The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-06

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out produced no little sensation in the
| fashionable world, for who could refuse
to admire the brilliant Miss Ferneyf
Flattery was her daily food. At seven
| teen she had refused dozen offers.
Triumphing in the admiration she ex-
cited, she began at length to think that
the other sex was fit only to be tram
pied on, and from being a careless fiirt,
| she became a practiced coquette.
But if her selfish heart was suscepti-
| bile Of love, Albert Howard had at length
| reused Its affections; and almost from
the hour when she first met him she
learned to think of him differently from
| others of his sex. Yet, even to him, she
was often willful and capricious. How
| ard, however, admired her too unre-
servedly to perceive these faults, and
intoxicated by the praises bestowed on
her beauty, he urged his suit so skillfully
and perseyeringly that at length Miss
Ferney consented to become his wife.
| For while the /newly-married pair
lived happily, for their time was spent
in an uninterrupted round of amuse-
ments-the flattery poured into her ears
abroad, and the almost idolatrous atten-
tions of her husband at home, sufficing
to keep the bride in good humor. But
this could not always last. The enter
tainments ensuing ON her marriage were
at length over, and the newly-wedded
life had now to settle down into the mo-
notOnous, matter-of-faot routine OF life.
OF housewifery she was completely ig-
norant, so that her servants constantly
imposed on her to her husbands chagrin,
and often disquiet; while accustomed
TO habits of unlimited indulgence, she
could not bring herself down 10 the sac
ritices of time which her duties required
of her, 30 that even those matters which
she did understand were almost daily
| neglected.
She had always spent her mornings in
promenading the most fashionable
| streets, and as she could not bring her.
self t0 give up the custom, she was often
| absent when her husband came home to
dinner, 80 that he had to either await
her return, or order the meal himself to
be brought up. Nor was this all. Even
in the evening the young man found it
impossible to remain at home contented.
"She was not" she said. "of domestic
character; it would kill her to be cooped
up at home and sit mOping o whole even-
ling alone" Her husband was conse-1
quently forced to yield to her wishes. In
stead of enjoying. The quiet repose which
he delighted in after the tolls of the day,
and which he had pictured to himself as
one OF the greatest pleasures OF married
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| the ball room, concerts, or wherever else
his wife could fly from her own hearth.
In these places, too, her husband was
| only secondary character. Thirsting
| tor triumph as much as ever, she artfuliy
drew around her crowd OF admirers,
ana enjoyed the pique which she thus
| inflicted on younger and unmarried wo-
| men in vain her husband expostulated;
| she declared that he was no better than
jailer; and in these alterations Howard
| felt the full benefit Of that wit he had SO
much admired.
Instead of yielding to her husbands
| little humors, Mrs. Howard exacted sub
mission in everything from him as the
price of peace, SO that, though man Of
| strong mind, he,. at length, became the
mere slave OF his wife. Every attempt,
| too, to release himself proved fruiLless,
| for he found he could do so only at the
cost OF continual discord His love soon
perished under these circumstances, and
he grew wholly Indifferent to his bride,
spending his time away from her side, in
the billiard room, the bar room, and
other places of resort. His happiness
for life was ruined. His dreams OF do
mestic felicity were over, and he sought
companionship among the vicious and
| abandoned. But we will no longer trace
| his history. We will give it in the words
Of his old friend, Stanhope, who, one
| night, as ne sat by his wife's side-for he
mad long been married to one WHO com.
bined his ideas Of a true companion-re-
lated it TO her.
"Alas! poor Howard" he said, in re-
ply to question of his wife, asking why
he was SO sad; it is his fate which makes
me so. You know how .uuhappily he
married, and how he has since given
himself up to habits of dlssip alton. 1t is
long since his practice has deserted
him, and he has been for a year a COM
mon drunkard. Every effort to reform
him has proved useless. At times he
would admit his error, and SIZED maudlln
tears over it,; but the next day he would
be as inebrlated as ever. His Wife's
father, you know, died poor, and she has
long subsisted on the charity OF her rela-
Iiyes. She saw her error, it is said, but
it was too late; for her husband was ir-
retrieyably drunkard. To-day he was
found drowned, and whether it is sui
eide or not, God only knows. His wife,
on hearing the news, fell into violent
mysteries, and | have just learned has
since died, leaving her little family to
the charity of strangers. And all this
comes OF being a coquette."
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