Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-11
Love of Admiration and Superficial
Things of Life Spelled Ruin for Girl
in Hypnotic Beauty=Health Cult Case
Mary Sofas Reckless Search
for Happiness Proved Bit
ter Disappointment.
BY ETHEL ROSEMON.

Much has been written of "the lightthat
lies in wcman's eyes" and its effect up
on those who have come under the in
fuence of its rays; litsle has been said,
but more harm done, of the light of
admiration that often lies in mans
eyes, for. verify, at times 1t lies, and
lies, and lies.
Whether it be a true or a false light,
a young and foolish girl takes 1t to be
a beacon hat will guide her safely to
the harbor of happiness. She gazes at
1t. timidly at first, and then boldly.
until finally it dazzles her vision and
she follows on. Where? Well, it de-
ponds upon the girl.
II, all of a sudden, she acquires wis
dom or has wisdom hrust upon her,
she shades her eyes and in the less
brilliant, but more steady light of COM
mon sense, reasons herself into a nor
NAL, healthy state OF mind. If she be
with whom decisions thrive on sac
experience, she continues in her folly
until the courts laws or natures law
bring 1t to a more or less sad ending.
And so Mary Theresa Sofia, whose
story has been brought WILDLY before
the public during the last few days
through her association with DIR"
Kranz, now held in $500 bail on a
charge of white slavery, took her first
step along folly's path when, accord
ing to the allegations of members of
her family, she eloped with a married
man after taking several hundred dol
lars from the family. She was but 16
then, far too young to realize that the
fascination would not last. She and
her married lover soon parted, and
four years ago she was married in To-
ledo, o.
This choice, too, proved an unwise
one, for the man was sent to jail for
some misdemeanor and the wife left
him.. Then she came under the infiu-
ence of OR Kranz, with whom she
gradually made her way east from
Denver and settled in Newark. The
doctor" told her that when she had
learned to use hypnotic influence she
could get anything she wanted, and
could make men bow to her will. She
soon learned, she now says, that she
was to be used as a decoy to furnish
new members of the strange strength
and beauty cult which her companion
founded, although he denies this. Her
life became one of humiliation. and
degradation, she admits, with. it is
said. the final recours to morphine.
With the help of one of her country
men, William Socio, with whom she
planned to go on the stage, she left
Kranz. Socio secured a room for her
in High street. Here among her pos
sessions were found many beautiful
gowns, handsome jewelry and rare per-
fumes. 1t has not been recorded that
theatrical managers have offered her
engagements, SO the f1nal chapter in
her history cannot even be predicted.
Bu the prologue is plain. Love of
admiration and alteration spelled ruin
before the girl was able to distinguish
the real values of life. She did not
stop to realize that admiration, easily
won, is more easily lost; hat adora-
ton brought about by externals, a
pretty face, a graceful form and beau
tiful gowns, is not the kind that stands
the test of time.
Character building does not seem so