The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-07-06
A SHOWER OF FIG LEAVES.


The Delicate Manner In which . woman
Brought Cincinnatt Maa TO Terms.
Cincinnati is certainly the Paris of
America. For the last few weeks q boy
in q jewelry store which runs back be-
hind q hotel on Fourth Street has occa-
sionally observed male garments thrown
out of the rear window of that building
into an alley. Sometimes a hat was
flung down, and sometimes coat, but
generally it was pair of pantaloons
that came tumbling from the upper
chamber window, sprawling through the
afternoon air like, half sleepy Euty-
chus. The first article that the boy no.
ticed was q pair of brooches of fine,
dark cloth, with 365 in the pocket of it,
and be carried it into the hotel, where
the clerk received it and hung it up un-
til woman sent down for it. Two days
afterwards well worn pepper and salt
pantaloons came tumbling out. The
boy took these into the hotel also, and
waited further revelations. He found
that the rain of masculine attire was
something more than shower, and as
his services in picking up the cast-out
but not cast-off articles came frequently
into requisition, he began to make the
eccentricities of the ledger on the fourth
story back room profitable by collecting
a small fee for restoring clothes found
in the alley. al l5da s
On one occasion the boy earned an
extra quarter by climbing on shed to
rescue coat which lodged there, a
woman coming down herself to recover
the garment which she had flung out q
short time before. At first it was
thought by casual observers in the
neighborhOod that married couple
dwelt in the upper chamber and occa-
sionally INDUCED in matrimonial quar-
rels, in the course of which the wife gave
vent to her exuberant feelings by throw
ing out all of her husbands clothes that
she could lay hands on. But family
jar in which a wife proceeds to such
lengths rarely occurs oftener than once
week, and there was fall of trousers
nearly every day. Besides, the same
garment never came from the window
a second time, and even supposing a
! married man with score of suits, il
would be improbable that an angry
wife should invariably select an article
for election which she had not thrown
out before Above all, in case the gar.
ments were flung down in a matrimo-
NAL quarrel the husband would have
been obliged to send down for his OWL
clothes. 1t was clear, therefore, that
the woman in the upper chamber was
not burdened with a husband, that the
garments which she threw out belonged
to different men, and that the regularity
with which she sent after them indicated
q method in her madness. One of hel
victims has had her arrested and ha:
revealed the secret of her mysterious
conduct.
1t is q heatrending tale, exhibiting an
instance of fiendish and malignant Gun.
ming unexampled in the history of fem
mime crime. In fact, to borrow :
phrase from Mrs. Bishop, nothing more
diabolical has ever come to light in thu
history of the New York Legislature
The heroine of the Fourth Street Hotel
a Mrs. Lucas by name, had discovered
that a civilized man caught in daylight
half-dressed is the most abject creature
alive, starting at a shadow, fleeing wher
nothing pursues, and retaining, ever
after he has adopted the theory that his
original ancestor was an intelligent apt
of arboreal habits, something of the
shame which made Adam veil himself
with fig-leaves. Out of this weakness:
Mrs. Lucas cruelty resolved to make
money. She reasoned, with the cole
calculation of demon, that if sht
could get man isolated and deprive
him of some one of his essential gar
ments, she could make him pay any
sum for its restoration.
Day after day in the heart of tn,
great city of Cincinnati she sought hel
victims and lured them to her den OF
the pretense of a business engagement
Each poor dupe as he entered hel
chamber had q pistol pointed at hi!
head and was ordered to divest himself
of some portion of his attire. When hi
complied his captor Suddenly flung tht
garment out of the window, and demand
ed yellow gold for the ransom of hi!
Wardrobe. The miserable being cover
ing at her mercy could only beseech hel
on his Bonded knees to restore the
clothes and take the half of his wealth
Whereupon she called waiter, sen
down to the boy in the alley wretchet
pittance and dismissed her visitor
clothed but no longer in his right mint
and afraid to relate his misadventure
It is to be hoped that this Lydia Sher
man, Lucretia Borgia and the phenom
email criminal of her sex, will meet will
the punishment which she deserves. Ii
the meantime we repeat that Cincinnati
is indeed the Paris of America.-Ne,,
York World Editorial.
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