The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-13
MARRYING FOR MONEY.


A London paper tells an affecting story
of real life, which shows for the ten
thousandth time, the folly of making a
woman marry against her will, and, at
the same time, illustrates the ancient say
ing that the path of the wrong-doer is |
fnll Of thorns." The story is told of one
of those aristocratic beauties, who, reared
amid the splendors of Belgravia, are too
often the victims of luxurious society of
which they are the glory. 2
The season was about to close, and she,
who had been its favorite and the pet of
all, had been won by, and her hand given
to, the richest of the throng of her ad-
mirers He was "pompous, Short sandy
haired, red-taced, and presented, from top
to toe, that stamp Of vulgarity which no
gold can giid." She was tall, slender ana
beautiful, the very impersonation OF an
English aristocrat, and shone pre- eml
nent among the Duchesses, Warehouses;
and Countesses who composed her bridal
etet0uTGge
Three months after the wedding all
London was startled by the news OF the
elopement Of the beautiful young wife
with whom she had known in childhood,
aud had loved from the hour when pas
sion first budded III her bosom. He be
longed to her "set," and was young and
handsome, graceful and accomplished, but
unfortunately for them both, he was a
Younger son, and his income was small !;
and the ambitious mother of the high
born beauty had constrained her to reject
him for the rich sutton, and to join her
hand and her faith to the one, while the
heart was wholly the others.
The lovers fed to Italy, and as the Ia
dys Jewels eked out the scant income Of
the youth, it went we'll enough with them
till at length their bliss was made perfect
by the birth of darling child. Mater
nifty developed all that was womanly in
the mothers breast, and rounded and
completed character which would have
been faultless had not the unhappy girl
been forced to forsWear herself at the
altar.
Thus far the story is one that has been
often told, but now comes a denouement
which not only distinguishes it from all
others, but while throwing pathetic
coloring over the whole, touches in
gloomy letters the misery which sooner
or later overtakes those who sin against
the laws OF society.
The husband had been quiet all this
while, patiently biding his time,and plan
ming punishment which would fall with
terrible force on the woman who had
made him wifeless and childless hus
band. The lovers were still living at
Milan, absorbed in the old and the new
love, the child daily growing more dear
to them and they tojeach other. One day
a few months ago, it was with its nurse
in the Plaza Forlana. Four men rushed
upon them and bore off the child The
terrified nurse had barely told her tale to
the distracted father and mother when he
hurried before the British Consul to de
mand his assistance. 1t was then that
the blow fell which crushed his life out
of him For from the official he learned
that the husband, claiming the child as
his own, by reason of the fact that it wa
born of his lawful wife, had appealed to
the law, and that it was the resistless
edict thereof which had taken the child
from its nurse from It's father and moth
er, and given it to the man who had the
right to its custody, and who, at the same
time, was by every law of nature and his
being, the deadliest enemy of them all.
Let him who can conceive the exquisite
torture which the fond parents felt when
this dreadful deed had been done, and
when the father knew that his darling,
the child of her whom he loved better
than life, Of her who had so loved him as
to sacrifice for him home, friends, family,
honor-all, was in the merciless clutches
of the wronged husband, who would
Wreak upon its innocent head the ven
geance with which his wife's infdelity
had inspired mean and vindictive ma
ture. 1t is not to be wondered at that the
poor father quickly sank under the terri
BILE ordeal, thinking of all the misery he
had brought on those he loved most dear
ly, and that he is buried not far from
Twickham
She, poor thing, deriving from bis
small Inheritance half enough wherein to
live, clIngs to her sad life in the still de-
ferred hope that her husband may yet re.
lent, and restore to her arms the child Of
her love.
This is sad history of to-day, and it
teaches lessons to which mothers and
daughters should alike give heed
Among the many queer stories which
are coming from Paris, is the one that All
American connnanv has Yronoand to the