Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-28

A1EW YoRK.-Every young WON
nj an of moderate circumstances
at least every one who is equip
ped with any degree of imag-
ination-dreams and hopes and wishes
that some day she may be grand
lady, with every luxury she can ask.
She wants 20 have princes and mil
lionaires az SER feet. She wants to be
sought after, admired. These dreams
don't come :rue, at least not often.
The Cinderellas usually are limited to
the confines Of the covers of book.
writes Charles Somerville in the World
of this city.
Mary Jape Reinseimer, once of Reig-
elsville, Pa., is an exception.
In country hotel in Easton. Pa,
II years ago, Mary Jane was wait
ress. She was pretty Dutch girl,
eighteen years old. She had crude
charm, and her wit was sharp.
I'm going to get out of this she
determined. I'm going to be some
body I'm pretty; men like me; wom-
en- Who are no more attractive than l
have these things Why shouldn't l
have them?"
Determined to Gain Her End. z
The difference between Mary Jane
and the others was that Mary Jane
didn't stop when she made her wish.
She kept on, working with might and
main to make it come true, and 1t
cidn't matter to her how she gained
| .he end. Her code was. not that
countenanced by society, but Mary
Jane kaew little of codes, cared little
.or them. She wanted to conquer.
She did conquer. Now she is thir-
~ years old, and all things she wish
I'd for are hers. II
It remains to count the cost. She
gays she is happy. Perhaps she tells
ne truth.
Had Mary Jane lived in the days of
The old French courts she would have
been du Barry or a Madame Re
camier or Pompadour. AS 1t is,
Mary Jane is mistress of a mansion
IN the fashionable Rue des Bellies Feu-
lilies of Paris; she is scintillant par
sicipant in the brilliant conversations
In European salons; she rides in mo-
tor cars, wears jewels of enormous
value and her gowns are among those
that set the Paris fashions.
And always with her woman's van
lty aflush is the satisfaction of long
list of admirers adorers!
| Mary Jane Reinseimer of Reigels-
vile, Pa, that was; Nine. Marie van
Reinseimer Barnes-Creel of New York
and Paris that is!
| Aud all in IL years has been enact
ed this amazing transition!
| Modern magic-surely.
| AT the age of eighteen she arrived
smiling and confident for her conquest
of New York; with startling success
she Carried her campaign to Europe;
she Tilted duke, danced with the
Baron de Rothschild of France. and
had g. scoYe or more of New York no.
tables young and old, on the strings
of her en:hantment. She won George
Enrico Creel, a CHILEAN multi-million-
aire, for husband.
Captivated Walter de Mumm.
She teld Walter de Mumm, scion of
the champagne" de Mumms of Ger
many, Cor three years in abject thral-
dom against the fury of his family,
away from her lotus flower influence
answered the attempt imperfectly with
the blaze of a revolver-and three
days later he, from his hospital cot,
pleaded with her with bouquets and
billetdoux for reconciliation!
Paris, which loves to give sobri-
Qu.ts, has long called her the Midget
Carmen" But this is only recog-
milton of her beauty and impulsve-
ness. Otherwise it is incomplete. She
is fascinating but not sloe-eyed; she
Is temptations but far very far, from
beiIs brazen. The little ex-waitress
Aas more the manner of a marchion-
css II the decorative days of the Petit
Trianon.
The answer to the question as to
whether she has beauty, wit and dar.
lag is best given by chronological
confederation of her achievements.
FHrst Appearance in New York.
L. is little vague-her advent to
NeT York. The story is that she
we-at from Easton to Allentown, Pa
Allentown is prettier than Pittsburg
ana quite as important.
sitter Allentown it was New York
SIZE dabbled in chorus work-dabbled
dasntily. But she was not to be found
ever in the gay acknowledgements
tories of the hoi polloi. The little
waitress aimed with fine discernment
for the bull's-eye contained within the
inner circle of the conservative risque
Her fame spread in certain set
the young chaps who own or whose
'gnv-nors' own those six-cylindered