Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-10
BREAKING CONVENTION
RUINS MODEL s LIFE
TITS Like Butting Head
Against a Stone WALL" Cries
Unhappy Jean Duff.

"A woman doesn't know what suffer.
ing means until she butts, her heat
against the stone wall OF social conven.
tion. Then all the sorrows that critical
world can iniIct become hers
The bitter realization OF this fact has
broken Mrs earle Kahalehil 1897 Mar
set street, the once beautiful Jean Dun.
model known to all Philadelphia artists
70 years ago, and has made OF her a
pitiful ngure who has gone down under
the obstacles she has tried for the last
~ years to surmount since she married
2 dark-sknned Hawaiian.
She has seen the husband whom she
stiil adores beaten down by unfortunate
circumstances and has heard her three
little children revied on the streets and
dubbed with the name Of 'nlgHer brats."
She is worn to a degree Of emaclatlou
with tuberculosis contracted from her
husband. that makes II almost impossible
TO believe that she is the same person
who posed for Hugh Breckenridge
Lantern Glow" and some Of the best
work OF Alice Barber stephens Minnie
Burt, Mrs, NJ Maynard Whittier and other
well-known painters
Indigence and unhapplness have added
lines to those put there by the wasting
disease and people who knew the lovely
Jean Dun would no longer recognize her.
Tn so tired. so very tired, OF it ALL"
she said this morning. wlplnR the tears
from her pale eyes as she came into
the parlor Of the little home that
has been the scene Of 80 much misery.
Two little Hlmond-eyed, saffron-skinned
youngsters, Pua Mo and paulo Cupid, |
played happily on the front door steps. |
unmindful Of their "muddy's' suffering. !
They haven't been sent to school since |
Pau Mo was struck over the head "A few |
days ago by a cruel neighbor, whom
hahalahili then attacked, thereby caus-
ing his own and his wlfe's arrest.
II want to go back TO Honolulu"
said tho little woman wiping the thin
arms she had wet on the washtub, where
Daddy Is honored and where the sun is
always shining and the people always
good. | am Philadelphia girl, but 1
cnnnot live with my own people II they
insult the husband / love"
In 1902 Jean Dun stopped Off in Honolulu
TO give n few performances of vaude-
vile act In which she was then playing.
because the market for models had been
flooded in Philadelphia and money was
not plentiful. She was travelling as first
assistant OF Fred Eugene Powell, tho
magician who had taught her his most
difficult tricks
In the orchestra which supplied the
music for them was Carl RahalehilI, one
Df the most capable performers on the
okalili, the Hawaiian musical instrument |
Instantly the young musician fell in love ,
With the frail girl whose ethereal beauty
Ind bewitching features will go down to
in some OF the best works OF !
eading artists OF this city. He told her I
hat he was going to America, there TO {
await her coming.
Jean Dun went on to Australia. Life q
vas beckoning with rosy promises then n
ind everywhere the girl met with sue
;ess. When she came back TO Philadel- >
'hia she found that Garlic he who had !
been honored and sought out in his /
country, had found things different in a
America. Despite the fact that he had
'een educated in one Of the leading col v
eyes in Honolulu and despite his musical 3
publications Carle was regarded as an n
pstart Negro and Jean found him sery- 7
ng as Il porter I'm a hotel. Il
The pretty philadelphia girl thought :.
hat by combining their talents they y
ould win the fame and fortune that -
eemed so easy to her then and SO she
married. Carle. F
but / butted my head against the
tone wall OF social conventions In Amer. p
a and 1 am paying the price 1 cannot
aise my little children In n land that (e
III do nothing but curse and revlle ~
lem. want so badly to go to Honolulu
efore my husband dies and leaves me B
randed here. Maybe he would get bet ~
" II we could go, and / too, would get ~
ell there"
Many of the prominent artists for whom -.
IAN Duff posed are Interested in her. and ~
Is not at all improbable that the little M
omans dream Of going back to her hus- =,
lnds country may soon be realized. q Ga