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Show EVELYN THAW'S INTENSE MENTAL AGONY IS EATAL TO HER YOUTHFUL BEAUTY (BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.) NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Prompted bv the hope of stealing an idea. I ieaJously read the Thaw trial in the dailv papers. Every account, and some to the verge of ecstasv. laid stress on the beauty of Thaw's sisters and mother, but more par-ticularlv'on par-ticularlv'on the dazrline loveliness of Evelvn Thaw. I did mv individualbest to discover this transcendent pulcntude for myself, but failed. The faces of the Thaw sisters and mother, heavv rather than light, are best described as commonplace, almost dignified bv trouble and manifest fortitude for-titude wherewith thev confront it. As for Evelvn Thaw, she wears the look of one too worn and tortured to permit one to think of her in the same eentence with "beautiful." What she was or will be, with brighter skies and hopes not held st bay bv fanged perils, imminent and wide-mouthed, I may not saw As she sits in court however, with her fear-stnirk eyes and pain hollowed cheek, there appears nothing of that "dazzling loveliness," unless agony possess grace, and charm can dwell in untold misery. WOMEN ARE MORE LOYAL THAN MEN. Women are more blindlv loval. more faithfully brave than men. They are more t-ecret more discreet, of closer counsel. Best of all. you cannot bribe a woman nor 'frighten her love with a threat. And now. when .lealous rashness has brought down the storm. Thaw's most hopeful fortune of all is found in that quartette of women who furnish in the dread picture whereof he is the central figure a background of svmpathv. It is they who will save him. The wife, the sisters, and hevond the rest the mother, have won for Thaw the good wishes of half the actors in this drama and every looker-on In its material lines the storv of the White killing is as well un. ers'ood b all a though it had been told and heard a score of times. Thaw killed White, and that one is dull who does not guess the reason. Every soul about the court room knows what Thaw did and wh.v he did it. Likewise nine in ten would ote to set him free. .... , This tolerance is not for Thaw. It is a tribute if what is given generouslv and of free, unbought. undrivm will should he called so-to the mother and wife tri outers who in the cruel nature of event, live as much within the shadow of punishment as does Thaw himself. T giv,- vou the feeling of tne spectators and tie motives of it 1 also tell vou that there exists no rlesn and blood difference rMween the spectator and a .'urvmxn. It is asking overmuch of the human heart to expect it to sentence a son to the chair while his mother sits looKtng on. EVELYN PORTRAYS HER INTENSE FEELING. Next to the defendant himself Evelvn Thaw, of those most n-aHv interested, hetravs feeling It is to be thought, too. that more deeply even than in the in htance of Thaw himself, the iron of a terrible situation has entered her soul. He lives on nervous edge, but it is from anxietv. pot sorrow; while she sits smitten j in a kind of numbness , f despair. Also he is fortified bv an egotism much great ' er than her This saves him and uplifts him. The number one habit is n-: a, I wav a bad habit, and has come to its owner's rescue on manv a trving n':d. Speaking of Thaw, one cannot fail to note how his eves, when h- is i-. wi.is , pering to one of his counsel, dart hither and von about the room. There is. to,,, a roll and a wildness and much showing of the whiles, never seen by me. at least. outside the branding pen. These are the signs visible when catt " te, 1 tue m tense bite of white hot iron. I Thaw as he i brought to the plowshare of actual trial, is n-M wit host' ese ments of 'good fortune. For on.- might v matter he , t..rt iu..nte in hi. henci. 1'idge Fitzgerald not onlv has fame as ,,ne who knows the haw. bur h-s instincts themselves are for justice, while nu-ny and n.. bittern.'? ii.. at t tie has. ot his j nature. . I rhvsica'lv he is big and heavv. and these characteristics a-e given an em phasis bv his black robe. It is no had thing f,,r a Judge to h. tog and heavv ; his finding gain weight as emanatirg from ..ur.-e mf profound 1 Best of all. Justice Fitzgerald has a . n.- of hum.-r. and a smi e :e a,wav waiting in the corners of his mouth. 1 Where there is humor there is hope. I or rvHf I fear i,mc so m-i.-h a the man who never laughs. Altogether, fr-m the Thaw v irwpmr m .y r .; Judge Fitzgerald !o,.k and seems and is, there snould abide a r.vml"M a". 1 in o"i to f.-.-d the tires of confidence |