The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-04
"a TERRIBLE TENPTATIOH.'
Lady Bassett and Mary Wei
in Chicago.
A Strange Story Of Chicago Society -Hsirs NJ j
factured-How Cold Babies are Rung
In on Unsupectins Papas.

onu VIC pAOuSiy tn8nkeu our 8Ou5 VI mOr6lGy
we were not as Others, even as these same BIZ
arfstocrats. Some people there were, princn
connected with the Editorial profession, VIII,
not scruple to say that such things as
RINGING IN COLD BABIES
on unsuspecting papas were not only occasfo
but frequently done, but they were hooted dow
mfsanthropic disbelievers In professional tntea
wifely virtue and husbandly common sense. I
remained for HERALD correspondents, "A a m,
Of course. to bring to Light at least one auth
Gated instance Of this peculiar traffic, which 1
coed to give, retrenching names, Of course,
giving such particulars as will enable the ma
concerned and their immediate neighbors a,
portunity OF acknowledging the correctness o.
story.
Some twelve months ago the daughter Of q
residing on West Harrison street, In this CITY. /,
on visit to some relatives In an adjoining
where she remained several weeks. She retu
to her home In due time, weeks rolled past, n
dication of any trouble was given, nor were
suspicious of her mother, ever watchful thOug
was aroused. At last she was taken sick witt
ward symptoms Of some dropsical disorder.
becoming more serious doctor was called In,
TO the astonishment Of the mother, IL not O
daughter, declared that her Child, whom ah,
believed pure as the driven snow, was
ABOUT TO BECOME MOTHER.
She wildly and Indignantly declared that thi
untrue, and appealed to her daughter to refut
SANDER. The girl for a while was silent, then
ing into an agony Of tears, confessed that i
only too true, that, hoping against hope for
or that she was In error, she had concealed d
the present time her fatal secret. Her stor,-
OF har otv ~ ryNo
had taken advantage Of her accompanying hi
despite her protestatiOns and resistance
that the Insult had never been repeated
that he had assured the too credulOus girl
nothing was the matter with her, a story sht
only too glad to believe. In due time her chile
born. The whole matter was managed SO O.,
that none Of the family save the two parents
aware OF the calamity which had fallen upon
to the father Of the child that unless he at
married the girl whom he had 90 cruelty wrcn
he should avenge
HIS DAUGHTERS SHAME
with the pistol. The doctor said that II II be
necessary the whole matter could be hushe
He would, he said, dispose Of the child to one
patients, woman rich and childless, It!
The whole matter could be arranged so tina
husband never should be one bit the wiser, al
stain or suspicion OF stain should rest up0
her 8illness" 1t was, fortunately, not nee,
to have recourse to this expedient, as the
came forward at once, married the girl, with q
expressions OF regret and WILLINGNESS to alto
his fault, and 1t was given out that private
rage had been made months ago. DC. so al
we'll ending well.
THIS little romance Of aristocratic life 3
Western metropolis has, your readers vii
nothing whatever to do with the -
'TERRIBLE TEMPTATION" TRADE.
Granted but now for the sequel.
few days ago was dining and spendi
wi nnvaicfQn II
this girl, at his residence, on West Jackson ~
above Des PLANES. After dinner, as we were q
ing desultoriy, the bell rang and q messae
brought that the Doctors presence was ret
Immediately at house In the neighborho0d, %
same street, where the wife Of travelling "
man Tor buyer, am not sure which, had be-
he was industrious Of interfering with the pa "
OF a brother practitioner, and that, TO- av on
breach OF professional etiquette, as wen as Sc
consequences which might arise from his tgnt "a
of the previous features OF the case or parttcr
treatment already adopted, he deemed 1t be
to interfere. In few moments, however, tn
senger returned still more urgently dem8ndf
Doctors presence, stating that the family ply
sought; tnss the
and that humanity, at leass miaht dictate 4.
rule than that OF 'professi0nsi courtesy.D 10
course the Doctor went.
In half an hour he returned, and, after son ,
suasiOn, induced him to give me the facts
case, which, on entering the room, he had prone
"a most extraordinary affair, after what W +
speaking of''-alluding to the fact that we he n !
discussing, apropos OF Charles Reade and bis h
the case to which have already alluded, an =
which was familiar.
He had, it seemed, been called In to after
newly-made mother and her child. babyp N
day old. Both nurse and mother-l shOuz
newspaper parlance and say 1.-THE 49,,
mother'-were loud In declaring that IL wa y
extraordinary, but that the child could dr.
nOurlshment from its 'mother.D Poor limo.
it might as well have
Its blind sns strypss asr od Its wretc
in the extreme, The Doctor, after q momei a
claimed, "Good Godi that's not your childl
testations Of Indignation and astonishment ana
denials followed the Doctors words, but he
persisted In his declaration that she was ~
mother of that Child or any other chill,
two women hereupon gave way, and the pr
actor in this drama Of deceit confessed tn y
that che Doctor had already guessed. ST g
Rachel, desired children or death, for her hu'
sake, and, with her doctor and servant
planned the whole affair, which was to be m
absences. The Doctor was urged to do "
could but answered that he must wash his gs
of the whole matter In which the respon
rested co ess nd yss
SLOWLY AND SURELY STARVING TO dealt
The regular family physician here arrivc
the Doctor iet rae mouse only promising ~
him OF the deceit which had been wrOugh
him. Business called me soon afterwards non
city, and in graver political duties | forgot
my little romance, but presume the orthot
nOuncement was made in the "Deaths:" q i
- West - street, on the 1nn'
OF - and Friends are respec
and so on. And the poor little thing was
away In Graceand or Rose Hill, and M
bitterly by the man who thought himself its ~
such Is the story OF inside life which have -
wh tsS so@ ocd Sr How
children are cherished in American city fam