Show fORMER BELLE A 1 IT NOW LOS ANGELES Sept Tucked h.-Tucked Tucked away In a sequestered nook of oe the bl bi Santa Anita can canyon on where she Is living the life lite of oe a hermit Is Mrs Marie Mario A who at one time was considered consid er ered d one of ot the most beautiful of ot Xe New NewYork's Yorks York's long lonK line of ot handsome women This once famous beauty now sleeps on a bed of ot pine needles which she re religiously re- re ly gathers fresh tresh every cven da day Her food tOOd Is Js fruit and berries that she he gathers Bathers from trees and bushes around her her her- When seen sten b by an Examiner reporter yesterday the hermit was as at first reticent cent but finally was Induced to talk about her existence In her lonely canyon canon She would not relate the circumstances which led to her going Into seclusion and firmly refused to talk about her husband hus bus bandI band I spent seven years ears In Aln Alaska ka she told tho the reporter and those seven years were tho most miserable of ot my life lite I endured hardship after hardship and tho the thoon on only friends I 1 could claim for tor m my o own n were the dogs When hen I J loft left Alaska I could not bear to leave them thorn I could not ship them out of or tho the countr country o so I had them killed and skinned She showed a number of ot Ee which carpeted the floor of her cabin as proof But then you ou want to know ho how I came camo to be bo an Inhabitant of ot this lone lonely canyon Well Yell I Just came here that Is all I live on fruits and berries nothing berrIes nothing I that Is cooked cooked and and sometimes I go for tor da days das s with nothing more moro than an orange I Ito to sustain mc me Then too she explained I am a great believer In tasting fasting I went twenty twenty- three days In Juno Jun without more than a drink of water at a time and last winter I tast fasted rJ for tor twenty days Of Ot course I lost lot much flesh but still I kept on with the thc fast tast and now feel teel like a new woman altogether ether You must not nol expect to tee see much of ot o a home homo hero here In the canyon canyon- Everything I have here Is handmade except m my piano which I saved out of ot all the things thinG's I had hadIn hadIn hadin In the east The In Instrument Is a gre great gre-at t comfort to meI mo me I suppose you wonder why I live lie out here all alone It does seem strange but ah alt this Is the life lite to live It is 18 tho the life lite of oC a a. free tree woman unchecked and free rree from the trammels of ot sor sordid ld civilization which binds Its devotees de to the petty pelt conventionalities of ot life lite My life Ufa Is it life It Is not a mere exist exist- ence I have something something- to live e for the for tho birds and the trees and the sunlight Some day I am coming out of ot my shell and proclaim tho the real joy of or living to tho the world Three years ears ago ngo I was thought to be dying Now I am healthy and robust I have ha studied to gain mental control over o m my bod body and I have accomplished that aim right here During my hermitage I have read all the tho authors she asserted d pointing to a library In the of ot corner the room I love lo Plato and Shakespeare and all nil the rest but the tho one author whose works have bare been of or the most use to me mo are the Immortal philosophies of or Socrates That she walks s about fifteen miles a day and lives entirely upon uncooked foods Is the reason Mrs Irs gives Ives for tor her remarkable health She shows evidences of or having been a wonderfully beautiful woman oman In her da day and aDd is Js still handsome In a lithe sinuous nn way She Sho speaks with clear enunciation of ot ofa a n well bred oman woman and her conversation la is rational and strikingly to the pol point t Her taste In clothing runs to the simplest of ot garbs garba A shirtwaist and skirt arc are her usual costume I IThe i iThe The hermit Is unique In her mor modes s of oe life ICe and views of ot living bu but t even men her practical explanation of ot why she likes I th tho out doors existence leaves one to I believe o that there Is a CI deeper and per haps Imps more romantic reason for tor her lute lutc seclusion Her life Is a romance in itself le |