Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-31
FADED ORANGE BLOSSOMS
THE DIVORCE COURT ASKED
FOR A SEPARATION.

Own Account in THE Jealous Wife,
The Husbands Denial.
Among the professionals enga ged by
the Ford Dramatic Association Of this
city at the beginning of the summer
season was one whose name always APP
! peared on the programmes and the hotel
register as "Miss Fannie &. Jackson"
/ She was TO do the leading juvenile lady
| parts. 1t was understood that she had
! had considerable stage experience on the
metropolitan boards, and knew q cue
| from a snow box. She is young, has a
| good figure, is passabiy pretty, rather
/ stylish, and not dull cOnversationalist
/ by any means. Quite naturally she made
| good many acquaintance here, espe-
| cially among the young men. To some of
ner most intimate acquaintances she con-
/ hded the secret that really her Christian
name should have the abbreviated
/ prefix Mrs" instead of the deceptive
Miss" The boys understood that she
/ was widow and that she had merely
/ ayalled herself of the license which be-
! long to the members of her sex in the the
atrcal profession, allowing them to dis
] card the dlssyllabic prefix for the mono
/ syllable one.
Miss jackson made her first appear
anCe before Savannah audience under
The poetic name suzanne O'Hara," in
Led Astray." Her part was short and
/ unlmpOrtant, but when she was dis
missed with two lines in the criticism she
said unkind things. The discovery was
soon made that Miss Fannie jackson was
/ not great artist and that she had many
steps to climb on the tgurative ladder of
! her profession before she could get foot
/ hold on the top.
About week ago when the cast was
| being made out for 1.-The Silver King"
which was played last night, she was
given another small part. she was ambi.
! tlous and wanted better part and she
SAID that II she did not get IL she would
/ not play. The manager said that he would
! make out the cast and not Miss Jackson.
! Ga the next steamer that left for New
| York the Fords' leading juvenile lady was
| passenger. Since her arrival there she
has led a suit asking for total divorce
| from Julian n. Elliott. Mr.. Elliott is en-
! plCyed in the United states mint at Phila-
! delpha. He is Miss JacksOn's second
husband, it appears. Her first was the
adapter of the famous 1.-TWO Orphans"
the late Hart jackson.
The New York Herald published the
following concerning Mrs. Fannie &.
Jacksou-Elliott: Widows are apt to
find hooks Of shelter even In the coolest
! world. Now, it just happened that Mr..
| Julian n. Elliott was one of these hooks.
| lie cOmforted the widow and babe the
two orphans smile once more. From the
time OF poor Jackson's death till the
blooming OF orange flowers was Just one
| year. IL was at this time that JaCksOn's
relIct, conscious that nature was
wreathed with smiles, cast away her
weeds and shook orange blossoms over
her fair head. And 30 it came to pass
that Julian led her to the altar, where
they plighted their troth aud swOre to love
each other till death did them part; the
holy man enjoining mankind to "let no
man put asunder." Alas for the current
OF true love! 1t babbles through strange
places, strikes many hidden reefs, tails
| from high planes and too often dashes
against rock which divides two lives
thenceOrth forever. In this particular
Instance the faded orange blossoms were
blown upon the stream at very early
date, ana Julian went one way while his
! Fannie went another. Something had
gone wrong, evidently, for the lady has
petitioned the court to put them asunder.
Her suit is based on what Is called the
statutory ground.
The story goes-ah, what monstrous
things are stories that Mrs. Pauline
Hazlett was 'hand" in the mint in
Philadelphia, where, by the way. Mr.
Elliott also lent TO Uncle Sans gold coin
ing establishment his services for the
usual consideration. 1t cannot be pre-
cisely stated whether there was between
them the bond of sympathy which the
coneumptive looking eagle on the new
dollar eXcites or common love for the
} croquettes for which Philadelphia is so
justly famous, but it is alleged by the fair
petitioner in language too painful to men
ton that her Julian was Pauline's
Claude. He had no lakes of Como, to be
I sure, but he had oceans OF sympathy. The
husband asserts that these oceans were
all MS wite's. The wife does not believe
him.
. Now, no one dare say that Pauline was
, not what a woman should be-fair and
, comely. Yet this was the very mischief
, OF it. How much woman she was, how
fair and how comely, Julian-the wife
! say6-knew, and that. she claims, he had
I no right to know. She feared it was an
other Adam suffering indigestion from the
fruit of knowledge.
3 jealous, it is true, indeed, she was; Oh, .
3 the pity OF It'll Those stories-whispered
here, told there, laughed over elsewhere
{ were they not enough to fan jealousy to a
white heaty Verify, to Judge by the petit
toner, they seemed to be in the mint dur
ing the day and in clover at night. And
the matrimonial bond was swapping.
. The jealous wife one fine morning
) turned her head upon the pillow. aud
determined TO be the suspicious wife. An
idea had flashed in her brain, and her be-
lug trembled for light. She went around
to detective establishment and got a
I shadow. And for light she searched with
a shadow. The shadow fitted here and
there, and at last all seemed light to the
wife.
Her attorney, Mr.. John ID. Townsend,
has served the papers in her suit for alb
solute divorce, and the case will be heard
shortly here in New York. Mr.. Elliott
said yesterday: 1.-THE papeTs have been
served. The stories are false. Mrs. Ell
liOtts charges are mere surmses. The
hearing will be taken by referee, and /
don't see how there can be any evidence
submitted TO prove the charges. | have
nothing to say in the matter one way or
the other beyond that the stories are all
false"
Mrs. Hazlett is the correspondent.
In Harmony with the Community.
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