The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-19

and she dragged her way along Fifth avenue win
dow wishing" for the finery, and the Jewels. and
precious treasure gmmering from the windows
1t was her first real view Of civilization as it is
contrasted with life at Koyukuk. where the outside
| world is but dmly known
She sat tense and expectant at the Century thea
ter last night watching the parade Of fantasies
across the stage. Her ordinations and her peas
of laughter that floated out over the house made
many turn their heads and stare in amazcment at
the broad shoudercd bright-eyed GIRL whose cheeks
were flushed with amazement. Her laughter was
the Free unrestraned laughter of those who have
the wide spaces to breathe in.
Everything Observation-Disclosures wonderfully
new--to her
Later with certain footsteps but wide amazed
the girl threaded her way back OF the stage and
met the various principals, each Of whom bestowed
on her picture. Then she came home her day
over.
And the next day she did other things and had
other stranger adventures She, was invited. for
example to deliver lecture before the Univer-
sity Forum an Intellectual organization Life
in Alaska and Its Contrast to Fifth Avenue"
But. alas, the lecture never given. Some
thing dreadful happened entirely unforeseen by the
fair damsel who drinking in eastern civilization
in such delightful drafts. 1t had q terrible effect
on her adventures, and on her invitations It had
even a effect upon her admirers and the gen.
temanly young reporters who had ushered her into
SO many places of interest and exclusiveness. We
leave to the New York Sun to tell all the harrow
ing details, and in its pages nay, the front
page. where it shone with fatal prominence that all
might read we find:
She accepted the invitation to lecture, promising
to appear, the invitation had suggested, in the
furs Of her nothern home
But, said Nick Sachen of 500 Dugarro avenue, KAN
sas City. Kan, yesterday in an interview to the
Suns correspondent in Kansas City. "it's all bunk
Louise is my daughter and she hasn't been shooting
moose and caribou in Alaska all her life.
she left here last fall to grab off eight bucks a
week in Chicago shooting biscuits in beancry"
added Louises alleged papa.
There's some fellow named Jack something that
stuck on her He's saoonkeeper some place up
in Alaska. Last summer when Louise pulled this
stuff about Jack told her she ought to marry him
while the going is good
my daughter In Alaska for about two years.
She worked in some boarding house UP there. But
she blew back here to Kansas City last June.
didn't see much of her though. because she spent
most of the time living with woman friend of hers
down the street. She came here with some dia
monds-I should say so! 'Whered you get 'cmo
asked her. I saved my wages in Alaska and Dough,
en- she told me-
So. as they probably say in Alaska, 'the game was
up" and the next days carried the sweet little
girls" valcdctory to the world. We are told:
Here was. handing Broadway the bunk by the
bushel and going stronger with each edition Of the
newspapers" sighed Miss Louise Sachen to a large
congregation OF reporters assembled around her in
the Hotel McAlpln yesterday afternoon and holy
fathers!-what happens? Pop away out there
in Kansas City, up and spills the beans!"
But listen here! she cried with head raised sud
denly as she gazed straight at the critical audience
before her, you boys got to get thing right.
never did no wrong to nobody in my life-not ever
to myself earned by working hard the four dol
| lars a day spend for room here. was in Alaska
hate Kansas City. When got here said wa.
| from Alaska, which was true.
There was a piece in the Kansas City papers
| when got home from Alaska last May and
| thought maybe the New York papers would publish
a piece about me if said here came from Alaska
| But thought it would be just few lines-I never
gave thought to all these columns after columns
; of bunk hcre-never dreamed of it..
Say cried the girl. all her enthusiasm tn,
| great adventure back again full flood as memories
OF the Invitations the visits back of the stage an,
all the dazzling glories of the week came back t,
her wasn't it pip" "
ME for the boarding house some place tomorrow
concluded Miss Sachen time celebrity for
week Then I'll hoof it out and find job So
long. intervewer'-this with bit of usefulness i,
her smilc"1 s'pose, like it says in the weepy SONG
| You'll ncvah muh face again. G'by! But
| sure whiz while it was whiriing."
| And she took from be-hop the latest Of tn
hundreds of letters to arrive In the envelope wa
| an invitation from a member OF the faculty of Tenn
pie University, Philadelphia asking her to lcctur
there next Saturday Alaska,
TRUE ENEMIES FOR FALSE.