Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-01-15
THE EVENING STAR.
HORRIBLE STATEMENT.
Madame Restell and her Fur mace for De.
stroying Rabies. .....


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Still another way Of making a liv-
ing Is unfJlded by some speculations about
Madame Restell, a notorious woman who re-
sides IN the upper part OF Fifth avenue, in one
OF Its finest looking residences, ana makes her
living and a small balance for q rainy day out
OF procuring abortions for ladies Of the more
refined circles of our New York society. II 10
said that Madame Restell has in the basement
OF her establishment q large furnace, which
an ill-oehaved servant girl has had the temer-
Ity 10 say "must be used for burning new
born babies, as she never saw il used for
anything else. This must be to avert the rude
necessity Of having children funerals pass
Ing down Fifth avenue and its adjacents.
Ii IS Questionable and counted common for
respectable ladies TO have babies any more,
and when they fall into Madame ResteIls
hands for treatment, the mere burning Of
the offspring is but a small atonement for
human nature TO make. for the horrid in.
rnsion which very Juvenile youngsters
agine that babies hereafter 20 be born. If they
would avert the calamity that might be their
fate II there is the slightest tendency to their
being born IN ffth avenue, had better study
the manner in which Topsey came 10 grist
without encountering the dangers incident to
lofty birth. 1t Is much better to be 81 aised"
OF TO row" than 10 be martyred for the sake
ofsoclety, In red hot furnace. That Madame
IS frightened about this statement, is appa-
rent by her rushing into print in a card COM
planning OF counsel who defended a poor
towels, asking questions about things which
were not towels. The Madame will find her
house the subject of a very close scrutiny with
an few days The sanitary department ofthe
Board OF health is going 10 search for the ter
r1ole furnace. If the Madame is guilty of any
such business as has been Intimated she must
have been doing II without the license usually
accorded TO bone-dust people and fat-eoiIers
IL may De interesting 10 know that this not very
fascinating looking person, Mad Resteil, was
originally tailoress, but not salts fed with that
slow method OF earning livelihood. she went
TO Paris TO acQuaint herself with the s.babv-
business, and having become Thoroughly in
doetrinated into the French system, returned
20 fame and fortune. Her husband is a DR.
Mauriceau, alias Lehman, who, like his Illus
trlous wife, adyertises IN the Herald. He was
formerly tailor. The Madame's maiden
naue was Caroline Lehman. MI Harms our
Register General is accustomed to charge that
certain foul air, OF some other incongruous gas
of The zyInotIc persuasion, '.desIroys' so MANY
Children, ard people smile at the Doctors obi
nm; bat what Will they say when they are
told of our vital statistics report some of these
weeks, that number Of new born babies have
been destroyed by the,cOnsuming fire of a fur
mace IN Fifth avenue BASEMENT Will the
faet mat such den Is near the ne " cathedral
thai Is 10 be, help IT 10 respsctabilitv ~ Think
OF the respectable society sustaining such an
InstitutIon-such practice, Thiak of women
VINO know no better than 10 turn up4heir noses
at any urchin who dares to call them, ,.motb
er," or "mamma," or anything of a maternal
kind, "before people -