The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-11
A STORY OF TWO WIVES.
"BABo TELLS A STRANGE ROMANCE
IN REAL LIFE.
How "A New York Man Managed n Double
Marriage-Death Reveals the Secret
Two Kinds of Women Clubs-Working
Girls Versus Literary Women.
Special Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.

Special lCorrespondence of SUNDAY HERALD.
NEW YORK, May 9, 1890
All New York is out walking nowadays, and
the sunshine brings out the good and the bad,
lust as it does the weeds and the flowers. Not
long ago, walking up the Avenue, there was
charming looking woman dressed in deep
mourning, accompanied by three handsome boy
children, sombrey clad in black, and a maid,
also in mourning. Everybody who looked after
said: Poor Mrs. Dash, it was such happy
marriage, and it seems so sad for him to diei"
Now, that woman is the daughter of one of the
richest and best-known men in New York. She
was married to a rich man and had fashion
able wedding, description of which was written
up in all the papers, the brides beauty COM
mented upon, her white satin and orange bios
SONS described, while the grooms great wealth
and good looks were given equal prominence
That man, after ten years of married life, died,
leaving large fortune and, as was generally
supposed, young widow; but here's the ro-
nance. When he married that young, pure girl,
he had another wife living over in one of the
small towns in Jersey, and so little care did he
take to hide his story that the wife in Jersey
also called Mrs. John Dash, and he used to laugh
with her about his double in New York.
HOW DID HE MANAGE TIP
He claimed to be very fond of shooting and
fishing, and would go of to country club for
two days in week. This story satisfied the
wife in New York, and the one in New Jersey
did not even know that he was rich man, but
believed that he was q travelling salesman
When he was on his wedding trip he wrote to
her, sent papers in which were accounts of the
wedding of his double. and told her that, as he
happened to be in New York that day, he went
in to see him married, and to see what he looked
like. How thoroughly David understood men
DEATH REVEALS THE SECRET.
When he died his brother-in-law, q famous
lawyer, looked through the papers in his private
desk for cemetery deed, and to his surprise he
found bundle Of letters written by woman,
addressing him as her husband, hoping that he
would soon be back, and speaking of the chill
dreu, and how much they wanted to see him.
Very quickly the lawyer got two other men,
members Of the family, and they went out and
found this little house. To their amazement
they discovered that it was all 80 open that moth.
ing had been suspected. They asked for the
mistress of the house and met pleasant-faced
wellshaped woman. agreeable in manners, but
house was simply furnished, and the most prom
inent thing in the little parlor was large crayon
portrait of the dead man. The woman was Ques.
tioned, and she said she was sorry to hear of the
death of her husbands double, and after while
firmly, but kindly, she was told the story, her
letters being produced, and all the details being
given her. She got her marriage certificate, and
she had been married five years before the other
wedding took place. She had two sons, hand
some boys, one named after his father. She was
Immediately told that the mans fortune would
she said she would do, but that she would not
accept the whole of the great estate She asked
to be taken over to see the other woman and to
she came the two women met, and the one who
was bitter against him, the one who said she
while the dear little woman whose life he had
been willing to ruin loved him so much that she
could not blame him. Curious. wasn't it?
TEST OF wOMAN's LOVE.
The wife wanted the money divided, but this
was refused; so, after she had accepted her share
ha hot tho -as
be evenly divided among all the children, and
this was done. Then, with her two boys she left
this country that they might be educated among
strangers, and gain the position that by their
one woman down to the steamer to see her off
was the one that had been wronged and she
begged and pleaded with the other never to be-
lieve that the dead man meant any harm. Now
as they walk out | think how loving are some
women, for this one grieves for the man who is
gone as II he had been saint, and those little
men who are beside her reverence their fathers
name and believe that to grow up good men
like their father is the thing that will
make happy the heart of their mother The
world is as full of romance any novel, but we
don't hear them that's all.
TWO KINDS OF WOMEN CLUBS
There have been two conventions of women's
clubs lately in New York City, and managed
to get to both Of them. / want to say right here
and now that, although am by birth and edu-
cation a believer in caste and an ardent admirer
of titled aristocracy, still the Working Girls
Clubs were a decidedly brighter better looking
set than the federation of clubs supposed Ia
represent capital. They were younger; they did
represent e i'm dc steele, but the beginning of
it. When they spoke, they knew what they We're
talking about, they said it in as few words as
possible, and they didn't have TO be told that
their speeches were too long. Now the capital.
lists hdce reached the end, very near 1.-THE END
of their time. There is evidently being corner
in youth III that set OF clubs, and | don't know
exactly who controlled it. The presiding Officer
was systematically late; an hour behind the time
counting Hs nothing. The papers were meaide
ing ana Tue pIouuhclatlon-Well, don't believe
any heathen of Siam, or Hindoostan, or the Nortt
Pole could manage English as she is spoke 10y
some OF the members OF that federation. All o.
them seem 10 have written their speeches indis
tinctly, aud why they didn't encourage the
own sect as a sweet-faced woman blissfuly
called them, by employing Il typewriter IS i
mystery. They forgot that when they stood OF
the platform their dresses looked extreme ely shor
from the front, and, take il all in all, summed
ii up this way: the working girls Represented
keen intelligence and the power to yet what the
wanted; the Others represented perhaps a litt
more culture and capital, but, when it came t
getting what. they wanted, they would neve
know how 10 strike out from the shoulder AM
hit the nail on the head.
WOMAN IN OFFICE.
l realized too what woman in office is likely +
be, and | prayed most deyOutly that the da
might never come when she would hold offic
here. Once elected, wriggly condescensio
comes over her, and she wants to impress tn
rest of the world with the dignity of her position
ard her ability TO Ill it. The one subject tina
brought out more personalities than anythn
else was rotation in Office; possessing no righ
whatever TO make a speech, must confess di
want TO get up and say was great believer il
rotation in Office, provided the next rotator wa
a Democrat dtlgayS, but although gentle lad
had pinned white and gold badge on me, / REP
resented no club unless. as anirreligousr usreporte
near me said, the 'Crowler Glub!' A woma
who had slight interest in books thought il wa
"Grolier Club, the difference in pronunciatio
is so common!
UNDESIRABLE WOMEN OF TODAY.