Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-02
The Love of LOtta's Life.
HER SWEETHEART Proves FALSE TO HER IN
MoNEr MATTERS AND DIEs UNroRervrN


1t has been a fact paten, 70 most of the
friends of little Miss Lotta during the las,
two or three wears that her spirits have been
steadily declining. She has played with her
usual vivacity upon the stage, but she has
been sorro wful, almost morose off il for a
very long time. When a comparatively
young, certainly pretty. and beyond all
doubt rich woman takes up pining, to losing
her interest in her usual pursuits. to looking
peaky and miserable and to talking hopelysiy
of death and its Kind oblivion, the masculine
mind usually ascribes the change to the mvs-
terious operations of love.
reporter of the World and a well known
theatrical manager had occasion to foregather
yesterday afternoon Said the reporter,
'Lotta, know. is in poor physical health.
but she suffers AS well from mental maiaise.
What occasions the latter ?"
Said the manager "I'll tell you if you
wont print it. Lotta is warm-hearted,
impulsive, aifectionate little creature, to
whom the Fates granted beauty and charm
and material success. But they have always
denied her the one boon which women prize
most of all--tbe happy and uninterrupted love
of II sincere and honorable man. She has been
constantly in love-over and over again.
There used to be a tradition that she was
mady devoted to all her leading men and her
light comedians. As a matter of fact the
girl has been heart hungry, but she has met
with one great, cruel disappointment, and she
has never been quite herself since that fatal
day"
what were the circumstances p
"Well. about ten wears ago Lolita, who had
been prosecuted for long time by all sorts
of admirers-those who were attached to her
self and those who hankered after her money
fell head over ears in love with handsome
ynn dol nor nf lla fay H..
was tall, delicate fellow, thoroughbred
gentlemen in appearance, with soft, woman.
ish eyes, silken hair and gentle, even weak.
expression. He loved hss Hith an eQnal
passion. His parents, however, disdained the
little sctress-partly on account of her pro-
fession. partly on account of the shabby and
disrepntable old man, Crabtree, who called
himself her father.
but thev were devoted to each other. He
seemed to idolize Lotta, and Lotta would
never allow word to be spoken against him,
They said he drank and gambled-but she
would never believe il.
"Their wedding day was appointed In
expectation of being her husband the young
Phiadelphian was intrusted with the handling
of her money. She reposed the fullest conf
dence in him.
40 and behold. one night while she vas
playing under Jarrett 4 Palmers management
in Niblo's Garden, the young man disappeared
with Sl3, 900 of her money. Search was made
for him everywhere. Before they found him
they discovered where the money had gone.
He had got drunk, sought gambling den
a1a spent most of the missing $4,000.
1t was a'cruel blow to poor little Lott:l.
From that dark night she made up her mind
tina, all that men admired in her was her for
tune. She never again spoke to her erring
lover, and when he sent her piteous notes,
begging her to forgive him--for he really and
truly worshipped her--she sent them back to
him unopened.
''l1is relatives reimbursed the little girl
but it wasn't the money she wanted. Nobody
could give her back her faith in mankind.
BY and by the young Philadelphian died
suddenly I've heard He was buried in the
big cemetery just outside Philadelphia. Even
on his dea.hbed he begged for farewell kiss
Of little Lotta. But she never knew it. Per-
maps if she had known 1t, it would have made
no difference Yet, when it was told her that
he was dead she cried bitterly, and now every
time she goes to Philadelphia she drives out
one day, heavily veiled, to the cemetery, COW
ers his grave with flowers and sits there sob.
biDg to herself till the sky darkens and she
has to get back again to make ready for the
theatre
That's the story that's at the bottom of Lotta's
unhapplness, aud you'll agree with me its
very sad net to say romantic. story, too"