Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-30

Of position from coming to light; to
have saved many good but unfortunate
women from ruin and set-destructionS
TO have increased the sum of human
happiness rather than TO have diminished
it. Her logic is peculiar, and the inves-
tigation of her premises would open a
series Of moral questions that are too
delicate for public discussion. She de-
clares she has possession of too many
secrets of fashionable families ever to be
disturbed in her home; that she is a
power in the great city, aud that if she
wished she could open rich and frequent
closets, and show skeletons whose exis-
tence no one suspects.
How much of her statements is true
and how much more menace and gas.
conade, only she and her patrons know.
There is good reason to believe, however,
that woman who has spent thirty years
in a luxurious and licentious city like
this, and followed her calling perseve-
ringly, must have knowledge that would
better be hidden from those who would
keep their faith in human nature.
Restell advertises her medicines, her
offices, her hours, and her peculiar prac-
| tice, in the daily newspapers, as do dcz-
ems Of the same profession. Everybody
is aware Of her business and her location.
She cannot be accused of walking in
darkness or shroudiDg herself in mys'
terry.
She is reported to be immensely
wealthy, but no doubt her wealth is ex-
sggerated. She has a husband-a genu-
inc husband, they ssy-to whom she
was married years ago, and daughter
who is herself wife. Her husband is q
German; but she is English, and was
once bar-maid in London gin-shop
She came here at eighteen made the
acquaintance of physician; obtained o
smattering Of medicine, and conceived
the notion of adopting the calling she
has since so successfully followed. Be-
fore she entered upon her present pre-
fessiou she was for some time clairvoy-
ant physician and fortune-teller, and by
that trickery got start in life. 1t is
said she has much knowledge and skill,
which she might easily have after twenty
FIVE years of such a specially.
Once she was handsome, understand,
but now, in her fiftieth year, she is a
gross, though not Misunderstanding
woman, with black eyes, black hair,
slightly touched with gray, and might
play Azucena in the opera with little
making up" Her face is familiar TO
many, for she drives in the Park nearly
every pleasant afternoon, and her turn
out is recognized by its attempt at vulgar
display. She would be mistaken for the
proprietress of bagnio, with her faring
colors, her glittering jewels, her tawdry
carriage, for she is the embodiment of
the principle of bad taste in all that be-
longs to her.
The Madame has no society-she is a
perfect pariah in New York-but she
seems to enjoy herself and grow as heshy
as if she had the approval of good con-
science and lived life Of innocenc and
good deeds. She is fond of making
money; her practice is worth $50, 900 a
year to her, but it is said she gives liber-
ally to those who are poor and in dis
tress, and always without the slightest
ostentation. She is reported to have
sheltered many poor girl from the pur.
suit of libertines, and to have restored
not few to the homes from which, in q
moment of weakness and passion, they
had'strayed.