St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-25
The Husband Pretending to
Learn q Machinist'S
Trade,
And the Wife Preparing Her.
self for a Stage Ca
peeP.


she, anyway"
"Why, that is young James G.
BlaIne's wife,"
was sorry to hear it. The current
report of her conduct under very trying
domestic troubles had excited my SYM
pathy, and wanted to think well of
her. But she disappointed me. All
eyes were challenged by her frequent
efforts to lead the applause, and what
seemed to be desire to share the at
tention of the audience with Mrs. Lang
try.
Rather loud, isn't she?" said my
friend, ''but she is not bad kind of a
girl for all that. l think she has been
badly treated by Mr.. Blaine's hopeful
son."
Between the acts he related the fol-
lowing history of this unfortunate mar
riage which Is, believe, substantially
true:
GAS far as | can learn in Augusta the
Blaines allege that young Mrs. Blaine,
then Marie Nevins, came to Augusta
two years ago last summer with the
deliberate intention of capturing in the
matrimonial net the youngest scion of
the Blaine family.
ut is next claimed by the Blaines
that they supported the young couple
in New York until Jimmy'S demands
for money got to be so frequent that it
was more than the elder Blaine could
afford, and they found it necessary to
offer Jimmy and his wife home in the
family mansion, when young Mrs.
Ia LII &.lxx I,.Gf
and returned to New York, saying that
she would not live in Augusta.
1.-THE facts about this matter seem to
be these, at least in the opinion of the
citizens of Augusta. Last summer
when young Mrs. Blaine joined her hus-
band at his home in Augusta she was
prepared to live there. 1t is said that
Mrs. Blaine has always been very hos
tile toward the wife of her youngest
son, and has never forgiven her for
running away with him in the way she
did. At the time in question Mr..
Blaine ST., was out West, and there was
nobody at home excepting young
Mrs. Blaine and her husband. Mrs.
Blaine senior seems to have laid her
plans beforehand. She went to Jimmy
and told him that he was not looking
very well, and gave him money to go to
Bar Harbor for short trip. His wife
begged him, with tears in her eyes,
when she heard of his intention, not to
leave her alone in the house with her
mother-in-law, but Jimmy laughed at
his wife's apprehensiOns and said that
she need have no fear of his mother.
Thereupon he went to Bar HarUOr,
promising to return the following Sat
urday.
Jimmy was no sooner out of the
house, it is said, than the two ladies' be-
became QuarrelSome. The result of this
was that Mrs. Blaine, Jr., spent most of
her time in tears, and when Saturday
came without the return of her husband
she was distracted and took the
o'clock train for Boston, Ell route to
New York, where she Joined her father
and mother at the New York hotel. By
this action she d id not, she claims, in.
tend to leave her husband, and, i'm fact,
left word for him to join her in New
York, and also telling him what had
happened.
.sFrom that day to this she says that
she has heard nothing either from her
husband or his family, and that the
BIaines have not contributed | cent
toward the support of herself or child.
''When no word came from her hus-
band or his family, Mrs. Blaine con-
suited Colonel Robert q. Ingersoll and
General Pryor. who took up her cause
out of pare sympathy. These gentle
men wrote to Mr.. Blaine, ST., and asked
him to what cause such treatment
of their client was due. Mr.. Blaine
replied that she had deliberately left
her husband, and, therefore, had no
further claim upon him. AT the advice
of her counsel, who told Mrs. Blaine
that she had done wrong in leaving the
home provided for her by her hus-
band, no matter what treatment
mother-in-law, Mrs. Blaine took her
mother. her maid and her child and re-
turned to Augusta. When she got to
her father-in-law's house she was met
by Mrs. Blaine, who asked her by what
right she came there. Young Mrs.
Blaine demanded an interview with
her husband, but her mother-in-law
rushed up stairs and locked the door of
the room where young Blaine was. His
wife went to the door, raped and beg
ged the young man just for one word.
She received no answer and finally, be-
coming hysterIeal, was assisted out to
the carriage by her mother and driven
at once to the depot.
.sThen came the problem of what
young Mrs. Blaine could do, She had
herself and child to support and no sub
stantial source of income, her father
having a large family and a compare
lively small income. At this iuncture
Gen. Pryor was again consulted, and
upon learning that Mrs. Blaine, Jr., had
a talent for theatricals and had made
a success on the amateur stage, in
auired further into the subject, and
finding that she could Immediately Sc
cure a good engagement at fair salary,
he advised her to adopt the stage as
profession. Mrs. Blaine as consequence
has contract already signed by which
she is guaranteed an immediate salary,
a percentage OF the profits and the ex-
penSes of herself, her child, her maid
and secretary for period of two years. |
At the end of that time, however, the |
manager reserves the right to renew |
the contract with her If he should see |
fit.
''Since his separation from his wife |
Young Blaine'S life in Augusta has been |
tremeIy. For weeks he might be seen |
most any afternoon in the streets of |
Augusta with an expression which |
seemed to indicate that very few phases |
of life interested him.
sit is pretty certain that young |
Blaine is only twenty years old to-day, |
though any one to look at HIM would |
think that he was at least twenty-three |
OF twenty-four. Even at seventeen |
he had the mature look of a man sew
eral years older. and it is said that |
his wife at the time Of their marriage |
did not know how young he was, and |
that in response to question from the
minister who performed the marriage |
ceremony he stated simply that he was |
not yet twenty-One. Mrs. Blaine at |
this time was twenty.
THAT Mrs. Blaine, however, is still |
fond of her husband, those who know |