The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-06
SHE GAv2: UP THI: VEIL.
A RcIiRieOuse Cancels Her vows
and Returns to Her Home.

A ReIi9icOuse Cancels kIer vows
and Returns TO Her Home.
A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal.
says 1t very rarely happens that Il nun
who has worn the black veil lays aside
I her religious robes and returns to the
world after convcntual seclusion. Acasc
. of this kind, however, has Just come to
light in Santa Rosa, Cal. The nun was
known as Sister Gertrude but now is
once more called by her former name.
Miss Jessie Ovcrton. Her father is Judge
A. p. Ovcrton, one of Santa Rosas
wealthcst and most influential citizens,
and Miss Jessie is his only daughter.
She was reared Protestant, but was
sent to the Ursuinc Convent to complete
her education, and embraced the Catholic
faith notwithstanding Judge Overtons
strenuous opposition and avowal that
he would diSinherit his only child. She
took the veil, taught with great wisdom
and success and her father kept his word.
The sister superior of the convent was
daughter of General RoseCrans.
As an instance of Sister GCrtrudc's re-
ligiouS ferver it is related that Just previ-
Gus to Miss Overton's taking the black
veil her brother was accidentally killed
while out hunting, and her relatives de-
sired her to come home temporarily dur
ing the period of mourning. The sister
superior advised her to do so, but in
Cidentally mentioned that temporary
breaking of the enclosure would necessi-
tate poStponement of her reception of
the veil to later date than the time
originally set.
NJ Of cl,n
to leave the convent on account of this
postponement. Judge Overton wasgreat-
ly incensed, and driving his carriage into
the convent garden attempted to raise
his daughter into the vehicle to make her
come home and take a last look at the
dead He failed and in consequence the
funeral cortcge was obliged to change its
intended route and pass by the convent
in order that the weeping religieusc might
see the coffin of her brother on its way
to the grave.
After this, Sister Gertrude's health
failed rapidly. Her convent life was too
trying for her delicate constitution, and
transfer to Ohio worked no benefit.
Meanwhile, her father relented and
begged her to return to her home. The
Ursuinc nuns lent a helping hand, and
applied to Pope Leo for cancellation
of Sister Gertrude's VOWS. The favor
was granted, and Miss Overton now re-
turns after years of separation to her
father and the home of her childhood.
COurtshIp In Recent Fiction.
Atlanta Constitution.
In the novels Of the past generation
lovers were described as models of devo-
tion, gentleneSs and courtesy when they
were in the presence OF their swcethearts.
We see nothing of this in the fiction of
to-day, in our realistic stories, and pas
sonate society novels. The typical lover
is an athletic Young man, whose impu-
dence and brutality interest and tasci-
nate the young ladies until they are re-
duced to state of whimpering helpless
ness. A recent novel, written oGcourse
by a Young woman, has a lover i'll it
whose main points are strength, length
and n coal black beard. lie accidentally
travels with a girl to whom he has been
introduced, but who has never seen him
but once. On the trip the two talk about
the scenery and the weather, but the tall
man with the big black beard suddenly
goes into a fit of delirium tremcnS over
his CompanIon'S beauty, and without
any warning gives her a tremendous hug
and skips out. Later the man with the
beard behaves like a hero at Il fire and
calls to see his fellow Traveller. The young
lady, who is society belle, conducts her
self in such manner that her visitor
feels that it is his duty to hug her again,
with effusion, as the French say. The
wedding follows.
If our young people read much of this
sort of stuff they will have queer ideas of
life, and when they are turned loose they
will cut some very astonishing capers.
Ioe Howard tells this little story i'll
the New York Press: Fact is much
Stranger than fiction. In 1861 Colonel
Gouvcrneur Carr was in command of the
United States troops at Winchester, Va,
and as he passed along the streets OF
that old time city, crowds of men and
women, boys and girls, kept time to the
music of the march. Among them was a
little fellow, a native of the place, by the
name of Bradford. Months rolled into
years and years into a quarter of a
century, the most significant quarter OF
century, which must forever stand
monumental among it's fellows. A second
quarter of century was begun. Carr,
now an old man, enfeebled, gray, an ap,
plicant for consular appointment
suddenly died. Pallbearers were selected
from his confreres of the Tribune staff,
among whom was Mr.. l.. {. Bradford
the telegraph night editornfourestecmed
contemporary, no longer the little Win
chester boy, trotting after troop ot
Yankee soldiers, but grave and un.
feigned mourner at the bier of departed
comrade."
Will Oppose Vest,