Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1917, Page 4

NEW YORK VICTIM OF A GREAT HOAX “(Quoen of Alaska” Engages Gity's Attention. FATHER “SPILLED BEANS” For-a Wesk New York's Newspapers Devoted Columns to “Visitor From Frozen North,” Who Turns Out to Be | Louise Sachen, Daughter of Kansas City Park Watchman. Louise Sachen, the “queen of Alaska” who created a sensation in New York with her tales of the frozen north, has just confessed that she had bent the truth a little here and there in the 30,000 or 40,000 words she has told to-that great city during. seven. days |- about how Broadway reacted on a mind which had previously received impressions only of the majestic acen- ery and the primitive human types of the far north. Instead of having lived since child- hood among rough but open hearted characters in bearskin in the much filmed wild@ places: of Alaska, Louise admitted that her impressions of New York: were based on the solid back- ground of sixteen years of Kansas City observation and experience. The right way to look at her, as she ex- plained, was as an ordinary Kansas City girl polished by three years of life in Alaska. The “Queen’s” History. Louise left her family in Kansas City because she did not like them and went to Alaska for three years. She return- od to Kansas City last year, found she still'did not like it and bolted for New York. 'She wanted to disconnect her- self from Kansas City, which she did not like, and to identify herself with Alaska, which she did like, go she al- tered’ her history slightly when she went to New York. As she added to this little fiction, in order to explain it, under the cross examination of inter- viewers she built up the gigantic and minutely finished tale which filled sev- eral New York papers for eight days. ' When she arrived in New York with $120 and a fair wardrobe she told the hotel clerk she had lived all her life in Alaska and had never seen a real city before. The hotel press agent was calling up hotel reporters a few min- utes later. There was plenty of novelty in her middle western viewpoint. Her criti- cism ‘of subways, lapdogs, rouging and peneiling, French cooking, &ere as quaint as if they came from a white ‘Eskimo -or from a man from Mars. Photographed and Filmed. She was photographed innumerable times. She was filmed as a current event for a Broadway theater. She was invited to address the University forum, in the Washington Irving High school, Temple university, Philadel- phia, and other:gatherings of intellec- tuals. She got an offer of $850 a week to go into the “movies.” When the bubble burst, as she mourned because her father had spolled everything by revealing the secret of her life in Kan- sas QOity; she pointed to a stack of let- ters from all parts of the east and as far south as Chattanooga. ¥ “Oh, pop certainly spilled the beans!” she mourned. “He certainly did: spill the beans right. I wrote him to say that I died at the age of two years if anybody asked him. “Why, I was planning to wind a chain of’ nuggets around the old man. I-was- going-to- bring him on as the old:miner that I said was my dad. I would.have got $850 a week if he had kept quiet. That’s more than he makes in a\year as a: sparrow nurse in Kan- san City.” | What Is a “Sparrow Nurse?” “What do you ‘mean by a sparrow nurse?”’ “He is a watchman in the city parks —head watchman. Can you imagine 1t? He would rather be an owl watch- er-all his life.” Louise said' that her parents,K were Austrian and that she was one of ten children. Her parents and older broth. ers and sisters kept up their Austrian connections and talked the language, she said, whereas she became Ameri- canised by working as a telephone girl in Kansas City after leaving school. It was in Juneau, Alaska, that she met Jim Moloney, she said, who gave her: the diamond earrings and the en- gagement ring on her finger. “He . bought the telephone company, and 1 went’ ‘with it,” she said. . The $1,000 which she brought from Alaska, she said, consisted of savings of $30 a wmonth: for three years as a telephone girl. Tha best evidence that her fame burst npon her unexpectedly is in the fact that she failed to assume a new name, so that her week of greatness came to an end as soon as Kansas City beard about it. Asked about this fatal She error, she said she was afraid to. had heard- that it was a penitentia offense. 6 “Omne thing my father says is abso lutely false,” Louise insisted. ‘“That it I never waited on a table in my life. Please don’t call'me a biscuit shooter. I have shot plugs in a switchboard and ever ‘won & medal at Juneau for efficiency that I was a biscuit shooter. in shooting plugs, but that is all.” Louise is still in New York, but she hag left her hotel and now lives im a 'boarding house. theaters, New: York men’s looks, New York wo- men’s. clothes and Broadway lights Photo by American Press’ Association, the sighta.” Inspiration Miscellany The Road to Progress. The average boy wants to become vice president in a year or two. Pa- tience is indispensable. But if a young man always strives to be agreeable and to do his full duty without spend- ing any time watching the clock he is certain to have a fair measure of suc- cess. The man who makes a great success is the one who does the task a little better than the other fellows and who shows a little keener insight into men and things. .If a man elects to play poker five or six times a week and shine in society, he must not complain if he does not shine in his business. The man, on the other hand, who makes riches his all consuming consideration and am- bition must not be surprised if people turn their backs on him because his finer instincts have become blunted and stunted. You cannot undertake to develop certain qualities in others without un- consciously developing the same qual- ities in yourself. One of the greatest forms of satis- faction comes from doing something for other people. : To sum. up, it is personality that counts. Personality embraces many qualities, such as neatness, cheerful- ness, courtesy, alertness, intelligence and a sound knowledge of human na- ture. These qualities spell efficiency, and efficlency spells success. The “all round” man is the highest type of hu- man product, higher than the special- ists, because the all round man must be able to handle specialists as well as others.—George M. Reynolds, Chicago Banker, in Leslie’s. Don’t Be Envious. Crush all envy out of your heart. The envious person is in pain upen all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is lost, Your Grand-, mother Knew What to Do “She used the Fresh, Sweet,Heal- ing Herbs that Nature Gives WhenSheFeltBadly or any of the Family was Sick. Grandmother used harmless herb tea instead of filling the body full of poisonous drugs that leave bad after effects. Nome of these mew fangled “doses” for mime. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Herb Tea and Herb Tablets are carefully compounded herbs, leaves, seeds, roots and barks, fresh from the mountains and flelds. The same old remedies grandmother used are put up in convenient packages for use at home. Cleanses the entire system and gives renewed vigor, health and strength to the whole body. They cannot have the slightest harmful effect. « At all druggists everywhere. Price «only 35c a packsge. Be sure you get the genuine Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Herb Tea, or Herb Tablets. For sale by THE CITY DRUG STORE Louise Sachen, a Kansas City park watchman’s daughter, who made New York believe she was an Alaskan “queen,” came from the far north to “see She lived three years in Alaska. What One:Can'Do to Ward Off-Disease And Retain Health three weeks after planting the pota- toes came up, looking fine and even, As soon as we could see the rows well enough, my brother and I cultivated my potatoes with a one-horse spring cultivator. Then about every five or six days we cultivated deep with a two-horse four-shovel cultivator, one of us driving the team and the other holding the handles. . The third cul- tivation being not so deep as the first two. , The fifth and last cultivation was with the spring tooth, after which I hilled the potatoes just - enough to keep them from burning. , “About this time I noticed a few bugs and sprayed them with Paris green. In a few days I sprayed again with Paris green. The bugs did but little harm, yet I noticed three or four hills were slightly stripped. Then all I had to do was to wait for harvest, though I looked over my plot every few days. “The potatoes blossomed out even- ly and the tops spread, covering the ground. They were through blos- soming and a few hills commencing to turn brown when the frost of Au- gust 26 froze the tops, but the crop appeared to be far enough along so that little or no harm was done. or about Oct. 5, Mr. Gile came ou! and checked up my crop and I was surprised that my crop was yielding at the rate of 430 bushels per acre. “Something I have learned this year and mean to do next year, is to use hill selected seed, use formalin treatment for scab, cultivate deep at first and finish shallower and spray before bugs appear. I believe I can raise more and better potatoes mext year. At least I shall try.” —John H. Stillwell, Sec. 31, Town of Grant Valley, . Beltrami County, Minn. The following story tells how John H. Stilwell of the Town of Grant Val- ley raised the champion crop of pota- toes and the story is written by the youth: “My father having bought a piece of brush land, the soil being a clay loam, I heard a lot. of talk about potatoes being our main crop, so when I heard about the state potato contest, I sent in my name and asked for rules and regulations, for I thought if we must raise potatees I would learn all I could about grow- ing them. “My brother and I both entered the contest in 1915. I got 132 bushels of Carmen No. 1 from the Grand Rapids Experiment Station, but the early frost last year cut my crop down to 200 bushels per acre, but I saved seed from them. Most of them were hill-selected seed. “We fall plowed the land about 6 inches deep in October. In the spring I double disced the land, and just before I planted I spread two big loads of manure on it, and again ‘double disced the land after which I harrowed with a spike tooth har- TOW. “I cut my seed on May 28, split- ting the potato through from the seed iend and cutting each half up so I jhad two eyes on each piece. Then 1 let the seed dry a little. “May 30, I marked out my plot with a hand marker, making my rows 36 inches apart. I had 15 rows, 120 feet long, and planted the same fore- noon. “T dug holes with the hoe about 4 inches deep and about 13 inches apart in the row, placing the seed with the cut side down, then cov- ered with the hoe. “About ten days after planting I harrowed my plot thoroughly. About As one death in‘three is from a pre- venthble ‘disease, there Is' evidently ‘much that individuals can do of their ‘own!choosing to ward off diseases and prolong-their-lives. “And it is ot al- ways the big things, the most difficult, that a' person'‘'can’ do' that will' count most- in maintaining health, but it's the little daily habits and careless cus- toms that--countmost either for or against health. ' Forinstance— One. can- keep -his fingers out of his- nose ‘and- ‘mouth: and ‘teach ' his children to do the same. When one coughsvhe 'can always:turn' his head and use his handkerchief after having time' to reach it. One-can wash his hands before meals for his-own protec- tion:and ‘after meals for the protection of pthers. 'One can avoid close proxim- ity with other persons who are cough- ing-and sneezing and thus avoid a cold for himself. In short, one can practice personal cleanliness in addition to the regular soap and water-cleanliness and greatly decrease his chances against diseases. Again, the individual can at least sleep- in fresh air at night and can walk in it during the day. He can keep up bodily resistance by seeing that he gets: 'sufficient rest, exercise and that he mnever: poisons his body with excessive - eating, drinking or smoking or by any other form of ex- cess. Excesses are peculiarly destruc- tive to health. ‘FYNERAL DIRECTOR M. E. IBERTSON and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion give the quickest pangs to persons who are sub- Ject to it. Al the perfections of their { you are going to do tomorrow. fellow creatures are odious. 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