The St. Johns herald., 1889-09-26
Two Types of Adyenturer.

Adventures of two types-th,
 polished and well-bFed and the
 bluff and rather brutal. One glIdei
 softly to the drawing room, tread
 ing on no ones, corns, and cork
 screwing his way through all such
 openings as he may discern. The
 other shoulders his way, and effect
 by simple push and force what else
 is done by craft and tenacity. The
 a1venturer of the softer type has
 been a croupier, a courier or a gen.
 teleman's gentleman; whereby he
 has picked up the current shibbo-
 leth, and been able to assume the
 outside varnish of the upper ten The adventurer of the rougher type has been among miners and cow boys, and has probably served in some half piratical army, where the object was less self-defense
 than plunder, and the discipline meant only readiness to fight on all occasions, which experience if pro- perly managed, gives a certain wild fruit flavor to his talk a certain heroic seeming to his bearing, which sweeps the heart out of women cursed with imagination &nd bored to extinction by realities. For the adventurer knows he can do nothing without the women. Brought to the door of the house by the master, he must be helped over the threshold by the mistress, as the evil spirits of old were helped across by a baptized hand, else could they not have entered a Christian home. The woman must be the adventurer's unconscious but willing accomplice if he would succeed in his designs. Whatever it may be that he has set himself to win, she must be the goddess. Fortune to take him by the hand !; and if she does not his plans will all be shipwrecked. Hence. he has learned the art of making love, as one must learn the alphabet before mastering the literature and of all the skilled and skillful adventurers discovered to us by justice there has not been one who was not be- loved by woman. We have just seen most striking instance of this with the man Prado, who, apparent ly without single physical qualif- cation was a master of women as hawk is the master of the chickens. When of the softer type, he makes love sentimentally and flatters his adored ones by artful comparisons. He has known divine Duchesses
 and Countesses that were like dreams of beauty, but this special charm, this particular delightful ness, has he never known, and his whole being pays homage as he never paid it before. But if he he is one of the rough and more brutal type he rouses her enthu- siasm by narrative of his various feats of daring, and probably poses as a man whom love has passed coldly by-until now. In any case, he knows his ground and the best method of tillage. And he seldom fails or makes a mistake. For he has the magic of temperament as we'll as the halo of romance; and, these are as golden chains which lead women captive Whither- soever the man will. Adventures wills to lead them very far down indeed. The first necessity with him is to induce some one of good family and position to compromise herself with him when, with this irresistible pull on her, all the rest Is easy. Fear, shame perhaps re- come in when the glamour of the first infatuatlon is over; the woman who has been Q devoted lover, friend and helper becomes by force, through the loathing vic tim, both slave and accomplic e. The world has never known the