The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-25
A DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL.
London Has an Experience not Unparalleled
in Washington.

London Has an Experience not Unparalleled
in Washington.
London TRUTH
A social Russian question has been agita-
ting society for the last week. The Russian
ambassador presented lady to Lady Sails
bury at her reception. The lady was
married and had come to England accom-
panied by her husband, who is a gentleman
well-known and respected in st. Petersburg.
But the lady in days gone
by had been divorced. The story
Of the divorce grew, and grew until
it was asserted that she had at least six hus-
bands what" said Lady Lady Salisbury,
introduce this female Bluebeard to mel
Monstrous! l am insulted. my husband is
insulted. my country is irsulted, my queen
land, which Is to be regretted, as she is sim
gularly beautiful. As for this particular Rus
sian scapegoat, no one seems to know exactly
what her social crime was, but admitting
that she had little exaggerated the privilege
of divorce, how is society to be carried on if
every one is to level a stone against his
neighbor? English society is not one whit
more moral than Russian society, but it has
the additional vice of being somewhat more
hypocrltical. The lady in question had been
received at the official parties of NJ. Wad-
dington IN France, and, with very slight
effort of Christian charity, she might surely
have been allowed to figure once at
the official representations of Lord Sails
bury without all this fuss. For my
part am always on the side of any one who
is made a scapegost, and more especially
when the victim is pretty scapegoatess.
Provided that a Russian comes to England
under the wing of her husband, dresses well,
has good manners and is presented by her
ambassador, it seems to me somewhat hard
that the question should be raised of the
number of husbands she may previously have
had when residing on her native steppes.
/ r yyIfh
code which allows no statute of limitation.
According to this code the question is not SO
much what woman is but what she was.
When that ill-used woman, Lady Twiss, was
bounded out of society remember saying
to a bishops wife, who was observing with a
shudder that she had known her: ''If your
husband were really to practice the doctrines
that he breaches be would request
you to drive in the park
every day with her. Mary Magadalene was
thought good enough company for the
founder of our religion, and Lady Twiss,
who is an excellent wife, ought to be good
enough company for you. Half the women
who are open. mouthed against her are Mag
dalenes who have never repented, and who
have simply not been found out because
their little weaknesses are so notonOus that
the world is benevoiently blind to them"
Not being one of the softer sex myself SYM
pathize with the efforts of ladies who may
have had rather a doubtful past
to re-enter the ranks of the
respectable, nor do 1 impute this
to them as a crime. What trouble do they
give themselves to attain social recognitioni
Then when they have YEARLY built them
semselves up some little nest and only ask
to be allowed to sit quietly IN it, some ex-
cellent person sternly shakes the tree and
all their labor has been vain; down comes
the nest topping about their ears and they
are sent forth to wander after some new
perch amid the Grundyan jeers of those
| whom they have never harmed.