Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-07


IcAS ADVENTURES ABROAD AND HER VICTIMS.
Copyrighted, 1887
Adventures are very agreeable people. Indeed,
when one meets an honest truth-telling, and most
disagreeabIe person how one reJolces TO exchange
him for the smiling, well-mannered, and irrespon-
siole adventurer! Some one who has the absolute
necessity 70 be well-manpered, else he would
starve, for an adventurer must make his
way. not BY honest merit but by those
sometimes delightful, but not too praise
| worthy accomplishments, fiattery, and deceit.
| The English adventurer who pretends to be an
English lord who is full OF the English peerase,
| who can even write letters to himself from his
noble English sister, who can 60 to a rural city
and take In distinguished lawyer and an inteli-
gent circle, must be very clever man. He could.
one would think, succeed so much better In an
honest calling that he might have spared himself
Tie trouble OIL being fraud, but he does not think
so. lie runs the awful danger OF being found out,
a,Her tn h 70 Snuckie down to honest worh
natural born dreamer and thinks That he Is
iord- Now, it would be curious to question
HOW MICH SOCIETY IS TO BLAME
for the career OF this man, who was once gentle
man, who Is now an adventurer. Occasionally
some young man whose name has been thing TO
conIure with ia polite society takes a downward
course, Is heard OF forgetting himself after din
ner. perhaps as having playel too many games OF
cards; he mas lost instead or won, and therefore
he IS held up 10 universal reprooation. SuppoSng
he had won? Do they reflect, they who shudder,
that this dreadful man Is no worse than his EEL
lows, that he is no worse than he was before he
was found out? DO they reflect that the age
- a 0issoiute one, and do they remen-
Der in their wholesale condemnation OF
the dreadful man the story OF tempera-
ments Some men can drink but one glass OF wine,
and they lose contro! OF themselves; Others can
drink all night aud not feel II. Is the man OF the
second class any better than the man or the first
class? Not at all. Some men when drunk be-
come naughty, dictatoral, argumentative, and
become careless
brutal, rendish: others genial, ardent, trusting,
fearful merry, generous, graceful. Soule men are
vastly improved by being drunk, ana those who
have dined with them when drunk are very sorry
10 meet them sober the next morning, finding tnem
blamed whom drunkenness defiies any more than
man whom drunkenness improves?
BOTH EQUALLY BLAMABLE.
They have each put the enemy In their mouths;
there Is where the sin lies. Have they not equally
earned disgrace? II he is turned cut OF a
club man is apt TO take 1t too much to heart.
cali 1t social ruin, and give himself up TO bad
courses. IL Is lasting aud dreadful thing, the
social condemnation NJ clue; sometimes IL lasts
u mans life time, sticks TO him. il Is repeated at
whist tables ana whispered at dinner parties; iG
follows him into the sanctty OF private
NE HOW wrong this is when we remember that
at the great Jugsernaut Club POPULATIONS are
made and are mtnded, cracked, and lost every
hour. Is 1t wise 10 allow thing so lrelgnted
with Injustice and prejudice to become the octopus
OF young life? Anu yet this sort OF social
degradation has turned many respected
man into Inc class whom we call adventurerS.
THIS IS ONE OF THE SINS OF SOCIETY.
Then come the mean Adventures. English So
ciety has produced plentiful crop; some pretty
fair-faccd creature has married q fool Or a brute
society pties her, the fashion taxes her I'D and
spuils her, and then casts her of because She has
become the very thing which they have made her.
Illogical fashion. Unhappy Is TIE woman VINO has
To hight for herself; she becomes an adyenturess.
particularly II she is poor. a few years ago q
pretty woman went TO Paris. She had no money,
IA Al ChnA
She became first gay couuette, then the friend
OF marquis; lie failed IL marry her and she COM
mitted suicide; she PASSED into proverb Tor
all that was vile; she was adventures.
Another woman left respectable home and
good husband ard lovely children; she also be-
came the "aill' OF marquis: he married her and
enjoys her millions The one is an adventures
the other an honorable lady. VIII the rich woman
be dropped: VIII she commit suicide? No. not
DIT or IL; The church uStains her and society en-
dor5eS her, and She Will be received at every court
In Europe. Here and there the guilty woman will
acquaintance which wifi be turned away from her.
anu she may feel pang; but she is still powerful
her parties VIII be crowded, and society as such
Will bow before her. such is the sin bred OF lux
ury; Dotn are, however. adventures,eS.
PREMEDITATED ADVENTURES.
These examples are merely quoted to show that
there are two classes OF adventures. Those who
are really Victims and those who are premeditated
ayenturers, studied, cool sinners. who knew better.
but who presume on the liberation OF society The
groom who steals his masters name and clothes,
and becomes a professional swindler is premedI.
tated adventurer; he belongs to the dangerous
classes; he IS at war with society From the first
he Is cold and deliberate thief He has not
mistaken his road; he has taken the downward
pain a0ylSedly. Amidst the dust OF expediency
the crooked paths OF policy, he grubs In the ground
for necessary gold; the necessary ACCOMPLISHMENTS
are learned; the arts OF pleasing are studied he is
the most agreeable of beings, the most useful OF
edjunctS al party, picnic, private theatricals
and balls; he learns TO talk acceptably TO all sorts
OF people; he is most Charming, untl-he Is found
NOW THE WOMAN ADVENTURES,
who starts or knowingly, as predatory Arab
who, without friends or money, must have pretty
and smart gowns, London habits thoroughbred
horses and the other belongings OF luxury, must
get them dishonesty or not at all An Arab of this
kind Graves notorety. She has an exciting game
before her. She must have courage and What ia
called cheek She Is playing for high stakes with
nothing to lose. woman who is not IastidIous
has in our careless society great advantages as a
belle. She rejects nothing OF that somewhat pro-
panieS celebrity. or course there IS worldly life
lar removed IRON the gentler virtues and the in
tellectuai lie, where bad passions brood In the
blood and where GOODNESS, selfishness and sensual
tty transform the word ''sOcety" into a
term OF reproach. Into this false world the
predetermined adventures leaps, and by ultra
and illegitimate means She attempts TO sway So
cety. Unfortunately, II She is young and pretfy
she Is admired, she becomes the fashion, she Is a
pOtentate Tor an hour, ureading on the Outs,d
crust OF lava which may open any moment and
sw allow her; but Tor the moment her ever-mastpr
Ing PURPOSE mas succetued. she has succeeded nv
crooked wtleS she frtS with Some titled FOREIGNER.
she Is ultra fast and fashionable; she lives during
her snort reign upon hfghly-spiced diet or com.
pllment; she can dance all nglt and Outwear the
ordinary play-gUerS. Her egOtism Is RAMPANT
and she has code or social behavior Of her own
Aggressive and uncivll to those whom she
decides 70 treat as her interiors, she is katherine
and almost TOO anabe TO those whom she wishes
TO prOpitiate. III she remains unmarried She no
comes a denizen OF Nice or Cannes or Monte carlo
or London or Paris. The great high road OF Europe
Is the scene OF her predatory excursions.
IN LUCK.
Now there Is such thing as good luck in thts
world, and It sometimes comes TO these women
They make a good match, and have that m ysterions
talent for society which some very good peOne
haven't, the talent Tor failing on They Know
now TO clear that Invisible line which separates
the popular from the common. These adyentu
resses are good players. Even II they did not mold
the Winning cards they take a very decided trtcE
They NAY marry into some family OF first rate
respectaoility, and thus gain An assured position
IL Is tGen That The real adventures becomes DIN.
gerous, LOT she Is In the position OF a tiger who
hats vantage ground from which TO spring An
unprlncipled woman married TO a respect HE
man. with money ut command, Is the most 0an.
gerouS foe TO the welfare or society," Men become
her willing victims, their vanity Is pleased they
tnlnk lnat 10 oe dragged In o.den chains at the
lends himself 10 the policy OF his trainer: SO does
man. He wishes 10 be seen with Faustina RI
share her glory. Nothing can be gayer more
entertaining, than the salon or sucn woman. It
Is as bright As mosaic OF stage Jewelry, but the
setting Is not good and the stones Will fail OUT
DANGERS or FASHIONABLE SOCIETY.
Manners are contagious; there Is an epidemic OF
fastness In the air. 1t comes from England. from
the court circles from everywh 1t is raging in