The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-20

New York, June 15.-What is thel
new thrill for women?
eing a movie actress, steeple-
Jack or even anaviator are no longer
new.
There's al alter field for women
which surpasses them all, according
to Miss Katherine Kaelred, famous
actress.
Its the government secret service.
Miss Kaelred won her first the
atrical triumphs in London. he is
acquainted with many of Great Brit
aims secre tservice officials, many OF
them women. She also has met sew
eral of the United States officials.
She is starring in secret service
role in the play, "The Man Who
STAYED Home" nd she is trying to
arrange to become a real secret SER
vice woman by entering government
service.
Why Work Appeals
"The secret service seems to me
one of the most important ways by
which a woman can serve her coun-
try during war time" she says. "As
a secret service agent one could give
everything of which he was capable"
she continued.
"All of the cleverness and ingenu.
ity of which he was possessed would
be needed in the work. And then
by doing this one would have the sat
isfaction of knowing that one was
really doing something worth while
"This war has made everything
else appear so irrelevant. | suppose
most people whose work is not d.
rectly connected with it have become
dissatisfied and restless. AS soon as
war was declared | felt that | must
be of some real assistance, and nc
work appealed to me so greatly as
the secret service, for it was interest
ing and stimulating and in addition
had the spice of danger | did not
enter the service simply because my
husband objected to my doing so
He was afraid that | would find i
beyond my strength.
81 have known number of mel
and women connected with the sc
cret service, both here and abroad
and | know something of what thi
wonderful branch of the service ha
accomplished and is doing. Tn
work makes fiction stories of adver
ture and romance seem fiat and stall
"a man whom l knew in Londo
was engaged in unraveling a gigal
tic plot which involved numbers
very prominent people. Nothing de
mate was known, and he had onl
vague suspicious to work with.
order to reach and study these PEI
pie he opened a very fashionabl
gambling place, as well as a pretel
tious cafe. No one could atten
these places without presenting
card signed by some Representative
person. So he baited the hook wit
infinite care. Every one employe
in these places-the walters, mus
clans, dancers-were all agents {
the secret service. He succeeded
attracting the very people for who's
benefit the place had been establish
ed and obtained irrefutable evidenC
of their guilt, after which the gan
bling house and the cafe quietly wei
out Of business.
"The plan was the most extrao
binary coup. 1t makes me marv'
at their almost superhuman cleve
ness at times It is in their powe
to render their country service ths
is invaluable and they have the sa
isfaction Of realizing this. They al
empowered by their governments
go to any length in unraveling en-
my plots.
"And what a revelation it must |
to one to know of all this curious u
dercurrent of intrigue that is goir
on about us! The experience mu
be quite like that of the men ov'
there who, when they go into a to-