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The Washington times., 1923-03-25
Artist Of Promise.

There is no difficulty in buying
dope If you have the money. In
the case of pretty girl, even
money is not essential"
Tarzan has not only both money
and beauty. but she is refined, Gull
tured and talented. Two years ago,
at seventeen, Tarzan was an artist
OF promise. She did some work as
m artists model, but not because
she was forced TO do this as q
means of earning her livelihood.
Ny mother died when / was q
baby. said Tarzan. '.Since then I
have had everything that money
could buy except q pair of mothers
arms into which could rum when
in need of counsel Father was
ayay much on business and we
children were boarded out and sent
to various schools. The first seven
teen years Of my life were not diff
ferent from the same years in any
girls life
The spring of 1921 found Tarzan a
healthy, lovable schoolgirl. She had
yet to smoke her first cigarette. TO
take her first drink of liquor. Life
was 8OOQe AHu men anu WDIuCu CREAM.
Then Tarzan went to Portland.
Maine, for q visit.
Tarzan met a wealthy broker in
Portland, q married man, with offices
on Exchange street. He saw Tarzan
and wanted her" Being wise in
the ways of women this man started
q systematic campaign to accomplish
his desires. First he taught Tarzan
to smoke. Then he gave her the
first liquor she had tasted
II did not set my. first morphine
directly from him" said Tarzan,
although he was responsible. There
was a girl friend of Mr.. H
whom I came to know and whose
friendship my father objected to
strenuousIy. Her brother owns a
drug store in Portland and it was
back of his prescription counter that
took my first injection of NOR
phine. He used to refuse to give it
TO me as he said Federal agents
were watching him, but we would
steal it,
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like me because 1 resented his in
Suits
Tarzan went to room for a while
with a girl named Louise Hodell,
who to all outward appearances,
was a proper companion for her.
Tarzan told Louise of the suffer
ing she endured during the with.
drawal process-breaking away from
morphine. Louise suggested that
Tarzan try taking veronol.
81 was surprised to find that
you can buy veronol in drug stores
without prescription" said Tar
zan. You could not credit the
number of girls who are veronol
fiends. Many of these are young
society girls who start using vero-
mol to rest their nerves. / have
taken more than a hundred grains
OF veronol in a single day before
obtaining sleep, and the resultant
dreams-they are hideous."
So Tarzan returned to DIR. Ms
office and the morphine needle.
She was at that time keeping com
pany with Dick, Henrion. Dick
and Tarzan soon became leaders
of the wild set whose headquarters
was the apartment on ST. Botolph.
<ldTZan B GUARDIAN asked q girl
friend, Shirley Barrett, to go to the
st. Botolph street apartment and
get her one day. Shirley was fol-
lowed by her mother and a scene
ensued. Mrs. Barrett brandished
a revolver and the party ended in
disorder.
Following this affair Tarzan was
again sent to the Psycopathic Hos
'pital and from there went to the
Bloomingdale Sanitarium at White
Plains, N. Y.
at couldn't stand it there with
all those crazy women" said Tar.
IAN. Zone woman would come to
me and say. Look! l have no
stomach. Another would say Feel!
have no heart 1 began to won
der II any of my important organs
were missing. --
Tarzan was supplied with drugs
even while she was In BIoomingdale.
1t was sent to her in candy by
Boston friends" The candy Sc
lected for this purpose was Chi,
nese candy, which has the same
consistency as gum drops and is
covered with poppy seeds. The
gum drops We're pulled apart and
drugs placed inside.
a letter written by Rena Brown
on October S, informed Tarzan that
DIR. NJ was sending her some
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describin the falls she was taking.
But again the craving for drugs
made Tarzan violently ILL., She
started for Boston to- see her father
and passed him on the way. So
she called up Moy and went to his
apartment for shelter.
Someone, jealous, of Moy, inform
ed the police that Tarzan was in
his apartment and raid followed.
Tarzan was taken to the City
Hospital but examination failed to
show that she had been taking
drugs. Her father. held a confer
ence with Judge Hayden OF Rox-
bury court and TaFzan was placed
on probation upon her promise to
go to a hospital and remain there
until thoroughly cured.
ooh, how want to get away
from it ALL" she said, II know that
I will never use drugs again. If
/ cannot live without them, will
kill myself. But If I. come out of
the hospital cured. will go away
from Boston to some other city
where the drug peddlers do not
know .me. For they are always
looking. for new customers, and
hate to lose the old ones"
copyright. 1923. by Universal Service)
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She Meets Ralph Fry.

1t so happened that the office OF
Tarzan's guardian was in the same
building in which Dr.. Erwin G.. Ruth
and Ralph Fry, narcotic agents,
were filming a dope" picture. Fry
became acquainted with Tarzan and
asked her to take a part in the pic
ture. Several other girls, addicted
to drugs, were in the picture.
Among them was Mae Cookson.
While Fry was talking to Tarzan
one day. Pat Cromett came into
the studio to see her. FRY took
Cromett to the narcotic office. sun
posedly to search him. Cromett
returned later and laughingly drew
a hypodermic needle and a ouan.
tity Of morphine from his pocket
He's a hell of a narcotic agent y
Cromett said to Tarzan.
Fry also tried to get Tarzan Tn
help him get the goods" on DR.,
M, but she refused. How Fry
was later trapped in Portland and
convicted OF extorting money from
doctors and druggists is related in
Dope" an astounding article now
running in Hearst's international
Magazine.
FRY paid me nothing for my
work in the picture" said Tarzan.
He promised to give me some
morphine, but never did. He gave
Mae cookson some but he didn't
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a girl and then preach to her
about what she does with other
men,
During the winter Of 1922
Tarzan met a number of people
who were to play important roles
in her drama. These included:
Dick Henrion. a young Canadian
with an apartment at No. 70 st.
Botolph street; Dr. M, a ply
stefan with offices in fremont
street: Rena Brown, drug ad-
dict and procurer Of girls; Flor
ence Murray. proprietor. of the
March Hare" tea room patron.
lied by artists and ''intellectuals,"
and a number of habitues Of the
March Hare" including Dick de
Bochemont, Bob Hartong, Dick Wer-
ner and others.
DIR. M gave me injections Of
morphine and also prescriptions. He
did not charge me anything for the
morphine given me in his office, T"
said Tarzan. Il finally got in the
habit Of. going to his office every
night. 1T was there I met Rena
Brown. She has been q drug addict
for years and also arranges parties
for men-obtains good-looking girls
for stag dinners. ETC."
There also was man named Pat
Cromett, a drug addict, who used to
obtain morphine for Tarzan. In
May, 1922, Tarzan's father learned
the true situation regarding his
daughter and had legal guardian
appointed for her. She was sent to
the Psycopathic Hospital for a time
and later sent to Connecticut for a
rest.
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Girl Allies w rite
Advice to S'Tarzan' =

I have sold the March Hare to
an italian boy Bob Capone I
don't think you know him. Bust
ness II picking up ard the old
place Is pretty lively.
Last Saturday q Boston Untver-
sity club OF girls ordered dinner
for forty-fiye with red roses, Ia
vOrs and decorations, etc. An
hour before the appointed hour,
Dan Warren kicked up g fuss
about girls going to dope den,
ana fhe dinner was q I1celIed. Bob
is now trying to collect from them.
Dickie KiTnba1l and + are going
down to New Orleans. on Cape
Cod. tomorrow; Mrs. JOhnstone,
who lived at No. lis with us IN
the winter. has place there.
/ have not seen Bob Hartong
since his father came down one
afternoon and took him home.
wei. dear child. take your naedi'
cine philosopl lieaIly and struggle
along j synpathize withvou But
feel III IS best.
am good ct preaching and
now VIII deliver. = Sunday morn.
ing sermon.
You have the making Of q lady
lin. the real sense Of the word
In. YOU. For Gods sake, don't
waste your youth and good looks
on those cheap. common boys who
care for nothing but excitement
and good times.
Cultivate pCfse and q sense Of
refinement, well being superiority.
Make 10 worth while To- know Miss
Standfield. II you care to smoke
or drink, do it like 3 lady with
some technique. IL You have q
love affair have one that II real
one that has some emotional
value. So endeth til first chap.
ter.
I'd like to have q good talk
with You some day you know,
the sort Of b talk couple Of
school girls have.
AffectiOnakeIy,
FLORENCE @. MURRAY.
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THO WOMEN COPS
BREAK Up SA|IG
Arrest Mediums Who calI Up
Spirit 81 d Very Live
Husband.

NEW YORK, March "A. Two
pciIceworaen. Mrs. Mary p Cconey
and Mrs. Catherine Schneider, were
arnong those present at seance
In Seventh -second street. After the
pei f0rtnaasce they arrested Mrs.
Helen Warwick ana Mrs Mary
Hitchcock ana aryafgned them be-
fore Magistrate Moses r. Rytten-
berg iii West side court.
me policeuO Inen said that they
paid an adiiafe sion Of one dollar
and that there were about twenty
five persons II the seance.
Mrs. Cooney expressed = desire
to talk with lIer dead husband. she
wanted to ask him whether she
might MARRY Philip.
do YOU love him? asked -
spOOky voice.
Not AZ much as ! love you, re-
piled Mrs CoOney, playing safe.
"A1l right, then, said the sup
p0sed voice 81 her dead husband:
s.go ahead But I'll claim you
when you reach the spirit world.
Whereupop, MRS. C0Oney, whose
husband II special officer IN
bank and very much alive aI.
rested the two women and took
with her 40 evidence an arInful
Of tin tfuInpets.
two women in $500 ball each.
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Rich Boston Girl, Now in Hos
pital, TeIIsHow She Got First
Lessons in Narcotic Habit
LIFE WRECKED BY DRUGS
Supply Always Available and
'.in Case Of Pretty Girl Even
Money Is Not Essential"
By ROBERT |. MURRAY.

NEW YORK, March 24-Eve-
Tyne Standfield, daughter Of q
wealthy gold miner with offices
in Boston: is in a private hospital
fighting to free herself from the
tentacles Of the drug habit.
known to the Boston art colony
rs ''Tarzan" Tin tribute. to her
wealth of blonde hair), Evelyne
is victim of her own beauty.
At nineteen she has experienced
all the horrors of q morphine
fiend, has lost faith in all man
kind, and finally has determined
to accomplish her own redemption.
Tarxan has told me her story.
She told it reluctantly. She har-
bors no ilI-will toward those who
accomplished her physical and
mental ruin. When she had con-
cluded, one statement still rang
in my ears-a statement that sums
up the dope situation In America
today.
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candy. Another letter written by
Florence Murray said that Dick de
Rochemont promised to send some.
The candy sent by De Rochemont
arrived at BloomingdaIe after Tar.
IAN had left and eventually fell
into the hands Of her father. II
was inspected and found to contain
veronol. A special delivery letter
preceded the candy. IF there Is
anything you want let me know and
will get it for you. If possible, u
wrote De Rochemont. when YOU
want some more candy let me
know"
When Tarzan returned from
Bloomingdale, she did so upon "a
promise made to her father that she
would go to some private school and
abstain from the use of drugs. She
might have accomplished this had It
not been for the friends Of her for.
mer days.
The school selected for Tarzan was
Notre Dame Academy, located in
Roxbury,s Mass. Tarzan entered
Notre Dame under her own name
and determined to forget the old
EVelyne Standfield or "Tarzan'' and
devote all her energies to the study
OF art. Her contagious laughter and
lovable personality soon made her q
favorite with the girls and her
natural talents attracted the attcn-
ton of the teachers.
On October rs, DIR. M and Rena
Brown wrote Tarzan that thew would
be out to see her the next day. Tar
zan was allowed to 60 for a walk
with them and when she returned.
fell violently i'll. An Investigation
followed and Tarzan was found to be
under the influence of drugs. The
officials Of the school were mortified
and requested her to leave the school
at once. ..,. ....
Disheartened at the outlook Tar.
zan again took to the needle. %
Not only did she go to the office
of DIR. M, but became one of
number of girls who visit a
combination sleeping quarters and
office on Washington street run
by man known as Jackie. Z"
This place Is rendezvous for
drug addicts, principally, young
girls. There 10 a back entrance
used by the regulars" one 1oi
whom is a young girl who left
her honeymoon and husband ia
return to Jackie" and morphine.
Tarzan met an American born
Chinese student by the name Of
Sam Moy one night in December.
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EVel1s TeceiUed letters from
her coTypptinO friends ddVisiMg
her IN the technique of the Vices
recommended. RenU Brogym adj
Oised her to equip herself NTH
pretty pictures and d BIT Of
becoming tat.
X "Tarzansdear / stopped at c.
this noon and he gave me your
portfolio of pictures; he didn't
seem to- want to- But the ones I
want are the ones ne took profile
with the lighted baclsgr0und max
Ing q silhouett also the ones we
took to the Post. So, when you
write him, kid him along, hon,
cause he likes you and you can
get what you want out of him.
Tell him to also give me the
smaller ones, which are colored.
Where are they?
Why don't you write that
friend OF Dicks In New York?
He said that he could get you
work In New York City, and
there must be lots lOf Ii tlaere
. only first please stay here and
gain at least five pounds your
cheeks are too thin now, hon.
Get in with money and stick
with it. '.REINA. 4
LOVe, liquor and cigGYettee all
may be taken ~ d lGdylilee man
1sel:, Gccofding TO Miss F't0resce
Murray, fOrslse4 proprietor Of
the March Hare and leader of
BCstOg colony Of siatel lectwels /,
on BeGcOm Hill.
Miss Mss9raV turote EVetvm d.
letter giUiasg her some Gdvice on
this subject and also the LdtSet.
,se1Cs 81 the mt ILectMGls. It.
WGs 0ddFeesed TO tie BJOonsii1tg-
dale SUMitGriaqn. .
Dear Evelyn: You must forgive
me for not answering your letter
before this. Lam very, very
poor correspondent Usually can
exouge myself by saying busy,
but this time not even that Is true.
-
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Ideals Destroyed.

When I returned to Boston in
the fall of 1921, the realization of
what had happened during those
few months struck terro into my
heart. All the ideals / had cher
ished had been reduced to ashes
through the flames of a mans
passion. Now l would have wei.
Eomed a mothers arms at that
time.
Father happened upon a letter
from Mr.. H and upbraided him
Fortunately he did not realize the
full import of the letter or 1 fear
that he would have killed him.
After that Mr.. H wrote his
letters on typewriter and worded
them with care"
The Portland broker then wrote
Tarzan, II did not call up or write
because thought your father
might think it strange. / know
what a careless devil you are in
leaving your letters around for
everyone to read-instead of TEARING
them up as soon as you read them
as you should. Tell me ali the
news when you write and perhans
in the near future we will have q
chance to have a real oId-fashioned
talk IL you want to. Be sure and
address all your letters to INV box. .
1t was not long after Tarzan re
turned from Portland that she real
lied that she had become a done
fiend. II shall never forget the
horror Of it," she said. '"Thf
CHASTITY realization that INV svstey.
was crying for morphine, morphine
broke me in spirit and in health
For a time l tried liquor, but tina,
did not suffice and an incident one
night In November brought mater,
to a crisis.
During a studio partv one n,
the boys offered me a drink IRON
e flask. Shortly after drjnkine n
became violently i'll and was
@ken to Cambridge Hospital n
seems TO me now as though NV ne
since that time has been one ri
hospttals-how detest them"
Tarzan wrote Mr.. H, of Port.
land, about this affair and rs.
ceived a letter telling her In he
careful what kind of LIQUOR she
drank. 1t should teach Won q
lesson" he said.
Men are funny, are they not?"
said Tarzan, referring to this LET
ter. hey crush the youth from
The Washington times., 1923-03-25
REGAIN THAT GIRLY
COMPLEXION EASlY
Quick Results Sure If You
Do Like Thousands If
1900
Women Who Praise
Black and White.

DON'T worry and fret about how bad
your complexion To- 1t 10 possible now
to make that rough. blotchy and un-
pleasant skin smooth and soft II yeu
will just nse 3 little cbmnonaehse and
do like SO many thousands Of women
are doing sll over the country.
Blackheads. pinples and other face
runners are nothing more than you CT n
expect when you neglect the care of
your face every day. Yon seem 70 tAke
1t as q matter of course that your, com :
plexton ought to always be Just r1Gnk.
without any thought OF the care " must
have, to keep away the many outside
influences which hurt the delic&te Ls-
sue of the complexion
But using just something is where 80
MANY girls and women make their mis-.
take. Treatments which promise over
ni9ht'' beauty are often worse than II
Vol, don't use anything at all, because
fhey must be harsh to work so quick
and when they are, the-sktn suffers.
Millions of packages of Black and
white Cleansing. and Peroxide Cream,
a. well a. Face Powder, are sold every
vear 10 girls and women who have found
fbesa I'd be real toilet necessities The
Stieansin Cream keeps the skin cleau
~ renewing every particle of the dust,
,Tyease and things that hurt the com
nlexIon The Peroxide Cream keeps the
slxin clear, protects 1t and forms per-
feet base to hold Black and White Face
powder thereby giving the complexion
a natural appearance.
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SUI FOR BABY
IS NON BY ITS
GRA|uDF
Missouri Court Sets Aside Adop-
ton BY Couple Of Orphan Heir
to $50, 900 IN Pennsylvania
cHILD's MOTHER UllvvED
Three Families Figure ii egal'
Fight for Possession Of Boy
Less Than Five Months Old

h "a e 243A
KANSAS CITY, No. March N.
Charles James, four months old,
storm center Of q legal fight here
has gone to Dry Run. Pa, ii Gus
ltody Of his grandf ather, Dr. 3. E.
Slope, wealthy surgeon and
banker.
Charles, who il heir to the estate
Toe his mother, valued st $4,000
| to S1O0.00O, was given in Or. shope'n
charge ~ Judge p. e. Porterfield.
on condition that the babyss wealth
be held IN trust until he becomes
| OF age.
The decision was handed down IN
Q habeas corpus proceeding started
BY Dr.. Sldope against Charles Nj
James and his wife, keeper Of a
maternity home. who had adopted
the infant after Us mothers death
ID. El1ope offending that he was
the chiIdss 81 al heir, sued to have
1.-THE adoption s8k aside.
The daugh liter, Helen Sllope, dis
Iappeared from the home at Dry
Run. Pa, In November, 1922. Her
mother had died leaving the daugil.
ter $4,000 estate. on Novern-
her ~, 1922. according TO the petit
ton, DR.. Shope received word from
his daughter that a son had been
born on November 10. He heard
nothing further from his daughter
until December is, when he re-
ceived notification Of her death In
d hospital here.
Ipaid the funeral expenses for his
| OF the boys upkeep ct the mater
nifty hospital.
just before the mothers death,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Weeks went
| to the hospital seeking to adopt
q baby. Weeks is mechanic iii
the United States army stationed
lat Fort LeayenWortI1. They were
attracted BY the youngster, then
about q month old, and took Ii n
their home at Fort Leavenworth.
On January 20, according to the
petition, after learning Of the
ichiId's Inheritance, Mr. and Mrs
James applied for adoption papers
land also applied as adfnfnisf tori
lOEs the mothers estate. These
lpapers were granted and the boys
name was changed to Charles M
James, Prior to this, however
1.-THE 1petition recitess the grand
father had applied as administrators
Eof his daughters estate in Dry
Run, Pa, and the papers were
granted TO him.
Mr.. and Mrs. James explained
THAT shortly before the nnofher,a
death, and after Mr.. and Mrs.
Weeks had taken the boy. Helen
Shope changed her mind and re;
quested them to get the baby back,
adopt it and act as administratO tor
for the estate.
DR.. Shope ID q short. heavy set.
prosperous looking man, wearing 3
close-cropped Tpustache. His gray
hair brist1ed ais he argued why the
baby should be his. He discussed
| the chiId's parentage. named the
father and calmly announced he
liked the looks Of the little Eel
low He said the father was q
wealthy farmer near Dry Run.
DIR. Shope said he did not know
why the father Of the infant and
his daughter had never married.
Both families, he said, were com.
PORTABLE financially.
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RHEU MATISM
LEAVES you FOREVER

Deep Seated Uric Acid Deposits Are
Dissolved and the RheuIastic
Poison Starts to Leave the Sys.
tenn Within Twenty.fOur Hours.
Every druggist in this country is
authorized to say to every rheu-
matte sufferer that IL 4 full pint
bottle of Allenrhu. the sure con-
Queror of rheumatism, does not
show the way to stop the agony,
reduce swollen joints and do away
with even the slightest twinge OF
rheumatic pain. he will gladly re.
turn your money without comment.
Allenrhu has been tried and tested
for years, and really marvellous re-
suits have been accomplished in
the most severe cases where the
suffering and agony were intense
and piteous and where the patient
was helpless.
Mr.. James H. Allen, of Rochester,
". r., the discoverer of Allenrhu
who for many years suffered the
torments OF acute rheumatism de-
sires all sufferers to know that he
does not want a cent of anyone'a
money unless Allenrhu decisively
conquers this worst Of all diseases,
and he has instructed druggists to
guarantee 1t al above in every In
stance.
!, Get 1t At Peoples
Drug Stores
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Mother 10 20
Married At III
and Is Only 81

81 - A ~ - - \ AlsAA4g n Msg
March a.
REM Ink ABLE cnss or
- = pr0IllIe family II F..
ported from BellbruI, Green.
brier County Four children
were horn u Mr. and Mr.
Homer ScBgann, 81 That pIace.
one u which rs since died.
Rirs. AIcAfann, only tllirty.seveii
years ok age, i The mother
81 twenty children Besides.
quadruplsts, Mrs. McAIann has
given birth 10 three sets of
twins. Sspem deaths hnve r..
suited among the children. one
o. each ~ no three sets q
twins hrs lied.
Mrs NIcNEalJIl wns married
when plle Vas seventeen years
of age.
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Wall Street Thefts Like
Taking Candy from Child

NEW YORK. March - Steal
ing money in Wall street is as easy
as taking candy from a child, de
clared Judge Rosalslsy in General
Sessions in sentencing Oscar III.
Bruen, aged thirty-eight, former
stock broker. to from one to two
years in Sing Sing prison. In adj
dition Bruen was fined $4,000. Tor
nonpayment of which he will be
forced to serve one day for every
dollar. And he says he is unable
to pay q cent Of it.
"Wall street brokers convicted
before me can expect no mercy"
said the court. "Thefts are going
on down there all the time. One
would think the investing public
would at last become careful"
AnVERTTSENEEAIT
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II N Gin Send
pyramid


81 x0u are one Of those unfeRk1s
Mates strug Cling with the pain ana
distress 09 itching. bleeding pEo.s