Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-27
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AT al CNSAtS the IdSulOu she,
became, and it was quite as pat
ent that she took it as a matter
Of course. The radiant happiness
that possessed her, refusing as she.
did to look into the future with its
menace to those high duties Of her
former dedication = clear, sharp,
ruthless children of her brain-not
only enhanced both her beauty and
magnetism, but enabled her to en-
dure this social ordeal she had
dreaded. without ennui. She was
too happy to be bored She even
plunged into it with youthful rel
ish. For the first time in her life
she. was at peace with herself. She
was not at peace when clavering
made love to her, far from it; but
she enjoyed with all the zest Of a
woman with her first lover, and
something Of the timidity, this tan
talizing preliminary to fruition.
How could she ever have believed
that her mind was old? She turned
her imagination away Ia that
lodge in the Doiomites, and be-
lieved it was because the present
with its happiness and its excite
ments suficed her.
Moreover, she was having one
novel experience that afforded her
much diversion. The newspapers
were fun of her. 1t took exactly
FIVE days after Mrs. Oglethorpe's
luncheon for the story she had
told there to filter down to Park
Row, and although she would not
consent to be interviewed, there
were . double-page stories in the
Sunday issues, embellished with
snapshots and a photograph Of the
MARY Ogden of the eighties; a pho
tographer who had had the honor
10 take" her was still in existence
and exhumed the plates.
Doctors, biologists, endocrinolo-
gists,. were interviewed, Civil war
threatened: the medical fraternity,
upheld by a few doubling Thomas
es among the more abstract follow
ers of the science, on one side OF
the field ,sby far the greater num-
her OF those who peer into the hui
man mechanism with mere sc1en-
tific acumen on the other. Doctors,
notoriously as conservative as
kings and as jealous as opera sing
ers, found themselves threatened
with the loss of elderly patients
whose steady degeneration was a
source of respectable income.
When it was discovered that New
York actually held practicing
physician who had studied with
the great endocrinologists of Wen
ma, the street in front OF his house
looked as if some ambitious host
ess were holding a continual re-
ception.
Finally Madame zattiany con-
sented to give brief statement to
the press through her lawyers. IL
was as impersonal as water, butt
technical enough to satisfy the
Medical Journal. At the theatre
and opera people waited IN solld
uhalanxes to see her pass. Her
utter immobility on these occa-!
sions but heightened the feyerishi
interest.
women of thirty, dreaming Of
becoming happers overnight, ana
formidable rivals, with the suDtiety
OK experience behind the mask OF
seventeen. were desolated to learn
+bat tbav must submit to the claws
and teeth of time until tney mad
reached the last mile-post OF their
maturity. Beauty doctors CRASHED
their teeth, and plastic surgeons
looked forward to the day when
thew must play upon some other
form d human credaity- AS a
subject for the press II rlvaleu
strikes. prohibition German repa'
ship and scandalOus divorces in
high life. go .,,rroa9Y