Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
way to Mount Olympus.
(, Sees Dazzling Queens.

u secs DARLING queens.
Working In the shop Of a manicure
Miss Sachen came in touch with many
fine women, She often went on
pyramids to State street stores for hel
employer There she would see tho
dazzling queens of the Chicago upper
crust with their sparkling jewels and
rich furs. X.
"Oh, TO be like that sighed the girl
The thought struck that she would be-
come like that. She put behind her
thought of her old father, an Austrian
immigrant, Nick Sachen by name. who
was still janitor back in Kansas
City.
Being possessed Of only $500, Miss
Sachen knew she could not reach the
inner circles by any ordinary means,
and she confessed later. she knew she
could not dupe Chicago. She had been
in Alaska once, so she decided to go
to New York, "the city which Is so
easy that it's people fool themselves"
and pose as the daughter OF q wealthy
Alaskan miner. She would say she was
Just out of the wilds for the first time
in her life, and had nuggets to burn.
Miss Sachen learned what she should
wear from her woman employer and
went to the big eastern metropolis.
Miss Sachen was the 1917 sensation
in New York. She put it across as
she phrased 1t, on newspapers, society
and the faded jongleurs OF the cab
arets who welcomed her novelty and
innocence as they would fresh sum
mer breeze.
They had laughed joyously when
Miss Sachen, "the girl who grew uL
with sledge dogs and could mush the
trail like an Eskimo" told them:
"Town Stacks UP Pretty WE'LL"
DADDY promised me I should see the
states. when / grew up. This towr
stacks up pretty well beside Kuyukuk.
"Queen of the SHOWS" the writers
dubbed the wondering young girl as
they opened her eyes to the marveIs Of
New York.
what impresses you most in New
York;" reporter had asked her.
"The women, of course she hae
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 Alaska" 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 touch OF
red in her cheeks she goes out behind
the dog sledge and takes mush dowr
the trail"
Pioneers in Alaska, she told the city
nabobs who clustered about her ano
invited her to their homes, had given
her the name of Queen when she
was born. She was known by that
name. she said, from. Kuyukuk &c
Juneau.
Her fame began to travel, and finally
one day an immigrant Austrian 1anitol
in Kansas City saw her picture in tht
paper. :.
why, shucks,'' he said. THAT ain''
no Alaska queen That's my daugh-
Ter
Admits, She. Is lmpostor.
With eyes Redeemed from weepns
Miss Sachen admitted in the Hotel NC
Alpin that she was an impostor.
Chicago was too wise for me-" sht
weps, "but 1t was easy to put 1t across
here in New York. And Id have KEEP
it up, too. il pa handnt spilled the
beans IN Kansas City, Z,
Miss Sachen said she got tired o.
being ajust fiipbbdy. n Chicago. She
had visited Alaska once with her aunt
and one day aforementioned Juneau ant
Fairbanks to friend in Chicago. She
noticed it made a difference. Her other
friends soon began calling her the
girl from Alaska"
Miss Sachen determined to be rea
sensation She took all her savings
and blew" into New York with
rush. and registered from KuyukulS
Alaska. -
A half hour later voice called vi
the city editor of New York news
paper and said:
Registered at the Hotel McAlpin is
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