St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
FEMININE CONsTANCY
Exemplified i'm the ROmances of
Two Noble Chicago Women.

Two Noble Chicago Women.
''See that lady in the maroon velvet?"
said philosophic man as he pulled the re-
pOrter's sealskin ulster. ''She has as pecu-
liar history as you will strike. She is
quite wealthy and industrious business
woman; has an extensive millinery estab-
lishment and an elegant home-besides,
romance. She's a little passe now, but
years ago she was handsome courted by
the best young men and lacked nothing,
evidently, that heart could wish for. She
fell in love with young fellow, bright and
promising, just hanging out his shingle in
the practice of law. And he loved her in
return, guess. But she belonged to the
middle stratum, and his friends and rela-
tives desired that he should marry some one
in his station. Matches are not always
made in heaven. They were determined he
should marry into the ton. By one means
and another they estranged him from her. A
ready tongue and vile insinuatiOnS were the
weapons. Tales were told without founda-
ton in fact. and of which he afterward
learned the falsity and the object. The OBJ
ject was attained, however. He went off
in huff. as other sweethearts have done
before. He applied himself to his profess
sion. rose rapidly. and married a daughter
of an upper-society man off-hand. She
the first one-had about as big head as
she had heart, and she just hid her diSap-
p0intment and went to work with a will.
In ten years she was rich-that is, she was
beyond the peradventure of want. He OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife, became
reckless, lost his practice and took to drink,
just as all men do when they ought to keep
their heads. The first thing he knew he
was down in the gutter. What did this
woman do but hire a man to watch his
movements and supply him with money on
the quiet when he needed it, and, when he
got drunk, take him home and look after
him generally. She took as much care of
and interest in him as if he were a baby.
instead of the man who had Tilted her.
Though the affair created some scandal at
the time, she was so discreet and so n 5le
withal in her conduct that the javelins of
calumny failed TO injure her. He reformed
after awhile. and all through her influence,
and he asked her to marry HIM. She re-
fused hat-footed, and he couldn't make her
change her mind. That's the way it stands
to-day. He has few silver hairs on his
head, but he's fine-looking fellow, six feet
high and handsome. But he can't make
her move ar inch. She says she thinks too
much of him; but I'll bet she thinks too
much of herself"
''E' hats her name? Oh, never you mind
You wouldn't know her, perhaps, if / told
YOU and she is too noble a woman to have
her story made any more public than It is
Speaking of her reA-.Inds me-" said the
gentleman, "of somewhat similar case
the parties to which see almost every day
upon the streets. In the youthful DAYS of
wayback. young graduate of the law
school developed remarkable talent fer
both Blackstone and brandy. He was a
talented fellow, and got into society and
busin ess a the first jump. and into love at
the second. The young lady was his peer
in intellect pretty enough, too and she was
as dead in love as he; but had an uncon-
querable distrust "a q man who used LIQUOR
to excess. So, while she admitted her love.
she refused TO marry him unless he gave up
drinking. he took her up with a pledge,
verbal, so that she resolved to reward
year and days total abstinence with her
hand for all time. Her heart he had cap
tured already. Well. he stuck to his word.
and when the time was up claimed her
promise. She profeSsed fear, however,
that his temperate habits had not become
permanent. This knocked the Young fell
low of his pins and he got on a bowling
drunk. And he never got off il, eithe-.
Here comes in the romance She
searched him out took him home to
her parents house. attended to his
every want, even mended his clothes.
and IN short, gave him all the care
that the fondest wife would bestow on her
lawful husband. He has now braced I'D
somewhat and does not getabsolutely full
any more; but she still watches over him as
carefully as she did when he was down.
She's afraid of a recurrence. don't you see?
But she won't marry him under any circum-
stances. Queer, amt it? She's a grand
woman, just the same. Too bad she didn't
keep her first promise.
Tell you, my boy, no man knows what
woman will do for him till re gets down.
Take 'em as sex, and they're full of fears,
and whims. and caprices, and AL that. when
everything is plain sailing and fellow is
floating on the top. Then, it is as much as
chap can do TO get an uniquivocal favor
or an act Of kindness out of 'em. But when
he gets in trouble. and his sunny-day friends
go back on him, and he begins to talk or
think about suicide, and so on-then the