Show R F Fis is bY PRIMA DONNA I Pretty Mary Garden on Sickbed Sickbed Sickbed Sick Sick- bed Throws Back Charges at Accusers 4 New York March farch 27 God Cod God is my witness I deny en that I havo ever been the mother of a n. child How terrible an an accusation how unjust how hey wicked and all of oC it the venom of ot one ono remorseless remorseless remorse remorse- less woman woman Lying back in the pillows ill m with the tho grip and the effects of a heroic effort tonight ht to keep her word to sing Salome Schonie Sa Sc lome honie in the Campanini benefit at time the I Manhattan Miss Mary lary Garden reu read the I story printed in one of or the leading Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o papers In connection with her having paid 5 back to her onetime onetime onetime one one- time benefactress Mrs Irs David ld Mayer and alleging that she bhe had during her Paris life become tile the mother of ot a achild achild achild child whose father tather was as a 0 commercial traveler At first she sho said s. I looked upon I the tho entire matter not seriously for I Idid Idid Idid did not think that the Mayor people wore were after more than thon their pound of flesh which I paid and paid paul with cold hard interest but hut whoa I 1 have met tho the Indebtedness and amid find that I am now tho the target for Jr wretched cruel libelous and untrue Jc stories concerning my past lire life I ve hy changed my attitude and fur fr the first time I 1 am angered fur angered fur furious i ious ious and and mean to see ECO that the guilty ones do not go unpunished And An they say 1 tried to commit suicide sui sul- I cide Vh Why I 1 couldn't commit suicide 1 I am aol not brave enough It takes courage cour cour- ago age to contemplate tho the facing of tho unknown future and anft besides 1 e have al always always alI ci- I ways found life lire with all of or its sorrows I too fascinating to want to leave leoe I 1 am nm amnot amnot not a con CO coward and ard mark you but too much I jf a 0 CO coward COard ard to die by my ray own hand I Iam Iam I. I am om a a. coward when It comes to taking I my 10 own life but I am not a coward when it comes to facing my enemies I and one day I will ihl face Cace Mrs Irs Mayor Mayer It may be in a courtroom it may be elsewhere else else- where whore but I 1 am not afraid to face tace her herand herand herand and I am not afraid of her tongue She Sho can cun never nuver harm me e. e Tho The pretty prett woman lQ lay back with her eyes closed and seemed overcome o with the thoughts o of the terrible accusations accusations w Ith which she sho had just become a acquainted eq ua I n ted Wh Why I never realized that such things could hn lie said of a n woman ItIs It ItIs Itis Is sure surely 1 tinie for moo lIe to state In nry my side and to deny such scandalous reports Mind lInd you vou I do not sa say sa that I have lived the life of a saint of or a u nun of or a ade de debutante debutante de- de for tor 1 I o ha loved life lire 1 I have hind had ni m my J loves I 1 have havo known great reat Joy I have ha been in the depths of or as tremendous tre tlC sorrows hut In all my life lire I Ilmo have o never had a child never child never never she reiterated |