Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-12
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

deeply WrOngeQ ana InOsL WIttcntu WoHdn,
not exactly Camille, was breathing her last
not of consumption in the most picturesque
setting of the mimic scene, with fine and
becoming limgerie-but of vulgar yet sufficing
rat poison.
Well, you may say with untried righteous
| ness, served her right. Women OF that sort
| are no better than vermin, and such an ex-
terminator is occasionally desirable, lest they
get too numerous and cause 'trouble" in the
| way this inadvertent creature did.
Men like James Donovan must be relieved
some way-by the law through a
divorce-or by death. The last
is the least expensive, and
is tolerably satisfactory finale. Indeed, it
| appears that Mr.. Donovan's little episode,
| now unpleasantly sensational, was remarka-
| bly, inexpensive to him throughout.
Instead of seeking qualification where his
pleasure was purchaseable, he finds young
| girl of nineteen, whose precious soul was dirt
cheap in his eyes, because her affection could
be used for her ruin. Ruined, and with a
s'broken heart,n this troublesome woman,
so this nonchalcnt Mr.. Donovan tells US,
could write him for the last time "short and
affectionate" words, which he had destroyed.
most destructive individual generally is our
composed Mr.. Donovan, who, although he
was on pleasure bent, yet had frugal mind"
and eschewed the costly places of joys which
pay profitable fines every month, and are then
''pulled" once in while, for being the
very resorts the city's exch equer knows SO
well.
Mr.. Donovan's preference was for game
which knew no such paying preserve,
and it must be admitted that ne ran
it into the ground with finish that entities
him to go West, as he announced to his prey.
The law is noble institution devised by
men with predictions and rulings mostly in
favor of men, and that must be the reason
why thee are some crimes for which it has
no tribunal-such as the final act of Mr.. Don
oVan's still hunt, where ne as surely caused
the death of his betrayed and goaded victim,
as if he had shot Or stabbed her. This per-
functory husband, Mr.. Donovan, was too
cautious and too selfish to do either, but he is
none the less an assassin; whose work shows
mastery completeness in spiritual and
physical ruin.
And yet as a feeble plea in favor of the
| nomchalant Mr.. Donovan, it may be said that
| his class-the common people rudely
exacting in the quality Of it's domestic virtue.
| Even ruffians and criminals sprung from the
lowliest stock will be found squeamish about
the chastity Of their women. When Bill Skies
| marries, his wife win have no prudery of
speech and demeanor, but he will try and
make sure of virtuous woman, if nothing
more, else he just tolerates and beats some
furtive Nancy, until, perhaps, he makes a
| Regular finish of the Illicit relation.
| The car Of all the Russias may marry his
Dolgorouki, but the Bills and the Donovans
do not often display such a broad and cheerful
spirit of accommodation to their frail lemans.
Making ''honest women" of them is generally
| most reluctant and compulsory process with
| common men.
Gentlemen deliberately and superfuously
take disreputable and fascinating women for
consorts Neblemen have welded the king s
cast off favorites, with titles and honors
as shining signs of the au spicious trade. But
their antipodes in the social scale will have no
besmirched character at their hearthstone, if
they know them selves-and they general do
| to their credit be it said.
Conviction of it, however, is not always so
unscrupulously and literally manifested as
Mr.. Donovan made it, not alone for himself,
| but the community.
| His test embraced paternity, and possibly
| it became ''trouble' to him-which was a
pity for one Of his sensitive organization.
| Yet having become paternally demonstrative
one might suppose that he would be moved
| to father sin committed by him and for him
alone, and that not being moved to this poor
atonement he'd recognize that the world was
wide, land nothing easier than the desertion of a
] woman who gave him trouble" But all Mr..
Bonovan's experiments on this woman were
| conclusive-and Rough on Rats
| was made equally rough on Maggie, with a
knowing amount of provocation, even as the
same knowing method of inducement captur-
| ed chastity.
| Now the girls keeping company with ex-
perimental fellows of the Donovan class,
ought to take heed and not get them into
| ctr ouble," which appearances, pecuniary
stress, and the law might coerce them to
| father.
There is no foretelling How such processes
| may end. For the rest, what's the use of
| writing or talking about these cases? Every
dupe who is disposed to forfeit her honor fan
cies it will be such supreme evidence of her
affection, that the sacrifice will give her ex-
ceptlonal favor, and, as for those honeyed
promises! Heaven help us, who believes that
they lead to shame, remorse-and so fire.
quently death. Yet look at all the instances.
Who's convinced-so few that the unending
recital of the grim facts is always headed the
"Old Story" Aye, old as the hills
old as human nature-old as the devil-and
yet as young, too, as this blessed Sunday
morning whose eve will see recruits for the
same drama, rehearsing the same old scenes
while walking with temptation and danger in
the night.
And, by the same token that takes us back
to Camille, which is the most Objectionable
play on the stage, Notwithstanding it's little
interlarding of reformatory sentiment through
Glove"
1t is surprising that any reputable actress
can be found to play it, because it is SO rankly
indecent and SO permeated with infamy that
no peDi1Is can Give IL apv cJamor IN h 4o,or f,-