The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
BY CARL d. GROAT
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BY CARL -. NhOAl
United Press staR Correspondent
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NEW YORK, June 1.-THE
Faithful family went back today
amid the treasures of memory to
paint a picture of the dead Starr
Faithful as an adorable child, with
an early love of the beautiful and
artistic, fearless, courageous, self
reliant,
They traced a story Of her child
hood, some incidents of which
might be duplicated in any family
but many of which we're stamped
with an individuality that marked
Starr Faithful
Starr, who came to the end Of her
career by drowning learned to
swim before she could walk.
Fearless with Mad Dog
She once held mad dog while a
crowd of grown people stared in
en1azement at her pluck as she babe
shoot her pet. The dog died in
his hydrophobia as Starr chung to
him, unafraid.
She didn't like dolls, but was fond
of a sort of doll made of clothes
hanger that bore the descriptive
name of hanger" and had a place
of honor among her childish pos
oil two
day for ''sore throat" by Starr.
She loved dogs and one dog was
named Bubbles" She amused
herself one day by coating him with
butter, and though he was ferocious
to some, he did not object to this
treatment from his mistress.
Had Storybook Friends
She had an early love for books,
and as her mother put it, she had
a lot of imaginary friends the
fairies, princes and princesSeS of the
story books with whom she COM
muned as youngster.
These we're some of the things
the woman, worn by the strain of
STAIRS death, and the incessant
questioning of authorities and press,
told today in the simple living room
Of her home in st. Luke's place,
with the stepfather and Tucker
Faithful contributing occasionally
an anecdote or incident.
A load seemed to lift from this
woman who has been harassed to
the point Of nervous exhaustion.
She traced the life Of Starr from
her birth, Jan. 26. 1906, at Evanston
Ill, her babyhood in Rochelle, N. Y,
the move to Montclair, N. j., and
later in Brookline, Mass, a fash
ionable suburb of Boston.
Tells of School Life
The story goes through her school
life in Miss Julia Parks exclusive
school at Chestnut Hill, Brookline,
and the first year in Rogers Hall
school, smart finishing school at
Lowell. The later life Of the girl
will be developed in subsequent
articles, tracing the changes which
made Starr a girl of many moods.
AS a baby Starr was "one Of the
most energetic of children" She
had tremendous amount of spirit
and was at times a bit difficult to
control, A doctor was asked about
her and he diagnosed her situation
as merely a slight excess of spirit.
She started creeping early in in
fancy and liked to crawl up and
down the beach at Centervllle CAL
lcuses were on her knees from the
creeping, Before she could swim
she would creep into the water
Water was her refuge from people
whom she didn't fancy.
Fascinated by Colors
ColorS fascinated her. AS a baby.
she loved flowers at her crib, and as
she grew older, the sense of the
beautiful and the artistic developed
She did not like to see people cut
flowers or wear them on their
dresses. She was sensitive and re-
firing, but the folks of the story
books were her good companions
and her reading started at an early
age
She adored her younger sister
Tucker and exercised an air of re-
sponsibility over Tucker. Often she
felt fuckers wrists to see if Tuck
er was gaining or losing weight"
Gifted as Sketcher
Starr had a flair for the artistic,
and she could draw remarkable
sketches. She would amuse little
friends with her pictures and with
the simple stories she invented to
accompany them.
Other youngsters liked her, but
she could sometimes plague.
Once she put fiddler crabs" in
the rornpers Of a little playmate
much to the playmate'S discomfi-
ture.
Mother Is Startled
In New Rochelle, she startled
company at a tennis tournament
drinking ginger ale, when she in
nuired Of her mother:
Mother. why don't you dip your
bread in your whisky2"
At Miss Parks school where she
entered at the age Of 6i5 she was
an apt pupil. and so much a ia
vorits that the school heads told
Mrs. FAITHFUL when she once
thought Of taking the girl out. that
they wouldn't think of it even if