The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18

The tenth living wife of a Doctor
Hirschberg, who has just been released
from the Louisville workhouse and is
again under arrest. charged with big
amy, tells long story OF the doctors
adventures. She has information with
regard to five of his companions. He
began by marrying German nurse
girl in the Cincinnati hospital. Then,
at Buffalo, he married an Irish girl; at
Cleveland he married a Jewess; at
Montreal a French girl, and at New
Orleans mulatto. Since then, the
tenth wife says, he has married six diff
ferent American women, and she rather
thinks he is the most successful smash
err in the world.
The queerest part of the inForma ton
relates, however, to the gullibility of
the average woman, her utter failure as
a Judge of character, her apparent
eagerness to marry, and her readiness
to accept the advances of men of whom
she knows positively. nothing. Very
likely the doctor selected his victims
from the lower classes of women; but
there should be sharpness about them
to a certain extent, and indeed we be-
lieve the necessity which constantly
surrounds them is calculated to sharpen
rather than dull their wits The quack
has many patients, but as matriIno-
NAL adventurer he should certainly
have few victims. Anybody, even the
most ignorant and the dullest person,
should know the quack as humbug at
sight. It is not entirely surprising that
men and women should employ him as
a physician, for the aches and pains
they wish to get rid of frequently make
them mentally weak, and when the
regular physician has failed they have
nothing to do in their despair but pray
for miracles and patronize the quack;
but that . woman should voluntarily
place her life and all that she has in
the hands of such person and expect
happiness as result passes the ordi-
nary comprehension.
And the quack need not be hand
some, or a promising person in any
way. If he be twice the age of the
woman and fit only, judging from his
looks and achievements, for association
with idiots, that makes no difference
at all. He has a glib tongue, and that
covers all the deficiencies. He talks to
the woman smoothly and at length,
using the largest words and aping the
largest erudition, and the less she
catches his meaning the more she
admires him. He wears glasses and
looks wise. His business has given
him an impudence that passes in her
mind for the confidence that sometimes
attends knowledge and experience, and
she is a poor critic. Probably she has
had few chances to marry the
quack 10 shrewd in his selections as a
general thing and her eagerness to
marry is the main cause Of her destruc-
ton: but how many cases are there Of
really bright and handsome women
who have become enamored of aged
and ignorant quacks and have continued
to have affection for them until they
turned out to be scoundrels as well?
The success of this Kentucky quack
will bring to the readers mind a dozen
similar cases, and the question whether
women are progressing as much as it is
claimed they are ought to be brought
before the debating societies; but there
is a pathetic side to the matter in the
necessity which affiicts most Unprotected
women owing to the limited proportions
of the money they are able to earn, and
in their natural and acquired yearning
for the home which every woman ought
to have. ~ Y. Graphic.