The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-11
SLAIN
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WAS BELLE
Louise Lawson, Daughter Of
Merchant, Noted in Texas
for Charms.
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to tell the. tale Of his acquaintance
with the dead girl. Platonic; he.
explains. Based on appreciation Of
her musical ability.
THE pest" who wanted to marry
Louise probably could not be found
in who's Who" His chief dis
tinction--One not found IN Louiee'D
other 1riends--Was that he wanted
to marry her, and you couldn't Ax.
pect Who's Who" to feature him
for that. -.
In New York not so many men
poster pretty girl to get married.
Men want so many other things.
Last summer we read Of q million
aire who paid a charming young
woman $500 a month for the main.
tenance Of an apartment where he
could keep. hig library "Juet let
him come IN and spend 4 quiet eve.
ming with his books" now and then.
That was all he asked. The ibrAr.
ian Of this literary flat finally -haG
10 sue the plutocrat because he got
tired Of reading the same old story.
Tales Other Men. Tel.
Other men--rich men, Of course
like girls who teach them dancing.
You hear this all the time. Surpffs-
ing how much money there il in &C
quainting mlllionaires with the T11yS-
teries Of the tango and the fox trot.
Once In a while you will hear Of
a young lady who lives In the fierc-
est Of luxury because she Il willing
to let some dear old man come
around to advise her how to invest
her money. And, again. there are
other milHonaires with musical
tastes, who prefer, however. the
sweet errors OF the pretty amateur
to the cold Projections that can be
heard In Carnegie Hall or the Net,
ropOlitar Opera House. They say It
with music,
You couldn't expect a man like
1.-The pest" to synlpathize with this
musical atmosphere which surround.
ed Louise. the girl who left him be:
hind In Texas. The simplicities Of
her former life IN the South, incllid-
ing honorably intentioned men, were
as dead and forgotten az last years
magnolia blooms. !,
In the stirring symphony of boot.
legEers, bootmakers, parfumeurA,
pedicures, jewelers. and creators OF
Robes ct Manteaux" marrying
pests from back home make a dis.
cord.
Wives in the Way.
Az far as morals were concerned
they roll their own-the butterflies
and their crowd. Marry me" sounds
sour unless the sutton crashes ~
81 100000 note. t'.'
Not that butterfly's rich friends
don't think enough OF her to marry.
Oh. dear, no! But when a man has
wife, well, you know how IL is.
he hopes he'd never do thing In
the world to hurt that little woman.
Not anything she'd be apt to find
out, at any rate.
And so because real homes, hus.
bands Of their own. cannot come
into their lives except from the
class Of society which they have
abandoned, Louise Lawson and
many other girls accept half homes,
halfway houses on the road to
death.
Every spring and every fall these
half homes are leased to shelter
short and merry lives. OF course,
you must have good references
good financial ones. Pay and be
gay.
Price Butterflies Pay.
Dahl loves music. Dead Louise
Lawson loved music. Lately, they
say, she had premonition Of trouble.
She heard the drum beats of dis.
aster in the dark.
Some one wanted to exercise the
sin Of the pretty singer. Some one
did. Some one who found Louise
Lawson alone and unprotected in
one of those elaborate cells, with
which New York Il honeycombed
stilled the music, .s
What does It all amount to?
Dot King dead. Louise Lawson
dead.
A string Of pearls. The use of n
car. Another's woman's husband.
A roof over ones head. Tho risk,
Death. p,