The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-03-23
IDAHO WORLD.


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The New York Mercury, under thu
title, fThe Rsyages Of ! Modern 81
rem" gives an account of the career o
Mrs. Anden Brown, who is pictured
as 4 lovely and cold-heartedv woman
and who married several men, figured
in San Francisco, in two or three Eas
tern cities, and in St Louis. Her ca
reer in the latter city is thus related:
In the summer Of 1865, Mrs. Anden
Brown doomed up in St. Louis, with
capital enough to buy out snowy mil
inery store. Here she shone resplend
ent, and with youth, beauty, and varied
experience to recommend, it was not
long before she became lady OF mark.
Very soon it was necessary to enlarge
her already extensive premises; and
she was also understanding enough to
organize department. in the store
where fancy goods for gentlemen are
retailed. So her establishment in this
way became, popular with both sexes,
but especially with gentlemen who
prided themselves on, their appearance
and ON their infallible taste for feminine
beauty. Skilled in every art of the Co
quette, with flashing eyes, that some
times appear to languish, sometimes to
burn-with goddess-like demeanor she
moved about, and on her as queen a
group of Sinking. Turing graces, in
the form of shop-girls, waited. By and
by the premises of Madame Anden
Brown needed to be further extended.
This time, however, it was heavenward.
The rooms above the store were en-
gagged as show-rooms, not for ladies'
goods, but for the gentlemen's depart
ment. For SO numerous did the mas
culine patrons of the splendid proprie-
tress become that they threatened to
monopolize the whole attention of her
self. and her assistants, to the exclu-
sion of the ladies. Therefore was the
room above the store fitted for the pur-
pose Of displaying elegant articles of
gentlemen's attire; and the rooms above
the gentlemen's department were con-
verted into-but that is neither here
nor there. CD ST
The establishment was now enjoying
heydey Of prosperity-a time of milk
and honey. The lady customers pratt
tied good deal about the gentlemen's
department being up stairs, and some
married ladies told their husbands, who
patronized Madame Brown, that they
didn't like it. But then, the husbands
did; and what could the ladies do?
There was never before, in the opinion
of fast men, such a perfectly satisfacto-
ry arrangement; and so much did they
appreciate its convenience that not un-
frequently-even when they had no
purchase to make-they would walk
up there, and afterward saunter up
higher through the rooms above. OIL
course, Madame Brown did not permit
gentlemen to go to the top of the house
alone. Some of her assistants always
accompanied them; and thus the estab-
lishment, in its more elevated portions,
became kind of clubhouse.
There, are envious and censorious
people in every city, and therefore it is
not surprising that malignant females
began to say that Madame Browns
place was no better than it should be.
Some of her assistants who had been
sent away privily further lent weight
to the spiteful insinuation, and hence |
it came to pass that the lady customers
began to dwindle down in inverse pro-
portion as the gentleman patrons
trudged up. Then there were also gen.
tlemen who would talk about the upper
rooms Of the establishment as of some
Blue Boards secret chamber, and this
loquacity oeeasioned Mrs.
Browns moral character and purity of
conduct to be questioned; at which that
worthy lady was not only indignant.
but naturally shocked. Therefore. as
people would talk, and as one of her
richest patrons was willing to sacrifice
his wife and family, character and
for her sake, she disposed
Of her store; and a few days after Mrs.
Lewis and her children missed the head
d their house. In other words, Mrs.
Brown and Mr.. Richard p. Lewis had
vanished from st. Louis; and when next
leard OF the couple were living at a
irstclass hotelsin Tuscaloosa (Ala.) II