THE WASHINGTON POST

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

11 February 1912

(page 14)

FACE AND FOOT COVERING.

“You may have reason for covering your face with a beard, but I have none for covering my feet with shoes,” said Mrs. Solomon Sturges [Mary d'Este-Sturges], the beautiful and artistic wife of a Chicago banker, to the landlord of 30 Avenue Charles Floquet, Champs de Mars.

The landlord tried to evict her the same as Raymond Duncan, to whom Mrs. Sturges lent the house while she was in Italy, but the tenants all adore Mrs. Sturges, and the Paris League of Tenants is standing by her. M. Cachon, president of the Paris Tenants’ League, has tendered the services of the whole organization to the beautiful Chicagoan. Should the landlord succeed in evicting Mrs. Sturges, M. Cachon will call out thousands to escort her to her new residence.

Meanwhile, Raymond Duncan, in spite of the success he has made in the Sophocles Greek play of “Electra,” is forbidden to call on Mrs. Sturges, though she is one of his converts to Hellenism. Duncan’s brother and his Greek wife, Penelope, also are under the ban.

Mrs. Sturges insists on wearing sandals and a Greek tunic held on her shoulder by no safety pin. She has just accepted the editorship of the magazine Equinox in collaboration with the English poet Alister [sic] Crowley. Equinox appears twice a year, namely, at the vernal and autumnal equinox.