The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-03-04
coUDERsPoRT POTTER COUNTY Pa, THURSDAY MARoH 1855

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deed, that if every game were as compli
Gated as chess, there would be fewer ruin
ed by play.
1919, therefore, surprised him, sur
roun6 ed by small regiment of creditors
to whom, III the mass, he was astoundeC
TO discover that he owed twenty thousanC
francs. i" How is this ~ soliloquized he
whea [ made nothing, | owed nothing
now, the more | make the more | owe
have lucrative engagements then the vir-
tue ofcontraeting debts for their irrecipient?
His creditors came every day to see him
and he was very sorry to cause them SC
much inconvenience, and regretted sin
cerely the happy days when the baker
and milkwoman refused Orosman any
credit.
One day, when he was sadly philosophiz-
ing On the troubles of wealth, +" Happy are
they" cried he, "who have Just the ne
cessary means of life f.. If | only made
exactly enough for my actual wants, |
should commit no extravaganza, contract
no debts. 1t is this cursed superfuity
that ruins me. [ have no use for more
than FIVE hundred francs month. If |
had aged parents to support, sisters to dow
er brothers tOplace at college very good
but | am alone in the world. suppose
marry :"
And, for economy, he married the YER
lest cOquette in the theatre-and in Paris.
None ofmy Parisain readers, am sure,
can have forgotten that pretty little Pau
line Rlyiere, whose wit and beauty were
the success of many vaudeville Her
eyes, though small, were 50 sparkling they
seemed to flash over her whole face, and
hair, so black and so long, that the role
OF Swiss girl was created pu-posely for
her to display it. Her figure was charm
ing; and as to her hands, they were ab-
solutely curosities. and Jouvin invented
Ia glove number for them-5 1-2 At
seventeen, with no fortune but her beauty,
no ancestors save the chief of the claque
of the Theatre Palais Royal, she just mis-
sed being -Harqutse. A descendant of
the Round Table Knights, indubitable
Marquis, and unmitigated Breton took
1t into his head TO marry her 4 couple
of dowager aunts were the only obstacles !;
but, alas "The anger of dowagers, saith
Solomon u sis terrible, especially of
Breton dowagers ?" and Pauline remained
Rauline At this crisis came Gorgeon to
kncel at her shrine She received him at
first with that impartial grace which she
accorded to all her suitors alike, for he
was good looking, dressed well, and had
an agreeable voice aud style
He began the siege, then, under favor
able auspices, and at the end of the month
Pauline liked him This was in Febru-
aay. lS49.) In March she liked him bet
ter than all the others in April she loved
him and let him discover it. He waited
for her to dismiss his rivals, but Pauline
was IN DO hurry, and the preparations for
marriage went on amid a crowd of amor
Gus besiegers whose attentions gave Cor
geon the shiVers He was happy neither
at his rooms nor at Paulines, for at his
were creditors, and AT hers her beaux and
he finally asked her, one day, plainly, if
these gentlemen could not find another
divinity to sigh TO.
Bah said she, "you are going to be
jealous? You know love you, for | tell
you so; and, to prove it, | am going to
marry you. Besides, jealousy is somewhat
ridiculous, always; but in our profession
it is absurd ~
The marriage came off the last of April
Two benefits paid Gorgeous debts and the
wedding expenses; the first at the Odeon,
the second at the Italian. Indeed, all the
theatres in Paris wanted to take part, for
Gorgeon and Pauline were liked every
where They were united at Saint Roch,
gave grand dejeuRer at Pestels, and left
for Fontainbleau in the evening.
The first quarter of their honeymoon
was shedding its radience over the old for
est when they arrived-Gorgeon as proud
as the son of an emperor, and Pauline as
gay as a humming bird. The next morn
ing, the lst of May, was the tete des Sab
Tons, which is kept up till the ensuing
dawn, under the giant beech trees, and all
the youth of the neighb5rhood were there
all admired Pauline, aud took her for the
lady Bountiful of the neighboring chateau
coming to patronize their festivities, in
which she joined heartily, and danced
away till three o'clock in the morning, In
spite of the gravel getting in her little
Paris boots.
Gorgeon was not jealous When they
returned to the Palais Royal he made nc
ill-natured remarks about his fellow actor:
tutQying his wife, as they had always done
She was almost their adopted daughter
they had known her an infant behind the
scenes, aud she remembered being dandIed
on their knees. But what did worry Cor
geon slightly was, to notice Pauline.
quondam admirers ogling herthrough thei
opera glasses, and this nearly caused hin
to forget his cue on two occasions, fo
which he was laughed at by his comrades
luho discovered the causo and one lake