Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27
Lola Monies,

Lola MonteS is engaged al the DTodu"dy lHe-
atre, New York, where she will make her debut
sometime within three months.
The foreign correspondent of a New York pa
per says that the articles of the engagement were
signed at the Office of Consul i'll Paris, and
that Barnum is the contractor. From the letter
alluded to we copy the following:
Lola is bound 10 repair to the United States In
fulhlment of this contract in the of the next
three months She speaks with great freedom Of
the various phasis of her curiously eventful life
She married Mr.. Head she says, for money, sup
posing him to be extremely rich This was doubt
less one of her motives. though not, perhaps, a
chief one; for she had put one side, from the prof
its of the lavish bounty of the weak King of Ba-
yaria, a sum that would have assured her an al
most princely income. She desired, doubtless, to
make her social position little more respectable
by becoming to all appearance legally married
woman. During her tiaiSon with the King of Ba-
varia, ambition, she declares, her grand pas
sion. She coveted the glory of crushing the Jesu-
its, forsooth! Prior to her brilliant Bavarian cpl
sode, she resided in Paris, where she the mis-
tress of Dujarier, the talented associate of Grar
din, as editor of the Press, who was murdered in
duel. She states now that at the time of the du-
el she was engaged to be married to Dujarrer, and
but for its fatal result would have been his wife in
few weeks. Credot Juduest Dujarrier,
man of much sense, (no numbering, boyish, imbe
ry-brllant and charming though she was--the
dissolute instrument of his pleasures, his compan-
ion with dozens of ladies of the same class in
many jovial bacchanalian scene in the secret sa-
looms of the Irois Freres PrOgenceaux.
Lola left Paris one night very hastily, af
ter the loss of Dujarrier. | we'll remember the
loud regrets which followed her from numerous
fashionable furnishers of Paris, for whom, in the
hurry of her departure, she forgot to leave her
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at the bottom. Would that l could predict ;ha
her visit to the United States would be failure,
and that her conductor manager, or keeper,
would find 1T loosing speculation. l hope,
though, that ne in whose charge she will be, has
not counted with reliable grounds upon the morbid
curiosity had almost said the faulty principles
of the American public. Thousands of Ameri-
ladies', it is expected will rush to see one who
possesses IN remarkable degree no artistic talent
and who has acquired notoriety-the only noto-
rlety that makes her an object of attraction-by
her shameless dissoluteness of character The
exhibition, under such circumstances, of Lola
Monies, l consider an immoral and demoraliznp
thing. 1t is an insult to American society; and
II IL succeeds as Its projectors anticipate it will at
ford the most painful and conclusive proof We have
yet given of our growing corruption. Though |
remember the history of Fanny ElsSler's visit to
the United States, dare hope that our wives and
daughters will turn from Lola Monies with the
loalhing, disgust, and virtuous indignation that
our mothers would most certainly have evinced-
But Fanny, however immoral, was not notorious
for her immorality-was not solely famous for it;
she was in her line the first drtste of her day. and
IN that character was worthy to be SEEN Where
as Lola Is known only the most shameless, reck-
less, brilliant and successful prostitute of Europe
This is the title to attention-this is the letter of in
PRODUCTION, which she presents to the American
fair ! What an insult 20