The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-07
Female BOhemians.

Lola Montez was a latter day has
rogues, the most successful and world
| wide. An Irish girl with any amount of
fathers, her liberality Of moral style and
action was about her only heirloom, save
a face brimiul of expression, fine eyes
and multitudinous hair. As a dancer
and actress she won half the hearts of
Paris, and married a monarch-the art
mad Ludwig. She lived then as a beg
gar On horseback, 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. Here
ditary pride and ambition overcame an
old mans foolish love, and Ludwig
assented to the demands ofhis 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 al actress, followed
the star of empire in its western course,
and lecturess, made money and was
popular, lost it all and ceased TO draw,
was defrauded by every one who could
get a chance to swindle her, and
finally, in a New York second rate
boarding house, just sixteen years
ago, the footlights of her life's drama
iickered out, and in Trinity church yard
she now lies, with the simple inscription,
" Elizabeth Gilbert, died in New York,
aged %forty-one years" to mark her rest
ing place. Adah Isaac Menkens was a
less successful, but more socially popular,
woman than Montez. Menken was a
Louisiana Jewess of rare beauty and
exceeding brilliant ideal intellect. She
WAS a rattle drained, good-hearted adven-
turess, giving to mankind what was
meant for an individual party, te.wit, a
husband, and if she sinned greatly, may
be forgiven, for she loved much. She
accomplished her stage popularity more
by reason of a beautiful face and marvel
lousy symmetrical fguge than from
stage ability. She married John C.
Heenan, the prize-fighter, first then
poor Orpheus G. Kerr fell in her arms,
and they were married. He truly loved
her and she wen back on him, going to
Europe with a California gambler
named Barker. 1t was her boast when
on the continent, a f~avorite with such
men as Charles Dickens, Alexander
Dumas, Theophile Gautier and Charles
Swinburne, "that she began with a
price fighter but would end with a
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 Men
ken who, all but entirely naked, rode
strapped to the horse in Mazeppa, and
the brilliant, beautiful conversational
ist, 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 90 to heaven
through the gates OF Paris" but as her
soul would never have left its gay salon
if she could have prevented 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
half-tamished Partisan Bohcmians, and
is probably unpaid for to this day. The
vast meaning of its epitaph, "thou know
est !" probably is best known by the
cutter. Ada Glare was perhaps
the most thorough of our active Bohe.
mians, and as the associate of Fitz James
OBrien, George Arnold, Artemus Ward,
Ned Wilkins, Henry Clapp. Mortimer
and the Others ofthat Gotham
journalistic gang, who could not eat a
breakfast on less than a dozen cocktails,
entitled 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 Plans
and the Madison Doree, where those
,weet-scented shrubs held forth. She
was a hail-fellow-well-met with all, and
nothing of running ofona iaunt
If a week or a month with any of them.
Her intensely eager, nervous, ~clean-cut
ACE and heavy blonde hair always at
the attention of Broadway to her, ]
md there, ~quafing champagne at the
Doree, or beer at Plans she was wholly
Indifferent to all criticism. Her end was
rouble. She outlived all of her old as
.ociates, but three years ago died from
lydrophobia, the result of the bite of a
yet dog. Ada was the best of the lot of
,as rogues, for she was a fool, and too
,ood hearted to give any one much pain
f heart.- Washington Capital.