The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-01
AdeIina PATHS Unhappy Mar
rage.


How thus unfortunate matrimonial
union was brought about and unhappy
results, are thus told 10 3 late london
letter:
fattl : earnings are something fa1Q
louS. When she sing. no manage cau
afford a support of anything above
m~.dIocritv. Ii i. the necessity " pay
ing The diva al the proceeds which
CON e.s her appearance a. tbs most for
lorh theatres ID the capital. Her sea
sons are sung IN houses that would
compare as the Bowery Theatre ~ould
e mpare with The Bovery Tbeare would
compare with the Broadway houses
Her good for-nothing scamn Of q
husband shares handsomely 10 these
earnings. For by the terms Of the in
famous French law, though it WAS
proven that he was unfa:thful from hi.
wedding day. the wife is conpeliel 10
over 4 moiety Of her earnings, even 81
ter the decree Of separation was pre-
Dounced. Scamp as he was proven ,o
be II Was he to whom the separation
vas awarded, involving the term. jus,
cited. Patti proved by ~irreproachable
Witnesses that ne had stolen all hsr
money TO gamble, and had ever robbed
her Of her jewels. and that, like the
generality Of continental Europeans,
when IN = rage beat hsf mercilessly.
Wife-beating is an ordinary incident
IL all ranks OF continental life.
How worthless . scamp this MARQUIS
lie Cau1 10 known to everyone in Paris.
II was an evil day for Patti when til.
Empress Eugene took it into her head
10 catch a rich wife for him. Blue with
all the blood OF the Howard OF France,
he wa, twenty Yeas IN the market for
4 rich wife. when the Empress kindly
charged herself with fortunes. She
took this interest in him Grst because
she, like gsod politician, .trove to
strengthen her husbands precarieus
throne, and second, because he had =
fine figure and made an imposing per
sonage at court. The Marquis, when
Patti appeared in Paris, was horribly
poor. He ived with his mother, Madame
la MaIquise de Caux, in q little street
back OF the Palais BourboH now the
Chamber Of Deputies. The mother Va.
reduced to the most INDECENT straits
and it is related that she got som. of
her income by the preparation Of =
sub lie be u.ifying powder, which re
juvenated the courts danes.
Patti was made such of At court, and
the Empress began to ply her arts Of
guile to entrap the unfortunate singer.
The Emperor was induced to promise
diplomatic promotion in the event Of
marriage. For a time the young mar
he was then nearly fort NJ
his grisettes and paid court 10 tse
singer in the most approved form. He
used to take bi. place IN the orchestral
stalls at the opera and sit starin. at the
diva when she came upon the stage.
All Paais laughed, for xll knew that
the scamp was simply striving TO cap
ture = mine to pay hi. debts aud his
other less reputable diversions.
The wedding was a, bright as tive
Empress could make it, but the ealr
quarreled before they had been two
days together. The nature of the cause
hanged on the excuses of the husband,
which endangered the life of the wife.
They had hardly been 4 week together
when the servants were compelled to
rescue Patti from the blows Of the Mar
quis. The marriage wal a gold mine
10 him. A million or more Gas paid
to li9uidate his gambling debts. An
equal sum restored the chateau1 of his
ancestry. But this did not satisfy this
thirsty nobleman. He exacted the
salary Of his wife in advance. This was
the cause Of frequent ruptures with
managers. Patti would have probably
endured all this # the miscreant had
refrained from forcing the wantons Of
his revels almost into his wife's pres
ence. The miserable business came 10
an end in St. Petersburg in 1875. The
leech, besides rsbbing his victim Of
her earnings, attempted to steal her
ieuelry. She refused to let HIM sacri-
fec them. He accused her Of in6delty
with Nicoiini. She asked him sarcat-
tically how be could wonder if she
thought more Of Nicolini than of him
a gambler, a thief, a wife teater and
a ~procurer2 He struck her in fury.
and Nicolini ru.ing in gave him a sound
thrxshing, and when he crawled from
the room his wife was in the tenor's
arms, creating him to a tableau, not
unlike the mimic scenes she had acted
for years.-Erchunge.
This is a pitiful tale for the wife, but
she deserved it. All the world knows
that she allowed herself to be carried
away by the feminine love of social dis
tinction, and sold herself to Caux for
the glory of being called countess.
Any woman who marries for money or
L. &. NJ.