The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-20

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sO;rrw was connected with her mother a ID
the latter's love for her beautiful daughter
is the cause of her present condition. She
is uopele,sly derauged, and spends her time
talk < Of the Que clild for whom she ex-
pereGced the strongest affection, aud from
whom she received onll dptiful regard
and kindly attention. Mrs. Bla 81 has no
other daughter, though she was the mother
of twelve children by her late husband, Mr.
Bland.
Dr. B. said that the newspaper people
had tried for years 10 learn the particulars
Of Miss Nelson's early life, and that Mrs
Bland had guarded Il er secret zealouslv until
a few months ago, when the Door soul com
menced to talk Of the forbidden subject,
and now confides her story over and over to
her attendant.
Daily she rehearses IS Lady Macbeth, and
then describes her triumphs when on the
boards # the Leeds theatre. She tells of
her great beauty, which attracted the gal
llnts in every audience before which she
appeared, and atfectedly recounts the love
Of the dark eyed Spanard who won her
heart and became the father of her child,
the beautiful little girl who was born in a
Leeds tenement house, and whose earliest
impressions were of the stage. The mother,
now a haggard. prematureiy aged woman,
whose once beautiful eyes stare vacantly
upon those about her, told the Doctor that
her daughters beauty was her fathers
dover, but that she inherited her love Of
the Stage from he-. 1t was passion with
her as a girl, and she ran away from her
home to be an actress. Before she was
2os.e vas the mother of the child who was
atterward snown as Adelaide Nelson, but
whose resi- name was Lizzie Ann Brown.
called So after Ter mothers sister, VINO was
t8iloress in Leeds.
Mrs. Bland was the beauty OF her family,
and from the accounts she gives of herself
She as in her youth wayward girl. That
She bad talent is undesirable, but the untor-
tunate circumstance that took her from the
stage, before she had achieved any kind Of
success cllUred her whole life. She says,
IN her Glnle,s chats, that after she left the
stage before Lizzie was born. she lived at
her sisters and did neeilework She was
not peuniiess, for the young man who was
in3 iather Of the child was not Indifferent
10 hey welfare, and he supported her for
some tine after the birth of the little girl
II was genuine love affair, untainted
Win the slightest worldiness, which the
4 sP1Shtly Lizzie Brown had with the dark
eyed foreigner, who was her first and only
love, and the offspring of that most unfor-
u ave connection was the loving generous
and beaut full woman Adelaiie Nelson.
ouang TO relate, Mrs. Bland never speaks
ue name OF this lover of her youth now
taat she Is irresponsible for her actions
que dll not, at any time, after her daugh-
eF IeIt ner TO 90 to London to earn her
own way IN the world, and her old acquant-
Fl qlo'5 say that she had been compelled by
.e' laughter to take an oath that she would
1s'ei ,eVaal 1t or the fact of her illegitima-
" Llzzie Bla d. " us the little girl was
S.l"n 70 Guiseley people, was supposed to
FL ~ Jo daughter Of Mr. Bland, for the fam
Fl A. laa moved to the village when she was
pi'"S oid, and the Oldest child of MIR
D'S'd was babe year old.
Fl d IWu she was II years old Adelaide
W. 'lYl Know that she was not the daugh-
f f,.A W. 'n' paper hanger whom she called
n ra.' ana she would have been in ign1-
Fl r., VI lhe fact yet longer had not her
Eli f"s 4nwlsely aroused her curiosity by
III o'"'Iig her to open u drawer which she
v6o poked, and seemed anxious about
IA h+l s.e was from home. To add to her
"a ~ g''4 meager income she did sewing
mi 'illage families who required help
and 'it+N'V was left In charge Of the home
k,.5 gables. She was determined 70
4 D1,,L soo contents Of the drawer which her
"A fp5i, sua ued SO zealously, and one dav
g g,,, the key which her parent had for.
IA rarrt' 'ne opened II. The mother ia her
IN dj.co.as IAlks has often told what Adelaide
IA Ia'ered there. When she returned
III liz 'ie ehd Of the day. she was met by
IA tb m. gri who had opened and read
a., '-'l'e OIL love letters tied IN in a pack
IA fSts..,NL ll~ question, who was nv
yr. want to know who am" IL
wa a"N"afd situation for the tired
u....I mo did not care To rehearse her
a pr4.1''9 10 a girl Of her years and In the
wl 0' The father and tho two children
n us.i. no4id ho listeners. So sine paciGed
"A toll t,, "ilh lhe promises that she would
worg.l ~4en supper was over. and the two
ng ,,.,' sac by side while getting the even.
M. p 'eaiy for the family.
s11ta D,and saws that Lizzie was greatly
t9d s.5 neh She beard all that was to be
istb.r Ne demanded u know where her
tor - lhis the mother could not tell.
Coma "a' "oaried Of her, and Iaft Gods
The me- NJ q5iore she married MIR. Bland
\ Lick W. Aiy woman will now tell of how
heari ;, aucsd upon the letters when she
tom -a'' ueclafiug that thew sholld be
aye'n' ma 1u no reference be made 10 Them
Tue teo, .iueY we're destroyed then and there
IN t1 ,,,a% not dari to object. Even now
sh,s. l.i,ity she shows thai She racails ne
ooafr1,,,.gi embarrassment she felt when
4tl.Ia by tue young girl D1''
ald Ti,,iaa Is ihe drawer vas left unlocked
Der eji is's nelped herself TO tho yellow ns'
which boIus OF different Shakes1eare MA %
read v ueI mother had studied. ThesaF s6e
"1 easerness-for having learned