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7; ?;mi 10 '(OVE ANDOUBiEr 7ln,.' V f. !;:i'vL;':'- ,?:';h V7;;V; X-iJlm-: f ' ! ' Ij , ; If 1 .'.: rrr I ::: : I , U J tlon 1. extremelr Improbable, , ' . , - ' . S 11 V''A. ,"V., l'f ' y TO ,1 i At any rat if .he really uttered the curse-at--' ! ' i ? ;:-vs ;; 7 mm .v,V 1 The Seem osts" of Ibsen ore Terrible Than the Inheritance of the Deacon Girls T ' liAT a dowry for three radiantly VC Will Ut -gUU l t ' f mother so swayed by passion and caprict : jtj forgot her family ties and was heralded to the world, whether inno cent or guilty', as a faiklefs wife, .. A father who murdered to avenge his wrong, real or fancied, and then ended his dayvin a madhouse. To this, add the fact that the first of ' these three girls has just given her hand, and presumably her heart, to the scion of a worn out line of nobility, the head of which has long been far from strong mentally. ' What conclusion could one come to but 7 that these rirls were born to love and trouble?. wrwti ' . .. .t I f if - !.' .. - " They came into the Wertd: through no ' wish of their own. ; But they arrived, at Womanhood and found ' themselves lovely. Gh Back, of them was a family history that not even the humblest could envy. Yet that they V could not help. Great wealth; as present times , . , judge it, was not theirs. But they minded it J not. Wherever they went they were admired and courted just as their motjier had been. .-Scarcely had they arrived at womanhood when ; they became, , as their incther had beeh, not ' ' only national, but international figures. Scarcely is it necessary to. say they are those lovely Deacon girls. One of them is : now the , Princess RadziwUL- . Another is engaged to a fine young American. The third has been; reported engaged dozen , or so times, but is still apparently heart while. There was a fourth, but death took Her away " :- 7 Well may the world wait with interest to , see if they can overcome, their heredity, or ... whether thet will be borne down by their -a- birthright of madness and faithless love. " ' : M ODERK times have known no greater1 scandal than that which Edward Parker Deacon gave to the world when he avenged himself on the supposed betrayer of his wife In a hotel at :.Cnne,Franco.V;;..'v':; . v " , Like her daughters, Mrs. Deacon was a woman of such wondrous loveliness that all Europe and America admired her. , Seemingly, all the fairies had been present at her birth and had denied her nothing. Her ' ancestry and : her marriage had placed her on an equality with any of the social world. She had wealth sufficient for her needs, a husband who adored her, lovely children and hosts of admirers. y . Life for her was almost a day dream; she was the truest of wives, the best of mothers, until ihe mot that one man who paid for hi rashness with his life. Before her marriage Mrs. Deacon was Miss Florence Baldwin, a daughter of Admiral Charles H, Baldwin, U. B.N retired, who was a partner in the importing house of A. A. Low A Co. From her oarly girlhood she was noted for her beautjL Not tall, but well formed and of the willowy type, her carriage was such a to attract attention anywhere.aAdd to this large blue eyes and full red Hps, together with that nameless charm which comes from a bright and lively mind, and you have a fair Idea of this woman in her youth. - So brilliant were her matrimonial prospects that there was general surprise, when she chose Edward -Parker Deacon. . Although he came of a fin New England family, had served In the civil war aa a staff fifteer and had .been well educated abroad, there wat nothing about, his person to Indicate either distin guished lineage- or great manly gifts. He was small, awkward, and but jfor his ancestry . Would not have been likely to make a s-reat social success.. While he had a fair share of .this world's goods, he was far from being a Croesus. -. . h-tHWTrttfflrMlsw-a!WttrtgTrefta choice among the catches of the day. Her family ' Ing the unbuttered bread, It was not until a year after knew It, and opposed, her match with Deacon,, But she than he learned that butter, except In the season of was ss stubborn as a lovely woman can be. and bad pasturage, has of itself no darker color than the creara her way. ' ' t - -,. J. from , which It is churned. The 'lard" h saw on the For many yars It seemedhat ahe had chosen well, table was fine, fresh, uncolored butter. In all the ma Fhe was a model of virtue and propriety, a harpy wife . kfts we see butter of a a-olden-vellow : hue. d art v a-d a rood mother. Nona could have been more . ' OHEGON UIIDAY.' verelr prudish in -her associations than she, as was evidenced by the fact that she once refused to meat the then prince of Wales, later' known to history as Edward VII. " How was Europe amazed, then,, that this model of all that was' good and beautiful should be blazoned forth M Vanton wife whose faithlessness had caused a murder!, ;. . i :'v U .w,. It all came about wherwon one of the occasions the Deacon family yisited Paris, Mons. Emile Abellle was introduced into their. home. " " v' ' ....Here was one of the. great beaux; of Paris. - He had good looks, good tastes; and the money to back them up. His father was one of the contractors who built the Sues canal, and .his wealth was practically un bounded.. Everywhere he was known as a good fellow. He dined regularly at 'the Cafe.; l'Anglals.- There he had his owhttrivat tootn, with a tabl alwayi et ff ' I HEBE was onco a greatjbutter lover stop ping at a country village m Virginia, who refused to eat tt butter placed beor I Dim Because ne swore it was lara. xio hod never seen .white butter,, and very few of ns ever have who have not churrjed it for our mother, . The reason, for this is, it is the fashion in tho - north to eat yellow butter, ard the fashion ia food s as autocratic a dictator as the fashion in skirts, hairdressing or, the cut of evening clothes.. IIow- ever, it is more provincial. " ..Themen and women who live in 4he hurry and care of the city's atmosphere , and eat what is placed before them would have no squeamish no tions about the color of their foods, oris"1 would imagine. But no one would believe how shocked company of boarders would be if their foods were brought in a shade different from that .to which they had always been accustomed.- 7 7v However, a New York boarding house is likely to differ as widely- in these semi-unconscious prefer ences from a Philadelphia food dispensary as a French cafe's clientele differs from that of the patrons yOi , a 'caravansary in Bagdad, sg -far as whims in food are concerned. It is something entirely apart irom color psychology; it is simply , a. matter of fashion, changing with time and place like any ether- modei only, being- less- advertised, , it is not likely to be so well distributed over the nation's length and breadth as the latest cut of g. , jacket the newest dress material. 0 COME back to the story of the traveler In Vir ginia,, He was a weary, travel-worn fellow; who stopped la the rain at a fisherman's cottare to - purchase a night's lodging and a meal or so. . H stayed eyeraj days, as It happened, and the sight ot so repulsive to him that he had dlmmiltw in ...Haw. niv louiiiT j ex l 1 1 1 it wnur Tin innr rn mm insssi iimis s self-resnectlntr hnusewlfe In th mmst wm.M MniM v. Til : ft 1 Vfl; HP 1, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1010 lour. If that alon didn't exactly require unbounded wealth, it at least called for ubstantlal Income, From thla meeting It Is the same old,' old story. The awkward husband may have realUed, for the first time, that he cut a sorry figure In comparison with such a jallant At any rate there were constant quar fellngs and bickerings over; Abellle. At times the Deacons would separate for a month or so, only to be reconciled when the worst of their anzer had worn off. Always, though, Abellle remained an admirer ot the beautiful young- matron His - infatuation seemed to be complete, for when, in 1902, the Deacons went from Paris to Cannes, he followed them, Then came the shock. Deacon had surprised Abellle In the hotel and shot him dead. The woman W did not attempt to harm, and It la reported that he said to her: "-v ..y,:"t . "I have a g-ood mind to kill you as X have killed that dor; but killing' is too good for you. Tou shall be reserved for a worse -dt you.auVou, llfe , 'xXrCS'S ' ' Kf.::-? X''imrf- j1!".6? rrot-- M1fh . been M finger of scorn-pointed Whether" Deacoji was justified In wordi or action! may never be known. His wife acted with great dis cretion at his trial, when he was convicted of man slaughter and sentenced to a year in prison. The" closest she came to indicating the state of affairs In their household was In the official Interrogation, which came five days after the crime. In this she saldf" ' "It Is yetno. be proved that I was unfaithful to my husband, and If I was it was Mr. Deaepn's own fault! for he was a most unlovable man, who neglected me ' and left me for long'perlods, Mons. Abellle, on the con trarywas most charming and an. intimate friend of the family, The Intrigue was with Mr. Deacon's knowl edge, and thus. I maintain, with his consent. While I am deeply grieved at the death of Mons. Abellle, I do not eara how soon I get a divorce from a man whom I not only dislike, but for whom I have a grpat con tempt" , ..... Maybe, after all., the world has for years mixed' up cause and effect In Judging this tragedy. Perhaps it was the manifestation of that weaknes which finally sent him to madhouse that made him so unbearable as a husband that his beautiful wife forgot her discretion wben a man appeared whom ahe -could love. - J;, .,,,.. , . ' However that may be, Deaoon "got a divorce and. after being pardoned by,the then President ,Carnot cam back to America, - But not i before Mrs. Deacon had kidnaped her oldest daughter, Gladys, who has since beeri her constant companion. fv Nine years after the Wagedy Deacon died He had been visited, by his former wife,' but whether his con dition was then such aa to permit of a real reconollla- self shamed If she took any other color homao ber ' family. x . . . . (i Further south- than Virginia there are districts where the people demand red butter Just as Insistently as the northerner calls for his yellow. Then In the oyster saloons of the north there Is a demand for red butter to put In oyster stews, for the x. simple reason that an ounce of the red will give that rich, oil consistency and color to the soup that several , ounces of the. lighter product would fail to produce, - The red color Is a coal-tar dya and the yellow annotto, both permissible under the pure-food law. - v . ;. Then there are the eggs. In New York eveixbodv hunts for thelwhlte and the dark brown onea are hard to dispose of. There Is no assignable reason for tnis. except mat it i a local. tradition tfh'on. , i ' ' .Tha dealers ior the houeewife's-reTr! to New York bn& the dark1 brown ones are turned over to the Philadelphia market, where they are much more popular than the whit fellows. . . , We Insist rttth loud acclaim tipori having snow white flour,' softha natural creamy color of the flour Is carefully beached out for. us by "devious methods, some of. which have ' aroused the suspicion and Ire of the uu Kia iiiuib uia.n rareiui mat in winra m Hn Hi itrmelv lmorobable. .. At ny rate if he really uttered the curse at-r tributed -to htm, his words have been slgnally'ntga tived. ' . , , - , Society Tallied to Mrs. Deacon,' who resumed' her maiden "name of Baldwin, in a manner that scarcely anyi one could have anticipated. During' the year'' fef king Edward's' coronation she took Lady Henry Somerset's home in Mayfair. London, and entertained ' extensively.".-. .L. A;;iV ;v;.'.: .- All at once her Idol, Gladys, became the toast of Europe.;.;,'; ""v . - . ;'; .V---: ' K-V'i Thn richest heiresses, with the most unblemished famliyrecords, got not a tithe of the attention that was showered on her. Mrs. Arthur Paget was her first social sponsor. Then she was exploited by the duchess of Marlborough, . one of whose bridesmaids she had been. In every way she paralleled her mother's early career.; Her Grecian profile was pronounced almost perfect. She was well edocated, bright and witty. She could converse In several languages, nd was In all a most fascinating companion. When the German crown prince visited Blenheim Castle, in 1902. he certainly found her so, and then came the; first of the sreat social sensations that have since kept the Deacon girls in the public eye. Without rhyme or reason, except that she was beautiful, the .kaiser's heir proceeded, to fall violently In love with the young American. A crown prince isn't, supposed to do anything of the sort, at least in a noticeable ' way, no matter how beautiful may be the ladyv ; ! . 'C ; 'j' But the affair went so faf that it was rumored the pected. ,nd the royal sonny wai hiked back home aa 1 o'f ft" possible, leaving'; some. ' erdeh$T'vtdence ' of ' his .love with Miss Deacon. ; Th German ambassador afterward gathered these upand thuB ended the affair. . For a single year that was enough for (most any one beauty to achieve, but it wasn't so in this instance. ' That very same season., the sensation of the Paris salon was a portrait of Miss Deacon4by Boldinl. coupled wftathe announcement that she wrto go to England nextear to be painted by Whistler. t I The Boldlni portrait indlcated(all that might have been expected from Miss Deacon's ancestry-her almost supernatural beauty that but too plainly pointed to a life, of love and trouble. . Then, the very next year, she was kept in the publio eye through the attentions paid to her by the duke of Norfolk, the premier noble of the British realm. While never noted for -grace or beauty, the dukeof Norfolk, since gathered to the halls of his ancestors, was recog. nixed as one of the most forceful characters la the United Klhgdom. His notoriously bad taste In dressing but served to bring out the real strength of bis character.1' ,- '.' Several times. In close succession, Miss Gladys was the duke's guest at Arundel Castle, where Lady May Howard, his sister, was then doing the honors for him. Where there was so much smoke there must have been soma fire, but the match that ; the gossips re- " garded as almost a certainty never materialised. The duke married another, and Miss Gladys went on to further conquests. Among others was the Baron Antolne de Charette, a French nobleman whose ancestors had occupied the same chateau In Brittany for 800 years or more, and whose mother was the daughter of Bishop Polk, of government food commissions. But it oomes under that - iron code known as fashion, and It will be a sore trial to t? defy eU the nour , that to the" wyn:lc.UVo1uWook',t JtSWA . used to get rloe of the true pale bluish cast But ft hai iu vu iu iv ruw virKin conailJnn .Tnntu " U furnished with a rice that has the opalescent exterior ground -off, the under layer whitened with I tilcum preparation, while the powder from the exterior la sold as a aide product to stock breeders as feed, thus paying for the cost of pleasing the public fancy. ' '',u ' i.i Ther , y?"ow n1 "a bananas. The latter are so highly pr ied in some sections that they bring much ' ?JKlLp5iS!K "d " beyond the' reach or the "f 5? fmlJ? C0Munr. though they are not generally thought to have any rare merits or superior Qualities. In the same way the amateur mixer of drinks prefers the green lime to the yellow, while mperts rather prefer the lemonlike fruit, and In all cases admit that they are as good as the other. Solomon himself could not have told a good cantaloupe rrom Its exterior, but, of course, the prettiest sell best. Bo,, often the man who Insists upon having a golden fruit of delicious aspect finds hlmaelf burdened with a hair-breed,, whose mother was an unattractive little cantaloupe, perhaps, and , whose father was-a gorgeous pumpkin. : , . There was a time, too, when the long, plain green watermelon was considered good enough for any one, and certainly Its flavor is not now to be despised, but the early striped fruit coming from the south has made Itself the fashion and the old-style, fruit Is at present rather despised.-. .- Of course, all candy would be plain buff or white, the , color of the. sugar and fruit juloes, If It were not. for the, fact that the Children are attracted by the gaudy colore, so coal-tar dyes are employed to catch the over flow from the schoolhouse. A The rich blushes on the western apples have made them wonderfully popular all over the east and even in Europe, in spite of the fact that some of the plain-garbed product of our eastern orchards have batter flavors. . In London they tell us that no one will take a yellow legged chicken and, also, that salmon must be a well, denned reddish pink, no matter how he may have grown .:.ln his native waters. . - v.- -',.-.-,f.-.f-.-,.;-.Tr.,..v uhbcu oui oi iHomon. ana at ttim nnum At. There-are elmilar fads and whims In tobacco colors. '."Turkeys, to", ,f e.11 ja yaclnua.arctinns. largaly-y-oton. 2 towns buy the toughest asparagus bunches, little better than wood, because they are big and white, while tne countryman is nappy to consume the nne gretin shoots himself. So it .goes through the whole market ffm a-i to pepper.. The 'eating world is ruled by whlmC -,Ti. It sets down to refined taste, and the wle seller ffprovendi distributes hi products so that thev f atier the Dartloular humor and fancy of the various diitric-t, with which .e has dealings, i ', J5s Tennessee, who was killed in battle during the civlj war. ' ';:.';V. In every way the baron was a great catch.; H t'a handsome and brave. Ha fought for the Boers, gal' lantly, as becaqie a son of General Baron de Charet a renowned officer whose chief distinction came In the disastrous Franco-Prussian war.".- ,''' Tat awhile Miss Gladys seemed to favor the baron. Then, suddenly, without rhyme or reason, she an nounced that he was a good, friend, and would never " went. the beautiful Ameri from one suitor to another, with American always .refraining from giving ersejt away when th crucial moment came, Probatl; ao girl of a generation has Mad more chances or has resigned them with greater nonchalance. Strange it is that the one-time belle of Europe should so long re- ' main a spinster, when another of her sisters has be come a bride and the remaining one is to be wedded on September 15. ."'v ," -c. :Vi.',:;' .'.'.-."' , The first of the beautlfolkslsters to go to the altar was , Dorothy Deacon," who "married Prince KadzlwlU, son Of the former master of ceremonies at the court of St. Petersburg, a man who, seven years ago, went, from the czar's favor to a q.ulet villa near Vienna, where ; he has been safely harbored ver since, hia wife taking his place as head of the family since his mental peculi arities asserted themselves. ; Like Gladys, her elder sister, Dorothy Deacon is a young . woman of rare - personal charm. All Eurore ; has been excited ovef her wedding, which took place ; In defiance of the wishes" of the bridegroom's mother. ! There seems little doubt that the prince waa wildly ; infatuated But accounts differ regarding the .brlda. f Some say that at the wedding She had the cold and stony look of a woman who wa selling herself. 1? that Is true, she may indeed come into a share of th Deacon family history,, which has endowed her with a legacy of love and trouble. : . . r ,.v . -;-. K ":a.:,-.-:j'.o : ; - HOPE IN ATHLETICS For the remaining sister the brightest hopes tnav be entertained. If anything can overcome the taint that Is In her heredity It is ber love for athletics, Always she ha been a devotee of outdoor sporta Ne more charming athletic girl could be imagined. She, ; too, has inherited the beauty that belongs to the ma- , ternal side of her family, and with It a sunny dlsposl tlon that has nothing In common with the traits that might descend from the male line. She has been the companion of her grandmother, Mrs. Charles S. Baldwin. But recently It was that her . engagement was ' announced to George Peabofly, ot ? the well-known Boston family. I . ) ; A girl of many graces, ahe had by no means lacked ! admirers, and three years ago it was rumored that she would marry James Hazen BTyde. This was an- t other of the times that the gossips erred. ',' Even to her ease, however, .the. Nemesis that seema to pursue the Deacon name was not Idle. While play- in t,nnl" W,th htr flanca Nawninot ng he was so severely aunstruck that It was renortf.fi that, the wedding might have to be 'postponed. Not long afterward these rumors were set at rest when the young man's Siother, who Js ths divorced wife of George Lee Peabody, called on Mra Bald win The gossips' tongues were at once silenced and evrv pne began to shower .fresh? eongratulatlona on tb bride.'.. . . ...'.. - -., .. ,.. . , All this, however, has served to keep the Deacen name continually prominent. There seems to,tm a, continual-something that calls It into publicity. Whas fate has decliied that-three young, beautiful, barmien girls uhould be so constantly the prey df circum stances that force them into the public prints? - Certainly, they seem to. have been born to Jove an ! trouble. . ... Oddities of Expression G URIOU8 ways of expressing Ideas In English maf oe expected from foreigners, as, for Inson- A, wheh the Frenchman,1 who made a call in tf country and was about to be introduced to the faints said; . "Ah, se ladles! Zen I vould before, If you plea vlsh to purify mine 'ands and to sweep m!n half." A Scotch publican was complaining of his survwt maid. He -said that she could never be-found wha wanted.' "She'll gang oot o' the house." he t-.;, "twenty times for once she'll come In." - . A countryman went to a menagerie to examir, r?i wild beauts. Several gentlemen expressed the i..x t. that the orasng-outang was a lower order, of the tnni.t snecles. Hodite did not like this idea, and striding n to the gentleman ftxpressed his contfimrtf'jr It In tii- words: "Poohl.he'S no more of the huruan specie tii X be.""' ". v.-..:. : . - "Mamma, is that a spoiled child r asked a little b- on seeing a negro-baby for the first tmi, . Over a bridge -in Georgia is the fQiiowing; person driving over this brldga In a pt e faster tt rmfjym-w'mrttr1' mxjlii7t t?ie"io. stowed. on th Informer." . waiK snail, it a wnue man, r-e nnn i: a x... A shop , exhibits a-ourd warning avprytdv i unscrupulous persons "who lnfriiifctj cmr ti(N t ) the public." The shop"'-" 16n nut i).m (( v. means, any more than th pmirl.fif -of housa near the Aorkf, n ti rt.n.r -v read ' the followlns; . wtinnnn.:n'nt. f Intelllrwe it the tsltirt -- ports sailors- -yitanounea rf i t r gefufecfrgcrgec!; 6ut J I
