The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-04-02
Any Plausible Story
Enough If She's
Pretty.
HOW ONE DID Il
Mrs. Edith Wilson Has Lived
Like Millionaire With
Ditch Digger's Income.

New York City.-This is the story
Iof a successful adventures.
Two weeks ago the manager of the
Hotel Baltimore=which is the new
est plush lined pile in town-spoke
to the cashier
Present Mrs. Edith Wilson's bill
10 her. said the manager. And tell
her that we prefer that she pay at
once"
Positively the only interference
with the managers program lay in
the fact that Mrs. Edith Wilson was
MT in her elaborate apartment at the
Biltmore. She hasn't been in since.
Some of her clothes were there. The
Biltmore didn't want them, but took
them, as possible asset Mrs. Will
son didn't worry, because wherever
she goes she can get more on credit
She has lived in New York for four
years, or thereabouts-liv tho iife
of millionaire on ditch digger's in
come. Like Cassie Chadwick, she had
demonstrated that money can be bor-
rowed on any good story The Ct bra
Cut could he filed with her creditors
She had an apartment on Riverside
Drive and cba l,ant /, n,otor c.r H.,
the month and she enol,a ,bont
scbwoh nc "cbar,ia,, .na cn,,d nc
"Georpie ), and Astor was nothine
short of "Vincie, dear"
No One Knows What She Owes.
1t may be that her debts total
$3.50, 0,000-and maybe they don't 1t
isn't likely that anvone l,nows sbe
was known as a rich widow fron
| Washington hui size didn't come
from Washington and che wasn,t .
widow she had safety fenosit hove
| fun of hot air She was as wears old
admitted twentv-i;ve of them. and in
any sort of an even break With the
| LIGHT Looked NOT moro than 81
Men believed Cassie Chadwick be.
cause she was old and homelv and
settled in life They believed Edith
| Wilson becanse she vas beautiful
She would turn n pajr of very nretty
blue ewes upon the victim of the
moment.
"When / was Queen Mary,s house
guest at Buckingham ;, she has said.
..You know lord Bancroft is nv nm
cle and so | have 1he entree-n
And the victim would hold nm his
nose and beg her TO balance another
bit of fiction on it. AT various times
she was engaged to Vincent Astor and
to one of the Go,llds. Her COMPANION
who wassa charming and utterly
unsuspicious eirl-yisited Washing
ton with her. When Mrs. Wilson came
back she said the girl was to marry
of was a beautif;,l idyIo she
gushed Love at first sight .
Unfortunately that particular sen.
ator tool, that narticular time to gel
married TO another woman. II didn'
stump Mrs. Wilson
..The perfidious wretch. !" sb,
stormed prettily. ~ shall never trus
Ianother man.,
snent S3O 600 81 Year.
Therefore she said she "broke' he
1 engagement TO Astor Meanwhile sh,
spent money-a]l borrowed or owe,
lat the rate of $4,000 a wear. Sh
told her men friends that her income
was s10O 600 and that she didp.
lhaye single security that Maid NOR
j than q per cent That was true. Blu
! it wasn't as good a reason for lend
i ing her money as her friends Thought
4 she would not omen checking ac
! count but preferred 10 keen he
1 money in cash. in her safety deposi
box It's only lately that If has oc
Cured to certain brouchy bushes
men that safety box is a protection
against many thjngs--incidentall,
l conyersationally leaky bankers. /
4 only one person can get into a safet,
box only one persou can talk abou
4 safe in ,nrning her tai. to tha Ike,