The evening world., 1916-04-17

brought great painters and their
work 10 Hungary. All that country
has Of decorative art II owes TO my
father After he diod my mother
married n man who is what YOU call
"a bad Character My mother ts En-
He =. Markus. and she is a great
actress. Even now she ~ on the
stage. She - a person who IS very
easily influenced, she ~ very emo
tional. and | think she does not al
ways understand the danger that
may result from the things she SAYS.
Tier husband holds office IN Vi
emma and we know that It was he
who denounced my husband and nv
ment. Wy mother knew Of what he
did, AM she herself called us spies.
But ! do not really think she under
stood that TO say such a thing when
there Is war means-death." Nine.
Nijinsky shivered a little.
~ was very 81 after little Kyra
was born and | called my husband
back 10 Vienna 20 500 me rhcn
the war oronr uu. Ny husband AZ
ranged .pr onr drpir'ur" ana then
the doctor sud could not travel
SO my husband stayed. He could
not and ho would not go" Madame $
head lifted and she smiled happily
serenely.
Then we were denounced. And
the police said We would have 20 go
and i've at my mothers. She has
a big house outside Budapest We
we're sent TO her because they knew
that she would keep tho best possi-
bile watch over us. Before the war
she had urged us 10 como and visit
her She was so Glad when my
| husband married me; she praised
| him.
Then when we were sent TO her
| house she stormed at US and called
| us spies. She had sixteen large
| rooms and she gave us one-unfur-
| nished. She had some furniture
brought into II; bed and a chair
that didn't match. She put Kyra,
the baby, in room above, so that
| We had TO go up and down stairs
| twenty or thirty times a day. Then
| she went about telling her friends
how she no longer had a homo be-
cause we were in II: how she longed
10 go and live at a hotel so that she
| might not he Obliged to see us"
| Didn't she even melt 10 her little
granddaughter" 7 asked.
| "She wanted 70 do things with her
| which wouldn't permit" said Kyra's
mother, who Is evidently thorough.
! " sensible and modern young mother
she wanted 70 take her oIu a grea,
deal and exhibit her to all her friends
She wanted 20 have her in "A room
where people wero smoking. ! said
that Kyra must sleep and eat quietly
and keep regular hours Ny mother
was very angry about that.
II have explained how hard It was Il
get milk. But ! went to q certain higl
Hungarian official and | was told tha
IL I would come at $50 In the morninI
TO his house I could got "A little milk
My mother, as | sad, lived some dis
tance out OF the city, I asked her :,
send servant after the milk She re
fused 30 I had to get up and walk il
for IL n vsclf, and II I were five or tel
minutes late | didn't get IT,"
"Is It true that your mother tried I,
poison our husbands ,uod'" | asked
she would not have dared 20 poisol
II, because she was responsible fn
our safety az prisoners, But her scr
wants covered 1t with paprika and prI
In fats and other things that he couI
not eat, As a dancer his food must h
simple, but II must be delicate an,
good Because ~ tho badly prepare
food which was purpuscly served hin
I'm my mothers house ne suffered from
a CatArUh of the stomach. |, too, 30
came ~. of'on lhoV would NOT hrinl
our luncheon TN I O'Clock In the after
noon, Nnd they aav" MS very little