The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-07
SCANDALS OLD AND NLu.
"Reminiscences of Adah lsaacs Mcnk"n and the
Way She Game to ie Photographed in tho
Arms Of the Aged Dumas.
plucky Nine. Clovis Hugues and the Method
She Adopted to Ayenge Her SLAM
derrd Honor.


PARIS. Special CORRESPONDENCE Oct ~.
1SS3.-A few nights back NJ. Larochelle, one
of the managers OF tho Gazette theater, found
himself seated alongside OF a good looking
English girl in tho W n,er circus. away up
yonder by the old Basiille grounds. HIS fair
neigEbcr made a rcmAri: about one Of the
riders which. led him to suppose that she. too,
was an a%itiste; and, as this was really the
case, they soon got into CONVEX atiri.
What she wanted was "a chance" and
IN the end the manager asked her to come and
see nm the teX' day at his private Office. She
Kept me appoln'men'; aud 'hen the manager
sald mat II she had The fine form whicn he had
gu, ssed she possessed, he would give her q
e'od engagement She soon p'ovfa to him
that her physical proportions We're most ex,
%celient; and The engagement was ma lie, six
months, at o francs Il week. The mex day
Tue MANAGER Informed The press, aud The press
told the pubic, sbout,be Gaieie's dir ctar get
'hs mo conversation with the hHnd-
soonest woman that ever was seen; how
ne aShea Tor her namo; how her rep'y,
Miss htn, suggested tie name Of Mepkcn,
VIZ" years ago II aae such q success at the Gazette
i 'he l rates ne Ia oaNahe. and me thea tlcnl
iepor'eis wound up their remarks with The
iu'"fhlaioh mat MISS Ken Will snon APP
pear Al we sane spectacular ltFe9 which
brought Adj lsaacs Menhen Hcenan sopromi-
hen'iy before the Partisan pubic | saw the
Menken once: IN Louisville, during the 'wah.n
'2he was paying IN that CITY, and Mlictietts
army corps was camped at Lebanon Junction
ana Eiizahetbtawn. Ten thousand blue
beliied Yankees" wanted to SEQ her
IN the lt!3ee Fast Women, and | wfote
her q note to the effect that if she'd put herself
up FOR q benefit and play that naughty piece,
we'd pack the house. She wrote me an auto
graphic letter, III which she fixed the date,
named the play. and hoped VOID all pnt i'll an
car appearance, which We did in number about
q thousand. And how we applauded when
Mrhken came on! and how she gagged" her
part wi'hrrfer'ncc to the boy in blue" and
brave soldiers" and then sho suddenly said
some hug ABOUT the Nineteen Ii Illinois. which
caused utout a hundred OF us fellows to
yell ourselves hoarse; for that was
ours and WAS there over such an
honor given another regiment? Iha,
was the first and only time l ever saw this
famous, well-shaprd person; but / ALWAYS had
a "hankerin'" after her PHI to aaphs: and
Looking some of them over to-day ] find enc of
nar III her Pirates de la Savane costume-a pair
OF lights, aud q SILK skirt equally close fittiug-
also a curious picture which in It's day made 10
lt'lesbr. 1t rcpresents an old man with gray
woody lair and moGstacbc, and a sensual.
angling face Of the African type, who ia
eeated in his shirt-sieeyes, holding u handsome,
and sdmirably-formed woman, in a full suit
of tights, in his arms, whose head ia nestI.a
lovingly to his ample breast. The photoprap nh
is that of Alexandra Dumas psre aud A6sb
Menken. When she was in reduced to unma,
the celebrated author was living in the Burie-
-
with his a.r1,h,nr M.aam. p",sI
H'onei """""i' ie"i, II
fathef odd parsonage. who divided her
tune between religious prac ices, the
painting of pictures of devotional character.
tund the transla ion inf, Franc, e.,
rho porla of IN croo,, ,,ooi -
- -. =. po'' A''c'"us' AK
a'u'' DuHna7' VINO uaa Dscohae a hInlb l'epei
III 50 fituaii'm and magnetism, had iaten into
the hands OF Q lot of charIetaus aud rucupa
WHO took adyantare of bis cr,dnli,v ;, av.rr
conreiv,hla X ,rha ,l,.c ,f ha..
-. VOL WV
- ~ ta' "o'nieu themselves
lhto MS confidence, and who rarely, ii eyer,
lett MN, even when he went on II Journey.
They were both hands me wome0, AMI thev
lad acquired much Influence owe, mo ma foi
low. to whom they sought to render them .a,v.s
indisnensaha II Was F, .,r.nn.E.naa,s -. ..
see this TALENTED man ,f,er 80 st.v'Aeo ~
'e sm' .sen.eu hal' aiAeF twenty years
OF a'o"eu a'htlsm, dnrlnS which he had
secuted at everything tina. in the least APP
preached the supernatural. allowing himself IN
be deceived by the proteudod magnetic sIoen
~ ,m, anI, "a 'P
CIV 'lichs d supernaturAi prnolsles.
HOW ADAH CAUGHT HIM
Adah lsaacs Menken. after a more than
usually fast life. had got reIiciono il, Amor
lea whence sin. had inst CON-. accon,o .;ol hr
ber mother md q s,y,nf n,iraaa% 49, =
IL " TX a.u a y, sp'tNale chapiain, 10
rnr na,nanan "a "uos'.o,s ',aV 'Inupi q
sSa son., ~, e &c Ell us ~ iiel puna-,
sns a sne !, " ne' e"tnA rlaht slih
800 s,' .e.y GisEest. hhhl OF an alyer-
vs. u NV" sAo tr'ini"os "iicl a'hlns' I'M
f,nan rs W ea"e"o 'her' me OF"
,rnrn", "a n1 nan17 % 'h,s pretty
i ~" anu - ~ ai'o"nu hiuiselt 10 pc
H asa ~ siu pi.9 VI ha.'e'S ana peen''9 ii.at the
49, - " a"1 h,th' ~ WIS no. q
,I,;r ~ L.. ~ IN ~ nnVe
Ins,r Ia m !, h.;,I y, ,,, a. p " ~ In@t l ave
,hst tSo r'httn - ~, =, 10y ~ ~ ~. ont"teh .,teih
80. - PuNto-t"pn d 70 pe suiol! ior ih'lf
s I,n. @,,a,i ~, : q "nMesA iaaei ~ vas III eV ~
90" - -. ~ haius, u1lsahn2 OF G 'plss
"a -, Do .n; ~ ~ az u'utne uh!'aa o'alcs, ana
\ hnse aI~ s'rius"a,s I'VE, ", We J'ko when was
d uuse Su'e'Vsetlent OF me l'aldsomest
ocuse'e u me FaP'esl. Noone considered pu
was tno mnch eve" for ~ ~. da ~. .ni uAnio,'.ol
Pasi-, aud the pcundai il stirred IN VA, ire
mendoua AT first Dumas tried to laugh the
matt I down, as hs had laughed down 20
inaiy previous scandals Win which his name
and wrote a very sharp letter 10 hs father, m
which lie insisted TINT something shnria' ha
DOM Il, inf an nnl Ia - a.L1i
tion tbnt was rn,ls,in , ,ba,r i ~ ~
ulous. Upon tn. Dumas had the nnororrnphs
seized and began a suit against the ph ,,otlas
pher. The matter came before the cunrt., aud
Dumas ta the aul.cl.y to be present at Inc
a gument. For two whole hours he was the
butl of the ell qnence and wi, Of the att lr1rrv
for the photographed. and he reyerre1Gimspi