Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-01-17

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keeps his faith with the woman who Is h..
place.. 1t is a curious thing, but there ara
reasons for it. No married woman eopl3
more faithfully keep her marriage vow
than the place. woman keeps her faith
They never break their pledges. Ever
Sunday the man dimes, If possible with h;s
| place., and he is expected to come 10 tba
house once OF twice a week; but there 4
no hunting him up or bothering him with
notes or messengers. Sometimes when
he has a very intimate male friend. he
may
INVITE HIM TO DINE
| with him at his house shall never for.
get dinner Of this sort some years ago
where the host was a young Greek mar.
chant whom ! knew well, an enthusiastic
fellow, the scion Of great London bank
ing house, handsome as an old time Greek
god. The girl-for she was only about
twenty-to all seeming She was as white
as he She bad that clear, white complex.
ion that is only seen to perfection among
! the best bred octoroons Of Louisiana and
J the highest rank women of Rome Naples
and Venice. They were very much IN
love with each other, and there was no
/ more sign of c0arseness and vulgarity-
such as one usually accociates with rela-
! tinns of this chagaCter-visable than there
/ Is in the prettiest nest that man could
/ select for a dainty bride, in which She
/ could be shut out from the world. And.
/ after a dinner that in refinement aud cor
recinesF of service and arrangement could
not be surpassed the girl sang some sweet
4 low toreIs n songs in a soft foreign tongue
/ for, like most of her class. she spoke very
] little English | wondered if there could
! be any sin where there was no knowledge
or intention of evil, for our first mother
/ Eve herself, over whom no priest doned
a service when she mated with Adam.
was not more perfectly without guile
than was this child Of the tropics
THEY ARE
/ IN New Orleans to-day perhaps 300 couples
whose relations to each other are those
have described. 1t is matter that is ex
4 tremely difficult write about, because Of
It's deiicacy, but somehow the innate vuI-
/ garIty which Is always part of relations
| between the sexes not sanctioned by law or
religion, does seem absent from those that
I | have ever known As a class no women
! are more fascinating than are these
/ quadroons or octoroons They have the
! prettiest little hands and the daintiest feet,
scarcely larger than those of a child. And
then, such eyes! Large, full of a langu-
orous sweetness, and fringed with the
deepest black lashes 1t is not difficult
for one who has ever seen these women TO
| understand their wonderful power over
the men of the south There is a larger
! percentage of beauty among them than
| could be found in any equal number of
ladies in the
BEST SOCIETY ANYWHERE.
They are well educated, and nearly all
OF them sing beautifully; for. with their
faint of negro blood they inherit the
/ marvellous negro voice, and because Of
| those things, perhaps is that the men
keep faith where one might think they
would tire with safety COL disgust.
The women usually nave strain OF
foreign blood, in wEicn Spanish. Portu-
/ glese or Italian predominates They have
, inherited all fierce passions Of their Latin
sires. Once aroused they are unforgiving
and dangerous in the extreme, and they
are prone to jealousy, especially in case Of
the attentions of their Ion DIS to ladies In
/ society, who, knowing nothing of all this
and see in NJ " or Y, an extremely
/ goodlooking and accomplished gentleman.
who papa says Is fast growing rich These
place. women know all the deadly secrets
of the obeath, and possess skill in
/ poisOns which is marvellous. Some dark
stories could be told by New Orleans
! physicians, if they would speak. of poisons
! detying medical skill, that gradua Is waste
away the victim ; nerve and brain, and
others, like the loco, that produce insanity
and death almost instantly
MANY TALES
! could be told, and true ones, too, of men
/ high in the fashionable world rich with
everything material to make life worth the
living, who have tried the jealous patience
! of the place. too far. and Of the creature
who is as true herself as any welded wife
I could be, and would endure patiently any
thing but supercedue, who has turned at
last at real or fancied wrong and quickly
used the dread secret only known to her
race
One evil Of this system is the illegiti-
mate children, though they seldom exceed
/ two. The sons are usually well educated
and some of them have handsome fortunes
/ and are the founders Of families respected
/ 10y both white people and colored. From
/ this class come many valuable citizens and
wealthy and energetic Louisiana business
men. There was a well known broker n
New Orleans named John Clay. who died
several days ago, said to be the son Of a
noted politician. At his death John
/ Clay was worth 5000, 600, made in honor
able trade.
A CURIOUS CHARACTER
nance DelacrOX wa, another son born Of
such relations. lie Became q great miser
and owned at has death nearly $1,000, 600
WORT Of real estate in New Orleans and
its vicinity
There are many cases well anown, too
E-of men who had two families. one quad
room and the other white and legitimate.
have in my mind now such case. and
the col0red sons have done far better
pecuniSriiy than the whites though both
bear a name h0nored for years in the state
i'm which they were born Most of these
women inherit some money. and often
handsome fortunes They help the men
whom they are places to with zeal and
earnest that would do honor 10 any wife
. ! had a friend a prominent cotton mer-
chant, who In the panic of 1879 was in
terrible straits. lie would surely fai
and his commercial credit was gone IN
less he could get $4,000 The banks
woHld not help him, and be was almost
upon the verge IF suicide He wa:
. place
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