St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 51

a i a a i saw i i Now. California society Is Just a like ly to be touchy about admitting a latin dress within Its Innermost precincts a Is New York society. In fact, one oi two tactless matrons were rather in I i Senator Gtorgs Luktnt. The luundry Is still doing business In Washington, and Society points to with satisfaction. Venator and Mn.

I.ukens are off on a honeymoon trip. lnter they will gn to California, whers thy are to live. In ths meantime, Ihn leans mischievously on Id how. awaiting another victim and chirps merrily about one more bull's eye with hi unerring arrow, even If was a difficult shot. found that thing were at a standstill; apparently no progress had been made.

Leaving the business In charge of her sister. Miss Mullan packed her trunk, got on a train and started for California. When she arrived In San Francisco she astonished the lawyers for her father. "I've come to take the case out of your hands," she announced. "You are dismissed forthwith." The next day Miss Mullan went down to the courts and stirred things up.

A day for the hearings was set and when court convened the presiding Judge found that Instead of having a lawyer to deal with, he was confronted with a clever woman. Aligned on the side of the State wa Senator George Lukens. one of the clever men of California. It wa believed at first that the Mullan case would not only find no best In fact, but that the Btate would have little difficulty In disposing the matter In short order. The dignified Judge and counsel for the rt ate reckoned without their host; Miss Mullan had not come all the way from Washington unprepared.

She exhibited an unusual knowledge of the law, as well as the provisions of the Statu Constitution. She fought her case hard and cleverly; she went slowly but deliberately over every Inch of ground and gave the authorities something to talk about for many months. The case required some time and Miss Mullan, who wa the guest of Mrs, Eleanor Martin, one of the wealthiest and most prominent women In San Francisco, received marked attention from society. clined to turn up their aristocratic noses at the thought of Inviting a young women who made no hones of the fact that she supported herself by the pro-salo washtub, even If It held only linens and laces. But who would be the first to dare to go against Mrs.

Martin? That lady, you see. Is an arbiter of fashion on the Pacific slope. In New York she la allied with the ultra-fashionable Oelrlchses by the marriage of her on. Peter l. Martin, with Mis Ully Oelrlchs.

She was continually entertained and as her case progressed it attracted wldJ attention. In the course of her social rounds Miss Mullan met Senator I.ukens. her enemy of ths courts. The two chatted first of the case; diplomatically on Ms side but quite confidentially on hers, and soon a strong friendship sprang up between the Eastern girl and her Western legal opponent. When the trial was over Miss Mullan again packed her trunk, hut this time she brought back something nnr the sum of which the State had tieen compelled to award Capt.

Mullan through the convincing arguments of his brilliant daughter. Hut she was forced to leave something txthlnd as wella promise. It was left In the care of Senator I.ukens, her onetime opponent, and the promise was well, she has already kept It by vowing ut the altar to "love, honor and They had a handsome home on Connecticut avenue, a few doors from the British Embassy. Family portrait and heirlooms dating back 300 years were among Its furnishing. Mr.

Mullan was Mia Kebecca Williamson of Baltimore, and had been a belle of that city before the war. She belonged to an old Maryland family, and her most Intimate girlhood friend "was Mis Emma Bouvler, who became Mrs. Frank Drexel. The Mullan girls were educated In Europe and traveled all around the world. Just as they were In the mUl.st of their gayetles Capt.

Mullan met with reverses, and the dream of hia fascinating daughters was over. Undaunted by the tricky turn of fortune's wheel, the Mullan glrU opened a hand laundry almost next door to their home on Connecticut avenue, and It wan to them that society brought It linens. Its filmy gowns and fine lace. Not only did the Misters' iHixIncsg flourish amazingly, but the Mullen girls soon learned that their dip Into work-a-day life had In no way Impaired their sociHl position, and they still found themselves the center of their old group of friends. The Misses Mullan, having been brought up In luxury, knew how to appreciate dainty linen and tine laces-how they should be handled, how they should be cleaned and In what miserable condition they are generally sent home ftom the luundry.

That knowledge. toupled with a practical mind and no false pride, caused them to realise the potential popularity of a place where refined women who wear fine clothes and love dainty thing could send them for well-executed renovation, and resulted in the establishment of the De Sale laundry, a they called It. "People must have clean clothes all the year round," said Mis Mullan, "and they want them carefully and daintily done up. There was no place In Washington which supplied this want, ao we have started one. "At first our friends responded to our circulars simply to lend a helping hand, hut one cannot rely solely upon one's friend for a living, and even friend demand value for their money.

Therefore we are giving them the beat v.ork that can be performed. "Everything Is done by hand, and my sister and I give the closest possible personal attention to every article that is sent to us. "We must have an assured mean of livelihood, for we cannot exist on ancestral portraits and furniture that I an heirloom. If. then, one la going to earn one's living, why not select a mean which is likely tn prove a success? Our capltnl Is 'ir knowledge of how fine linens and lace should be handled." But Miss Emma wasn't satisfied with the laundry alone.

She remembered the California suit. She investigated and Joseph Arch, so lor.g the vole i the farm laborers In England, Is years old. Born ths son of a fsrm laborer, he was on of those dogged souls who educated thsmselves. Ills mother was In her youth a servant at Warwick Castle, and when Joseph Arch's autoblogrsphy ram to be written It was a Countess of Warwick who edited and Introduced It. The women of ths Island of Teio have a very pecullsr custom of making up their faees to took as though they have mustschss.

Ths women or called Alnus, snd upon the upper lip of each bells Is tattooed something thai re-seinbles a ljng. (lowing mustache. Mm HAT terror have wash tub, to A nothing of Mara or Black- Stone. whftrA Iav rnnrrnpH Her la saucy Pan Cupid uniting In happy man-lag a man and woman who Emma V. Mullan, Now Mrs.

George Lukens. won the girl that won the $50,000. So He soon became identified with af-today pretty Miss Emma V. Mullan, falra of the State government and was daughter of Capt. John Mullan, U.

8. eonnected with several enterprise for resigned, 1 now the bride of Senator which, however, the State refused to George Lukens of California, who fought recompcniie him. The family moved her vainly. East. In the meantime Capt.

Mullan In- Capt. Mullan went from West Point to stltuted uit against officials of Cali-the army, and resigned after reaching fornla, placing hi case In the hands of his captaincy. He and hi family Jour- a law firm 10 act In his absence, neyed to California to live, and there The Mullan moved to Washington Capt. Mullan took up the practice of and it wa not long before Ml Emma law. Thing went very well with them Mullan and her lter were presented then.

Miss Mullan studied law. too, and to society there. They went everywhere; became a great help to her father in their home became a rendesvou for the more ways than one. smart et. vro legal opponent the man a lawyer of exceptional brilliancy, and a State Senator to boot and the woman why.

nothing but an army girl debutante, perforce a society laundrea to make both end meet. The woman won In the courts, which awarded her the $50,000 for which she ill fighting, but the man in reality achieved even a bigger victory, for ho It Costs a good deal of money to become a medical doctor. It Is estimated that from first to last oomplete medlrtl education on the highest lines runs Into Bu kola Forrester. i Jm mm I ff 1 I 1 i ft VtZTt El mm 1m A Lv vZi K2A 1 1 11 MU c- mfm the frowning rocks and watched for days, but not "Alas!" tiled a chorus of fair young maidens a glimpse did he get of the Sea Witch. they wept cascades and cataracta of tears.

"Glld.i "When the baby moon Is rocked to sleep by the has forsaken us. She has fallen In love with the cloud nurses she will come," the horseshoe crah Prince of the dwarfs, and haa sought a charm assured him, bo he waited patiently, for his quest from the Witch with the Purple Eyea to maki was urgent. herself small and fragile aa the dwarf maiden. And at last he saw her. that he may love her." "I will give you half of my treasure in the "Yet I will find her," he shouled.

and strodo hl'ls." he said, "if you will make me tall as the back to the shore to Bnd the Sea Witch. And un lallcut pine." the beach he saw GUda chatting with the hors- "Why, small Prince," asked the Purple-Eyed shoe crab, and she was no taller than a violet. Witch, amusedly, "why would you be what you "Strange that I ever thought her beautiful. are not?" mused the Prince. "How insignaflcant the dwai "For love's sake," sighed the Prince.

"I have people are! I cannot even tell the color of her Been Gilda, msld of honor to the Queen of the eyes. She is not the gorgeous GUda whom I giant folk. She is tall as the tallest pine, and she loved." can nod good-morning to the sun as it rises over And Gilda, looking up in terror as a great dark the edge of the world, and she can kiss the stars shadow loomed between her and the. sun, cried good-night." out: "So can the clouds, and the rainbow and the "Ah, what a monster! How tall and terrible small birds that fly." the giant people are. Surely ho could nibble "But it is less trouble not to fly," aaid the at the stars and take a bite out of ths of th4 dwarf.

"I would have my head touch the clouds moon." like the giants, and my feet walk among the Upon a rock aat the Witch with ths Purp! flowers like the dwarfa. Then Gilda will love me Eyes, and laughed as she watched them, and I will give you half of my treasure, Sea "Foolish ones." she called, "who measure love Witch." by tallest pines and would be what you ars not, "I have plenty of sea treasure," said the witch, listen while I provs your love for each other. "Take what I give freely, and go." Gilda. shall I change you to a giant maiden to 8o the Prince of the dwarfs took the charm she that the Prince may aeo the color of your eyes?" gave him nd drank It from a shell, and the "I want to be small and fragile as tbo dwarf horseshoe crab ran away and hid for fear as the maidens are," sobbed GUda. "I want to be dainty Prince grew tall as the tallest pine.

But the as the violet." Prince hastened away to the great hills, where "Then the Prince must return to tho dwarfs the giant folk dwelt, and all the giants cams fortn for love of you." said the witch positively, from their caverns to stare at him. "'ot v'" th Prince, "for I would touch -I seek Gilda. fairest of jour maidens." cried the stars, and seo the sun rise ovsr ths edge of the Prince. "I will wed her and be your King." ths world." SUNDAY MAGAZINE- ST. LOUIS-rOST-DISPATCH- JUL.Y 21, U07 I I "Ah, What a Monster! Hew Tall and Terrible ths Giant Pecple Art." And suddenly the waves along the Island aho: tall as as ths talleat pins aad ths dwarf Prlac began to lash and Has and beat upon ths rocks.

WM Uk vloUt onder foot. 80w. almtisfl.i ths way they always did when ths Sea Witch wa. angry. And tb.

witch stood upon ths rock. ones. wlU you learn that lov. muisls? and flashed her purpls eyes, and broks ths spell back 10 our own n4 of that bound ths two. people.

You tret me, and when am fretful I "Now," sbe said, when Gilda stood befort bar lorftt Low many poarU I tavs galhirsd today." "Make Me as TH the Tallest Pine." ALL witches are not old and ugly. The ages. Witch with th Purple Eyea was younn. "You'll know her by her jur.le eyes and her At least she looked roung. which Is all dress of silver aa moss and the girdle of pearls the same thing, although fishermen and sailors that falls clear to her amall bare feet," the horse -said that aha haa gathered silver sea moss and shoe crab told the Prince of the dwarfa when tie tfca pink anemones along the Island shore for came to seek her advice, and the Prince at up on PACE NINB.