Show THE SECRET OUT The secret of the cause of the flight of Mary Churchill the St Louis girl who fled from the aristocratic aristo-cratic home of her wealthy parents and took refuge among the slops and suds of an Indianapolis insane asylum laundry is out at last Her parents compelled her to practice at the piano four hours a day Naturally Natur-ally enough she escaped from the torture on the first favorable opportunity oppor-tunity and it is also natural that she could find rest for her weary bone and contentment for her distracted ¬ dis-tracted mind in the washtub Compared Com-pared with her former life a laundry was a picnio ground and washboards wash-boards suds and foul linen the delightful de-lightful paraphernalia of a whole circus including side shows and the grand concert at the close of the regular performance with lemonade and fans thrown in The wonder is that Mary after the miserable life she was leading at home aspired to anything so restful and jay as the washhouse for crazies cra-zies Digging post holes or handling hand-ling railroad iron would have been recreation and repose in her case While her own escape was undoubtedly undoubt-edly the chief object in her flight perhaps she also may have felt that the neighbors were to be considered She had bones to ache and they possessed pos-sessed ears to be afflicted hence she flew to save herself and them Mary has proven herself a girl of spirit and noble generous impulses I She has set a grand and glorious example ex-ample for her tried and trying sisters sis-ters Let us hope her worthy course will be followed by other afflicted and afflicting girls until the piano shall no more be heard in tha land and will be preserved only as a grim weird reminder of past tortures |