Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-25
AN UNHAPPY C0NIUGAL LOVE.
Pursuing an Errant Husband Over Several
Continents Now She Sees Him and Now
She DOn't-A Divorce Suit as is Divorce
Suit.

puo OouL-h DNoICo Dull as ID Oi'ViVo
Suit.
A case has been on trial in the
District Court which develops fea-
lures of special interest. The
opening scene was laid in sunny
France-that pleasant land of
France" which has witnessed 50
many charming things not laid
down in Goldsmith's Traveller.
There are few educated people who
have not read Lacordaire's pas
slonate pictures Of the holy matri-
mony of the oldest Christian
Church, as it is theoretically devel-
oped in France. Sympathizing
with Lacordaire's eloquence, we
will suppose that, somewhere in
that country, there resided Ma
demoiselle Somebody or other, who
was ordained by heaven to be the
bride of one Simon. Her every
thought was devoted to her maker
and to this unknown but idolized
to be Benedict. Whether his name
was to be Smith, Brown or Robin
son, the finger of an unerring
Providence was guiding him to-
wards this human flower, set apart
specially for him.
HE COMES.
To the lady thus in "maiden
fancy free" but expec-
tant comes one Simon. This was
away back in 1855-almost in the
days. The frigid court
ship of Fr,nce is gone through
with and they are married. But,
alas! for the poetry and religion of
Lacordaire's ordination OF marriage
and the guiding hand of Provi-
dence! But a few months elapsed
before it was discovered that this
pair were married but not mated.
10 them the lines failed to apply
Two souls with but single thought
Two hearts that beat as one.
Simon discovered, to his conster.
that Loves Dung Dreamn
was phantasy of the poets. The
second day after his marriage, so
he alleges in his testimony In Los
Angeles Court, visions of flat-irons,
pokers and other paraphernalia of
tho kitchen, which possessed a
strong impulse, in vigorous female
hands, to illustrate the theory of
gravitation when dropping from q
height on a mans head, began to
circulate with freedom and fire..
quency that threatened disaster to
a caput that acknowledged liabil-
ity to compound and comminuted
fractures. Simon, being a French
man, may not have read Congreve,
but his sentiments rapidly crystal
lied in that couplet of the disselute
poet of Charles II.'s time which
runs thus, if we mistake NOT:
How flGful, towards the close of life,
To drag alous that weary load-a wife.
The iron entered his soul and he
resolved on flight.
AN ENERGETIC PENELOPE.
The wanderings of Ulysses of old
were nothing to those of our mod
cru husband. But, in his case,
there was u Penelope Of different
order from the dame who piled her
distaff and kept suitors at arms
length until her much Travelled
husband returned home. The tes-
tlmony, as ELECTED in the court
Yesterday, disclosed the fact that
Simon went from France to Buenos
Ayers. In this bucolic region he
settled down and Rugged, with
gloating, the dear belief that the
wife of his bosom could not find
him out. He knew not with whom
he was dealing. One fateful day
Madame Simon dropped gently
down on him, as the humming.
bird settles on the petals of the
rose-sarden; and, for two or three
years, his dream of conjugal eman.
cipation was at an end. After
having chewed the cud OF sweet
and bitter matrimonial fancies long
enough, as he thought, he inconti.
nently made tracks" for "fresh
fields and pastures new.u This
time he pulled up in Canada. An
other interval of liberty; when,
again, the vigilant wife found him
out. Some months of matrimonial
dallianco followed in Canada, W hen
Simon again sought liberty in
flight. This time, as he thought,
with the wisdom of the serpent,
though, as the event proved, with
the innocence OF the dove, he re-
turned to La Belle France. Lacor.
daire's finger of Providence fol-
lowed him again, and his cara
sposa once more nestled in his con-
iugal bosom. After five months
further experience of matrimonial
bliss, he fled again, this time to
Fall River, Massachusetts. Amidst
the rattle of the spindles of that
busy New England town he
thought he was forever free from
the polished and easy motion of a
wifely tongue hung most accur-
ately insthe middle. Vain dream!
Madame Simon pounced down upon
him again, and the New England
town furnished them u home for
some time. Again Simon fled,
this time to Nebraska. No visions
of grasshoppers possessed for him
half the terrors of the "Cricket on
the HEARTH" Inexorable as fate,
Madame Simon again dug him out,
and they lived in Nebraska for
some eighteen months. Thence, in
due time, he fled to San Francisco,
to be again replevined by his faith.
full wife, Thew lived in San Fran