The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-04
HER LIFEFOR HER CHILD
ArRUETRAGIc TALEoFNEw YORK
AND PARIS.
How Once Giddy New York Woman
Expiated Her Sins by Life in After
Years Of the Noblest eH-Sacrifce in the
Interests OF Her Child.

New YORK, August 2s.-A gentleman
who has just returned from the Paris
Exposition tells story which ou, 10
mances romance. 1t is the story of a
woman's life, far out of the ordinary
Thirty-fve years ago in one of the me
old houses on Second avenue lived a
couple who were known to the very
small part of New York society as Mr..
and Mrs. Scott Richardson. The gen
tlenan was on the sunset side of so, but
The lady was young and beautiful. He
was a practical business man and made
all else subservient to that. Society was
bore to him, but he made no objection
to having his wife in the very dizziest of
the swim.
The result was just what would natu-
rally come from such a course. One
morning all the city dailies chronicled
an eiopement in high life. The beauti-
full Mrs. Richardson had eloped with
MIR. Hugh Mcbride, wealthy young
broker, who had been the seasons pet
in society. If Mr.. Richardson cared he
concealed his feelings remarkably well.
He closed his house, took apartments in
a hotel and went serenely on with his
basiness up to the time of his death,
which occurred about ten years later.
He left all of his wealth to the son of a
former marriage, and, so far as outward
seeming went, had entirely forgotten
his wife.
The lady in question went with her
lover to Paris, where they took apart
ments in the Rue Troget, and for three
years lived a very gay life. At the end
of that time a child was born, a little
girl, vino was named Helen Mcbride.
The young father seemed all at once to
tire of his love, and with no word of
farewell he left Paris and returned to
New York, where be married within a
year young lady to whom he had been
betrothed before he knew Mrs. Richard
son. Deserted as she was, with no re-
sources and no friends, and with a
child to support, Mrs. Richardson awoke
10 the fact that something must be
done. She was woman Of nerve, and
she loved her child with all the strength
of her passionate soul. Realizing that
the future of her daughter depended
solely upon her efforts, she resolved
upon course of action which would
enable her to educate her daughter
and place her in an honorable position
in Society.
Gathering up all the money she could
command, she went to one of the best
private institutions in Paris, where she
made arrangements to have her child
carefully reared and thoroughly edu-
Gated. Size was to furnish all needful
money, and once a year she was to visit
her, but the little girl was not to know
that she was her mother. Having COM
pleteG her plans, Mrs. Richardson re-
turned to her native city, where for
years she presided over a notorious re-
sort on Greene street. 1t was notorious
because of its splendor. MillionaireS
went there, and at the end of fifteen
years Nine. Louise, as she was then
known, had not only supported her child
in elegance, but she had amassed quite
a fortune.
Then came another crisis. Helen was
taken i'll of smallpox. Now the strength
of the mother love asserted itself.
Leaving New York, she went to her child
and remained by her side, the most de-
voted of nurses, until she was stricken
with the dreadful malady herself. For
weeks her life was despaired of, and
Mhep at last she recovered it was only to
go fact that, beaHRaspssssrasts
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