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"pEETHA ETTIXZON, out of Rus-1
sla, is searching America for
the man who loved her yenra n?e.
Such a brief statement may sug
gest its romance, but it can nover I
picture the heartaches, the trials, i
the disillusion, the undying dreams
of tm3 picturesque woman.
Ner does it supgest the amazing t
plot" of her life, which reads
something like a novel, which cen-,
ters about a painting done in oils se '
far back as the eighteenth centary '
by one of the masters.
Connoisseurs call it "The Pert of
Messina," but Bertha Ettinzon calls i
it the "pert of love, of justice, of j
my youth." in Kiev, my home," and ehe smiled 1 and unconscious for a long time.
This picture looms up net as an and then raised both her hands in ' And when I awoke, there I saw
inanimate object In her story, but as mock horror, "Oh, many years age. Simeon Btanding beside my bed. He
Bertha Ettinzon, as she Is today, fighting te regain valuable
painting which her girlhood sweetheart gave her
a personality. It has drawn out of
persons greed for riches. Its power
is idyllic, at the sarae time it is
sattanic.
loud be surprised! j seemed se sad as he looked at me.
"When I was only six or seven I If he had only told me he loved
came te knew Simeon Raschaefsky, jme!"
a young painter. He was a wen-
It is the symbol of Bertha's happl- ( derful man and he loved children,
ness In turbulent Russia; It is a , I used te sit 6n a little steel, and
symbol of her childhood. ' watch him work. It was such great
And new, today, she says, there , happiness te de that.
are these who are trying te pain sm Bcars fhe Scara
possession of this picture. A three- ,
nnrnnrer? Wnl Wt1 is hMne. WflPOf! ! Of ReV0lUtl0mSt8 ShOtS
Miss Ettinzon, when she get well,
studied nursing, and graduated from
a professional school. In 1907 she
came te America alone.
And the hasn't seen Simeon since,
although she loved him, and he, she
i knows new, loved her. It was a
peculiar twist of fate that would
in Les Angeles for the right te own j I often wanted him te give me net permit them te knew hew much
it. It was bought without Bertha one of his pictures. And I wen- they loved each ether.
Ettinzon's knowledge for $100. She ' dered why he didn't, but I was
has been offered $10,000 for It. The 1 afraid te ask him. Perhaps who
art enthusiast who get it se cheaply knows maybe he sensed thnt I
has insured it, according te Bertha, j wanted ene of them. I never real
at Lloyd' for $300,000. ized that till later se much later."
She declares that te her its value I As the friendship between the
cannot be measured in dollars and
cents.
I artist and the little girl developed,
she grew te love him. But she
dared net tell him.
! And it se happened, although she
' never found it out until years later
j in America, that he loved her, tee.
He asked her father for her hand.
'If he had only asked me, it might
Simeon Raschaefsky
Was Here of Her Dreams
It was given her by the sweet
heart of her youth, whose love she
never realized. It was triven her.
Unknown te her. She learned of the ! have been different," said Miss Et
gift, after a great grief had come te tmzen, with a sad smile.
her life. It was, sold, she says, J And the father refused. Net be
under a misunderstanding, and she cause he disliked Simeon, but be
wants te find the donor, in order , cause his wife did. She could net
that she may establish her right te ' bear te have her daughter, a Jewess,
the painting.
She wants te find this man te tell
him hew much she honors his love,
and hew much she regrets that she
never knew he loved her.
Bertha Ettinzon says she ha3
j marry a Gentile.
"In 190), you knew, there was the ,
revolution. I was sympathetic with I
The young Iiii-Mnn girl enme te
In ! with her -"i-jfi-r in L'hi!.i(lp!ililn.
and It-sun lu.vUeing as a grnilunti
mi!p. Anil -l.i1 wn niiwunlly sue
ci fu! in hop mii!j.
hi l'.ii;. t met the mnn "f'e bo be
c;iiii( her huyb.unl. lit- was it I'hil.iiM
in ..in.
He wesn t n t.ilcn'pil mnn, hut 1
ii i that Mitli in ui U t ' : ng in
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in !i "' ;i l.i' v ' it In eHi t. M'i vtre
nun nod In Jim'.)."
In l'ldji hhi, had :i h.ihv lil, viuvii
-hi' I'aliul U)' ..iif, ninl lu'r t.i.111 toil life
.i tur a. tin. i' h:i;ii.
In l'.ilO, ui l.itlu'i' en i a- te I'hih.
ih'Il'ln i nim Ktlv.i.i. lie lhi'l i lie te
r., ami w.ii limictl, I theiiKlit, te lull
me -ii i ciiitiiiul and m bu-j. liut mj
iiuii'i'ii'il Ir.e tl '1 net turn uf in he .i-
1 1 ilpli l.i I eiei tetl it Ki he. M we ..
! Lept ti.i away from in humi- innny
hums, ami I um'iln't give ni.x liusli mil
all lit- i'Mi'cii'1 fiem n wife I I'uiililn t
1 'iult ii)ik, lai.iuse he ,i net wml;.
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Left Her Husband Here
and Went te Les Angeles
the international
net violently se,
gathered a
movement,
One day,
bu:
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"Yeu Knew, it wan no' fmlj my lni - -and
I veihetl for this way l!iu I
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The Pert of SIesl
mistake by a Les
na ," painting by Oaude Lerrttinp, a seventecnth-century work, bought through
Angelea collector and insured for $.-,00,000. ThU i the painting that Miss
Ettinzon is seeking te recover
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traveled East, 'stepping nt all the
large cities, in an endeuver te find
thle man. She is new in Philadel-
Shla. Trem here she will go te New
'erk.
he is a Russian Jewess. She
Irere a bleed-red gown, with a black
pearf wrapped piiiunntly about her
bobbed brown hair.
Her English required bome care in
dren in the back yard of Simeen's
house. There was sheeting en the
streets and we were afraid for them.
"The Revolutionists breke down
the gates and fired into us. I was
shot thrce times. Once in the side,
once in the wrist and heie en my
head."
Mbs Kttiuzen removed the black
scurf from her head. Under her
tl'j h beginning te understand, but it 'brown hair could be ecph a white
IWB quite ciear ana griipiiie umu
i U accustomed te it.
tpaty btfta back in Russia,
scar.
"I can never
lived
she nnl her hushnml pave her per
in -Ii ii. Hut her father hud long bus-
iei- unli i,ii'.n''-M, slie ulbcevereu.
' tl-- took me in hid arms and i-.iid:
I- i. iii, 1 feel guilty. I have done jeu
i 'i .a wiutii;.'
1 uuliln't umler-it.iml what lie was
"'-' i.', mill l n-keil him te explnin.
u i m thou fur tltu first time that
. ii.ul ei.ine te America iu IUKI,
' ..' for nit-, lie wi hi that he even
iniiiK te my father's bouse In
-ii! in ami nM;eil for me.
1 tut tuther replied te him that
i '. '.nt n'u me. lie Jld I wan
' , l . t married.
"ii' ii.i. iiu father took Simeon
tviui' 1 1 ci uld 1,1 n.u. lie did t-ee me,
' ' I ilnl nnt m-i him. before lie Hadl
i.i fatiur, he said he wanted my
i' r te give me s-eiuethlng for him.
V' i he b i.ut-'iit my father a piilnting,
Tl.vn Simeon left my father's heute,
ii 1 iu-i-r tame back again. "
ller fiiiher gave her the picture. It
v.as a three left by five feet ennvns,
r.itmr dirty. It renrfsented a een
,ort i.)n me uidu reHe the facade of
a b .11 ling, en the ether the iiihmb
i f dliii.s On the hack was written,
"The I'.ut of Messina."
Had Only Thirty Cents
Upen Arrival in West
Stunned, Itertha took the picture ami
'left fur 1M Angek'H. When hhe nr
rlvii! tlu'iu, she had "0 cents lu her
piicKe.
"I livid en water most of the time.
And, eiiu di., the Salvation Ann)
1 picked me up ami fcelit me te n Hospital.
I fuigiit te tell jeu Unit most of the
mom I had -nved fiem my mieeevful
1 1 .ii iii e iu I'liiladelphlii 1 had hpi-nt
en ii luir-liiiiid unit en lilt hrntliers,
who weie piiMi-. I had te Bell my hair
in IMiiliideli.hin te get $1-5 for the
tiip.
"When the diechnrgeil me from the
h -pitnl in J .nt AngelcH I get werli
in n Jjetel im ilinli wiihher. I earned
mi rents ami two meal- a duy. And
1 a Hiinntfp I'liineldenee huppi'iieil there.
Tim eaimilll or tun wnner saw hid
enu d.iv and reenunUed me li th nurse
who had taken care ei ins wne in
I'iillnilelphlii. lie wna nuoekeil te find
i inn limine Klteiieii werK. no oepeaiea
te the milliliter of the hotel ana lliuy
gave inn ii better ponitien.
I ".Seme linirt later. Dr. It. n. Grlf
ninlilng verj little. I shall tell j mi later i fith sunt for me. 1! questioned re
hew slie repaid nie, about my wml; in IMillailclphla with
"It was nitillt ii'iii wiien i i'-ii my nrentineiit pnyhiemn- nnu wun jumiiii
llial tlehpllul, unil no epeneu up n
understand hew it
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I was I lived after that I was
i ti
l.nvlmnil. I llllln't rXlll'tlV M'M'I' our re
intleiwhlp. 1 tehl him I eeuldii't support
him nnd be te him nil ft wife should he.
I told him I would g" te Leu Angeles
Yeu tee, Heme tlnie before I had let a
woman friend of niliie take care of mj
Kleiuier. Tills fillilllv moved In I.e-
VnifelfH nnd took Kleuner with them.
"F tehl mv hUbhand I would go te
California, l" told him that if he went
In wink, and earned HUiieihlng, he
could ruiim le me if he wiinti I me.
"Then I went ever te bid geed-by te
my father." , , , . ., , .
U'Un liit rini-lml her fuller x heusii.
ha tllwe'inbled a. little. Sim hulU trim ether
wkatsd te fe te the Culuerala Jfslr,
private hospital, pei-Humllng; me te take
charge of the nurHlna."
Meantime, btrife broke nut in Europe
nnd her liutibiuid went te I)mlen in
war serlee.
"He wrote, me letters wlipn lie ru
tin lied te riiUndelphla ngniii nnd k
eil inn te help him. I invited him te
live with tup In I. eh Angeles, and he
came. Ami we weie happy for five
inentlm In Leu Angelet nnd then
Aiueileii enlered the war nnd III re
turned te rhllndelplila mid enlliled."
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Urrtha Ettinzon, as she appeared just before leaving Philadelphia for the Wast aei
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a half years she was an Invalid, ssjb
fering from an acuta nerreus dlserlsk
"And seen my money (ITe
axaln. And an old man whom X bii
nursed came te my aid. Somehow Ts
the end, Ged is always Just De m
knew when this man waa eaa of
patients I theuiht he wia . J
He would corns for treatment aa7l I
uwu 10 B4tv mm is or is erery tsat
he came.
Fermer Patient Paid
When Adversity Came
"When he heard I was sick and m
of funds he came te me and paid
back all of the $36 I had f Wea blm n
Tarieus times. He told me that la
was a wealthy man and felt that U
owed it te me, who had helped bta
ae much, te help vjne new. And k
did help me. He pnl.d bills that total,
ed some thousands of dollars. TUt
was a year and a half age. T '
"But while I was alck I heard fiea
my husband, who had returned anta
"I opened the telegram. It told dm
that my husband would never we at
ngaln, that I must get a divorce frta
him. T
"It was auch a surprise believe ft
or net I gut up from my bed right
away, as well as I ever was! I found
put later that he loved that girl I
helped nnd mentioned a while age. I
wan't resentful. If he loves her, I nil
te niywilf, I am glad he is happy. And
what is most atrange, I bad just
dreamed the night before about tail
woman."
Fourteen months age, after the tela
grain proved such unusually effectlfi
medicine, Miss Ettinzon went back'.te
her nursing and began making money
again. .She moved te 4332 Hollywesd
boulevard, taking an apartment abort
the art and curie studio of M. Stack, ,
"All thin time, you must remen)
bcr, my painting remained In the crate.'
I bad net taken It out. When I west
te my plnee nt Hollweod boulevard 1
carted the picture with me. It wu
put under the etalra in the building. -"Mr.
Staek ww the crnte and naked
me what was in it. I naid it held some.
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him. He warned me that the cnti
was no place for It. He said the pic
ture might be punetured or spoiled la
some ether way there, and he invited
me te linn? It up in his store. I !
pressed him with the fact the pictUN
was net for sale.
"Mr. Stack hung the picture In I
prominent place en the wall of kH
shop. .Seme time later Mr. Stark w
Kn st, nnd hid Ren took clmrge of the
store. 13. V. Squadrilli, local nrt crltie
and a man of wealth, saw the picture
en the wall one day weeks Inter. Bt
immediately offered te buy it. And tbt
bon sold it te him for $100. ' '
"Twe weeks following that was tb
first time I noticed the painting bid
vanished. I was tee busy with at
work te notice 't before. I asked if
maud Htnck where the picture wtt
He waa evasive. I Bald: 'Arminil,
whether jeu take my life or thut plst
ture, it's just the same.' 1 cnld it
was my jeuth, my happiness. lie MM,
I was tee lemaiitie." ,
Buyer Insures Painting
for Round Half Millien
Meanwhle, following months of palsJ"
tnkinie work, Kqundrilli removed tU
vnnilnh and dtiHt covering the paint
iug nnd discovered the signature f
Uuiidu lirrnlne iu ene of the cerntrl,
Claude Lerraine was a seventeenth eta
turv Krench nrtlst, Miiiintimcs knel
under I tin niiinit of (ilnilde OeitUi'
Authcntli', a painting by I his mar.ter,U j
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Xliir't i imiii'iliii tlv limuretl iht Wftlt
ut I.lejd's for $500,000. yj
"I tried te get the picture bacK.l
Miuv l'.iiln7iiii reviiiin.il "I tvnnt tl
lnw.un, but they Hiild they enuld d
neilniii until Mr. Ktnek ii'titrnM.
hen Iu .did return he agreed tj
the sale was net valid beeause it U
made without his knowledge by Uj,
turn, u-hn uiim n miner. I unv the Mil
whh net valid because I never auto,
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"It la mystifying, tee, mat i
Stack Haiti he would agree te get taj
pietuie hack for me, If I accept
S10.000 fnim ,im fr u. Hut he de
net understand yet thnt the mew
Un'l vtl.ar I tviinf nt nil! It il tM
plftiire. And I mean te fight for H,
until I get It. . . !
"My lnwyers have had the P"!
nttaehed neniline the trial, which f
pray will bring it back te me."
Mine Uttlmsen smiled. . ,
wu you eu wnj- iiiunk nun 1"T
en? lie can help me plead for It, tsi
I want tn lintl him. tee. becaUM
ftill leve him. If Im is peer, if M.J
ulek, I will nurse him better sMlJr
Only if hn Ii new married will V9
away from him, but I will wish W
hnpplnesH from the very bottom elW
limit even then.
"I have suffered n areat dral n.
life, J luie lived quickly, and I "J-
lenrllitrl In lnni nil nnntin. lOlieT SS
longer counts; there nie
spiritual neeils. which u
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nini nunivvietl v.lien me nvn jii1
nln urn limitiv. Ami I want niy "
te lie happy u little, bit, tee, ',
"And much of the happiness ex
jeuth, of my young love which
my j
tlen
gift wide
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hleli wun given le me briiui"j
by one of the best men ",
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"My father Is dead new, a.l
tghter, Klenner, is nn neceniBi"J!; m
siclan . in Germany, and I A;ft
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