The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-23
BOLD ADVENTURES.
Gas Type Is Soft and Polished, the 0ti
Rough and Careless.

Rough and Careless.
! Adventures are of two types-the
polished and well-bred, and the bluff
and rather brutal. The one glides
softly from the pavement to the draw
ing room, treading on no ones corns.
and corkscrewing his way through all
such openings as he may discern. The
other shoulders his way, and effects by
simple push and force what else is
done by craft and tenacity. The ad-
venturer of the softer type has been a
oroupier, a courier Or q gentleman S
gentleman; whereby he has picked up
the current shibboleth, and been able
to assume the outside varnish of the
upper ten. The adventurer of the
rougher type has been among miners
and cowboys, and has probably served
in some half piratical army, where the
object was less self-defense than plum
der. and the discipline meant only
readiness to fight on all occasions,
which experience, if properly managed.
gives a certain wild fruit flavor to his
talk, certain heroic seeming to his
bearing, which sweeps the heart out o,
women cursed with imagination ard
bored to extinction by realities. For
the adventurer knows he can do moth
ing 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 Chris
tian home. The woman must be the
adventurer's unconscious but willing
accomplish 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 master
ing the literature; and of all the skilled
and skillful adventurous discovered to
us by justice there has not been one
who was not beloved by woman. We
have just seen most striking instance
OF this with the man Prado, who, ap.
parently without a single physical quail
lfication, was the master of women as
the hawk is the master of the chickens.
When of the softer type, he makes love
sentimentally and iatters 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 de-
lightfulness, has he never known, and
his whole being pays homage as he
never paid it before. But if he is of
the rough and more brutal type
he rouses her enthusiasm by a
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 mistake.
For he has the magic of temperament
as well as the halo of romance; and,
together, these are as golden chains
which lead women captive whitherso-
ever the man will. And the adven-
turer 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 remorse, come in when
the glamour of the first infatuation is
over; the woman who has been de-
voted lover, friend and helper, becomes
by force, though the loathing victim,
both slave and accomplish. The world
has never known the screw that has
been put on certain women by the
men whose fortunes they have made.
1t will never know the truth in some
cases, where the secret, well kept in
life, is now rendered undiscoverable
by death. But strange romances have
been woven between the weakness that
gave and the strength that held-be-
tween the love that trusted and the
dishonor that utilized.-St. James
Budget.
AN ADMIRABLE WOMAN.