Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

sian baron, who was entertaining COM
pany at the cafe de Paris having eX-
pressed a desire TO possess it. Having
gratified his wish, he sweetened the col
lection to the extent of a thousand-franc
note, which is quite a fair price for one
slipper. At that rate they would be $500
a pair.
Forgetful of her previous experience
with British conservatism, and flushed
with her Paris triumphs, the American
girl thought she could conquer the smart
restaurants of London as effectively as
she had thouse of Paris, SO back she came
minority whom it doesn't make sick play
fully term the English channel She had
an idea that she could do well, IL not by
playing and singing. then by selling flow
ers at the smart hotels. for the feminine
flower sellers of the metropolis are a
fearsome lot but the brilliant scheme
proved as complete chimera as her for
mer one of appearing at the London halls
had done.
The managers of the hotels said no
in their most icy tone to the flower girl
scheme, and when the American girl
had stormed the music hall managers
again, with as much success as she had
encountered the first time, she moved
from the second-class hotel in which she
was now abiding into plain boarding
house, and the legendary wolf took up a
strategic position uncOmfOrtably near
the portals The next few months-it was
now August 1911-proved the toughest
time she has encountered since she set
out to beat her way round the world.
being full of plucky efforts with mighty
small results. Once. Just when things
began to get Impossible and her then
landIady-she had had several of them
by this tme-alyeady was in possession
of her trunk-shn saved the situation by
writing and selling three short stories TO
a London magazine and getting paid Tor
them in advance, which is feat in it
self, and she smade several attempts TO
be a newspaper woman. but without
landing a job.
1t would have come off right enough IL
she had had American editors to deal
with, but the London ones are awfully
afraid of novelties. One of them was
worried lest it might be unpleasant
for her when she wanted to go up north
and write up the big coal strike from the
standpoint OF the strikers starving
wives, and another was afraid she might
hurt herself il she yentured over the
North 3sea in an aeroplane. Meanwhile
she prevented the wolf from getting in
for a while by posing FOR a poster arr
list zone of the most popular three
sheets in the tube, which advert1ses
compound used in every household, I'M
mortalizes her figure and to some eA-
tent her lineaments), and about this time.
when BOStock advertised Tor a girl 10
learn lion tanning, Hilda Gilbert answer
ed the advertisement, but never got any
reply. o.
would you really have tanned lions!
I demanded when she told about this.
81 would have tried" was the matter
of-fact reply.
It was in December Of last year that
she tried for a part in the chorus or
Reinhar dt's Miracle" then being stag
ed at the London Olympia, and got 1T,
That colossal production, which played
to empty benches for the first few
weeks, eventually caught on and ran
until March, so for twelve weeks this
piuuant little American woman was
demure little nun at salary of So.2o
per week Incidentally she made g
friend Of one of the. men concerned Ii
the production and that is how she
came to be next a waitress at thirteen
shillings, or $3.23, week in London
tea shop
During the run of the Miracle by
the bye, an idea for a novel music
hall dance. with Persian effects. had
occurred to this quick-witted little
lady, and Immediately she was free she
Commenced unwinding the many yards
of red tape which have to be loosened
before one can gain admission to the
oriental room of the British Museum,
and, once ensconced there. began a
lengthy study Of Persian illuminated
manuscripts in connection with her
idea. She got through $50 Of them
before she had material enough, and
then failed to sell the act. Perhaps
she may do it for herself when she