The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-05
= French Love Sfory

Lex dignitied journal, the DeJrt;. dive
. Sues It's usually impressive lectures on
?oIi'los and art by piqusn. pol ice
account, sufficiently funny 10 be rerroau, ed
without aly substantial change. Wou len.
says the Deb0ts, who deceive their hua'
nands should bear in mind the spirit of ,be
IA" prescribed against women guilty. OF
acuitefy. he disappearance OF tn. lesser
esule, suspicion. would make US believe
1uat we mad talien UPON an sge of great
.ioi amy fof We see vecy rarely n the cor
Iectionai police the lesser criT as before.
n ihe pretty little Nine. Aline Ardau
ief IS, however, a special VIC rd Ct pity. it
= oTtsoise her history - a roT lance of itself.
=. - time of the var she found herself.
n her mother, Nine. Sement, in the
middle of France, where she made the
| acquaintance OF young man Of eighteen.
This young nan pleased her very much,
but she Was affianoed in Paris and there.
fore strsss 20 forget her love in order to
think suiy of her duty. However, "My
husbanaD she says, who il an honest
man, is absolutely insupportable az a hus.
band He passes his nights in drinking
beer, and wss once fined FIVE francs for
being tipsy," as the fearful Aline declared
in the action brought against her
The case unrolled itself in court in s
manner much more amusing that it could
,, otherwise he told. The first TO be heard
was Mime. Fabineau. Il gave a marrisge
party for my daughter Nelly week sgp.
invited Nine. Ardau 10 this party. Nine
Artau has one fault, and that is. that h
Str0t-an expression which | cannot trans
, late aud which, even the Judge himsel
! ! found too French for hlm, for he said il
as,onishmen 'he' The witness-'He love.
the wine, aad drank so much on that day
that at desert he was even-'inconyenien
to his wife. Ny son-in law, who::has not
very good temper himself, began 70 get pro
yoked with the libertes he took with NY
daughter. And OF q sudden Mime Ardsu
5 who all the evening had been much dis
I, satisfied with her husband, diappeared in
! the corner with Monsieur, whom you Sc.
1 sitting beside her upon the bench, and since
that day il seems that VI. Ardsu has never
= seen his wife, and to which Aline responded
: TRANQUILITY and in open court, That is very
I true" Whereupon the President turned
upon her with severity, aud said, "Vsry
! y we'll, then, since that evening you have
, lived in concubinsge with this Monsieur
: L4cette" Monsieur le President, rscog
ze that | have done wrong, and | vii
4 | q en- own IN l L Etsrtl IL
The Indignant Husbspi-'I think it ia
Q Little bit too ate for that"
The President (silently regarding tn
:, pretty Aline) How have you let yourseI
= be thus dragged away 70 forget your du
"a ties?
u Aliue- Young Nan Monsieur lie Presi.
ss dent, he Z are the facts and circumstance
e OF the sc. In 1871, when | was 1. year
Ill 4 al hnu 70 na
s. when made the s.qusintarce Of madame
who was then with her mother living will
one OF her aunts. | nourished the hope O
" sspousing her. Then | was taken off il
70 the army, and say her no more until tn
a month of July, which | re-encouniered he
II in the Bois de & Ilogue, at the msrrisg,
y of Hadame--. Her husband was bin,
y drunk. la despair she told me in broker
10 tones her grief-whst she had to sutfel
~ what She had. to endure-that she had bee
'e tied for lie to man who didn't care fo
her. man who came home at night drunf
ie was seized by noble impulse. | said
81 "Iou shall no longer be the slave OF th
y; e1r,naiHe" | seized her in my arEl
ID and took her 10 my lodgings; yer
y modest, very simp'e, not equs
% to the house which she lett. | only ear
10 three thousand francs year; but, oh NJ
s. Le President, since that time We have neve
y been divided-we have been happy, oh, :
~ ~ happy
y. OF countenance and something like softne.
ey OF voice)-But you krow very well tha
= this is a happiness which the law repri
mauds very severely.
The lover-Why then is the law so i,
n. dulgent TO the husband who drinks and il
he dulees in his mistresses? Your law PEE
~. mits one to say what he pleases CT the w
s. man, but nothing can be said abou, ii
H. man. ! don't think much of your law,
IS The Judge, probably in compromii
he between duty and conscience, fined Air
ed one hundred francs and sentenced her love
No to fifteen days Imprisonment, for which,
at ia to be supposed that the divided husbsn
he and wife may now browse around to su
u themselves.