The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-09-12
FEMALE HsOHEsHFANS.
Lola IHOnIeZ, Adah ESaacs Mem
l1enS, Ada Clare and Others.

Washington Capital
Lola Montez was a latter-day bas 70
CUES, the most successful and world wide.
An Irish girl with any amount of fathers
her iberality of moral syle and action
was about her only heirloom, save a face
brimful of expression, fine eyes and mul
titudmous hair AS dancer and actress
she Won half the hearts of Paris, and
married a monarch-the art-mad Lud
wig. She lived then as beggar on horse
back, and by her absurdities succeeded
admirably in running her husband to the
ragged edge of ruin, from which he was
only saved by his people, who threatened
revolution if she were not expelled from
the kingdom. Hereditary pride and am
bition overcame an old mans foolish love,
and Ludwig assented to the demands OF
his ministers. Heart broken he parted
with Lola, who, with light fantastic toe,
tripped blithely over to London, and
after a couple Of years of success as an
actress, followed the star of empire in its
western course, toured the United States
as an actress and lecturess; made money
and was popular; lost it all and ceased
to draw; was defrauded by every one who
could get chance to swindle her, and
finally, in New York second-rate board
ing house, just sixteen years ago, the
footlights of her life's drama fickered
out, and in Trinity church-yard she now
lies, with the simple inscription, eliza
beth Gilbert, died in New York, aged
forty-One years" to mark her resting
place. Adah Isaacs Menken was a less
successful, but more socially popular wo
man than Montez. Menken was a Louis-
ana Jewess of rare beauty and exceed
ingiy brilliant ideal intellect. She was a
rattle Drained, good hearted adventures,
giving to mankind what was meant for
an individual party, to-wit; husband,
and if she sinned greatly, may be for
given, for she loved much. She accom-
plished her stage popularity more by
reason of a beautiful face and marvellous
ly symmetrical figure than from stage
ability. She married John G.. Heenan,
the prize fighter, first; then poor Orphe-
us G. Kerr fell in her arms, and they
We're married. He truly loved her and
she went back on him, going to Europe
with California gambler named Barker
1t was her boast while on the Continent,
favorite with such men as Charles
Dickens, Alexander Dumas, Theophile
Gautler and Charles Swinburne, " that
she began with a prize fighter but would
end with prince" and she came within
an inch of roping in one of the noble
blood of the crown of France, but for
parental interference. The Adah Isaacs
Menken who, all but entirely naked,
rode strapped to the horse in Mazeppa,
Al.
alist, for whose book Dickens wrote the
preface, and to whom the brain and pride
of Europe paid court, were very much
alike-both very fast and faithless. She
found her destroyer in herself, and died
from too much of herself She said that
cher soul would go to heaven through
the gates of Paris, but as her soul would
never have left its gay salon if she could
prevent it, it is doubtful if her prophecy
is fulfilled. The monument over her
grave was put up, as George Butler once
told us, by a set of alffamished Paris
ian Bohemians, and is probably unpaid
for to this day. The vast meaning of its
epitaph, Chou knowest!" is probably
best understood by the stone cutter
Ada Glare was perhaps the most thorough
of our active Bohemians, and, as the as
sociate of Fitz James O'Brien, George
Arnold, Artemus Ward, Ned Wilkins,
Henry Clapp, Jr., Mortimer Thompson,
and the others of that Gotham journals
tic gang, who could not eat a breakfast
on less than dozen cocktails, was emit
tied the queen of Bohemia. Ada was
from the South, born wealthy, but with
a bad streak somewhere in her which
evinced itself in her coming North and
joining In those carousals at Plaff' 8 and
the Maison Dores, where those sweet
scented shrubs held forth. She was hail
fellow well-rnet with all, and thought
nothing of running off on a jaunt for
week or month with any of them. Her
intensely eager, nervous, clean-cut face
and heavy blonde hair always attracted
the attention of Broadway to her, and
there, quaffing champagne at the Doree
or beer at Plat 8, she was wholly indif
ferent to all criticism. Her end was trou-
bic. She outlived all of her old associ- |
ates, and but three years ago died from
hydrOphobia, the result of the bite of
pet dog. Ada was the best of the lot of |
has rogues, for she was fool and so too
good hearted to give any one much pain
of heart.