The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
THE M1sER1Es OF THE RICH
Going Abroad to Get Away from the
Skeleton in the Closet
Springfield Republican,

! Springfield Republican,
It is said that q large share of thost
who come abroad ostensibly for the educa
ton of their children, or for the restoration
of their shattered healths and disorganized
| Constitutions, and who by long absence from
their native land virtually give up their
| birthrights for foreign homes, have histories
| that will not bear probingor inquiring into.
Many quarrel between husband and wife
I in America results not in divorce, but
/ in living apart-usually it is the wife who
packs her trunks and crosses in the Atlantic
/ for a few years, and perhaps for life. Here
| she begins life anew. she avoids the publIci-
| ty and disgrace of divorce, and the scandal
/ which its trial is sure to divulge she puts
an end to the cat-and-dog life she has lived
| with her husband, and in her foreign home,
wherever it may be, she forms new set of
acquaintance among those who are
strangers to her past history. | heard of
five ladies who recently at an afternoon
tea-drinking had a confidential seance over
their cups, and under the stimulating in
huence OF hyson or bohea unbosomed their
troubles to each other. They had all come
abroad for m indefinite stay, leaving their
husbands behind them. One of them said
her husband had suffered an unjust perse
cution, and was undergoing cruel i'm
prisonment for few years for using some
bank funds which he intended to have re-
turned, but he found he couldn't The
husband of another bad proved himself I'M
true to his marriage VOWS by taking to him
self an extra wife-yes, two or three of them,
report said-without going through the
ceremony of marriage. As for her living on
the same continent with him after that, it
was out of the question. The third lady
said that her husband, who was very
wealthy, had got addicted to drinking, and
had gradually become very intemperate, that
while under the influence of liquor, which
was nearly all the time, he had abused her
and treated her like dog; that she would
endure such treatment no longer, and,
being afraid of her life, she had put the
ocean between them. The fourth lady said
she was the wife of Ole of the best husbands
in the world, who from small beginnings
had accumulated large fortune. They
had lived in great style and spendor, and
had been very happy together, but in an evil
hour her husband had been drawn into spec
ulations which had proved ruinous and swept
away every dollar in the world. She was
then overlooked and cast inside By those
who had enjoyed her hospitality and pro-
fessed so much love and friendship for her
in her prosperity. She could endure any
thing but such treatment and neglect, and
rather than suffer it longer she had left her
country without regret. An aunt had left
her 4 sum of money sufficient to live com.
fortably and economically abroad, while
her husband was barely supporting himself
and young son at home on a small salary
as clerk in a wholesale house. The fifth,
who had listened with much amusement to
the foregoing disclosures, said with much
feeling and emphasis that although she had
left her husband in America, she thanked
God that she had left him in the church
yard, sleeping his last sleep, and that she
had perfectly happy married life to look
back upon. No family quarrels or domes-
tic infelicities had sent her across the At
lantc, but she was here to realize a dream
of her childhood in visiting the wonderful
picture galleries, churches, palaces, ETC.,
with which Europe abOunds.