The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10
CUT OUT BY A DAUGHTER.
Charlie Thorne's { hid Supplants Her
Own Mother.
From the NetO York World.

From the NetD York World.
Everybody remembers Charlie Thorne,
the actor-robust, handsome Charlie, with
his fine physique, laughing eyes, aud taking
ways-and everybody remembers his es-
capade with a woman, wife, and its usual
result, the conformation Of the mans offense
and the denunciation of the womans
Now comes story from over the sea that
Charlie Thorne's daughter Sharlie, slip of
a girl not quite Is years old, has been mar
ried to thu lover and companion OF her own
mother, man with whom the woman bad
cast her fortunes after leaving her third,
or what the world might complacently re-
gard as her third, husband. This trio are
said to be living peacefully and happily in
Geneva, Switzerland The axiom of like
father like son" finds an illustration here,
but with change of sex, in like daughter
like mother" for the inclination of the child
wife toward the bizarre is wonderfully re-
Elective of the madcap ventures of her
mother in her younger days.
While yet in her teens, the mother was
one of the bellies of Philadelphia and moved
in the best Quaker City society. She was
the daughter of ex- Mayor Swift. of Phila-
delphia, famous for the stand he took in the
abolition riots few years before
the late war Miss Swift was beautiful
vivacious, intelligent, a student in bellies
lettres, she attracted very many admirers in
that particular set in which the Binneys the
Cadwaladers, the Sergeants and the Prices
moved Her marriage to Henri Brown, Of
Philadelphia, was a social event. and their
prospects for a happy welded life were ex-
cellent until the husband, withistrange per-
sistency, wrecked his life and lost his wife
Mrs. Brown had an antipathy for actors
ax,A n.,fr a,,dx NOT Cir
cumstances permit any member of the
theatrical profession to be presented to her.
1t so happened that her husband was the
intimate of several actors, among them
Charlie Thorne, who was as much favor
tie among men as he was among women.
Mr.. Brown announced one night that
he intended to bring Thorne to
dinner the next evening, To this
Mrs. Brown strenuously objected. The
husband insisted, the wife protested, until
| at last the quarrel became so bitter that
Mrs. Brown exclaimed when you bring
your actor friend in the front door, go
out of the back" Determined to have his
| own way, Brown took his wife at her WORD.
and said that she could go where it suited
her, but once out of his house, she should
never return. Only then did Mrs. Brown
give fearful obedience to her husbands
wishes, and Charlie Thorne came to dinner
personal magnetism, his wit, his cleverness
at repartee and his adroitness in the art of
delicate compliment soon changed the
young wife's notions of actors. In a week
Thorne was making love, in fortnight
his love was returned, and in month he
had eloped with the wife Of his friend. She
took her two children with her. Then came
remarkable circumstance. Mrs. Browns
magnificent head of chestnut hair became
xUhita within altbpIIUh her
face retained its youthful contour and
complexion, and her figure was as graceful
as of old,
The liason continued until Thorne's death.
Mrs. Brown was devotedly attached to the
man who had stolen her from her husband,
and watched over him until he died. Then
she put on mourning, and for two years dis
played all the outward tokens of grief
stricken widowhood Brown, the betrayed
husband, had meantime died.
About that time artistic and feminine
New York was worshiping at the shrine of
an olive-skinned Italian artist, Francesc1
Maria, who had a studio on Fourteenth
street. He was fond of painting actre ses
and young society women. Mrs. Brown
Thorne visited him out of curiosity, fell in
love with him and married him. She then
had comfortable income Of her own.
Maria closed up his atolier, and with
his companion and her three children
one of them a daughter of Thorne-sailel
for Paris, where they engaged luxurious
quarters on the Rue Francois Premier Theo-
dore Tilton was said to have been frequent
visitor there. But Mrs. Brown-Thorne did
not live happily with her new husband. He
abused her cruelty, and one day she ran off
with a Sig. Fenelli, quondam friend OF
Maria.
1t is this man who, after protesting love
for the mother and clipping with her, has
made love to and married the 14-year-old
daughter.