Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 December 1893 — Page 5
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THE OTHER SIDE.
"BAB" TALKS OF THE DOUBLE LIVES THAT MANY LEAD.
Their Bright and Dark Sides Berealed—A ^Pretty Danmel WhoieKut.her Lead #Double Life—Mohey will Never Down a
Skeleton.
[Copyright, 1893.]
Nkw Yobk, Dec. 12.—It'« a duplex world. We have duplex lamp9 to light our way, and we iiod them troublesome to take care of. There are all norts of patent duplex things, but there is nothing quite so prominent in New York as the duplex life. Nobody ever does know his neighbor. That is absolutely true in the material sense. But even in a social sense it Is marvelous bow little we grow to know one another. And this Is getting, this really knowing people, to be more and moro difficult, until in time the outward, visible signthat is, the people a* wo meet them— will have no more absolute reality than a visiting card.
And then there is a fashion in everything—in emotions, in vices and in virtues. Two years ago, when you met the very swell man walking with a woman rouged up to her eyes, blacked about the brows and lashes, gilded as far as her hair went, and very loudly gowned, you looked the other way and concluded he was with somebody whom he ought not to know. Nowadays, you meet him with a refined looking woman, quietly dressed, rather pale looking, with a dainty but chic little bonnet, on, per fectly gloved and booted, having her hair of its natural brown shade twisted in a simple little knot, and you look at him with pleasure, stop to smile and bow, and the man who in with you suddenly says, "Don't pretend to see Mr. Merryboys." And when you ask why, he answers lu a very sedate tone,
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you are not supposed to know the lady who ia with him."
THE PACK THAT KIIJ IJS.
Later on, you meet a woman whose cheeks are not merely rouged, but painted whose hair is not merely bleached, but colored a. Titian red whose eyebrows are intensified by a pencil, nnd whose blue veins are brought out by another one her frocks are a combination of lace, velvet, fur, all most conspicuous, tier bonnet glitters with spangles, the strings of it are pinned up with huge diamond ornaments, and her muff is hung on her neck by a chain of gold, with hero and there a diamond and hero and (here a pearl. She is accompanied by a fastlooking young man, and to your astonishment the man who is with you gives her a most courteous bow, accompanied by that smile that means social quality. You look at him in amitzomont. His mouth twitches quoeriy, and he says, "Thatis Mrs. Merryboys."
You give a gasp that no exclamation points could express. And then ho goes on to explain:
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dear girl, the la*t time you were in New York, things were quite differeut the so-called fashionable men, especially the very rich ones,solaced themselves when away from their wives by the companionship of loud, overdressed, vulgar women, who got drunk, who spent their money, and who were notoriously unfaithful. In their desire to be like the English, they have changed all that. Then, too, their wives copied their mistresses. And the rouge pot and the pencil and the cigarette and the brandy and soda were as much in evidence in the dressing-room of the mondalne as they were in that of the lady of the demimonde. Now, the last woman, whatever she may be, always understands mankind, and so she veered around and baa become, at least In appearance, quiet, refined, and decidedly well-bred looking. Where Mr. Merryboys used to delight in having Tom, Diok and Harry know the young woman whose diamonds he paid for, and who did him the honor of attempting to ruin him, financially, he now makes it a great favor to present any of them to Mrs. Robinson or Mm. Darcy or Mrs. Jermyn (she is always Mrs. Somebody). Indeed, it is much easier to meet Mrs. Merryboys than to meet the other woman. He has her installed In a pretty house, in a quiet neighborhood! and there she receives him there she makes a pleasant dinner for him, and those of his friends whom he chooses to present to her. She has a quiet little turnout, and, some day, being very wise in her generation, she bears him a son or a daughter, as nature* elects, She is anxious to get the reputation of falthfulnoss, just as Mrs, Merryboys is cultivating, at least, the appearance of it.
NCTUKX MKN ANt) WOMKN.
Dangerous? Much more so than the other type, for Merryboys and his kind will, soon as they get the chance, marry these women who cater to their desires in every way, who are apparently
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nnselfish, and who have the time to make, what Mr. Merryboys does not, a home for a man rather than what is merely known as a gay bouse. You look at me with surprise. Don't you remember at what New Yorkers are pleased to call the "Clothes-Rorse Show?" That your mother wouldn't ask me the names of the women in the boxes because she thought they were so painted and so overdressed that they couldn't be respectable? And yet they really represented the young married women of New York. But, a3 an Englishman said, how much more genteel they would have looked if they had worn smart cloth gowns instead of gowns that seemed suited only for visiting and not for'what, after all, was, an adjunct to the stable. So you see, my dear, the fashion changes even in our sins.
Duplex. That word seems t« haunt me. Yesterday afternoon at a tea, a pretty girl of about nineteen chattered with me for awhile and gave me a rose. I told an old New Yorker who gave it to me, and he said: "1 here is a duplex story. The child's father was a deacon in the cburoh he represented the richest and strongest element of conservatism here years ago. He married the daughter of a very rich man, and she bore him five little daughters this girl is the oldest. His name was on every subscription list the people employed by him revered him because of his great honesty. He refused to see any vice in the world, and most people thought that when death came to him he would have no sins to atone for. Death did come, and very suddenly. The next morning the papers were filled with notices about him, and in one or two of tbem was his picture. That afternoon, a woman came to the bouse and insisted upon seeing the widow or her father. She saw the father, and ...
SHE TOLD HIM HER STORY.
She had often read of the great philanthropist and the good man, but that morning when she picked up the paper and saw his picture, she was horrified. Years before she had married a man who told her that he was a traveling salesman, who made a pleasant little home for her in one of the small villages just out of New York, and who spent one week lu eyery month with her. She had had two sons, and though the name of her husband and that of the philanthropist was not the same, still that was certainly her husband's picture. The father being a man of great sense listened to her story, atid before asking her proofs of It, took her to see the dead man. At once she rtco jnized him, told of a tattoo mark on b's arm, and then suggested that his cb(ok book should be looked at and that his papers be searched. For herself she pr.«duced her marriage certificate and innumerable letters that he had written to her. She had been mar ried to bim three years before be met the second woman. Of course, she was his wife. Her children were legitimate and the others were not. The day came when the two women had to meet, and the womau who was bitter against him, who called him a liar and a deceiver, was his legal wife while the woman he bad wronged only wept for him and refused to hear a word against bim. She insisted, however, on the great fortune going to this woman and her children, with the proviso that there should be no scandal, and there never was. The wife was quite willing to keep the name she had borne and which her sons knew, and the ohiidron who had no right to it are bearing it. Old New Yorkers know who these people are, but the psople who form society to-day were sweeping streets or washing clothes when this old family was oounted among the elect,
THE OLVB MAN'.J SOCXBTT TALK. Duplex? That's one. Tommy Toddles of the Cad Club drops to see me and have a cup of tea. Tommy isn't as much of a fool as he looks. He is young, and be will probably be all right when he gets a little older. Tea acts on him as it doss on old nurses it loosens his tongue and makes him gossipy. Here is what he told me. It interested me because it was another duplex life. "Mr. and Mrs. Goodheart one day saw at an asylum to which they were liberal contributors, a pretty little girl abont seven years old. Mrs. Qoodhart has five bojfe and she thinks she wonld like a little girl around her, so this child Is taken. She is not adopted, and neither is she made a servant of, bnt she is well educated, dusts the priceless bits of china that Mrs. Goodheart wonld not let anybody else touch, reads and writes for her and eats her meals in what used to be the nursery. One day the oldest Goodheart boy drifts in there and asks her to mend a glove for him. She is jtist making herself a cop of tea, and as she has been taught to be polite, abe offers him one. He drinks it while she sews, and he watches her. He never noticed before how black her hair was, nor how blue her eyes, nor how slendsr her shape, and heir voice—he never heard
such a sweet voice before outside of Ireland.' After that, he seemed to want her to do a great many things for bim, and his mother was delighted to think that the little girl was of some use to the boys. Three days after her
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ONE DA* OLD GOODHEART
got frightened, and went to see her. He told her that he wanted bis son to make a great marriage, and be told her that he would settle half a million on her children if she would promise never to marry his son at any time, even in the most distant future. She signed the paper, and brought the half,million to the babies.
Now what Tommy Toddles wanted to tell me was that the news had just come out that they were married that the family had accepted them, and that it was all right and Tommy said with a grin: "Wasn't it clever in her to promise not to marry him? Why, she had been married to bim ever since the day she ran away from the Goodbeart's house. And he was flying around among the girls, and they were trying to catch him because of the many millions that would come to him, and all the time he was just stringing'em."
I confess to joining Tommy in his giggle, because I think girls who run after men for their millions deserve no better treatment than "strangers," as he so beautifully put duplex history.
THE RICH NOT ALWAYS HAPPY.
The butcher, the baker, and the mamcure all know the duplex histories. The butcher can tell you of the man who is reputed to be rich, who entertains superbly, and who, when nobody but his own family are there, gives them absolutely less to eat than a clerk at fifty dollars a month would offer his family. The baker can tell you of the woman with a reputation for charity who buys extensively from him, who gets him to put down on his bill gallons upon gallons of ices that are never sent to her he hands her the money, and she tells him she is going to use it for her poor. Out in her carriage is a smooth-faced, vicious-looking young man, waiting for the money that she pays -him for keeping a secret he knows about her.* The manicure can tell you of doing the nails of a young girl and getting five dollars from her for it, accompanied by a request to take a note to a man at the clubhouse. But-most of all, can the professional nurse tell you of the skeletons that walk about and rattle their bones, while under their fleshless fest are the richest of carpets, abont tbem are the most beautiful belongings, and of one thing in the world there is plentymoney. But of belief and honor, and kindness and consideration, there is an absolute lack.
THE POWER OP MONJSY. 'S
Money is a very good thing. It isn't the best in the world. Money will never down a skeleton. It makes life easier that is true bnt money never united people through good report, through evil 'report, through suffering, sven through sin, and made death no parting. It takes love to do that. And yon can't buy love with money. Yon ctn fill the scales with golden dollars, and you can gain beautiful women, you can gratify your passions, you can have all the luxuries you want, and every time you put in apiece more of gold you will get something else, but when yon oome to buy love, you have got to put love in to weigh it by. Buplex? Well, if the duplex lamp that Is burning so, and the duplex lives that are so general, mean that one-half is to be a skeleton hidden away, but of which one is always conscious, then I think we had better go back to the old-fashioned candle. It needs a little trimming now one then to freshen it up bat it sheds its beam very far. Love-like, it shines right on in this naughty world, being neither oomplex nor duplex. And that is the beat way' to have things—simple and bright.! Duplex and duplicity always seem to? me to go together. I wonder if the words ever wed themselves in your mind as they do in that belonging to BAB.
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TERRE HA PTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 16,1893.
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birthday she disappeared nobody knew where, nobody seemed to know anything about her. She left a most heartbroken note begging Mrs. Goodheart to forgive her, and saying that some day she would be able to tell her all. In a couple of years' time the family knew that she was in New York in a pretty house, living very quietly, and. that she had a little baby. Well, you can guess who was the father of it. As the months and years went by, the oldest boy's devotion to her became more conspicuous, and she and her two beautiful children were seen everywhere that a lady could be."
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BUT THE TOOTH CAME OUT.
One of the King of Dahomey's Female Warriors Proves an
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Patient.
It was late one night during the fair when Dr. Yeager's residence bell was rung. The visitor was a messenger from Manager Penny of the Dahomey village, asking the physician to come at once to the village and attend a patient suffering from the toothache. The doctor went more for the sake of the adventure than for the fee. He was shown to the bedside of the woman and proceeded to examine the big teeth inclosed in a month that opened like a cellar door. To make sure which was the offending tooth Dr. Yeager began prying around with his little steel instrument so
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ber of horrors known as dentist's parlors. He accidentally touched the nerve of the decayed and aching molar, and the amazon let loose a yell that drew to her side every member of the village.
It was an excited and wildly demonstrative crowd that danced about the woman's bedside. Dr. Yeager coolly continued his work, however, and finally, before the woman conld prevent him, he had sneaked from his pocket a pair of shining forceps and hooked on to the pain producing worry. Sari .was not astonished, but she was hurt. As the steel instrument went crashing into the gum surrounding the aching tooth the brawny woman set up a howl that set every one of her sisters and the black men wild with excitement. The louder the amazon yelled the harder Dr. Yeager pulled. She struck wildly at the man at the other end of the forceps, but the doctor's dodging powers are as acute as they were the day he left the college football team.
She finally leaped from the cot on which she reclined, and still the doctor pulled at the molar. Sari struck viciously at her torturer, but here the doctor showed great strategy by keeping the woman's head so far in advance of her body that the blows fell short.
Around and around the Village went the doctor and the patient. The former tugged and kept cool. The woman made the night hideous with her cries and grew angrier every moment. Still the molar heifi its own. The men in the village danced\Vut the struggling doctor and amazon "and expressed their delight at the spectacle in wild dances and peculiar cries.
The end came at last and in a most unexpeted manner. Some of the villagers, perceiving that the doctor's strength was almost exhausted and admiring the pluck he demonstrated by holding on as long as he had decided to take the matter in hand, separate the man of medicine from the insanely angry woman and at the same time protect the former from injury. Three or four men seized the woman, and two amazons seized the doctor. The two parties pulled in opposite directions, and suddenly the bond that united the doctor and she of the aching molar was broken. At the same instant the woman was thrown over the heads of the attacking party at her rear, and the doctor went sailing over the shoulders of those who had seized him.
A moment later Dr. Yeager was seen sitting on the ground holding aloft the forceps, from which projected the offending piece of ivory that once adorned the mouth of the troubled amazon.—Chicago Herald.
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