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Show "VAMPS" WHO 1 I MADE HISTORY i g By JAtyES C. YOUNG. l by McClure Newapuper Syndicate.) THE WOMAN WITH THE "EVIL EYE." has the evil eye," said Dumas, O "she will bring a curse upon any man who loves her." History knows the beautiful woman of whom he spoke as Lola Montez, but she was christened Elizabeth, the . daughter of nn Irish woman and Lord Byron, by the left haud. Afterward the mother married and went to India In-dia with her soldier husband. When the girl was sixteen, her mother came back to England for a time, and the young mistress proceeded to run away, marrying a soldier and departing depart-ing for India. Elizabeth left India, stopped In Spain, and changed her name to Lola Montez. She studied dancing and determined de-termined to storm London. Her appearance ap-pearance in 1843 was heralded as a great event, but she could not dance. Her failure brought hisses, and she returned re-turned to the continent, wandering through Germany and Belgium. Then she went to Warsaw. She conceived the Idea of calling herself a Pole, for" whom everybody felt sympathy because be-cause of their struggle for liberty. So Lola came to Paris, under another name, and started to dance. Once more hisses greeted her. It was the last straw. She flew Into a fury, tore off her slippers and garters, and threw them at the audience. Paris had been won. Lola, dropping her other name, became the fashion of the day. An editor was killed in a duel about her, and Dumas pronounced pro-nounced the line quoted above, which drove her from the capital. She next turned up in Munich and enslaved old King. Ludwig. Then folly took hold of her. She started to rule the state iid soon got into water so deep that she almost lost her life. A mob surrounded sur-rounded her palace and angrily demanded de-manded that she come out. Lola came, in her nightgown, pistol In hand. She emptied the contents Into the crowd and barely escaped the mob's fury when Ludwig arrived at the head of the royal bodyguard.' She had to flee, and Ludwig lost his throne. Lola had exhausted Europe. She came to New York and tried again to dance. Once more she failed, and went West, dipping into the mining camps for a while, then on to Australia, Aus-tralia, nnd finally back to New York. Now she lies in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, and not even an epitaph marks her simple headstone. |