The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-28
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the cars TO day, ais about to have her
fourth and last ;riumph she is about o
esrry, fourth fortune"
a no you know herr
.f"I,,, yes I've known Sallie Ward ever
SINCE she vas girl. I saw her gallop, her
harse through the Louisville market house
When she vas q dashing school girl, and
her escort had 20 pay the line; aud | went
80 her wedding thirty-two years ago,
~he1, 9 girl OF IS, she married DigelOw
Lawrence. Of Boston" .-r. sf,ll--..
"Wss Sallie beautiful r.
"Ies, she was considered n dashinS
beauty then Add to this paint and pow
der--for all the Louisville girls painted
IN those dsys-and brilliant SNOWY dress
iag-red. and yellow, and blue, you know
-zand you can see that she must have been
yery attractive. Why, I've seen Sallie
walk on the streets of Louisville, ia those
crude times, in toilets nov Gully seen in a
concert saloon. I've seen her wear a
brighs blue dress, blue hat with a yellow
ostrich feather, and blue gaiters, with
gold bracelets around her arms and
ankles"
Bracelets on her ankles?" '-r12
fYes and Sallie wonld lift up her dress,
ord show those gold ankle bracelets, silk
stOciiugs. and foot and ankle that set
the men all crazy. /; was about this, time
thHt 0Hiiit " nru met BtgelON Lawrence,
q son Of the rich, refined, and aristocratic
Lawrence family that still occupies the
magnificent Abbott estate, just cut ofBos-
ton. 30 t
"Dii you know young Lawrence?"
"Ia. yes Sallic Ward was IS then, and
Bigelow Lawrence was 20. He was
goojysoOdy young msu-wore eye
glasses, parted his hair In the middle aud
lvtcd on the roets just the opposite Of
Sail7e, you know. Well, Lawrcuce-hc
sisn.d his name T. Bigeiow Lawrence
ihen-came 10 Louisville in 1916, and fell
in love with Sallie Ward. Sallie didn't
love Bigelow---she never loved nybody--
but old Mrs. Ward who was n great
matchmaker, thought i, would DO splsu-
did match, and she actually cOaxed Sallie
ard teased her tiu che married the YAM
ke, Oh, hut wasn't IL n swell welding.
thought And such presents That is,
suci rich presents from the Ward side,
sud such mean. stiugy. Little presents
frosa the LawrcRces Well, the wedding
over, Sallie went 90 Boston. Now, Just
fancy girl who never read 4 book / n her
life going 10 Bosion to live Andamong
the Lavrences. too, where they did noth-
ing iut.quOte Tcnhyson (2l, and talk about
geOla gy,r social science, and the glacial
and Rndstone periods of the worlds his
tory Well. Sallie stood il for about six
rans ms. When they talked Tcnnyson. (2)
sht Tcmped with the dogs and, when they
went g morning social science meetings,
Sal = was gallOpping through the grounds
on horseback. Every morning, Sallie told
me. her mother in-law would send a ser
want 90 her room at 8 clock with this
s0lsmu message:
q MRS. hbOtt Lawrence sends compile
Inents TO Mrs. I. Bigelow Lawrence, and
hopes che il very we'll r-.taf -.
= after breakfas Mrs. Lawrence Womb
SugEcss that Sallie ought TO do acme sew
iHe or reaiing. Net she She told Mrs.
Lawrence that she never sewed anything
10 hcy life, and hated books.
Eat you might make q night-g0wn or
work some slippers for Eigeiow 2 Mrs.
Is-rencef would suggest. tr
"NO,n SaIlie would say fif Bigelow
waits Tor me 40 make him a night gown
he II ait tIil he's gray And then she
vould ride into Boston behind a dashing
rpan Of horses aud spend the forenoon
Gossiring aud flirting Shed have six
men standing around her carriage on
Corrt street. Shed wear a Louisville
toilet OF red and yellow and of course the
B1s;onians stared. The result was that
Sal Ife ard Biselo q quarrelcd.G IL was a
cascscfNmo lher.in law, and lin less than
.six mouths, Sallie, sick Of Boston, came
demonstrate the fact that she was the
Iaest dreadful hirt in Louisville. She
speat noney right aud left, and sent the
bill. TO her husband in Boston.
q, ,.ina.thc meantime Mrs. Abbott Law
renee, the aOther ia law, had been ex ana
inirg Sa,lie trunk, aud she found such
dresdfah letters from old Mrs. Ward, of
louisville, % her daughter. Mrs Ward
even called the Lawrenees STERN heel
JaRkecs-' She wrote to Sallie, advisin g
he to seem 20 obey Bigeiow, but to have
her ownfway. Ia regard % painting and
rovdering, 10 which the Lawrcnces OBJ
jesfsL Mrs. Ward said - ~ .Hrss
Do mol, use too strong color, and no
ono win know it A delicate iinge Of red
under little white powder is sufficient.
'sIn the same trunk with this letter were
saGccrs OF pink and red paint, and hotties
OF lotion, and boxes Of powder, enough, TO
break poor old Mrs. Lawrence's heart
well, after Sallic Ward had been in
Ionisyihe awhile, her husband wrote for
her to come home TO Boston To this Mrs.
Vard wrote: You'll have TO come after
her yourself, If You want her. So Salhe
eiaid in Louisville, spending money profit
getely, aud con tinued to send the bills to
Hgelow. Tho alteration between the
families. now became uncomfortable. There
WAS an open rupture. The Lawrences had
decided 70 separate the badly matched
rsir. So, eight weeks after Sallie arrived
in Louisville, she was startled one morn
ing. on picking up the JoDraai, to read
thia:
'Norrcr.-whcrcas, nv wife, Mrs.
Egelow Lawrence, has left my bed and
board without just cause or provocation,
md refuses 70 return 10 the same, hereby
forbid any one Trusting her on my &C
count, ne shall pay no debts OF her con-
t-.eting. J. BroELow LawREScE'
rhis notice, published in The. Journal
tct Louisville on FIRE. Everybody knew
Saihc, and the notice was the one theme
IN every boiy's mouth. The next morning
George d. Prentice came and apologized
car his stupidity in printing the notice
re ssid, hy. way Of apology, that it wa.
gsit FOR az an advertisements, and Slipped
in unheknown 10 the editor. To say tn,
lean fise enosioe shocked the moral an'
sarlas senses Of NLouisviile,sbut rs usual
tIH shocked persons ali went and bough
t1ie lJoarnds SIr Hal leman, editor aflht
.tserfrr. , tbel rival ne wspaper, next pub
lsae3 Mira Wards priyatelefters to her
aNghter in Bostop, telling how mncl
'rttncand powdcrtouse, aud how TO man
age he Lawrenees. These letters wer,
A~faliy funny: they set The whole coun
Try in Q roar. Then the scandal became
Gs,istsai- IL eNassschrsas,s and Tho
l.4srences 1oa Que sidS.l and Kentusk :
ard che Warls o'll3he otile r.. TAG Keu
incky Newspapers harpeii on Ygnk q
iasanncssss.aispedan rys and Che Massa
'hnsetis new spspers refaIiatel hy throw-
Ing back The epithets,of Kentucky ignor-