The New York herald., 1922-05-21
Poor Country
Girl With
TwO DreSSeS---
Non She Has
Three
Secretaries
ss O POOKS, DENNIS & CO." is not
duly incorporated firm, but just

&. @ PooKs, DENNIS 6 CO." is not
duly incorporated firm, but just
a partnership. Stock, common
or preferred, Is not for sale. If 1t were
for sale Wall Street probably would COB
BILE 1t up. For the partnership earns
something like million per cent. in
dividends-or whatever percentage it
amounts to when nothing invested re-
turns thousands of dollars week and
motor cars and the latest gowns from
Paris.
The junior partner in this enterprising
concern is Eugene Dennis, pretty, II
years old and with truly marvellous eyes.
The senior partner, or partners, is
spooks. Conan Doyles kind. Except these
are very dependable spooks, on duty all
the time, joyous and efficient in their
tenancy of the aforesaid marvellous eyes.
A year ago the junior partner, Eugene.
was the bashful, little awkward, ging-
ham gowned sixteen-year-old daughter Of
humble woodcarver, whose home was on
one of the extremely unassuming streets
on the outskirts of small town in Kan
sas. Sundays the family went to church
and Eugene's gingham gown was put
aside for foulard print. Saturday was
payday and Saturday night Eugene ran
over to the grocery store to pay the bill
and stopped at the butcher shop on the
way back TO buy some round steak for
Sunday dinner and pay for the weeks
hamburger. Other days didn't count for
much.
Then some vagrant spook, roaming
around in search Of excitement, some
thing az Haroun al Rachid wandered
night times in Bagdad, was attracted by
those marvellous eyes of Eugene-shining
especially, perhaps, over sundae at the
citys drug store-and decided they would
make good habitat.
The spook moved In and paid his first
months rent by revealing these eyes
murder scene, five miles away, at the very
moment an enterprising and romantic
young man, son Of the butcher, was about
to punctuate Sunday night automobile
ride with kiss on the lips that Redeemed
below the eyes.
The kiss was spoiled-perhaps the
spook was mischievous-because no girl.
even II only 16. can enjoy kiss while
witnessing a murder i've miles away. at
the other end Of the city. She screamed
out about her vision and persuaded the
butchers SON to drive pell NELL to the
locality pictured in her eyes. When they
arrived, sure enough. murder had just
been done and the culprits had fed. But
the eyes had seen the murderers and de-
scribed them TO the police and they were
caught ana convicted.
Certainly this performance was good
months rent for the spook.
Every ono in the small Kansas town
heard about Il and, over night, pretty 1T
tie Eugene Dennis became famous. The
story has been widely told-how people
fiocked to her fathers home and asked
her to see things no merely human eye
could see, and how she discovered the
hiding place OF lost and stolen brooches
and bracelets and necklaces and how she
suddenly became known across the coun-
try as the "girl with the psychic eyes,
"She couldn't understand II herself"
she exclaimed. "She just saw things
happening. and when persons came to
ask her where something or other was
hidden or lost, or where somebody or
other had strayed to-why, her eyes i'm
mediately saw the thing or the person
and just where they were."
Somebody offered her little money
one day for telling where diamond
brooch had been lost and where to find
u. That made the woodworking father
qnite angry and hurt the feelings of the
little girl. She declared her fathers
Saturday night envelope was quite
plenty to provide neat gingham dresses
for week days and pretty foulards for
Sunday.
But, evidently, the spook had finan-
cial turn of mind, and was clever pro-
moter. researcher became interested