Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-10
A DECEIVED WIFE.
One Of the Most Remarkable Marriages of
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Tuscarora-a town situated in one of the
Western States, though it is not necessary to
specify which. There was young lady who
last fall married Mr.. Orlando Valentine, and
thereby filed all the other Tuscarora young
ladies with envy. Mr.. Valentine was not
supposed to be rich, but he was thought TO
be extremely handsome. In fact. prior to
his marriage it was frequently remarked of
him by the unmarried ladies of Tuscarora
that he was too nice for anything. Last
week the parents of Mrs. Valentine
were astonished by the return of their
daughter to the parental roof, and
her announcement that Mr.. Valentine, who
had suddenly disappeared, was wretch of
| the deepest aniline dye. Further inquiry as
to the precise nature of Mr.. Valentines
iniGuity disclosed the startling fact that
| instead of being nice young man, he was
| q wicked, deceitful. horrid woman, who had
| committed some terrible crime i'll Colorado,
| and had worn male attire and married
wife in order to successfully conceal her
identity.
| The deceived wife's story was an interest
ing and pathetic one. She had been mar
ried long time before she discovered the
true character of her alleged husband. but
her suspicious that all was not right, and
/! that there was mystery connected with the
pretended Mr.. Valentine, were early
awakened She noticed that as the
honeymoon waned Mr.. Valentine con-
tinued to treat her with unyarying polite
ness and affection. She WAS a young
woman, but she was, nevertheless, intelli-
gent enough to know that this was unusual.
Her husband found no fault with the length
of time that she required in order to dress
herself for church or for an afternoons
drive, and never once remarked that he
wished she would not lie all day in getting
herself ready. He always packed her trunk
for her, and the way in which he folded her
dresses and avoided packing boots and ink
bottles in the immediate neighborhood of
collars aud laces was so unlike the average
husband that she could not avoid feeling
that there was something radically wrong
about the supposed man. When the pair
returned from their wedding trip, and
began to keep house together, things
constantly occurred which startled
and alarmed the bride. She
found that Mr.. Valentine
never left his clothes at night lying on the
floor, but carefully folded them, and while
he invariably hung his coat on the gas fix
ture, he as invariably hung his stockings on
| the back of a chair. Mrs. Valentine had
| friends who were married, and she knew
! perfectly well that married man always
! throws his coat on the seat of chair, and
losses his stockings carelessly on the floor.
1t is not strange that she began to doubt her
husbands sanity, and to ask herself whether
it as safe for her to live with man of
sue b ominously neat habits. To see him
brushing his hair before putting out the gas
sent cold chill through her. As she after
ward remarked, no woman could have seen
MIR. Valentine holding the comb in his
| mouth, and holding the hair on the back of
his head with one hand while he brushed it
With the other, without having her blood
run cold.
| During the eight months of her married
life, Mrs. Valentine was never once told by
her husband that the breakfast was not tit
to eat, or that she might have sense enough
to get him something decent for dinner.
On the contrary, whenever she asked him
if his breakfast or dinner was satisfactory
to him, he always replied that he was sure
it was very nice indeed, thank you. No
matter how hard and faithfully she tried,
she could not make him dissatisfied with his
home. He submitted to the weekly recur-
renee Of washing day as though he regarded
it as a necessary evil, instead of deliberate
and unprovoked outrage upon the male sex.
He never accused her of hiding his clothing
and other things, and always
seemed to know instinctively the
use of closets and to comprehend that when
several garments were hung on the same
hook. each and every one cannot be hung
/ CHI 10 oft no
was missing from one of his shirts, he
wonld calmly say, ''My dear there seems to
be a button wanting there. Shall you or |
sew it on?'' Many time did that neglected
and heart broken wife, whose soul yea,aled
for substantial marital OATH and who
waited-Oh! 50 wearily-to see her husband
crumple up clean shirt and dance on it.
sadly get her needle and thread and sew ON
button. while Mr.. Valentine smiled in Il
peaceful and loving way upon her. AS the
days and weeks went on, the feeling that he
was not like other men grew upon her. and
she Eassed the greater part of her time i'll
tears.
OF course Mr.. Valentine never smoked.
| He said that was an Objectionable practice
and that it spoiled the curtains. Likewise,
he never drank anything, and belonged to
neither lodge nor club. He always spent
his evenings at home, and Mrs. Valentine is
prepared to swear that she never saw him
read newspaper at the breakfast table, and
that in fact on the only occasion on which she
ever knew him to look at any newspaper he
was looking at the list of deaths and marriages.
WHO can tell what anguish this wretch's I'M
manly conduct inflicted upon his innocent
wife? One day she went, in desperation, to
her pastor and begged him to cali her &.
8 FOOL" explaining that as he was a
minister he could, of course, use the express
sion in purely theological and innocent
way. When the Mortified pastor asked her
why she had made such request, she con-
fessed, with the tears streaming from her
eyes, that she was neglected wife, and
that her husband never spoke to her as men
ought to speak to their wives, and that she
should die unless she could hear some one
| use toward her the language to which good
and true wife is entitled. This incident tells
more plainly than dozen large octave vol
umes, bound in half calf, with gilt edges,
could tell. the depth of misery into which
| the miserable woman had fallen.
The day, however, came, when she learned
from Mr. Valentines own lips that he was
an impostor. He told her all. He said that
| he was woman, and that though his dis