The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-30

i'm almost as soon rs care has stepped
aside. A woman with nothing to do
is necessarily scoundrel. Institn-
lions have been made for the purpose
of keeping every bodv employed. while
in wild state where nobody is employ
ed there is neither property nor vir-
tue. The late Commodore Wander
bilt kept Lis son William a, work. and
he married early. and his wife brought
forth while in comparative indulgence
a large group of daughters. who have
made good marriages and are rather
standards of welded Pr"priety. But
far different was the case with the
daughters of the former generation.
vho were neglected BY their father,
married to spectators and men Of the
world. who found but little example.
generally speaking. in that class of
husbands. and some of them became
very poor examples to their own chill
dren. As man sOws, SD shall be
reap.
know . case of one of the richest
families in the world where . wife
with everything to make her happy
except, perhaps. devotion in q hus-
band-wOn the side wink Of the
world, and in little while her daugh-
ter was also passed along the line of
men at DelmOnicO's as no better than
she should be. 10 another case,
great Spectator set the example Of III
sulting his wife by his outside lissans
and before he Could think his dsugh-
ter had run away from her young nus
band with a broker. aud had
carried her child in her arms to the
designation, whereupon the husband
inrercepting the fugitive, picked the
child out Of her arms and run with it,
and left a heart-br0ken and guilty
mother to leek i'm some other SOCIETY
the caste she had lost in the metsOp-
oils.
We recently had case i'm the Liv-
ingstone family of woman of fashion
and idleness vino married into that
haunted house. being left q widow.
took another husband, a worthless one.
and was soon in tie divorce courts !;
while her daughter, carried of to a
quiet town after having been hauled
around the vast hotels of New York
for period OF years, was SD ravenOus
to marry somebody that she allowed
herself 10 De seduced, and al>o made
her appearance liz a criminal court.
Some years ago was called at a
country village to see lady who, |
vas told, had some valuable paint
ings for sale, and wished me 10 form
an opinion about them. i found her
10 be the widow of one of the most
prominent railroad spectators and
officers of this country in his day-a
man who 60, possession of an impoft-
ant railroad and began
to forge and plumber it, and vas final
ly driven from this country and died
in exile While very rich he had
married under another name the lady
! met, and in this city Of New York
she continued for years to suppose that
her husband Was another person in
name. till IN some trifiing wav she
found it out. The came deceit he had
practiced On her he practiced Oh his
business associates. and though he
bore a most hoDOred name he died a
most miserable deiaulter and exile.
In many a New York family some
scandal lies only half buried-where u
brilliant daughter has ascertained the
limitations Of her nature, and commit
ted some freak which would have
ruined her had her parents not hast
ened to bestow her on some unsuspect-
ing. or perhaps unworthy husband,
with whom she lives a more or less
repentant life.
Women in New York seem to have
no fortitude to Stand the loss of for
tune. have sometimes seen q moth
er and daughter who are shifting from
lodging house to lodging house. and
from hstsl to hotel, until they receive
the awful name Of adventuresses aud
perhaps they are under no want that
is real except the want of frivolous
amusement, excitement and spending
money. Worldly women are worse
than vicious men in the influence they
can work on their times. Vice In
man deforms his appearance and rem
ders him incapable of doing any very
great deceit, because nobody loves
MIN. But women often preserve the
appearance of youth and virtue when
they are without feeling or char
acter.
My attention was recently called to
q woman who was once the pet q.