The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-04-07
Da2ED By THE FOOTLIGHTS.
A MARRIED WOMAN DESERTS HER HUs-
BAND FOR THE STAGE.

MARRIED WOMAN DESERTS HER HUs'
BAND FOR THE STAGE.
The passion to tread tho "boards'
in the glare of the lime lights and foot
lights amounts, with some females, to
q mania, and renders them insane on
the subject. To what length some
stage struck girls will go, is instanced
by lady in San Francisco, whose sto-
~ is thus told by the Chronicle:
On Friday, February "a, a young la
dy, we'll dressed, of good form, with
bright dark eyes, quiet and seif-pos-
sessed in manner, entered the business
office of the Chronicle and stepped up
to the desk provided for. the general
accommodation of the public. She
pulled little lavender colnred kid
glove ten,lerIy from shapely hand,
seized pencil, kissed it's tip and
gazed at the ieaden sky WHICH over
hung Kearny street rs if she were con-
centrating her lovers of mind
upon an obituary verse. Then the
pretty head dropped, the eyes sought
the paper, the eyes sought the paper,
the pencil made flourish, and up
went the head once more. Again it
feIl-this time she had the idea. aud
inst biting her neither lip in a manner
which showed how much pressure of
another kind. it might lie willing to
hear, and moulding her little head like
D lawyer noting down a weak, point in
his adversary's argument, while all
the time about her eyes there lifted a
smile that betokened how satisfactory
her thoughts were, she finished her
writing. When she was done her de-
mrauor changed. She glanced at the
clerks. then dew forth sixteen square
inches of Irish linen. picked MP her
glove aud approached the counter.
Rubbing her bright eyes she handed in
her advertisement. 1t was an an
nnuucement OF death aud ran as ful
Jews: -.--
CLAYTON In this City, Mary E, the
wife of j. ID. Clayton. the daughter of
4. n. Sheffield, of Portland, Oregon,
aged 81 ars.-[0regou papers please
copy.
A request that the advertisement be
inserted ia the Sunday issHe, and not
before, WAS prettiIo lisped ont by lips
which. in their hemure repose, seemed
to betnken heartfelt grief. This be-
ing arranged, the lady Withdraw. On
Sunday, February 90, the advertise
ment appeared among the regular
death notices. The result of an in
vestigation by Chronicle reporter OF
the circumstances attending the death
of this young lady not only resurrect
the body of Mary E., wife of J. u.
Clayton, of Portland, Oregon, but in
fuse also very surprising amount of
liveliness into her newspaper corpse,
and us would, in the event of her real
death, in all probability, and on the
authority of every clergyman, consign
her to the department. of the eternal
hereafter, where an Arizona August
day breeze will be considered an arO-
tic gale of January, 1t was first as
certained that Mrs. Clayton's death
had not been registered at the Health
Office, and the presumption that abe
was not dead became, therefore, al
most a certainty. The next step was
to ascertain Mrs. Clay ton's last earthly
abiding place in San Francisco. This
was not an easy matter, but it was,
after some days. accomplished. 1t
proved to be on Bush street--at the
Geff House. - 80. ~
The following story of the life and
death of Mary E. Clayton was CLEANED
from the landlady. eyes, SIR" she
said with q truly significant womanly
smile, which betrayedat once that abe
had full knowledge of Mrs. Claytsn's
capricious capers, 81 know the lady.
She lived here about six weeks. She
left here under very peculiar circum-
stances. Was she a respectable wo-
mani She was, indeed; really took
liking to her. She kept very quiet,
and when she got sick | attended her.
She was so lady like that really de-
termiDed that the poor thing should
not fret Tor the want of attendance.
Bat then, just after she bad gone, a
note was left here for her, which gave
her dead away. l will not tell what it
was, but | gave it to lady friend,
who called here and who had read the
death announcement in the Sunday
Chronicle. Mrs. Clayton left my
house under very peculiar circnm-
stances A young man called here
early in the morning and took her
trunk away; nobody at all knew any
thing about it at all. 1t was sent to
Oakland Ferry; Mrs. Clayton followed
and there she was met by a Portland,
man, who is said to be well off. They
took train together, but where they
went to of course | can't tell. Mrs.
Clayton came from Oregon; her hus-
band lives up there. A few days be-
fore she left she informed me that she
would have. to go, as her husband
was coming down. As far as | UNDER
stand the state of affairs, there was
misunderstanding between the parties.
She alleged that her husband had trea
ted her cruelty and that she was forced
to leave him. Her folks sent her mo-
ney to live on, but she would not live
with or meet her husband. She WAS
very handsome young woman.
"Her mother was Spanish and her
father an American. While she WIS
in my ionse nothing ever occurred I,
indicate that she was hot perfect
lady, and only when | received the
note above mentioned did learn that
Mrs. Clayton's aver sion to her husband
might be caused by her love for an.
other man. But, perhaps, he, lads
Trend viii give you more information
than ] can"