The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-09
Conductors and Coachmen.

AL 0dSlCTu correspondent lSllS Ills lOI-
lowing story: 1t will be remembered
that a couple of weeks ago story went
the rounds of the press concerning GER
tain fashionable young lady who, riding
ina street-car one day, fell in love with
the conductor, how she made his ac-
quaintance by asking his name, and then
sending note requesting him to call,
and how the affair progressed until,
despite the opportunities and displeastlre
of her relatives, she married, was duly
described, and though it was said at the
time that she was the grand daughter of
well-known divine, whose sermons have
been listened to and read all through the
country, the tale was taken to be news
paper yarn, and little heed paid to it by.
the general public. Igs. suis...gs 81 tas.
Twas, however, told the other day by
a former editor of the Erwess, and the
gentleman who wrote it up, that it was
perfectly true. Unluckily, the affair did
not come to an end with the marriage,
for the young wife found, rather to her
| dismay, that, in spite of his handsome
eyes and regular features, her husband
was decidedly horsey''t in his pro-
clivities, and was neither fit for, nor had
the ambition to go into a better class of
society than he had been accustomed to.
| After two or three desperate efforts to
enlist his interest in the more refining
things of life she gave up the attempt,
and, sad to relate, -drifted= into in
difference, and then finding herself
| tabooed by her old friends, accepted her
husbands, and lowering herself to his
level, endeavored to forget her past life.
Having some means they visited New
port, and attracted a great dealof atten-
tion and remark, so much that they left
for Rocky Point. ri, ..a..'s., i,
If the unhappy girl had taken her ter
! rible mistake to heart as she ought to
| have done, the saddest part of the story
would remain untold, for she would have
saved a friend dear to her as sister from
the matrimonial quick-sands into which
she had sunk. S'' ~ S.'s~'"i '''''
During the days of her very brief
courtship, in order to facilitate affairs,
! she made a confident of a schoolgirl
friend, the grand daughter; of an ex-
senator and daughter of a wealthy
merchant; the services of her fathers
coaehman were also brought into requisi-
ton, and the latter, emboldened by the
conduct of his young mistress in marry
ing the conductor, offered himself to her
friend, -,
/ The young girl, however, corrupted as
she was by the romance" of The idea;
waited until the other wedding was ovel
and she had received a. letter from the
9 then conductors wife urging her to .ac-
cept the coachman and join them in
Rocky Point. She did So but pitiable
to add, being of'weak caliber and only
seventeen years DID, she had mot the
courage to endure the fate that a week
of married life taught her she, brought
upon herself, and having no, means to
procure even the comforts of life to
which she had been accustomed, she
grew desperate, and meeting "a wealthy
merchant from Providence, she accepted
his attention and left her husband of two
months to elope with him. And this is
the fate of two girls, well born, we'll bret
and we'll educated, young, pretty and at
tractiye, but whose heads had been fillec
with romantic rubbish, French novels
and who discovered in coachmen and
conductors the unappreciated hero q
their Imagination. tFN~'' % ''is' - O.