The Washington times., 1924-03-03
MUCH TRAGEDY
MARKS HER +.
LIFE
Young Mother, Embittered,
Mates Women and DisIikes
Men As Much.

s'I despise women and I dislike
men about as much"
All the pent-up sorrow, all the
mundane troubles, all, the disiHu-
stoned ideals of a young matron
came to the fore in the almost
savage utterance Of that callow
philosophy.
!. Her name is of small consequence.
Her face is pretty, but worn. She
is twenty-five years old, divorced.
and with a four-year-old baby.
She cannot remember the time
when she saw her father, and any
way he beat her mother.
Her own husband left her when
the baby was a year old. She
knows not, neither does she care.
where he is nor what the fates do
to him. His calumny has hard
ened her. and has brought into her
life that cynicisn that SO often be-
peaks worldly wisdom.
Bitter Against Mankind.
Mrs. Olivia Mattingly sat at the
GOuble bier of her grandmother
and grandfather at sol East Capt..
eol street. She swept huIriedly over
the events in an eventful and tragic
life and grew bitter against all
mankind, as witness her flat state
] 1nent at the beginning of this story.
The flood of tragedies that made
Olivia: Mattingly the cynic that she
- are, briefly, these:
One day her father severely beat
her mother. Then he left home
and has never been seen since.
She married, but the husband
and father deserted her and their
baby and he has never been seen
since.
A year ago her mother died, and
Olivia took up her residence at
tMo home of her husbands mother.
Last Of Her Kin.
II was her custom to spend
many hours with Mr.. and Mrs.
Timothy Conan in Baltimore. They
were the last of her blood rela-
tiOns, and her keenest pleasure
was to sit and chat with them and
to help Mrs. Cohan with her
meager homework.
Saturday morning she went to
Baltimore to see them She knew
the couple were rapidly nearing
/ the end, for both were weak and
tOttering, though Grandpa Conan
still persisted in going to his work
every day.
He had to, because his earnings
We're needed at his home. His work
taS a stone cutters assistant Melted
MIN just about enough for the little
wants of himself and his wife.
Olivia found herself unable to
awaken the grandparents. She
knocked furiously on the door and
then she asked a policeman to help
her break in. The latter knocked
In the door of the apartment, and
thero lying beside each other on the
floor were the jagged couple A gas
heater was going, but a gas light
had been "xtinguished; how, it does
not matter, since the outcome pre-
NAudes any need for an explanation.
will Be Buried Today.
} But Olivia summoned physicians
and nurses and sought to conserve
the life that was flickering in her
kinfolk. They died almost in each
others arms and olivia had the
I They were brought to Washington
Yesterday, and they will be buried
today.
All last night, sitting in her vigil
beside the dead, olivia Mattingly' j
brain whirled with the Sbitter whims
of life, as she had found it. She
knew Of no friends, at least she said
so. She could see. only the bitter,
t1nercenary world that she had dealt
In; that she had lived and loved in
/. and in which she had lost every
thing but her baby. Maybe there
/ was some reason for that statement.
- despise women and dislike men
about as much"