The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15
MILE. VAN ZANDT'S ENEMY.
The Story of Her Indisposition, as Told by
an Intimate Friend.

an Intimate Friend.
New York World.
There is" said gentleman recently returned
| from Paris "duite story behind that account
which has been published in relation to the in
disposition of Mile. Van Handt at the Opera
Comque in Paris"
"IndeedF said the reporter "Who is the
other woman}"
81 did not say there was any other woman
| did II"
mo, but of {. urse there was.r
"The reportorial instinct is correct. OF course
there was, but before telling you about her let
me correct few false impressions in relation to
| the diva herself. She is, as you perhaps know,
young and very beautiful and she is not an En-
| glishwoman, as has been printed, but an Ameri-
can. Her father was Peter Van Zandt, who had
a brother named Thomas and his family, con
sisting of sons and daughters, are now living in
| Paris, and are Marie Van Zandt's nearest rela-
tions on her fathers side. Her mother was a
daughter of Sig. Blitz. The talents and most
correct life of the fair songstress and her fam
lily connections give to her the entree of the very
best society in Paris. She does not pose for
public favor ON the ground of unusual virtue of
conduct in private life, but she does not fear to
frown upon determined insistance which is
either compromising or disagreeable, or both
But, as perhaps you know Frenchmen, and for
that matter Americans also, If accustomed to
high life i'll Paris, only understand Irritation as
prelude to a laison, and from this has arisen
the almost grOuudlesS outrage of the French
press from which Mile. Van Zandt has recently
suffered"
We'll, but about the other woman2"
II am coming to her About year ago last
September cousin of Mile Van Zandt, who was
living in New York with his family, wife and
four children, to escape the exposure of liason
which he had carried on under the assumed
name of Venom, suddenly left, and under that
name went to Brussels, where he lived with the
woman who had caused his hasty departure. She
took passage under the name of De Luce in the
steamer that left here for Antwerp on the llth
of September"
what has this to do with Mile Van Zandtl
Patience. Three or four months later both
of these people came to Paris, he living with his
brother, Albert Van Zandt at No. 4S Rue de
Berri she not far away as Nine. De Luce"
''Of course this gentleman frequently visited
his cousin, the fair diva, who lived at No. Rue
Christopher Colombo, and he was soon well
known behind the scenes at the Opera Comique
Mile. Van Zandt however, cared nothing for a
dissipated roue forty five years old, and gave
him no encouragement. The woman who had
succeeded in separating this man from his wife
and family, now became dreadfuly jealous
of Mile. Van Zandt. While in New York she
had made him place her with his wife as nurse
to the children and in Paris as maid to his sister
and now she got him to place her with Marie
Van Zandt as her maid or seamstress. OF course
the cause of Mile. Van Zandt's indisposition on
the night in question is now well known, and in
order to relieve her this maid was sent TO a
pharmacy of the Faubourg ST. Honore for the
appropriate remedy phosp horus and gin. The
liquid is perfectly colorlesS and this woman art
fully managed that the dose should be excessive.
The result was Mile Van Xand't indifference and
cramps, for which she was unable to account
and which the French critics eagerly sezed upon
to be revenged upon her for what they consd-
cred ner over-prudery. This is the whole story,
and it ought to excite for Mile Van Zandt the
liVeliest sympathy.
what was the result as to the other
womanW