Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-07
Berahardt's Iruant Spouse.

Scarcely had Sarah Bernhardt been mar
ried, says Paris correspondent of the New
York Journal, than the air of Paris is al
ready thick with rumors of trouble and
matrimonial strife. Damala, to use comz
mon parlance, was ''gay boy before ne
met Sarah. He was generally understood
to worship at the shrine of almost every
pretty actress who came along. He was
never suspected of being marrying man.
Now at supper at the Cafe Anglais, now at
a dinner at Voisin's, now driving to
the Cascade, always in company
with one or the other of the piquant
beauties of the Paris stage, his life ex-
Guided all thoughts of matrimony. His
bohemian comrades were aghast when they
heard that he had married Sarah. One
after the other shook his head and said:
''That will never do. Sooner or later they
will come to grief" And sure enough, the
story now goes that there has been a
violent row in the Avenue de Villiers. and
that a separation, if not divorce, may be
the consequence. The cause of the diff
Guilty is said to be Miss S., very pretty
blonde, who made quite success last spring
at one Of the small theaters. Damala,
80 the story goes, absented himself one
evening from the loving side of his spouse
to accompany Mile. s. to jolly ball
in the Quarter Latin. The fun which
prevailed there was high and furious. A
good deal of champagne was drunk, and it
is doubtful whether many of those present
returned to their homes in a sober condi-
ton. Damala, it appears, had sufficient
sense to accompany Miss s. to her door
and return to Sarah's studio at about 3
o'clock IN the morning. A servant, who
witnessed the scene and must have related
it to a reporter, described the greeting
which awaited the late-comer as an un-
pleasant one. Sarah, when she is mad,
can swear like trooper, and this time she
swore enough for whole regiment of dra-
goons. Words ran high, and Damala put
his hat on and walked out in disgust.
Sarah Bernhardt's temper is one which
must make matrimonial felicity with any
one extremely doubtful. Besides, she is
intensely jealous. She feels that she is
much older than he, that he married her
probably very little for love, and very
much for her money, and that the whole
world has laughed at him for the mesalli-
ance into which he has entered. All this
intensifies her jealousy. If the row has
not yet been made up, have no doub
it will be very soon, for Damala is too
shrewd a fellow to deprive himself of
the advantages which his fortunate
match gives him. Sarah Bernhardt
is getting to be very rich woman. Her
professional earnings average probably
100000 year, and of this she hardly
spends quarter. To be sure, she has
poor relations all the world over, but she
gives very little to these, evidently acting
on the principle that charity begins at
home. She has great desire to return to
America. The idea of another American
tour with its attendant pecuniary results
has the very greatest fascination for her,
but she realizes that she is beginning
to be passee, and her social experience in
America, where she was so coldly snubbed
by so-called good society, has given her a
great distaste for social intercourse with
Americans. She no longer receives with
open arms every American man or woman
who comes to her house to see her coffin,
her ife-size skeleton looking at himself
in the glass, and various deaths heads de-
ightfully scattered about the room. She
is determined to have her revenge upon
American ladies for not calling upon her
when she was in their country, and when
in spite of all her efforts she could not sue
coed in getting any respectable woman
to call upon her for love or money, and so
the order has gone forth to her valet that
when an American calls her doors are to
be closed, and still more if the visitor be
she This is a small piece of spite, but
the American people can well stand it. It
is their dollars that have made Sarah what
she is now, and without which probably
even Damala would not have been anxious
to have married her.