The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1920, Page 17

Sh eae Brits . # UST 16,1920 Should Authors Practise What Their Books Preach? Newest Social Question }HAROLD BELL WRIGHT'S CASE CITED| MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1920 Beats Detective Fiction, Way U.S. Sleuths Caught Kaiser’s Pet Spy, Victorica’ Simple Life Enforced on Two Boy Millionaires; : Mother Keeps Them in Ignorance of Their Wealth !! She Hid in Big New York Hotels and Left Messages Ae | Written in Invisible Ink on Flyleaves.of Bibles. we Commrient, 1020, by The Pres Publishing Co (The Now York Byphine World.) =; PY, spy, who's got the spy? 8 The death, just announced of Mme Marie K. de Victorioa, called oe | the Kaiser's most dangerous woman spy im the United States, whose + machinations were given especial publicity during the trials of John and = , By Marguerite Dean. 'HO'S going to get a divorce next? i Fitst, st was Maty Pickford who startled thousands of tha THEY WILL NOT HAVE— | THEY MAY ENJOY: admirers of her eweet, ourly-haired, girly‘girly self by acting just Special Servants | “Swimmin’ ” Holes Uke & woman in a problem pinay or novel and going to Nevada to get a ‘ me 7 Giverce trom.Owen Moore, This agtion, as corneapondents pointed out ‘at Own Private Cars cole . Fights and Black Eyes the time, was unexpected, on account of her religion. And almost as soon. * Private Schools Old Clothes and Shoes ae the dectes became final Mary remarried—"“Amorica's Bweetheart,” her- —— @elf @ divorcee, became the wife of a divorced man, Douglas Fairbanks. Zet"the Basten to''ead. that m6 ne Dersong, including myself, are de- throatse—of his simple heroines. Noth- iy Ps Mghted that the little star should pave fougd what promises to be reai and ) Overflowing domestic happiness. It in imply that the idea of a divorce and speedy remarriage for Mary, apothe-~ ——————————— & ROLY BELL WRIGHT I Peete of the sweet young thing. was WR GBews os iunexpected by the general PPublic as would have been tidings of @ deoree absolute awarded to Little Eva of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Now the public gets the same kind of 4p electric shock from the dn- nouncement of the second marriage, promptly following his divorce... of Harada Bell Wright, defender of tri- umphbant virtue and excoflator of vice in a balf dozen uovels of which edi- ti6a after edition haw been absorbed by American devotees.to thé sugar- end-water ¢choo! of fictfon—and which bid fair beautiful and the s:m- Ao Bast Indian scientist has ine vented @ machine which be contends proves that plants feel pain by re- cording their nerve ebock and reac- tien. A New York inventor's hight adver- name consists of projecting against the team ing ie 60 inky as his aimple villeina and villainesses—they usually got, kijled off, as some. slight retritmtion for the evil that they do. And the noblest man that aver lived is but a pale, @ flickering imitation of a sim- ple Harold Bell Wright bero at his noblest, And now look at Harold! First, he went to work and got a divorce in Arizona from his first wife, who was Miss Frances E. Long of Buffalo, and whom he murried, twenty-one years ago when he was an obscure Kansas preacher. The allegation in the suit for divoree was mental cruelty. The plaintiff asserted that his wife's lack of sympathy with his literary efforts hampered his career, Does that mean, in plain English, that she couldn't read. ‘his books? But, if he tried to make her do that, there are some of us who think that she might have sued HIM for mental cruelty! However, she didn't~and he did. ¥et according to old friends of the ¢ouple who knaw them when they lived in Lebanén, Mo. in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, she was a true and loyal wife to him, helping hina fight the demons of poverty and ill health, which are forever snapping ut the heels of struggling ministers in small, communities. Tt was while he was still in the pulpit that his first novel was written. Refused by many Eastern publishers, it was published at length by the Book Supply Company of Chicago, after one of Wright's parishioners took him to the Windy City with the manusaript under his arm. The book made ® tremendous success from the first, selling more than 3,000,000 eo pies in nine yea, and the clergyman und his wife and family could move 10 Cahfornia, where the climate was expeoted to improve the author's health. Thore he has been liying in a charming house, built on a ranch It is ta Los Angeles that he has found his fecond wife, according wo. the despatches. She was Mrs. Wini- freda Mary Potter Dunowa, a divurces of thirty-five, and she and*Mr. Wright were married by a San Diego Justin of the Peace on Aug. 5 ‘Oh, my boy—my doy,” moangisom» ‘The Re-Greagion of Brian one of Mr. ‘Wright's best sei- gs, “'don't—doa't let anything—don't let! anyone—Kill your faith in wom anhood! No matter how bitter your experien ‘ou can Delieve, now that there are women who can be faithful and true."’ Let us all hope, amiably, that Har found one=and that Wife No. ith his “literary oe that—efforts, But in n> v—is nothing sacred? in the divores courts af- An. Irrigation dam, in New South Wales which will Impound about 35,- 850,000,000 ouble feet of water, backed » forty miles long, Az Indiana our automod: giass and are open directly in tront o WO little m! peeking over the fe: and wondering wh The reason. is just the possession of ything about that either George and Jackie ar Very ‘newest milliénajcds By the will of two of ths How Mrs. Mary Allen Rowland, of the Searles Fortune, Plans to a OF Cae Tae ~_ PINE LOOGE WHICH onalree—one nine yMars old and one seven—are wistfully of thelr Melrose Park home tn Montgomery y they. cannot go out and play with ugh George and Jackie Rowland do © milliions—and they don't know thi the wi mother di aw. 1 Mother of Boy Legatees of Some Jeremiah O'Leary, should bring to public notice one-ofsehe most remark able Secret Service achievements during the war—the ,chabe and capture of this mysterious and dramatic figure: For it was a chate started without a clue, and in the beginning the United States Geewrnment, like the bhild who Keep Thern Free of Snobbishness 1S GIVEN TO BENU. ROWLAND tures of bis youngsters. to keep them democratic, Served, feelingly. have the ohildren live elm- Mrs, Rockefeller Evening World agsured an representative and your friends think of servants for thom! of thelr own! . © private sshool No norisense over the Searles millions, upon which te light of publicity falls again. But the youngest heire—and frobably the youngest millionaires in America—are not talking about their sudden influx of wealth. Their berately*hidlls the knowl- edge.of tt from them and hides them ‘ ‘av trom their former friends and icing up trom. the evening pape ace to the loca w ateur fights and their p: am not sure. chants “Button, button, who's gut the button?” could only ask anxiously, “Spy, spy, who's got the apy?” Mape. Victorian w ent to this osuntry by the Ger- man Imperial Government during the early days of 1917, when the resumption of submarine warfare made war with America certain. She was taken into oustody by Government agents at Long Beach @ yoar later, The story of théir success- ful search reads like 4 novel by E. Phillipe Oppenheim, and is more interesting than Mme. Victorica’s own tales of socret meetings with Irish radical sympa- thizers and messages in in-* visible ‘ink written on the fiyleaves of Biblés. At the start the United States Government had the Up that a woman agent of Germany was in thia coun. wy, Nohody knew her name, nobody could guess at her description, nobody had @ hint as Lo her where- abouts. Department of! Justice agents thus had to play the game of “l-spy- the-spy” over a whole coun- try, and with an ,utterly mysterious antagonist They “doped !t out'—as they would say—or “de- thiced” as Sherioock Holmes would say—that New York was her logical ppoaquesiare That nar- rowed the search a iiitie there be! only six mill- ion or go New Yorkers. The next question was, where would she stay? Not in a private family, be- cause it would have to be @ pro-Ger- man family and therefore under sus- picion by the neighbors, if by nd one élse, Not in a boarding-house, where every new arrival ls the storm centre of gossip and from which it is almost impossible to send 4 private tele- phone message. Not is an apartment —the landiord would wai® references and his tenant's signature on a lease What is left? The hotels, The Secret Service men accepted as a yorking hypothesis the state- ment that the fair unknowp was in @ New York hotel For weeks (here were no results, and then a clerk at one hotel—said to be the lately defunct Knicker- bocker—casually observed that he had a number of letters which had arrived after the departure of a woman guest who had left no 44- ayess, As they had ‘done in other instances, the Government investi-~ looked up the writers of these t of them from depart- ment stores. But one was from & hairdresser and she, when consulted, vaguely remembered that her client was blond, Teutonic-appearing and free-spending Then Special Agent Harry Jentzer tried to find other unclaimed letters at other hotels, addressed to the hair- droaser's client’ He found nané bear- ing that namomit was de Victorica. But fo did find letters addressed to & Mme. de ussiers, whore arrival at her hotel odincided with de Vic- torics’s departure from the first ho- ‘el, and who also. when she departed, 44 lett no forwarding address In dag with the return of similar articles of merchandise to certain retail stores, Next came the interviewing of chambermaids and other hotel am- ployeos at the two known stopping places of de Vussiere-de Victorica. A ohambermaid remembered that the mysterious ww; had mentioned casually her yment of & pro- fessional shopper. So the Govern- ments pext task was a round up of all the hundreds of professional shop- pers in New Yor After two weeks they actually fownd the one who had been employed by the dala unknown. And the shapper contributed the in- formation that madame had with her & maid named Maygaret Sullivan, who, the shopper believed. came from Brooklys. . Just imagine finding one special Sullivan ia all Brooklyn’ But the Se- cret Service men did it—found this particular Margaret's boarding house, at No. 61 Bainbridge Street, in the borough across the bridge. Not to arouse suspicion, a woman agent went to the address with instructions to say she had a parcel which she cguld deliver only to Margaret. As luck would have it the wo. who opened the door mistook the Secret Service woman for a friend of ‘“Margare expected to call. “Ara vou Sulla tive was asked. ‘Yes, promptly. “Where's fe She was given Margaret's Loor Beach address, the end of the long trail. Men Trom the Department of Justice took the next train—et 4 o'clock in the morning—and arrested Margaret's employer, the blonde, bo- jeweled, orty-year-old Marie KL on} nit = ee — se 4 > : | 4 3 a ie or text with a stereopticon 3 “| \ bile altg too ‘6 usiphborhood.” said both seta of letters were some deal- de Vietorica, as @ German agent. spoke very cautiously, he know he was treading on dan- from a searcblight. Tie ana. y wind t aftord prote lest game little toady of blacked eyes andebloody noses, » he father reads the papers should wear shoes that are pouffed and sh George and Jackie how nieh they that are faded. will pay out of + own modest pocket money P dows they broak, wil! ite cried Mrs. typical American bose the countr Ie that awrul gang that used tthe Penrods and the te hat eslooe has agin from which goid have been taken almost arsenic being moorats. She undoubted D. — the residuous sand | with Joh aller Raxters Booth Tarkington has mad plied Mr. ng a tiny electrio recent years, during his family's recent immortal. For such 4 boyhood ad fellows ned to be f 4 mental vacation tour in @ dest possible training for manhood 1” interrupted wneniated cord train, refused to allow photog- which will put 1 Wone to de y can't that sort bavteries. own amuse- at Maxims of a Modern Maid the stations to take pic- cratic humane user woods aro full d Mr. Ja By Marie, Queen of Roumania. in spite of Pinky-Panky’s asking her 1 tel at when @ water began to e:ng to her with little streamlet and the golden sbtat! phimsge 4 year without injury to propeljed gh running bes haste, but you ¥ pped inte hor Irropietible Man toeday A a successful play | know one rising natist who from sheer ndnees telle every girl, five minutes after being introduced, that he is married and has two children. other, and so yet mote of & surplus of IRD s ng RST ates 20, ty Tho Press Publubine Co (Tad New York Evewas World) ship- Bobbie, “I'}! have. you know 7 am Freneh Unmarried from choloe."* Whose choicee? ys! If you must kaéw Oh, my land:’ camf from Miss the-Mud, and that thou augh, breaking tho dr apel! that was upon her, So she jumped out f the rf upped herself in @ Tim, suc ridiculous 3 the polls 50 near the edge of the water with a splash he fell ia, and @ drowned if climbed down once bath to rescue his fat, From the cenfi- the divorced. good Lord That's what there, al! right,” x andi as for you, Miss Tillie.” said : ‘ Miss. Primm, turning and facing the the oflce boy, Bionde, “I don’t believe you ever had the cheek of modesty stil! ; e “Having what? A proposal tn your amouflaged wi “ers Pyou're wrong Primm,” sald i a9 tars ith @ } te Et rue Fp Robbie. “Only las be sat dowa on the edge of tughed till the tears heeks. Quite forge nt get chills od the ridiculous th-towel and dried week I asked her vine and she told me to go to a And did goy go to the devil?" 4 Miss Primm T couldn't find yvoyI mean t ® the The © desk high cost of drinking, the home brew after another Yes,” ght of it 1 laughed ty. hed a if I were Wrangle I'd change my ‘Couple mé,”" said Miss Pronm, addressing «Bobbie insists on insulting me," to-night," , eaid Miss Primm. “Kindness ® 8 said Bobbie with 4 to haye no effect on him, I > gome time; but at she was already od through the last Pansy hur: and a woman hurts a man by me ain rim “You've never been able treated him as nicel: bers—hie Inadvertent sights the money lo Part of Rer dressing, feeling extracr- agge your name yet, ‘wouldn't he continues to incalt re woes ra arrels BOR AE OnE Se ees ek not Soung Wide: indeed, “Like ¢ wit bind ake any ditterence if it was Wran- ghall try another method. I'm going a as a true follower of Izaak Waite kee to fish even when theyre NOVEr gee fr * . bee i re oa ala j / He be just as mean to that little ‘oo! © 2 sure-enough siren wears silk over her ankles and an allur- le to get out oF t bath. fgat loving look round the Ot $0 . for goodness sake!’ chuckled as I can.” ' . ' I'm ¢ even at a maniess summer )resort . {she fat tn tt (eo long she MIght which whe Kissed Ber hand Im tare: Tillie, the Dlonde stenographer. She faced the boy. ‘Bobbie, now I so Ured of yaudevi giad I n is ike @ cantaloupe; you pa try It to disco if it's delicious or s b nto a a “and remain well end Pansy aubhed “ the a shall not give you the two tickets to don't O.spe any to-night.” merely tasteyess, } "the ruins? Thus woman's inhumanity © fordver Lie water Hy made the sill dainp tim close on peter the vaudeville show 1 promised you Miss just glared end glared. 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