The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-09-25
WHICH IS THE w1TEl
Lights and shadows of High Life in New Xor

Lights and Shadows Of High Life In New KOrk'
Coming down Fifth Avenue the other
day gentleman Of this city met an old
friend, whose residence in Brooklyn and
subsequent departure for the West had
separated from former associations. He
had known him as young gentleman Of
some pretensions, and assisted athis mar
riage with the granddaughter OF rich
broker Of this city; had known her as a
loving, gentle wife and mother, and was,
therefore, somewhat surprised to see him
accompanied by handsome, dashing
woman, whose familiar manner told that
she occupied the place once filled by an
other. His hurried questions were an
swered with 30 much confusion and en-
barrassment that the friends parted after
very brief and unsatisfactory interview,
and by singular coincidence the same
gentleman going home met upon his own
doorstep the woman he had formerly
known as che rich mans granddaughter,
the petted wife of his friend. She was
carrying in her small arms bundle of
clothing, and upon inquiry he found that
she had been employed in his own fam
ily as seamstress, her fear of publicity
prompting her to conceal as far possible
her identity. The principal part of her
fortune of sixty thousand dollars had
been lost after her marriage through the
treachery of her guardian. In conse.
quence of this, probably, her husband
had gradually withdrawn himself from
her society, leaving her without means
and with three children to care for. Cos.
sip associated his name with that OF a
wealthy woman, who wal. already mar
ried but whose fortune being her own,
made her quite independent OF marital
or any other control. Finally, the gen.
tleman departed for the West, ostenslbly
to seek an opening for business, but soon
wrote to his wife requesting her to dis
pose of a ast little remnant of her estate
to establish him, as he said, in new and
productive enterprise, which would en-.
able him to send for her and the children.
Delighted at the prospect of the renewal
of his old affection and confidence, the
BETRAYED woman acted upon the sugges'
tion, and, with the proceeds of the sale
of the very last barrier between herself
and starvation, her husband procured q
divorce in a Western State quite un-
known to his wife, was shortly joined by
his rich New York friend, who, in the
meantime, had given her husband $780,.
600 to effect a divorce from her, and had
changed her name by act of Legislature
to that Of the man with whom she was
about to live. She, therefore, became,
and is, Mrs. B., with or without hav-
ing passed through the formula of sec.
ond marriage ceremony. Butthe question
is, which is the wife of the man, who is
State Senator, comes to New York with
a flourish, stopping at hotels, receiving
honors, while his innocent wife, who has
wronged no one, finds herself deprived
of husband, of home, of the father of
her children, and made to face bitterest
penury, without act or fault of hers, and
without any knowledge Of any change in
the whole position since she was the low.
ing wife of few years agoP Since the
enforced separation her two little boys
have died of scarlet fever, leaving her
with one child, whom she supports by
her needle. What the woman can be
who has stolen all that was left to her in
the world is past comprehension, but is it
not time that the divorce laws of the diff.
.ferent States were 30 equslized that such
wrongs should become impossible ? Is
it not disgraCeful that stepping across the
border from one State into another can
make what is infamous respectable, and
vice versa JENNIE JUNE, IN Baltimore
american.