Show IB I B m t lUJI f B a Q liHN But When the Artistic Baron Found s M Ai i i fiSh sA He Would Lose a Fortune if He i ir r d tie k f ir w w t i j v lt It was w h i I Ie e i s- s sas as Married the Lively and Baron 1 if i was tickling the thea a k ka N i a Flesh Resh of M Mr Mrs r s I f- f fe e i A iS Lovely Mrs Nash Nash's N Na a s IS h h s IS shins calves and ankles a es e's t I TV r with his his- skillful i ir lt r S Tt tr 8 ii f 1 W n paint P 1 brush and He Decided He Hed He'd d W k r making m a kin g A them themore v II y more ore alluring than 1 r W SI iff real silk ever could n Better fr K Give r sr I Ty K 1 A that he fell in love Oetter Net NetA UP p J r S with her and filled I q i y her heart with witha with I love for him h rr a His Hard Won a A Love PrizeR Prize K wW h R 4 qty l t I 1 FF 11 p It t 1 r When they were sweethearts Mrs sweethearts Mrs Nash and Princes Prince J b Mohammed Sabit Bey on the beach at Deauville f PARIS r HE HC romantic career of Mrs JeanI Jean I Nash the lively American beauty heartbreaker and extravagant queen of fashion is S so swift and full of surprising changes that an interested world has bas hard work work to keep pace with it t Untila Until a few days ago everybody was expecting ng her ber marriage to Prince Mo- Mo Mohammed Mohammed Mo Mohammed hammed Sabit Bey of Egypt He would become her fourth husband it t was thought just as Soon soon as he co could ld be di- di divorced di divorced from the wife from whom he has been separated sm since e last May Hay This love afIa to a sudden sadden and ig end when MM Mrs Nash charged the Prince PrIno with being a With thief thief having stolen and pawned worth of jewelry which he Ac had hail given her duro dur- dur during tog ing the course cour of his co courtship p The Princes Prince's wife 1 e It ft seems scams had had sal sal- suf suffered bred in the same way at his hs hands She SheI I I declares that when he packed his trunks belore l leaving her a year year ago he care care- carelessly lessly slipped into ante them several thou thoo sand dollars donars worth of s silverware and other valuables winch had been his bridal gifts gilts to her When the Princess heard the outcry Mrs Nash raised raked over her loss she for for- forgot for forgot got her bar jealousy of the American beauty j end and joined hands with her in n trying to teach trach the Prince that it is not good form for a man to appropriate the costly pres pres- presents presents he has made a sweetheart or WIre wife The two to t o women are now suing ung Prince Mohammed m In the Pans Paris courts for the value of the gifts heso he so unceremoniously p took back This made the Prince very angry and he retaliated by having Mrs Nash brought into court on a charge ofas of as- as assistIng assisting as assisting him to obtain money under false pretenses But these theM embarrassing difficultIes whIch promise to the take take take- the courts many months to settle could not delay the progress of Mrs Nash's Nasha romantic career not not for a minute She is continually surrounded by altogether too many ad- ad admIrers admirers ad admirers to be very long without a hus bus husband husband b band d or at least st stone one fiance fiane Before her were were through through gasp gasp- gasp gasping ing over her sensational break with the Egyptian Prince she smilingly announced that his successor had been decided on and already was enthroned in m her heart The heart The lucky nun min was Baron Buon Herbert Lederman a successful Ger- Ger German Ger German r- r man artist and it I is Ice said lund a nephew J of Otto Kahn the wealthy New York hanker banker His portraits of famous Euro peon penn beauties are much admired but ho he heis hois heIs is still till better known for the thu th artistic cre crea crea- creations which he be has painted painted on the flesh of hundreds of women Tho The Baron was the originator tor of the Idea idea of silk painting stockings ou on women's legs a fad that is proving tre- tre tremendously tro popular in ill Lir Lu As soon as the tho first few pairs pars of his hu painted stockings began to attract admiring glances glance in Berlins Berlin's B fashionable b dancing places he be was wu besieged by countless beauties who wanted him to adorn their limbs in a similar way with flowers Cowers and butterflies cupids devils devil's heads and serpents So great was the tho enthusiasm over what some Berlin humorist facetiously calls calis the Leg School of Art th that t the Baron could haic nid almost any price for his bis work worL But with him hm the painting of the antics be-antics leIS legs vr was v n nore re rea a labor of 01 love and he never charged more than a pair air for the stock rags ings he lie so skillfully with lira colors When a young woman noman mm a was unusually good looking and ano lid did rut happen to have havethe havethe the lIp price he is u said to hive have been glad to paint a 21 pair or two for nothing tie lIe lIec c JOS this nen novel novi-I form of artistry and kinks it gives given him good for forli h Pip more mon eris 4 a Cf Ot Of trac rv It t would 1 bi bl 1 c that 1 y y C P i ia id a Y 1 d 1 I IH 1 cE cEif if c Iy n iu ius s H S Sa a ww a t 4 y FL- FL v t tP 1 P r r j rA A b 4 nM r rY Y 1 i p 3 2 i ip Jean v t tt Nash Who tj t S Sis t i j is dazzling a Europe with f ff f x c her charm and ia r cleverness as well wello o rya I r x as her extravagant dresses and jewels g M Mrs Mrs Jean Nash always eager for or some new and bizarre way ny of attracting more attention to her lovely self elf w would uld be among the tho first fUt to have her legs covered With fhe he B Barons Baron's rons ron's t painted d stockings She hurried straight to Berlin when she sho heard what shat hat a furore they were creating As she ehe has since confessed it Wt was while the Baron was tickling the flesh of her sTuns shins and calves and anKles with his hs skillful paint brush and making them more alluring than real silk ever could that he fell feU in m roe love with her and filled her busy youn young h hart heart art with th love for him But But I I could not let Jet him know how bow completely head he lie had rad won it it said ad Mrs Mra trash ash in lD announcing he her engagement J I could not surrender it to him just lust then for I J already was 1 ill iii love have with Prince Sabit rey Bey and nd was Vias hoping to marr marry Inn i 1 nil nn as soon us as 5 his IllS divorce could be arranged Now oj that I have hale discovered what hat al ail unprincipled led wretch the Hie Prince is s and how cruelly he be he has deceived hid hi h WIfe and me in I am dom doing what I realize I ought to have done in m the first prom place place prom promising Is ising ng to marry the Baron Probably nothing of the sent would have happened if Baron had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been so madly in IU love with wIlh Mrs Nash that he would not accept her her no noa noa a as final The fact th that thai she already wa was virtually promised to the Eg only m de him hm the more inure deter deter- to have this love prize He was wise enough nough to understand that many ii a a slip ship is possible between an engagement ring and nd the marTl marriage go altar when the man in n the c case se happens to br be a aery ery ery up hard-up prince and one who vho I already ready has hs a wife on his tends After fter the tho Baron had replaced Mrs lash s first pair of paned with nobody noW know how many other Ia pass Ie 1 l c e implored her to remain in m Ber Ber- or lin ho for him hm to her ber long enough pant portrait por por- portrait trait trat She Ste consented and the canvas he produced is s the talk of Europe's artistic circles It shows show a length full-length view of f Mrs Nash wearing Hearing one of the superb ee eve eve- evening ning cie-ning ning gowns with which hIeb she always manages man man- manages ages to keep her wardrobe filled even e c when hen one one or two of her Innumerable dr dresses ses cost more than he her hu husband band of the moment earns carns ina ma whole year ear When Mra Mr Nash returned to Paris Pans the Baron infatuated Baron closed up hIS hi studio her here To Deauville to Cannes to Monte Carlo and Nice her wherever wherever ever she went he hr dogged he her steps and and ald anda was as a as gr grateful vl wi enever the assiduous At i at of the j Egyptian Prince left lert her hera a moment or t two too a for tor him bim Perhaps p something nay may happen happen the Baron argued and iff am alnas al a s right light righton on on the spot I standa stand a better chance or of falling failIng heir to this prize when len the loses It it lt Of course nie the Boron Baron was too gallant a 11 gentleman to wish his r rival ri al any bad ad luck but he felt Celt no compulsion to offer his sympathy or r a assistance when wIen when Ill i heard that Mrs Nash was as breaking her engagement with the Prince and charging charging ing him hm with theft He lie al III once began a vigorous renewal of the suit snit he had started months be before fore be fore aid when hell Mrs Nas Nash Nash almost im m immediately mediately promised ed to be his wife he was the most delighted of ot men WIth his lips still thrilling with he her kisses he hurried to la ja a telegraph office and sent and and off a long message e to his hs family in Ger- Ger many telling them how he le had won the tb most most charming woman in the world tor or or the next nest few days the Baron wu was too intoxicated with his new Dew joy to real real- real realize ize ire that his hia family was ominously sIlent When he did recall that no congratulations congratulatIons congratulations and blessings had been received from them he decided that hn ha first mel mes- Y r rv rk v k f a c ae e tas t it x yr 0 04 4 c The American with beauty not Dot even eveD stockings lockings of paint on OD sage Rage must ha e miscarried and sent an- an another another an another other As the Baron later found found out out there had been no trouble about the first mes mes- message sage u sage reaching its destination The Wart Wart- bergs Warl-bergs bergs dela ed replying simply because they knew from previous experience how incautious an artist often c ua can be in his hi V U f J- J Jf fI I P P A qt s j t tj f i JI 4 AY As r l d TJ t sMi t firs Nash cigarette in hand strolling with the Egyptian she has Jilted and calls caUs a thief love affairs E Before fore mS ther sanc sanc- sanction sanction tion to the Barons Baron's marriage they want ant wanted wanted ed cd to look into Mrs Irs Na Nash's Nosh's hs h's r record cord corda a 1 They found that she is the tho daughter of the late Andew Donaldson Donnld on o of y York orl When hen seventeen sue she had bad eloped With John S Kerwin a boy of eighteen This marriage marrI was soon annulled because h cause of the youth of the bride and bridegroom A few months later the young woman eloped again agam this time with Lieutenant Winfield Cliffordt Clifford Sifton Sitton son of a former Canadian t Minister of the Interior After 4 I her dJ orce from him hm still only al a l S little more than twenty years old the tho young oung beauty took Captain John Victor Nash of the British British Army for her third husband The captain was not a rich man and had h d to depend largely on his meager salary as an arm army officer Consequently he hada had a sorry time oft of it trying to keep pace w with th his hs wife wife's extravagant tastes for jewels Jewel ewels When Callot Soeurs Saurs S urs sued Captain Nash several for several thousand dollars worth of fineries which winch his wife had bought within a few days time tImo and charged to him he be told on the witness stand a pitiful story of the straits to mania maDla for dress had reduced him He testified that his had in eon eon con l i I II If I f r stant slant use more than sixty ty dresses half of them evening e gowns that cost from up to several thousands apiece She Sha had her shoes made to 0 o order a no dozen doz paIrs at a time She would not put her feet Ceet tito stockings th that t cost less leas than 8 or 10 10 a pair and often she paid pad as high as 80 SO a pair par He swore that t when he married her she owed to dressmakers mIlliners and jewelers Jeweler Justice McCardic McCardle who was hearing the case was re g-re greatly stirred by this test test- testimony I InOn mony He delivered a s scathing denunciation denunciation Clation of what he termed Mrs r-ash's r feckless indulgence of her extravagance extravagance gance She had he be declared been heen two or three times her hus hus- husband's husband's bands band's annual income on hats ana and gowns gowns eels furs and lingerie A few weeks later disillusioned Cap Captain tam Nash in m filing suit SUlt for divorce de- de declared de declared that his wife ha hai i r ruined rained him hM financially Since then Mrs Mrs tIrs Nash ha has been a n figure l inthe the gay life of Europe dazzling with everybody the mag mag- magnificence of her dress breaking hearts heart wherever she olio went vent and driving at lea lead t tone one of her ber admirers to suicide The might h have ve l I Mrs Nash's Nosh's elopements elope lInd j and nd divorces and other facts of her romantic career but such extravagance c gance as Justice Mc- Mc McCardle McCardie Mc Cardle Cardie had that denounced denounced that was as some some- somethIng something something thing their ther thrifty could not for gl gise They promptly decided that a n woman whose hoso vanity lathy was as so m insatiable was not at all the one they wanted to share the fortune that w will dl 11 some day be bo the Barons Baron's Large as this is they fear It would not last long it if a spender spencer like 1110 Mrs Nash l got a chance at It it And so instead of the congratulations and blessings Baron had hoped for and expected from his fam family y he received w word rd that t if f he went on with tb this love ma math match h he could look for nothing further from the family fortune fortun that t that he would be he No Now Nov if It this were a storybook ro- ro romance ro romance mance manco instead ad of one in m real life very ery likely the Baron would Fould have o gone right ahead in spite of this at and nd ma- ma red mar red ned Mrs Nash What he actually dId was to tell her that he ho could not marry hu her and go sadly bac back to his Interrupted pa Some of the Pa Paris s go sips suspect Uia 1111 perhaps he would not have been so read to cast love aside for the the sake sale of gold If hi his sweetheart sweetheart had glien gisen him a little littlemore littlemore more Inore encouragement to do otherwise It Itis is 13 that the Baron lost A good deal of rest interest in lD Mrs Nosh's Na hs h's eyes the instant stant she knew know that he would lo lose e his inheritance nce if he ma married her and nd that she he would have bave only what he could earn from his painting to keep her fn IJ clothes and jewels Mr Mrs Mra Nash Nuh however ever declares that ahe i is really broken hearte hearted If she ha e the beloved Baron who painted stockings on her so delightfully she insists that she will never neler never ne marry again Those who know know this tall taU blond sl- sl der beauty as famous for her wit and charm as for th the brilliance Of her cos cos- costumes costumes costumes can hardly believe that her heart t li liis IS forever actually closed to love Very VIrY soon soon perhaps now now perhaps these lines are think the printed they think she will WIll have an- an anth another an another other th r fiance fia to o tal the tho place of the Barol fal family dy objected to her a as asa ia a law in |