The Washington times., 1922-10-17
b'EAlJT IFUL.
IN SPITE Of
WILD LIFE
Humble Friends Insist That
One-Time Belle Is Not
Drug Addict.
BY ALMA SIOUX sCARBERRY.

BY ALMA SIOUX sCARBERRY
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Will
she come back-can she come
back-or, has the last card in
her checkered and unusual life
been played?
Somehow the world does not
seem to stop long enough to ask
And yet she is Mrs. Effie Pope
Hill Alsop whose very name at
one time drw forth interested
attention. But that was 1911
Then she was young and beauti-
ful, the wife of a man more than
half q century older than herself.
He was Edward B, Alsop, steel
magnate, said to be worth
$40,006,000. She was a little
Southern girl, whom he started
courtlng when she was but fifteen,
and married a little over three
years later.
Case Of Love.
my husband is adorable" said
she then. How could we help but
be happy? idolize him and he is
the very soul Of all that is good
and fine"
1T. is just a case of love-" said
ne. MY little wife is the loveliest
woman in the world. We are de.
vote to each other and l am sure
we will be happy"
Two years later the marriage of
December and May was dissolved.
Then the world was interested
again. Mrs. Alsop went on the
stage in a dancing act. That was
news. The world smiled its 81.
told-you-so" smile ami begun to
lose interest. Two weeks ago, she
was taken to Bellevue hospital
where she was reported to be dying
from veronal poisoning.
But what of her now?
Where is Mrs. Asop? Where are
the friends whom she entertained
in Washington, New York, Europe?
Does anybody care? She has been
taken back to her home. l saw
her yesterday. But she didn't know
I saw her. She was lying in bed
wrapped in blankets just her
golden hair and extremely beautiful
face could be seen. L shook her
and, so did a friend of hers. but
she didn't answer us. She was still
suffering!
She is living in three rooms on the
top floor Of 81 West Forty
seventh tsreet-a tiny bed room.
q large studio room and a kitch-
enette. No answer, came when
I knocked at the door of the adjoin'
ing apartment occupied by Miss Lor-
Io
Miss Mabel Hunter, who Is visit.
ing Miss Lorraine and Miss Run
nells, answered and said:
MRS. Aslop is asletp. L don't
believe we can awaken her. 1 tried
lust a short time ago but I will try
again"
She went into Mrs. Aslop's apart
ment and got no response to her at
tempts to arouse her.
"It is 80 pitiful," Miss Hunter
said, as she came back almost in
tears. You see she Is trying to for.
get. She drank too much. This
morning she came in with a belt
around her waist like a cowboy.
and a rope, and she said she was
ready for any people who came
around to pry into her affairs.
Then a little while after she fell
asleep. I don't know when we will
be able to get her awake"
mot Drugs" They Say
Then asked the two women
who have been SO kind to Mrs.
Alsop IL she had any friends.
''Friendsv' Miss Hunter laughed
bitterly. 1.-THE word makes me
laugh. OF course she hasn't any
friends now that she can't write
checks for them. She used to have
plenty OF friends but nobody
bothers to call now and ask what
they can do"
"Do you think her recent &C.
Absolutely not" declared Miss
yesterday that she never touched
drugs in her life"
The women neighbors stated they
believed she was about at the end
of her rope" Miss Hunter told OF
Mrs. Alsop stating a few days ago
that while at Hot Springs not sc
very long ago she received a tele'
gram informing her that she had
lost $4,000 at one blow in Wall
Street.
Then the question Of Mrs. AL.
sop's beauty came up, Miss Hun
"Mrs. Aisop is the most at,
tractively dressed woman I have
ever seen. Oh, how beautiful she
A. too. Golden hair, big blue eyes
she just had everything to live
for"