called The Cave
Man" in which burgess ridiculed New
York society, and which was charac-
terized as a .,-sul satire on New
York Life
II is story OF % brilliant. beautiful
life, named Haulick Sms Eg." a ruler
OF New York's social circle, the lion
OF its elite" and the chosen OF its
learned-he returned 10 the work OF
coal HEAVIER, became again Cave Man,
went with him. she was Lady Mech
1t was an interesting book. perhaps.
but Miss Arnold should not have read
1t may have created strange. wild
dreams OF the emptiness and vanity
the pretences OF some phases OF social
life.