The Monmouth inquirer., 1917-02-15

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< day hadn't passed until morning
mail of the unspoiled child Of the
frozen north had begun to mount high
er than any stack Of wheats a hard
working girl in a beanery ever saw.
There were letters from kindly men
and women all over the city telling her
that they had read of her and had seen
ber pictures in the newspapers and
advising her mot to let the great
dreadful city spoil her beautifully
fresh views"
Every day the human-interest sharp
who FIRST had discovered her took her
to theaters and to meals, his main
thoughtfbeing to keep rival literary
artistsland artistes from finding her.
Beat and beat he scored. Then Papa
Sachen spoiled the beans.
Her Dreams Shattered.
Her dreams of being lady among
swell people" shattered, Miss Louise
Sachen, who captivated New York by
posing as "the queen of Alaska ad-
m.tted here that she could not put 1t
across in Chicago, where she got her
inspiration.
When she went to Chicago from
Kansas City, Miss Sachen said she just
"played the piano" and 'ran downtown
for the lady / was with, who was rum
ming q beauty parlor."
On her way down State street, said
Miss Sachen, she envied the dazzling
ladies of society who passed her in
their limousines. She wanted furs
like theirs and diamonds. like they
wore SO she took her savings, $1,000
and left for New York, where her
dreams were realized, until Nick Sa-
chen, her father, of Kansas City, broke
them up.
Miss Sachen was the 1917 sensation
in New York. She put it across as
she phrased it, on newspapers, society,
and the iaded jongleurs of the cab
arets who welcomed her novelty and
innocence as they would a fresh sum
mer breeze.
They had laughed joyously when
Miss Sachen, ''the girl who grew up
with sledge dogs and could mltsh the
trail like an Eskimo" told them
"Town Stacks Up Pretty Well"
daddy promised me I should sSe
the States when I grew up. This
town stacks up pretty well beside
Euyukuk."
Queen of the SHOWS" the writer's
dubbed the wondering young girl as
they opened her eyes to the marvels
of New York.
'What impresses you most in New
York - a reporter had asked her.
THE women, Of course" she had
replied. "The vast number Of pretty
women who look like fairy pictures.
But ! am astonished at the way they
rouge?"
do they not rouge in Alaskan she
was asked
"Why paint roses in your cheeks
when YOU can put them there by bet
ter means" the little 'beauty of the
frozen north" replied. "Out with US,
now, when woman wants a touch of
red in her cheeks she goes out be-
hind the dog sledge and takes mush
down the trail"
Pioneers in Alaska, she told the city
nabobs who clustered about her and
invited her to their homes, had given
her the name of Queen" when she
was born. She was known by that
name. Size said, from Kuyukuk to
Juneau.
Her name began to travel, and finally
one day an immi igrant Austrian jani-
tor in Kansas City saw her picture in
the paper.
"Why, shucI1s," he said. "That amt
no Alaska queen. That's my daugh-
ter"
"sure, She's My Daughter"
When Nick Sachen was asked
about Miss Sachen he said: Louise?
Sure, she's my daughter. She came
Aome from Alaska last June. Been up
there over two years workin in
boardin' houses, I believe. No, don't
know nothin' about KuyuBuk. She
played the big towns for the best jobs,
l guess"
"Diamond?7 added the parent claim
ant, and there was a note of pride in
bis voice. Yes, she sure has 'em.
Got 'em savin' her wages, she said.
"Jack? Yes. I heard O. him, too.
Jacks her feller up there. He runs
a saloon up in Alaska. l wanted her
to marry him while the goin' was good,
but she wouldn't promise to-"
Last June. so Sachen says, his daugh-
ter wearied of Kansas City and
yearned for wider fields.
80" he added. "she beat it to Chi
cago, because she could get So a week
there. Now I seen all those pieces in
the New York papers, but someone has
got things twisted"
It was recounted to him that Louise
spoke lovingly Of her dogs" who
whirled her through the yastness of
northern Alaska on her sled.