The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-27
WICKED WOMEN
Do NOT KILL,
SHE SAYS
Gentle Things, Without Much
Intelligence, Ones to Be
Feared.
By WILLENE TAYLOR,
COsmopolitan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-"Wicked
women don't XIII. There is a
strength in wickedness. Wicked
women have strength to struggle
with a power instead Of killing It,"
Georgette LIE Blame Maeterlinck'
former wife Of the famous Belgian
poet and O famous artist and writer
herself, thus commented today con-
corning the many recent killings by
women and particularly concerning
the case of Mrs. Lillian Razien, who
will go on trial for murder Mon
day.
Mrs. Raizen killed DR.. abraham
Glickstein December 10, 1871. with
a gun hidden and silenced in hand
muff. She confessed to shooting
the doctor but charged that DR..
Giickstein had forced her to init
years and threatened her with de-
nouncement unless she continued
the relationship. She was q bride OF
six months when she killed him.
She said the fear Of him drove her
to 1t.
Believes Woman's Story.
SIT Ia absolutely true that man
can exert this power over young
women Madame Maetarlinck said.
''All love 10 based on q mysterious
principle Of suggestion. Often q
person exerts influence over an
other and wins him before he
knows 1t.
''I know of a case parallel to
the Raizen affair. 1t concerns one
Of the most intelligent and most
famous women of France. This
woman found herself strangely In
fluenced by q very ordinary man.
She found herself much in his COM
pany, and noticed that he seemed
to absorb her viii power. She
was q woman Of such superior in
tellect that abe realized her mind
was slipping-that the man was
making her go mad. But she did
not kill him. He also was a doctor.
She went to another doctor~-a
famous physician, and put herself
in his care. She went to the court
and publicly denounced the man as
an evil influence. She was so well
respected that the story never even
spread. The physician who cured
her told me of the case. She said
she would have lost her mind If
she had married the man.
"a sweet, gentle woman with not
too much intelligence Is apt to kill.
But never q very intelligent woman
or really wicked woman.
Knows Terrible Women.
'I have had the acquaintance Of
several very terrible women in my
life. always noticed that they
had cleverness all their own
a sort Of cunning-which was an
ordinary cleverness after all. Yet,
those women always got along
well. I noticed their tai
ents helped them in living. And
they have weapons with which to
fight an adversary-they do not
have to lose their heads.
This mysterious power Of love Is
the secret Of the marriages that seem
extraordinary. But when one knows
the story one learns that this power
is a power OF mentality. Love is a
possession OF mentality.
11Ildk1uG NuA0 MITE 1eAAESA 10 PCT"
fectly sane. A person may be sane
to a Doctors test, and yet not have
of her own mind. She has
a sweet character naturally, perhaps.
A woman with such character can
easily be influenced to commit deeds
which are not caused by wickedness.
AS have the story, do not think
she was justified in killing DR.. Click
stein. She seems to have been pos
sessed with the fear Of losing herself
or her husband, and under a special
nervous strain.
"If she had possessed superior iIl-
telligence she would have had COM
prehensions of good and found some
other way out.
Jealous Crimes Very Low.
'If 1 were a judge. I would be
very hard on crime committed in
rage of passion or jealousy. A
crime Of jealousy is very disgust
ing-very low. A repulsive crime
Hall, of New Brunswick, N. j.
IF a person is a real person
atty, he IL alone in the world
and the rest Of the world doesn't
count. II he has love taken away,
ne Will auIlcEs Jul Will JlOt IO"SE
himself to primitive deeds.
at is terrible about Mrs. Raizen.
She was influenced by a stronger
will. She should not be treated
too harshly and yet should not he
let go.
versal. Countries may have differ
emit customs and religions. but things
out of the normal, like this case, are
the same everywhere"
Nine. Maeterlinck will start on a
concert tour through the South
February /. She will go to Wash
ington first, and later to Los An
geles. For twenty years the com
panion and inspiration OF Maurice
Masterlinck. she liz still very at
tractive and unusually brilliant wom-
an. She Is famous as an artist,
sculptress, singer, novelist and
beauty. It was with the Opera
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