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Show 3ELLE LEFTMOOER M II TAKj VEIjOR CHURCH Profound Sensation ; taMiipm ' '. ''-''''-' ;'rVh..l::-: .... " x - . '''. ' ;'."i;Y: ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Miss Dorothy , Smart, r second daughter of XoL Charles Smart of the medical department of ths army, r now on duty. in ths. rhilipplnes, has left her home without warning and ; entered ;the convent of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood, near Albany; N. y.r:,'y Y"-V-;' Y." .'f ',t'Vf: Thenews created a profound sensation here, where Miss Smart has been reigning belL Miss Molly Smart, elder sister of Miss Dorothy, solved the mys-' tery for her friends by explaining that the missing girl had entered a convent 'and would soon take the white veil of the- novitiate. . - t; !:;.v:y It was further explained that Miss Dorothy "nearly two years ago requested her father's permission to enter the convent, bat' be refused It. . She has never given up the idea, X "' '".'-' :'''-; " ' ' vi ; ' - Y - Is it said .among f Miss, Smart's friends that she left Washington so quietly in order to avoid the very ardent wooing of a young Venezuelan, 6enor C. de Ponte, a ton of the Venezuelan- General, and at present a -cadet at West Point. .---'; '-" '"' Y-..-' viY": Z"-'i X'y ?-,'.--.-.-. -: ..; .? |