Show BUT nUT HOW ABOUT TILE TIll MOTHER Rather the tho most distressing view of oC tho the Thaw case Is the tIme attitude of the mother of Evelyn Nesbit That harridan seems to ha haVe haVo o preserved In the he day of or her prosperity prosperity pros pros- all the baseness that adversity put into her life She intentionally threw her girl Into tho the way of Stanford White She took the tho money of Stanford White when White when she Bho knew that money was tho the price of her own daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's downfall If ever Sever there a woman wholly bad it Is the lie mother of the time young oung Mrs Thaw How she could haVe haVo so abased herself no ono one normal normal nor nor- mal mat can under understand tand From the tho beginning it seems the tho child was sent out to sell seU her beauty The mother ha had taught her no other means of getting a livelihood One can cami not complain that the tho child posed as a model for models are arc necessary and many manya a girl earns carns an honest living absolutelY living absolutely untouched by sin sin sin-In in following that vocation But posing with Mrs 1 Nesbit seems to 10 nave have been but the lie stepping stone Artists have visitors Men of money visit them in their studios It was the lie evident plan of this Jezebel to have her daughter be seen b by these men to have havo her impress them to have havo her taken under the protection mark protection mark tho the word Word of of one of these wealthy and Idle fellows Once that scheme worked the he mother could see o herself hersel living in luxurious Idleness at one of the best hotels little caring earing what became of her child so 50 long as she sold herself for enough money White paid well welt He could afford It IL He Ho made mado things pleasant for fOI the mother with a lavishness that does not seem to have been at all necessary A creature with th tho spirit that old woman has evi evidenced would have been abundantly satisfied If the artist had made madean an out and bid hid for tho the body of the girl and the absence of tho the mother We Ve dont don't know just lio how liow so 50 depraved a woman can live We c dont don't understand how an any mother can havo have sunk so low Wo We can only regard her as infinitely lower than tho the man who ruined her da daughter as Immeasurably Immeasurably immeasurably ably bas baser r tha than t the tho roue who bu buys s 's girls and anel abuses them thern an and then abandons them Somewhere Somewhere hero hero or hereafter that hereafter that sort of or mother should find the tho co compensating punishment of or a very hot hell f J I |