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Show Woman Has Had Her Full Share of Adventure' CLEVELAND, A French father, n German mother, a Russian husbnnd, nnd yet nn Americnn through and through. Her tailored nttlre nnd nlertness, of manner both proclaim her one. It Is more than this, however, that hus led. the Y. M. C. A. to employ Mrs. Mario A. Left ns Immigration secretnry. .t 7,- tn For Mrs. Left has n history. tiMNfil I ? C?Ji i,A When "Murle," as she calls her- BlK lff WsmD self, was n llttlo girl, her father, n W French attorney practicing In Ger- j- many,, died. Marie was sent to Rus- rLif V ' sla under tho care of her uncle, then a Jvf OtU German consul In nussln. In Russia SgOLk.iJaN ! i Marie attended a private school. iMBk 9 Mcantlmo n strnDgo society had JBHA sprung up in tho universities and BM Jvji schools of Russia the "Order of So- " clol Democracy." This society, in secret meetings, discussed and spread democratic Idens. At twclvo years of ago Mnrio became n member of the order. While teaching her clnss of pensnnts she wns attacked by n band ofl bloodthirsty Cossncks nnd Bovcrely punished. Then sho wns Imprisoned for nJ number of weeks. When sixteen, she nnd nnother reformer wore sentenced to llfo In north-, crn Siberia. On tho way 6ho nnd ono of tho prisoners wero mnrrlcd. To-i nether they started on tho trip to Slberln, collecting 000 prisoners on tho wny. Twelve of theso tried to escape. Eight were killed In the nttempt. Mnrlo reached England seven mouths Inter, nnd bhortly nfterwnrd Joined her husbnnd In Ametlca. Ho died as n result of his Ill-treatment In Russia,, nnd Mrs. Left taught night school nnd ncted as Interpreter for tho Snnta Foj rnllrond In Topekn Kan. r Sho loves America nnd considers Clevelnnd tho "finest city In America."! Yet Cleveland Is going to lose Mrs, Leff, Sho Is to havo chargo of. a settlo-J ment houso In Omaha, ' |