Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15

| friends of Mrs. Mary Nevin Blaine in
this city are OutspOken IN their loyalty TO
| her. They say that she had TO choose
between endurance of her mothpr-iu-
laws dislike and a desertion of th5
Augusta household; that she was a good
girl before marriage and an exemplary
wife afterwards; and that she can easily
support herself and child by acting, il
she RECEIVERS sufficiently from her present
illness. That she will ever be a BILE TO 90
on the stage again, however, is not even
hoped She is inevitably crippled for
life. One leg is distorted aud st.ffeusd
by infiamatory rheumatism at the knee,
and, although the joint may be fractured
and Strengthened, it will remain infieXi-
BILE. She is crippled for life. For
six months she has been abed, suf-
fering intensely most Of the time, and
incapable OF turning over without assist
ancs. The fortunes endured By her have
won the sympathies of all who have wit
messed them, and they are carried there
by into the extreme Of bias against ths
Blaines. They profess to believe, as
she surely does, that her child is in dan
ger of being kidnapped. The nursemaid
tells Of being mysteriously followed
while wheeling the boy in the streets,
and once she returned TO the house. at
243 West Forty-second street, wildly de-
claring that two men had acted
as though they meant to seize
the baby. The woman's name is
Fuller, and she is a sedate sort or
creature, yet impreguated with partisan
ism for her mistress. Questioned close
", she can only say that the two men
followed her in Broadway, that they
gaZed strangely at the child il its per-
prF1h 1ae SInk
she turned about and hurried home.
James G. Blaine, Jr., was in this city
that day, and his wife, coupling the
two things, had a severe spell OF hYstsr-
les, aud has since insisted that there was
a plot to steal her boy. That is q sur
mise which, at present, cannot be proved
or disapprOved. Certainly, the wife has
steadfast friends in her misfortune. For
a legal champion she has Delaney Mic
oil, 8 noted lawyer and politician,
who is said to be engaged to marry her
sister. Daniel Frohmau, the theatre
cal manager, who was to have sent her
ont as a star actress, and who was q
heavy loser through the hiring OF q
company for that purpose, has staunohly
befriendRd her. Mrs. kendall, the
English actress, who has so singularly
captured our fashionable folks, spends
much time with the invalid The char
ity performance which Is now possibly
to be used as evidence upon which to
take the child away from her, was a
booming success, the theatre being
crowded at doubled prices, and the sum
yielded being nigh $4,000.
But that occasion gave proof, also,
that the secretary of state was respected
by New York people of social eminence.
The names of forty ladies were used in
the advertisements aud playbills as pat
rOnesses but, although efforts were made
to secure q representation OF the four
hundred not one of that body consented.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt contributed
money, but declined TO let her name be
used. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor did
the same thing, as did other ladies in
''our arIstocracy' who were Rp-
preached. Their names were denied for
the reason that they would not be dis
courteous to the presidents chief cabinet
officer.
1t may be SAID that the whole imbrog-
lilo divides public sentiment here, and
that fight in the courts is likely at
hand.