The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-01
STRANGE STORY OF EAST LYNNE
Based on the Romantic Experience OF
q Cincinnati Couple.

Based on the Romantic Experience OF
a Cincinnati Couple.
From the Boston Globe
It may not be generally known, yet 1t is
proably true, that the novel Of East
Lynne" although written ia England, had
the groundwork Of It's story in a singular
marriage which took place in Cincinnati
twenty-five years ago. the notice and the
attending circumstances at the time being
copied by almost every paper in the coun-
/ try. The matter was about as follows:
A Mr. J. NJ, clerk in a downtown
house, fell in love with a young lady whose
father was a well-to-do Second street mer-
chant Of that city. ard after proper sea-
son OF attention the couple were married.
/ Both soon found out that they we're not
happily mated, and after marriage Of
seven years, during which time they had
| three children, two boys and girl they
mutually agreed to the husband applying
for a bill of divorce on the ground Of in
compatibility OF temper The divorce was
granted, aud the wife went homo to her
father, who had, through indorsing, lost
his business and all his property.
The daug hters and his own misfortunes
weighed so heavily upon the fathers mind
that during a moment Of his mental aberrn-
ton he TOOK his own life leaving mis- daugh-
ter peuniless aud to rough 1t with the cold
charity of the world as best she could. The
woman. brave little creature. tried every
way she knew how TO gain an honest liveli-
hood-in fact, working so hard giving
music lessons and doing embroidery for her
old schoolmates that her health gave way,
and having no money to pay her board
she must beg, starve or 60 to the poor
house.
To turn TO the other side Of the picture.
The husband, after a few months release
from the marital bonds, again married, and
at 20 time of which we speak had not only
three children by the first wife, bnt also an
addition thereto, little 2-year-old girl by
the second wife. The latter lady being i'll,
the husband advertised Tor a nurse and
housekeeper, which notice reached the eve
went to the former partner of her heart,
told him her sad condition, and applied for
the position In his household
The husband knew not what TO say, but,
after giving her ample funds for al inn
mediate wants. asked her TO call again at
his Office on the following morning, prom
ising TO consult his wife about the matter
in the meantime.
Promptly, as per agreement wife No. /
was on time, as was the husband and from
there they went to the residence, where the
two wives had their first conversation end
ing In the agreement for the first wife to
come and accept the vacant place, whicn
she did, seemingly delighted at having a
peaceful home over her head, notwithstand-
ing the strange circumstances under which
such shelter was given.
Necessity demanded that the entire past
should be obliterated and the new house
keeper treated as any other help; that she
must care for children-her own off
spring-and the the other child the same as
any hired nurse would do; that she must
eat at the second table, to care for her
charges. All these things, and even more
humility did the poor woman show, never
by sign. word or look exhibiting the least
evidence Of discomfort. What, however,
must have been the true feelings of her
heart when seeing another filling the place
that she had once tried, as she thought, so
hard to fill?
But the sequel as told us by one CONVEX
SAINT with the whole facts, is stranger than
what we have already narrated When
the cholera was raging in New York, in
1866, the second wife was taken very i'll with
it, and, being informed by the physician
that she could live but few hours at most
as she was then in collapsed condition,
she asked that all go out of
the room excepting her husband
and the housekeeper, when she
told how much she regretted leaving her
child among strangers. and, as a dying
wife, entreated them both to marry again.
The proposition was a strange one, but both
promised, and, few months afterward.
when the second wife had been dead a suf-
ticent length of time not TO cause remarks.
the two were again married, brought to-
gether after cruel separation of so mauv
years, aud lived happily together in a cozy
uptown house.