South Bend News-Times, Volume 39, Number 216, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 4 August 1922 — Page 18

"" M HPT,. J ; A ' o MM o i ' ' I la r Four Outstanding Instances Confound ti minim fie Cynics, Who Hold That Women No Longer Take Love Seriously, and Prove That the M odern Maiden Is Just as

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Intense as Cleopatra,

Sappho, Francesco

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Mar' Fanny Grasswitt, Virginia Giri Win.

Fled to Chicsgo and There Killed Herself When the Man She Loved, O. S. Hunsicker, Was Disclosed as Married. Bv Elizabeth Shields

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TTE modem cynic takes deep d-elight in saying that woman no lonirer take3 love eeri

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ie declaiT3. "She 5atis3es her psychic craving v by toeking and often finding succers in busin.R, achievement in art, complete independence of the male who once was her deutiny." Th'js the wrd of the cynic who locketh upon the outward appearance. Tho actual fact is that women love as recklessly, a3 deeply and desperately ai thoy have loved fdne ilie race bejraru Softly feminine, streng in passion, they love with ach wholeness of bein that, l'.ko women who lovrd of old, they find the world but was to when tho light o' the heart, which is evanescent as iinpnlfa and lcn as eternity, pees out. The poor little sordid tragedies of the Marion Fishers, the Mary Grasswitt?, the Pe? Beals, the Juno Matilda Reynolds, who have loved and been loved and dared death when lot in?: was over have plenty of precedent In talcs of womanhood. Sappho, sweet singer of Lesbia.sanf: no more when the plow of her life was dulled. Her lonjjln ar.d her pain were dark companions cf her terric pasture of resignation. The Sorceress oT tho Nile found glory jrrim and grandeur a futile thinr when love was pone. She, too, sought peace in the terror of tho Beyond. Tender, clinin Juliet hardily wooed death when her Kcmeo no longer wooed her.

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mm ?pr:np was reveling n Ma5achu?otti. But therr wns a mail of Maiden who ?aw only deo-lati'-n where rhcrry-hl -oms prew and felt only chi';! in the velvet wind. There had been love between Marion Fisher and Walter Stephens. Then there v.a r.o I vo. Tho pretty Marion wa stricke:: with such srr.fe of loss as to feel that fut:i:ty lay backward and forward and all about. Life that had bten desirable as life always is ti tie late 'tecr.s suddenly was worth exactly r.othiT.f. Furti.r: nre, Marion was in the difficult priticn of hi vir: 17 always before her -.he object

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leve l l:or! I'erhap one could stand any sort of ?err- w if it v re to come in a single shock and b" tir.ish -d. it i the cruel repetition of shock? that destroys morale. After Marien had met Walter over a:.d over, always with increasing

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of Maj. F. Warren Andersorrs ( " "Connuests," Sent a Bullet

Crashing Through His Rrain When He Boasted of His Magnetism Over Women. She Then Attempted Suicide.

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lans floated through the evening nnder a purple sky. He promised md she believed him. So their ove became what the world calls juilty though she thought it pure. They wandered through fairyland.

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morning wit'i a lit of bottle in her coat pocket. It was labeled with the skull and cross-bones. Sh? wished t have a far-well hv.k around the p'.aie wl.t're l.e i.ad teen so hapnv and so

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r.-.an wr.o r.o longer cared. Then it was over. She raitd the bettie; the liquid bean to burn her threat. ,NIThe f;.ce she never rxpect d to see apun was before her. A white, anguished face and a voice air.c th.n,-- n t at all like thvo a jran out of love would say. pair of arn:s '.vent round her, tC' so 5! i d.dn't quits fall. When she began to reaih-e v. . ,t wa-5 happening1 ho was lying comf 'i:a;! ;.: hou-.e with both hands clasped in the s'- i love 1. If Sa; phe and her stony-hearted swain mi-'! hae experienced the revelation of death

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have u-ii':, i a future cf happiness together, just as d. i this hu-r b!e stenographer and the cn:e inci;rere;.t y,uti.! T'-rre wr.s n- such happy e:d;"g to the dcath-rath-r-th ; - n- ,ve story of Mary Fannie Grasswit t. F vr i.ttle I'nedy hi art. lying under Chi-

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say that h.er pirit dees nut

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man wheru she so loved in her troubled life? A Southern romance, this, cf old Richmond, Whi?p rings undor the stars. A first kis when

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was tne summer 01 nappines ivi --e,.... cf Virginia. A chill wind cut through one day, forerunner of winter to come. O. S. Hunsicker was married; he had a daughter. He had neglected to mention these things when he mada his promises. However, the habit of the heart is formed of steel. Love comes unbidden and leaves at na bidding. Mary Fannie Grasswitt tossed discretion down the wind. Then Fate came round with a bill payable. The girl fied before that demand, hiding herself in Chicago. Followed loner letters to Hunsicker, bogging-, pleadrV.. But she kr.ew, finally, that his passion had flickered out. Without it she felt as if she were sinking through fathoms of dark-res-; sinking into depthless night. She bought a gas-tube and took it to the furnished room she lived in. Not a big, spectacular love was Fannie's. Yet perhaps she felt herself kin to Cleopatra with the first, sweet lethal flow. Marie Peggy Beal Is another who wished to die because love was gone. But Kansas City's mystery woman diiTers from the others in that she also wished the man with whom she had shared love to die with her. Having loved her in life, he would love her again in death, despite the graceless wall of indifference he had built between them as they stovd at the, end of their trail. This appeared to be the reaonin of one of

Frank Dicksee's Famous Tainting of the Tomh Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"

Showing Romeo About to Take Poison, Believing That Juliet, Who Was in a Trance. WTas Really Dead. The Greatest Love Tragedy of the Drama.

Rimini, wno sentenced her lovr to eternal perdition that she eternally might enjoy his love. So perhaps there are women today more r.cble of heart, if not cf station, than those ethers of illustrious memory. June Matilda Reynolds, Eweet-faccd, seared-evod blon l. who has yet ta greet twenty, took stock cf her heart-fancies ana found that, sincere as they were, they appeared to offer harm to th' man she ad .red. Daniel Grimes, much older than she, was a figure cf wealth and position; she bad been rr.ly a cashier in a restaurant he owned. Seeing her spring-lika loveliness, he, too, o.Tercd promises?, which she believed. Followed four ever-to-be-remembered years. Then awakening. Was she a mill-stone round his r.e-k? Was she dragging him from his best, imr.c-iing hi? progress? Perhaps. She tried for a time to drop out of his life; to werk her way and live her lif. But the attraction vea. ;. ,trei.g; she kept going back. So finally .'h knew what she must do. There was a whde handful rf veronal tablets; surely enough to make a very little anJ very tired girl sleep a very, very bng time! Perhap? you will he div-ppointed to know that she wan not permitted t- n.r.ke her sacrihej. Wishing to die so th- man she loved might hs hanpy she "ha ! r. luck,'' as -he said herself when the police found her. Perhaps one of these days Daniel Grimes will find !.:.- way to the Boston hospital where she is drawing back to life and Will teil her that love 50 -ir.eere that it would destroy itself rather than burden its object never can ba other than a joy in the life of a man.

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June Mathilda Reynolds, of Boston, Who Attempted Suicide Because Her EmployerLover Lost Interest in Her.

0. S. Hunsicker (left), for Whom a Single Girl Killed Herself Because He Posed as Single, and Maj. F. Warren Anderson (at right), Who Boasted of Fifty Conquests Before No. ol Slew Him.

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the most beautiful women ever to come within the toils of the law in the mid-wc?t city. F. Warren Anderson, Kansas City and Philadelphia clubman, scion of New Jersey aristocracy, man of irresistible personality, had belonged to her in happiness. Better that he still belong to her in nnhappiness than that he be another's, or that they find contentment separately! Thus thought another woman long ago; "Francesca, who elected to be wafted on the winds cf hell while time shall run just so the arm3 "of Paolo held her close! So on a night which was to be the last cf many nights strung upon their illicit love, the nurse who was Number Fifty-one on" the "Perfect Lover V list of love3, sent a bullet through his head and another through her own body. Only half of her wish was realized If her preference was death for herself, she lost. Still she may win eventually. For Kansas reserves the noose as penalty for murder. Newspaper Fmttiro rr1c.

Marion G. Fisher of Maiden, Mass., Whose Self-Destruction Was Prevented by the Timely Arrival of Her Employer, Whose Love She Mistakenly Believed Had Beer. Lost.

Juliet, after all, was a selfish lady, even as Sappho tr.d Cleopatra were selfish. They died because they wished to escape the ache of unrequited love. And most selnsh of all was France-ica Ua

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