Show javed 1 m rom D Dd d Q u a L B OD b II w s an d n 5 tr r c I a f fr How the Officers Officer's Grip on f s 1 s ti i Trembling I Shoulder 4 Her J U v i a c A Brain of the ther thea 1 I Fogs of a r q I Delirium and Gave Gavel Gavert l t y i it Y rt wt Yh ar ari i r Hey the thel l I r Courage J M i L t Make Makel MakeI l gh I M riN w fd to I j j an q Winning r I Fight for God bless the bobb who arr sted me that night in London says Cissie Loftus Lo The grip of that policeman's hand handon on my quivering tortured drug flesh seemed to clear the fogs of delirium from my brain As it tightened on my shoulder felt something like my a k old strength of will surging through me and giving me a z Fy and Life Itself new and unbeatable courage Come with me h he said and andt andI a aFy t d dOF OF m etc I 1 went gladly for even in the disgrace of my ar ar- ar arrest I t rest J 1 was supremely sure that at last I 1 Iwas was on ony y 9 ts e 4 ka kaY Y I M cag 1 1 the way to freedom I I II IJ J r 4 ro ki s t r f t f I t 4 r is d dd d sw 4 e Miss Cissie Loftus who leas amazed and delighted her fiends by conquering the morphine habit to which she so long was a slave g HAT has become of Cissie WHAT Vv SHAT Loftus That was a ques ques- question ques- ques question question tion frequently asked both bothin bothin bothIn in England and America a little more than ten years ago i when the talented and charming actress suddenly and m mi my s- s s dropped from the publics public's view I Her disappearance came just when she sheI I was being carried swiftly to the crest of I the wave nave ave of popular fa favor or At After r a bryl- bryl brIlI brIllIant bril brilliant I pant eager career on the tha professional st stage ge in support of such well ell known stars as E EH H Sothern and William she had gone into vaudeville le and achieved an even eHn greater success there with her mim mIm- mImicry mimicry mimicry of famous actresses The public was delighted with Ith her imi-I imi imi imitations ta lons of Sarah Barnhardt Ellen Terry and Yvette Guilbert and some enthusiasts enthusiasts enthusiasts declared them even more ing Ing than the original performances of these women Then all at once without any warn warn- warning warning ing or explanation Cissie Loftuss Loftus's name ceased to appear on the theater pro pro- programs programs pro programs grams and in the twinkling electric SIgnS There Thero was no announcement of continued ill health or of her permanent retire retirement ment meat from the tho stage Even her man man- manager manager ager and close friends in the theatrIcal world did not know hero where sho she had gone gono or what had become of her It was a puzzling m mystery and so It remained for nearly ten years The first light on it came less than a year ago when the cables from England flashed the news that Cissie Loftus had been arrested ina in a London street arrest street arrest arrested ed on a charge of having in her posses posses- possession possession sion slon narcotic drugs Sweet-faced Sweet gentle Cissie Loftus in jall Jail I t The talented actress a drug ped- ped peddler ped peddler or worse still sUU herself a drug fiend Her lier friends and admirers in this country hardly could credit th the tho truth of what they read in lathe the newspapers But it was only the tho truth as later dispatches from London proved Yes Cissie Loftus admit admIt- admitted ted fed when arraigned incourt in court court I had mor mor- ph phine me in my possession Foi rOI rears eals non no noI novI I have hae never been without it If I could not get it I should die She stood before the judge a pallid trembling shadow of her once rosy viva viva- vivacious vivacious cious and poised dl self and told a astory astory astory story that is being heard with alarming frequency in III the courts nowadays s Th These l e had been a serious illness The hospItal nurse had given her more mor- mor morphine mor morphine phine than she should to case ease the pain and Bring sleep By the time the dis- dis disease disease dis disease ease was conquered Cissie Loftus found helSe conquered by a still more terri tern terrible terrible ble Lie the foe foe the morphine habit The doses the conscienceless or un- un un unthinking thinking nur nurse e had given her had Im- Im Implanted implanted im implanted planted a craving craning that could be bo satis satis- satisfied satisfied satisfied fied only with jio-e jio and moie mOle of the drug She was confirmed fiend In court that mOl morning after her her ar- ar arrest ar arrest rest like any outcast creature of the streets she pleaded for lust one more one chance one more opportunity to tI by to shake off the shackles hill has ha forged themselves so tightly about her WIl wrists ts Th The judge was as touched by her pleas picas and after hearing the testimony of her friends he suspended sentence and pa- pa paroled pa paroled her in their custody All this the admirers of Cissie Loftus read lead It with I dismay and grief gliet This then was the sad explanation of her mysterious mysterious rious disappearance from the s 's They fen feared red that the tl-e humiliation of her arrest marked the beginning 01 o the end It seemed incredible that after these years of addiction anything her will power or the loving help of or the skillful advice ad of physicians could do could free tree her from her pitiable slavery to drugs It was as as everybody sadly thought goodby forever to Cissie Loftus the charm of her personality and the magic of her art But Bit it was WM not goodby as Cissie Loftus herself proved just the other day when she landed in New York once York 1 f Eternal Eternal y Pain Dardes Darde's striking piece of sculpture which typifies typifies foes fies tie suE suE- suf suf-f suf fel clings ings a drug slave undergoes Q r y ya a a repeating to herself ThIs craving is a false e r i and perverse appetIte and if I ever gratify 1 v It again it will put me mein mein in my grave I MUST get along without It f's to kw and I WILL MILLI vy rt r When brain and i i 1 nerves and the whole hola a aS S body machinery finally began slowly to return e irk i t ormal the pains steadIly grew less and andas andas as they dId so s dId the craVIng for the drug w we e 1 e Weeks later CIssIe Lof as awoke one morning n nsf v sf after the first night of x b a vs t refreshing slee sleet she FL L s p F Fh had h had In years to i a ai i t find the gnawing desire a J for morphine complete a Jap Y Yf apa ap a I gone f But It took still more gat e F ka and food il weeks of rest tia e a a w a af f and invigorating aIr to ti tic tia c fill fiU out the hollows in ina a a her cheeks rest restore re the x xa then them and bring 4 v roses to rf Rc x back to mind and body I y i y the strength which her f fi E 4 x K years ears of slavery hud had la cx c F robbed them of y N LIke being chained r to a nightmare IS Cissie Lof Lof- Loftus's of the hor hor- hor horK tuss vIvId descrIptIon K hors a slave to the drug habIt knows Yet m III tho beginning It r X s ay seems like no nightmare at all X but a radIantly golden r I 11 n n t more a flee free woman escaped from the crud slave master that had so nearly I ruined umed her hei in mind and body and brought her Jer to the the grave giave Cissie Loftus has made the fight no- no nobody nobody no nobody body tl thought tl ought she had the strength to tomake and make and sh she has won Deep lines In her face I remain emam to tell of the suffering has undergone in m gaining her hard hard- hard fought fought but otherwise for tor or the first time in m needy neady ten years she is s her herold herold herold old buo buoyant ant magnetic self Now she I is eager to make up for all the happiness and success she mIssed during those awful years when she was submerged in the depths that Y yawn for vIctims of the tl-o drug dlug dl ug habit Also sho wants ants to lend a helping Hand to others who are enslaved as she was by the craving mg ing for morphine or coca cocaine me or other nar nar- narcotic narcotic cotic drugs The cure for for the drug habit must come from within says Cissie Loftus PhysIcIans and friends and other things may help but complete freedom from tho ho slavery can be won only through ones one's n own 0 n soul God bless the bobby who arrested me that night in London 1 I The touch of hn his hand on my shoulder stirred for forthe forthe forthe the first time within me mc confidence that I could strike oil off the shackles of the mor- mor morphine mor morphine phine habit The grip gnp of his hand on my quiver 7 w a G 4 e ing drug tor tortured drug flesh seemed to clear the fogs of delirium from my brain bram I 1 as I never had before in aU all those dreadful years the depths to I had sunk the wreck I had matte made ma le of my myhr hr life the joy I had missed the sorrow I had caused my friends His Ills hand tightened on my shoulder and as it did I felt something like my old strength of will Bill surging through me and giving me an unbeatable courage Come with me he said and I went gladly for even in the disgrace of my arrest I was supremely sure aura that at last I was on the way to freedom From the courtroom Cissie Loftus was taken to the light and cheer and restful qUIet of-a of country cottage Kindly hands and sane reason surrounded her lien but it was as the will power to which the tha touch of the tha policeman's hand had given a new birth that finally won the battle It was made all the harder by the excruciating that pains that seized her Brain Brainand Brainand Brainand and nerves were cro crying out in agony for another dose of the drug to which they had ISO i so long been accustomed But CIssie Loftus fighting in what hat she now knew was the last Jast ditch stead steadfastly refused to heed their they it demands Morphine Is not a real need she kep kept a dream so entrancingly blissful bl that thO mind n is numbed to the tho realization of t its end must be Days Dais Da s when she was sunk into a II heavy lethargy alternated with days days- when she was teas lifted to planes of wild ecstasy At other times came a depression weIghing so 50 heavily on her spurt spirit that not even death seemed secured a n way of escape The drug freed her from all the inhibitions which normal persons know and obey all all the inhibitions which mind and body education and environment have set up as safeguards safeguard for us Sh She found herself doing queer ecstatic things She often felt as if she were ere dismembered dismembered- an an eternal spirit a thing supreme apart haying nothing in common with the tha world about her As the tho drug broke down one by one her inhibitions she became absolutely r reckless of facts consequences every everything thing to sane sano minds give heed All Al Although though as her mirror and the wonder wonder- wondering wondering ing eyes of friends plainly told her she was pale haggard and w wild d eyed she felt bounding with health and bubbling wIth high spirits Yet with this strange excitement e that thrilled every fiber of her bor being she seemed to view the world of reality WIth WItha witha a profound and superior from calm calm from her detachment she looked for instance with deepest contempt on persons who had tho coarseness to stuff themselves with rich foods or drink to excess She was carried out of herself lifted into such regions as are described by Cro Crowley Cronley ey in his Diary of a Drug Fiend The hero has fallen in Inlove inlove love with a young and charming dro drug r slave and they go to Pans Paris and Italy on ona ona ona a honeymoon that is one long drug debauch She spoke to me for the first fast time Her IIer voice thrilled dark unfathomable deeps of bing I tingled in m every ery fiber And what she said was this Your kIss is bitter with Ith coca cocaine me It was a boiling boding caldron of wicked wicked- wickedness wickedness ness that had suddenly bubbled over Her lier voice rang rich with hellish glee It stimulated me to male intensity I caught her in n my arms more fiercely The world orld went black before my eyes I cd nothing any more I can hardly even say that I felt At that m moment ment she threw me off as asIf asif asif If I had been a feather I felt myself all of or a sudden no more good QUIto unaccountably I had collapsed and I found myself to my amazement knock knock- knocking I ing out a pile of coca cocaine me from a ten ten- ten bottle which had been in my trousers trouser's pocket on to my hand and sniffing sniffing fing it up into my nostrils with greedy relish The heroine describes her ber experiences the the terrible struggle to obtain drugs and al always nys at the tho same time the dull hope hope of fighting off of the craving once aid ald for all We walked wanted on aimlessly ly in silence A ta tau offered itself We climbed into It listlessly and drove droe back We threw ourselves on our o r b beds ds The Th idea of lunch was disgusting We ele towed to too wets wed to o an anything thing I found myself on fire with Ith witha u a passionate determination to fight helom and cocaine to a finish and my hands aero y ero tied behind my back my feet feet acre ere fettered by a achain a chain cham and ball I wont to the glass to take my hat hatoff hatoff hatoff off I didn't know who ho I was There Thero is no flesh on my face ace My Illy complex complex- complexIon's complexion's ions ion's entirely gone My hair is luster luster less less and nd dry and its it's coming out in hand hand hand-fuls fuls I think I must be ill Ive I've a good mind to send for a doctor But I It has been a frightful shock I And in these hideous hours of help help- helplessnesS help ve ac 1 e drifted down the dark and sluggish river of inertia toward to ard the stagnant and stinking morass of insanity sty ity ty We were obsessed by the certainty that we could never neHl pull through Wo We said nothing at lit first We were sunk in solemn stupor When it found voice at last it was to wh whimper the surrender atI I Jt It was as ashen when hen Cissie Loftus had reached such such a state when hen there seemed no pos pos- possibility I f of of escape that she sho was set on en the road to freedom by the touch of a 8 I policeman's hand Th The story of of how her arrest galvan galvan- galvanized i her lier will power into action action- and en enl en her to make her winnin winning fight for r I freedom and life itself luelf Is one she it is isnow now glad to tell in the hope that it may help other o her victims to escape from the tho cruel bondage into which they have ha been east cast by y their craving craving for nl morphine land and other narcotic drugs to h |