Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-12-09
Sarah and Damala.

Scarcely has Sarah Bernhardt been mar
ricd than the air of Paris is already thick
with rumors of trouble and matrimonial
strife. Damala, to use common parlance.
was gay boy before he met Sarah. He
was generally understood to worship at the
shrine Of almost every pretty actress who
came along. He was never suspected of be-
ing 4 marrying man. Now ut supper at the
Cafe Anglais, now ut dinner at Voisin's, now
driving to the Cascade, always in company
with one or the other Of the piquant beau
ties OF the Paris stage, his life excluded all
thoughts of matrimony. His Bohemian COM
rades 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 violent row in the Avenue
dc Nilliers, and that n separation. if not a
divorce. may be the consequence The
cause of the difficulty is said to be Miss S.
very pretty blonde, who made quite Il
success last spring at one of the small thea
tiers. Damala, so the story goes, absented
himself one evening from the loving side
Of his spouse, to accompany Madcmoiselle
;. to Il jolly ball in the Quarter
Latin. The fun which prevailed there
was high and furious. 4 good deal
| Of champagne was drunk, and it is doubt
full whether many Of those presr 1t retuI led
| to their homes in sober condition. De nala,
it appears had sufficient sense to accom-
pany Miss S. TO her door and return to
Sarah's studio at about three o'cloc's in the
morning. a servant, who witnessed the
scene and must have related it to reporter
described the greeting which awaited the
late comeras an unpleasant one. Sarah when
she Is mad, can swear like trooper, and
this time she swore enough for whole regi-
ment of dragons. Words ran high. and
Damala put his hat on and walked out in
| disgust. Sarah Bernhardt's temper is one
Which must make mai'innonial felicity with
anybody 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
mesalliance into which he has entered. All
that gnaws at her conscience, and no Won
| der that it intcnsiiies her jealously IF the
row has not yet been made up, have no
doubt it will be very soon, for Damala is
| too shrcWd q fellow to deprive himself of
the advantages which his fortunate match
gives him. Sarah Bernhardtis getting TO be
a very rich woman. Her professional earn
ings average probably 100000 year, and
ofthis 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 at
tcndant pccuniary results. has the greatest fasci-
nation for her; but she realizes that She is begin
| ming to be pnSSc, and her social experience in
America. where she was coldly snubbcd by So
called good society, has given her 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 sec her
| coffin her life-sZc skeleton looking at himself in
| the glass, and various deaths heads delightfully."-
| scattered about the room. She is determined to
| have her revenge upon American ladies for not
| calm" upon her when she in their country
and when, in spite of all her efforts, she could not
succeed III getting any respectable woman to call
| on her for love or money, and so the order has
| gone forth to her valet that when an American
calls her doors arc to be closed, and still more if
the visitor he she This is a small piece of spite
hnt the American people can well stand it, 1t is
their dollars that have made Sarah what she is
now, and without which probably even DamanN
would not have been anxious to have married hef
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