Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-03

without cost. They secure boarding
place in some fashionable house, and re-
main Sometimes for months without paw
ing cent. The story thev tell is DIaus-
IDLE. and one calculated to excite the
sympathy OF the average landlady, when
the patience of the latter is exhausted
and the boarder is notified to depart. her
baggage may be stopped, to he sure. but
1t IS rarely done. If it is the house
keeper rarely gets anything but the bare
trunks The contents have been removed
piece by piece, somewhere else Should
the Doarder, however, attempt to leave
secretly and carry off her things. she
could be arrested for fraud and punished.
The fact is we'll understood. and the all
ventures almost always remains until
she is fairly thrust from the door.
The literary adventures is o curious,
and not unfrequent, type of this genius.
In addition to her board, which she gen
orally obtains in about the same manner
as we have just described, she negotiates
frequent loans from the acquaintance
she makes, to be repaid when her hook
comes out" She makes great show of
reading proof in her room, and talks IA
mlllarly about her publisher. When she
has thoroughly exhausted her borrowing
powers, and nothing more can be made in
that individual household, she removes to
some other part Of the city, leaving with
her landlady on her departure al order
on "her publisher" for the amount due.
OF course she is fairly settled somewhere
else before the fraud is discovered.
Coming properly under this head is
this class OF women who have really lit
erary ability, but who care rather to lead
ives free and untrammeled bv society
limitations than to make use of it as a
means OF subsistence. They write when
they choose, and oftentimes with remark
able brilliancy. They pay no regard to
opportunities, Or what the world NAV saw
OF them. They openly defy public opin-
ION, recklessly do what they please, des-
plte criticism, advice, pleading, and de-
nunciation. We have had notable speci-
mems OF this character in our city within
the past twenty years, and many of our
readers will have no difficulty in placing
them.
One of these, who welded a wonderful
~ facile pen, as an orphan, the last OF
her race. She was graceful, beautiful, and
genius. At 10 she plunged into litera-
ture, began writing serials for The Ledger
before she was IS, and year later was
earning salary of $1,000 year. But
she was cursed with a spirit of unrest and
tability-constantly changing her To-
cahty constantly in love and out, and con-
stantly doing things that made people
hold up their hands and exclaim.
She wandered or rather whiried all
over the United States and Canada: spent
SIX years in various parts of Europe; went
up the Niles to the Holy Land; to Con
stantinople; took up her residence for
time ia the West Indies, finally coming
back to the United States. After year
OF railroad and hotel life over the length
and bredth Of the union, she suddenly
purchased a little secluded farm in dis
tant New England town, and buried her.
self upon it. Here she has lived for four
years, having hardly in that time stepped
Oft her property, or communicated with
those who were once her friends case
of thorough surfeit of life and WEAKNESS
with the world at 40
Another, whose path twenty years ago
pointed in very much the same direction,
was saved bya fortunate marriage, and
has risen to eminence as writer of poe
try and prose. Her occasional eccentrici-
ties show, however, that the poison is not
eradicated from her system. 1t is simply
dormant or is controlled by vigorous
exercise of will
Still another noted adventures. who
has frequently visited Boston, and has
many acquaintance here, has written
huge autobiography of herself, which has
met with an extensive sale. This woman,
from little ragged, neglected child OF
the streets, grew to be really a wonder
fully brilliant and talented woman
She lived in gorgeous style in Paris for
long time, and counted many eminent
men as her admirers although she was ri
gorously excluded from society herself.