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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 . '
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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.
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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
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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
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