Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-02-21

st least every one who Is equip
ped with any degree OF imag-
ination-dreams and hopes and wishes
that some day she may be a grand
lady, with every luxury she can ask.
She wants to have princes and mil
Honaires at her feet. She wants TO be
sought after, admired. These dreams
don't come true, 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 Jane Reinseimer, once of Reig-
elsville, Pa, is an exception.
In a country hotel In Easton, Pa
II years ago. Mary Jane was wait
ress. She was a 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
have these things. Why shouldn't l
have them7"
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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 1t come true, and 1t
didn't matter to her how she gained
the end. Her code was not that
countenanced by society. but Mary
Jane knew little of codes, cared little
for them. She wanted to conquer
She did conquer Now she is thir-
ty years old, and all things she wish
ed for are hers.
says she is happy. Perhaps she tells
the 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 mansion
in the fashionable Rue des Bellies Feu-
Tiles of Paris; she is scintillaat par
ticipant 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
ity afiush is the satisfaction of long
list of admirers-inde adorers!
Mary Jane Reinseimer Of Reigels-
vile, Pa, that was; Nine. Marie van
Reinseimer Barnes-Creel of New York
and Paris that is!
And 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 a score or more of New York no
tables, young and old, on the strings
of her enchantment. She won George
Enrico Creel, a Gillian multi-million-
aire. for q husband
captivated Walter de Mumm.
She held Walter de Mumm, scion of
the champagne" de Mumms of Ger
many, for three years in AFFECT thral-
dom against the fury of his family,
and at his last faint effort to break
away from her lotus flower influence
answered the attempt imperfectly with
the blaze Of. 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-
Quets, has long called her the Midget
Carmen But this is only recog-
milton Of her beauty and impulsive-
ness. Otherwise 1t is incomplete. She
is fascinating but not sloe-eyed; she
is temptations but far, very far, from
being brazen. The little ex-waitress
has more the manner of marchion-
ess of the decorative days OF the Petit
Trianon
The answer to the question as to
whether she has beauty. wit and dar-
ing Is best given by chronological
consideration Of her achievements
First Appearances In New York.
It In q little vague-her advent to
New York. The story Is that she
went from Easton to Allentown. Pa.
Allentown is prettier than Pittsburg.
and quite as Important
After Allentown 1t was New York.
She dabbled in chorus work dabbled
daintily. But she was not to be found
ever In the gay acknowledgements
tories Of the hoi polloi. The little
waitress aimed with me 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
'guv-nors" our those six-cyli,d ered