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Show WOJAIEN "USE SWORDS FOR LOVE." Jealous Passion Brings Two Fair Rua-, Rua-, sinnB to Bloody Combat. Two women huvo at lant.fought a duel on solid prround, as well as on tho stage and on paper In sensational French engravings. Two Ruoslan women wo-men have drawn blood for love not figuratively, In a woman's war of tongues, but actually, measuring 3vord against, sword, skill against skill, and strength against strength, with deadly purpose. Like angry Amazons, Eska-terlna Eska-terlna Wlcgrlch and Ada Posatcw, both of Moscow, fought with sabers In the presence of women seconds till ono fell wounded. Theirs was a man's quarrel, rather than a woman's, as the world looks on such things. Men are the ones who usually claim the. privilege of fighting out to the denth their feuds of love and honor. Love despised or love disappointed, disap-pointed, is supposed to become among women merely a "canker blossom in the heart." These two young women of Moscow, however, dared to defy tradition; tradi-tion; they agreed, as Shakespeare puts It, to muke Incision for their love, to prove whose blood was reddest. The affair came about In this way. Eskatcrlna Wlegrlen, an artist 29 years Old. familiarly known as Katusha by her associates, fell In love with a brilliant bril-liant and popular young lawyer of Moscow. Mos-cow. Unluckily, the ninn did not return her love, and he added insult to Injury, she thought, by his admiration of the beautiful Ada Posatew, the wife of a local official. Enraged by this affront, as she considered It, Miss Wlegrlen reproached re-proached the object of her 111 starred passion, and finally so annoved him that he not only showed openly his dislike dis-like of her but also made fun of her artistic pretensions, holding her-paintings up to ridicule. Then the woman's Jealousy broke bounds. Her anger did, not turn, hbw- nrt;n1l,P0,? th0 man wh0 WQS real offender, but Instead upon the young matron who had-Cnptlvntod his fancj. Seeking out her successful rival, Miss wSrlen Htroick her, and told hor what she thought of her n"00"; Naturally, Mrs. Posatow anted reparation, rep-aration, yet sho was unwilling to drag her husband Into thcaffalr. So ahecnt a woman friend to her enemy to suggest sug-gest that tho quarrel be settled b a duel, since both were expert fencers. The challege was accepted. A occluded terrace of a private una In the neighborhood of Moscow was selected se-lected as a place of meeting. Eyeo-thlng Eyeo-thlng proceeded In strict accordance witli the punctilio of modern dueling All the proper rites, formulas, and precautions pre-cautions for the encounter were observed ob-served carefully by the women seconds. Throughout the combat the swordswo-men swordswo-men conducted themselves as experl- enced duelists. After wlthoTNWf5 attacks, Mrs. Posatew f eh V0 wBLa-" third, wounded in the rtoh 1 ftJBl Thc0ducl ,was at onceSoVM j |