The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-20
AMERICAN ADvsNTUREssEs.
Beautiful Women Whose Careers
Have Been a Scandal in Europe.

have Been a Scandal in Europe.
Paris Letter 10 Philadelphia Press
Women, sprung from families where
every female member in their own and the
preceding generation have been far above
reproach, have spurned all the traditions Of
their race and have trodden the paths of
evil with answering feet.
Take, for instance, tue case of the all
notorious Mrs Blackboard, whose career
added more than one chapter to the annals
OF European scandal She was born Of a
highly respecta lie family of Pennsylvania,
her father having bsen a Presbyterian
clergyman of higA standing. She was re-
lated to several prominent and celebrated
personages Of her native state. She was
possessed Of exquisite beauty and almost
irreSls IDLE fascination. 0 ne of the lead
ing lawyers of Philadelphia, who had
charge OF her affairs after the death of her
husband, related TO tle W tier the follow
ing story, which depicts this woman, and
othe OF her class, better tcan whole pages
Of analysis and description could do:
After the settling up of the deceased Mr..
Biackford's estate only few thou aud
d liars remained for his widow and her
| little girl. snow, Mrs. Blackboard" quoth
her legal adviser, you are young aud
| very beautiful woman. Go to Washington,
| engage handsomesuite of rooms aud enter
| taln1elegantly. ere are so many wealthy
| single gentlemen attracted to Washington
| during the session Of congress that you will
| nave no difficulty in winning a rich hus-
band" In language TOO coarse and too vile
to admit of transcription here, his lovely
client announced her determination of de-
| voting berself to q life Of wickedress. She
! came 10 Europe and she fulfilled her intent
In this most famous of her infam us
class there was no trace of the false senti-
mentality that lures hoGest women to weep
! over the woes OF LA Dame aux Camelias
! 5he knew neither shame nor repentance,
nor even the one holy instinct that often
| lingers in the hearts of women otherwise
| wholly depraved, namely, that Of maternal
| love. There was no reason whatever for
her entrance upon the path that leadeth
unto perdition. In contemplating the
| career and tho character Of such a creature
one is tempted TO beiieve in CID legends
Of infants changed in their cradles by the
fairies who took away the human child and
| left an unnatural imp in its stead
| Another instance, well known to Amer
| lean residents III Europe, is that of beau
| tiful woman who came thither from the
| United States ostensibly TO study music.
\ She was past tue age of girlhCod. Sac came
| of a thoroughly respectable family. She
was in command of an income sufficient
for all her wants, and she was placed under
the chaperonage of well-known American
| family living in the city i'll which she was
to pursue her studies. Without any reason
and without any temptation she hurled her
| self headlOng into the ranks OF the demi-
monde. Her career made more than one
| European city ring with its scandals
Like Mrs. Blackford, she scorned hypoc~
risy. and Iopenly announced her intention
| Of living as she liked and doing what she
| pleased. Her still brilliant bat now largely
| artificial beauty occasionally ATTRACTS the
| glance of her former frie- DIS. They knew
their fair countrywoman in the days OF her
modest and una suming mann rs and mode
| of existence in past years No like Dante
in his pilgrimage through the Inferno, they
can but look o. her and then pass on. y
she has no need # help or Of pity. She
leads very gay life, dresses superhly and
| boasts opellE of the luxuries and influence
| that she enjoys.
Mrs Blackford died Of drink VIXEN she
was OILY little over 40. The notorious
Mrs. Beecher, who fled from the United
States after trying to shoot former lover,
did indeed achieve marriage with q titled
| European. But she has since mysteriously
disappeared, and no ono knows what has
| become of her.
A beautiful and gifted young American
prima donna, who went some years ago to
sing in Russia, and who became the mis-
tress Of the heir 20 an artistocratlc family.
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fever soon after the birth of her infant. A
terrible and tragic incident marked the
catastrophe of her brief, erring life. The
physician called in to attend her teiegraphed
to her mother in America as soon as the
case assumed a hopeless form. The poor
old lady reached Paris only a few hours
after her unhappy child had expired. She
k lew nouhing OF her wrong-doing AMI be-
lieved her to e still the fair, innocent girl
that had Left her some few years before
The nurse thinking that the young mother
had boon a married woman, brought as
cons lation the little infant TO the aged
woman. The wretched ana bereaved
parent realized the situation at q glance
snd fell faIatng to the floor.
The late Nine. ,Musard was one Of the fe "
American women i'll Europe that closed a
life Of wrong-doing in splendor and luxury.
Up to the last the gorgeousness Of her hotel,
and her dresses ard her iasVels, wei e the
talk of Paris. The sale of$hs latter at
tracted crowds to the hotel Dronot for a
week. The whole of the two principal
rooms in that great auction mart was lined
with show cases, where spanked this daz-
zling collection, a fortune il itself, Begin
ming with the Empress Eugsnle's
bridal necklace OF large pearls
and going down to hand-mirrors
and glove uttoners set with gems. But
she was neither well-oorn nor wel,-bre /.
She began life as dishwasher and stair
scrubber at hotel in Boston She osed
it in a madhouse, her once lowell face dis
torted by stroke Of facial paralysis which
had eau ed the permaue It closing of one
of her eyes the year before. Yst, inaSmuch
as she died neither poor nor forsaken, her
end may be considered as more fortunate
than most Of those of her countrywomer