Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-07

DIS tlle VaSdIleS VI d WrctCneQ lun1tlC In
her corner of a mad-house, waving about
her few gaudy rags, and crying, ''See if
am not the Queen of Sheba."
Her father writes to reassure her re.
gardlng the secrecy of her letters, and
adds:
'To be candid with you, would have
been ashamed to expose them to any one
else. :. What will the world think
of woman who had recently followed
her mother and sister to the grave, had
quit her fathers house, where duty and
necessity called for her attentions as the
only female of the family left, and
thought proper to abandon all to seek
tor admiration in foreign countries; sure
ly the most charitable construction that
can be given to such conduct is to sup
pose that it must proceed in some de-
grees from insanity.'
In 1920 she began scheming to get
some OF the Bonapartes' money for her
son. But while talking to the members
Of that family in the most honeyed words,
she talks about them thus:
II cannot say that have the best re-
lance on that family, although am dis
posed to reciprocate their kind words
and receive their offers of friendship
without being deceived by either. :.
The Bsnapartes are all alike, very afec-
tionate in words, but without the least
intention CT parting with farthing.
The letters from the boy are suggestive.
When he IS Is and she is IS, he saws:
Mamma goes out nearly every night to
apa1ty or ball. She says she looks full
ten years younger than she is, and if she
had not SO large son she could pass for
IS years old. See has a dancing master,
and takes three lessons a week, and has
done 80 for the last six months; is every
day astonished at the progress she makes,
and is fully determined to dance next
winter. had never anv idea OF
spending my life On the continent; on the
contrary, as soon as my education is fin
ished; VIII oh will not take me over twe
years longer, shall hasten over to Amer
lea, which have regretted ever since I
left it.
Madame Bonaparte set her heart on
marrying her son to his cousin, the daugh-
ter of Joseph Bonaparte, and loox ed upon
any one who opposed it as ian idiot and
an enemy"
1 Will never consent to his marrying
any one but person of great wealth. He
knows l can but recognize marriage of
ambition and interest, and that his name
and his rank require it. /
AS to marriages in America, they are
simple acts of youthful folly and mex
perlence. People marry some
poor young woman from the caprice of
the moment, and consign themselves to
her insipid society and the torment of
bringing up family of children.
The marriage, however, fell through,
probably because the young lady was, as
we are told, Tin size dwarf, and very
ugly" The son disappointed all his vain |
mothers vain hopes, and married Bal |
timore girl. She was Miss Williams, |
but her name is not given in the book.
1t is easy to imagine the mothers rage
and the terrible. expression OF it she visit
ed upon her poor father. The most viru-
lent OF these letters were suppressed
when the book was printed, but have
since been published in this paper, as
will be hereafter mentioned. Even in
the book we are favored with a few choice
specimens. Here is one, with only one
word held ck,-one cannot help Won
dering what the adjective could have
been which the editor does not dare to
print:
Had my means been more ample, not even
the conduct adopted toward me during
The whole process of this marriage could have
made NE stoop to the mean revenge of SUD-
pressing the pecuniary allowance 10 child;
out believe every one who has not made
hatred and contempt of me systematic pro-
,eeding must confess that the time has now
arrived for me to attend more loosely to NV
interest than my relations have done for me.
Therefore she draws the prlncely al
owance Of 5000 year she had been Civ
ing him, piece Of economy which can
only be properly appreciated in the
!lgnt OF gorgeous description we find
further On Of the jewels, laces, silks, and
'atins she possessed and used as the nec-
essary adjuncts of her "place in society,""
The word that can be said of Madame
bonaparte IS, that she was very handsome,
very witty, and lived free from the breath
If scandal. She was, indeed, evidently
too selfish woman ever to risk her rep
Itation or let any foolish sentiment or
fancy influence her.
The wit and bitterness of her letters is
wonderful. No extracts can do it ius-
lice. She is never tired of gliding against
the slavery of collaborating, among other
things. af
think it is quite as rational to 90 to
balls and dinners as it is to get children,
which people must do In Baltimore to
kill time. l should prefer child of
mine going to court and dancing every
evening, In good company, to marrying
q beggar and bringing children into the
world to deplore existence ~
The letters contain all wit that can be
thought of, free from wisdom-all sense
but common sense-all humor but good
humor. They would DO for fine moral
lesson against what is known as world
iness."
Early in the summer of 1s43 Madame
Bonaparte returned to America and took
Up her residence in Baltimore. The last
eighteen years of her life were spent in
etiremeut. She lived in quiet board
Her time was employed in
'ecalllng the brilliant events OF her Eu-
'opean career aud in obtaining safe in
7estments for the savings of her large in
come. Her fortune amounted to $500,
100, which yielded her an income of
nearly 100000 per annum, out of which
The spent something like 5000 year.
- In her old age she often said,
Once I had everything but money; now
have nothing but money" !
Parsimonious to all others, she was llber-
Il to her grandsons. She was