Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-28
A RESPECTFUL PROTEST.

Probably most well-conditioned people
think that there is a limit 10 bathos,
and we would beg to add, to pruriency.
The San Francisco Examiner, of Mon
day, contained a seven or eight column
interview which one of the versatile
members of its staff purported to have
had with Mrs. Mailliard. This is the
lust-propelled woman who took to the
woods with one Ingram, farm hand,
after deeerting her husband and chill
dren, and who was found up in Hum
boldt county, near a loggers' camp,
waiting for a divorce from the happy
Mailliard, whose good fortune has
probably only begun, now that he
is surely rid OF her-a riddance which
will be confirmed by the court. This
woman, who is described as five feet
four inches high, packs around the
quite respectable weight of one hundred
and ninety pounds. The reporter found
her living in open and shameless adul-
terry with her paramour, and procee ds
to idealize her. She is describ bed as
having very vivacious brown eyes. In
this case we are prepared to apply the test
of before and After" which is found
to be very eficacious very often in m ed
ical preparations. When Mrs. NJ all
lizard first ran away the Examiner pub
lished a photograph of her which repre-
sented her as vulgar and heavy woman,
whose very apparition would scare the
eye-lashes off of love and give desire his
death-blow. But now that it has found
it convenient to do good deal of
Frenchy sentimentalizing about this
brazen creature, it turns out revised
likeness which remarkably resembles one
OF those fat but not fair creatures who
are supposed to preside over places not
mentionable to ears polite. We are
treated to chidro-oscuro view of a
logging camp, in which all the highly
poetic characteristics OF such places are
reproduced to the life. Then there is
the cottage in which the pair dwell, and
the reporter vainly endeavors to per-
suade us that it is not beslabbed and
beshingled horror. An attempt is made
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tional gauchelie by copious quotations
from George Eliot, Daniel Deronda and
Romola being the favored works of that
author in the praiseworthy effort to fad
out to undue wordiness singularly ar
tifcial and uninteresting lot of erotic
slush. Then Ingram, the farm hand, is
put into the reporters alembic, and
comes out refined of all his coarse and
commonplace characteristics. He is en-
dowed with a Grecian profile, but we
are obliged to say we see nothing in the
mug which is reproduced in our contem-
porary to sustain the allegation. The
attempt to apotheosize adultery, treach-
cry and gasscherie, which is made in this
article, is, we are obliged to say, la
mentable failure, We sincerely hope
that this great metropolitan daily will
not give its readers much of this bu
| collie bosh. Its readers look for more
valuable matter. They can find erotic
literature in far more enhancing form
in great line of French romance. Its
introduction, in wholesale fashion. into
the families of California, is to be depre-
Gated. 1t is very insidious way of in
forming the rising generation
of the most advanced tenets of that free
love, based on afinities, which ought
only to be the accompaniment of alb
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