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Show - - - -...... . iy . ) .... .. - - . ' 1 (BY CLARA MORRIS.) KEW YORK, Feb. 22: "To which of the devoted women will the cost be greater in giving their evidence, Mrs. Harry Thaw or Mrs. William Thaw, do you think t . asked a grave-faced man attendant at luncheon, the day v before the former was examined by Mr. Delmas. When cn-wers had been given and I was "pressed for mine, a mur-Kur mur-Kur of general disapproval 'arpse when I said: "It will cost the mother more to speak'than the wife." "But,," .one argued, "the wife's evidence will -likely be much 'more diffi-' diffi-' cult and embarrassing" none dreamed its horror then "including admis-' admis-' aions, perhaps, of personal failings and follwss, so, of course, the cost of .speak-ing .speak-ing must be greater to her, and besides, she is spt to. break down from the nervous ner-vous strain, so frail is she physically.", - . - - - . - And brows went up and lips down because I doggedly declared, "Mrs. Harry Thaw, for the love of her husband, will, in his service, bear all there is ; for her to bear, will tell all there may be to. tell, and in no wise will .she falter, s waver, break or collapse." . ' ' , ' . , - ' And, I so argued from my past knowledge of those frail lips of womankind, whose external appearance of waxen fragility conceals frames of steel, with ' nerves strong and elastic as rubber. AN UNABASHED COOLNESS. And now a part, at least, of my contention is proven. For Evelyn Thaw, after an ordeal that must have thrilled with shame and anguish a heart of beaten brass, having told the humiliating story of heinous depravity and of the unspeakable crime committed against herself, betrayed emotion so lukewarm aa almost to the point of unconcern; and on the second, day, perhaps from relief that Ihe awful worst was told, she seemed to show anunabashed coolness, not many miles from audacity, and still sits in the chair With a graceful aplomb that makes middle-aged women gasp with wonder. 2 . ... Yet all this is easily accounted for. This girt has no fesr of the public, knows" no confusion in its presence. Why should shet Her small efforts to please it in the past were smiled iont and now, her great sacrifice accomplishedand accom-plishedand the story of her errors behind her, the actress seems almost unconsciously un-consciously to enjoy her position in the eenter of the stage, with the limelight lime-light full upon her, the public hanging upon her words, tenderness and admiration ad-miration in every eye. Her short theatrical experience taught her to value v " publicity, and it is sweet to her now as the frsgrance of spring violets, so do not wonder that she is unabashed. . HER LOVE OF PRIVACY. The comely mother, of stately dignity, who has held the perfect privacy of ber home life precious, next to the "means of grace and hope of glory," when i mictions came that touched the family pride, this discreet and careful moth-fT'm moth-fT'm warning finger tip pressed the childish lips-to silence. Even her many ood works were done unostentatioualy that she might avoid the publicity of eeneral praise. So,, too, even as a stately hostess, greeting at ceremonious functions func-tions her guests, there was still that faint suggestion of reserve about her. And now this gentlewoman,- whose love of privacy has become a passion, is forced to bow her frond head before a hurricane of publicity that is sweeping the name of her anfl hers about the whole round world. ''',.'.'. ' Therefore her facing' of that crowded room will cost whatf Among other thinirsT dava and nights of nerve-racking fears and sickening anticipation, for with her own trembling hands she must crucify her "pride of family, and believing be-lieving notoriety to spell degradation, yet, for her boy 's sake, will not hesitate to- accept it. ' ! ; ' |