The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-17
QUEER SITUATIONS.
SOCIETY GIRLS
TELL OF THEIR SORAPES.


rr,sta Young Relative of Gov. Flower
savs-Miss Helen Gould and Her
aodvguard of Detectives-A Queer
asrirer That ssllie HerGous Used
70 Heve.
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Npw YORK, Jan. 16.-People who are
,rs,.ed with common sense have no idea
hat fosls there are in the world, nor how
many If them there are.
There are fools Of all kinds, and when
.,ov become very foolish they are known
:. franks and are sent to Bloomingdale or
slssWhere for safe-keeping.
There are fools. you know, who have al
,sss that all the money in the world should
h.lo,e to them, and they are ready to bill
0s,rle if it isn't handed over prompay-
s,,t as the dynamiter. Norcross was ready
vii Russel Sage. Then there uze fools
'.ho have started out to reform tSe world,
&, religion and politics and social laws and
:, morality. Such fools are speedily appre-
banded and are put somewhere out of
harms way.
more abundant than any of the others that
have been mentioned. which are perhaps
more troublesome than any of these, and
which. it is to be regretted, do not very
ot,an get their just deserts. These fools are
,bs ones who make love to society girls with
vhon they have no acquaintance and fol-
Iow them and torment them until the poor
young women are reSuy W uie oA nlor1inca-
tion
Sor,etines these queer fools have been
successful enough to get bona tGde intro
duction to the young lady, and in that case
there is really no end to their prosecutions,
Sor they are, after q fashion, privileged to
sneak 10 her and pay her some little atten-
tion. More often they are entirely un-
Known and the first intimation that the
Young woman has of her adorer Is brought
10 her by means of billet-doux, bouquets
4 and love tokens, which shower upon her at
i all times Of day and night.
Tpata verys well houee on Fifth avenue
was luncheon party held few days ago,
and some Of the society girls present were
telling their experience with strange men
who had become enAmored of them. Among
those present was a young relative Of Gov.
Flower, New York's by-a-large-majOrity
governor. The young woman ID rich, tai
4 su,ed and very pretty. Some years ago
she rad this misfortune TO meet abroad
A so.caIled count, who paid her some little
\ attention while she was on the other side,
Il and who, when she returned, came over to
4 this country and renewed his suit.
4 The young woman, with unusual good
H ssuss for an American girl, was not at
trsctsd by the title Of countess and did not
s care for the foreign representative of the
noble family to which he claimed TO belong.
a Accordingly, as soon as she saw that the
r.,
A she gave him what we ia America would
call ''tbe cold shake"
But the count was persistent, and, when
be had tried all his loving arts in vain, he
became ugly and swore thAs he would get
even with the young woman, even If no had
70 kill her to do so.
One evening the count was announced
and, before the young woman had time to
enter the drawing room. pistol shot rang
through the house and the unhappy count
lay bleeding in the hallway from a pistol
shot through the temples. Welt the shot
bad gone a little astray from the place
where the count intenked 1t should lodge,
and 1t did NOT prove fatal And the story
never got into the papers.
Hastily summaning the police man on the
block the family OF the young woman gave
him large sum to keep the matter quiet
AID to assist i'll having tee count removed
to a hospital The cab driver and others
who assisted in removing him we're like
wise fixed" with the mighty dollar and no
one was any wiser for the affair. Once in
hospital, all went well. The count was put
In private room and the young woman's
family paid all the expenses of long and
tedious sickness and couvalescencs The
hospital authorities made no inquiries into
Tue affair, and when the count recovered he
was given money TO go back to his native
land and solace himself as best he could
WITH one Of his own country women.
by this clever bit Of management the
Young woman was saved from an unenviable
piece OF notorietY, and the family name
was not dragged lnto the newspapers by
means OF miserable bit of scandal.
In telling the story, the young woman
sad that she was always quite sure that
the young man became so infatuated with
her upon certain occasion when she acted
as mower girl at charity bazaar. The dress
Huich she wore was exceedingly pretty and
very becoming to her, and the count, never
having seen ANYTHING of the kind before,
was completely infatuated.
story is told Of Miss Sallie Hargous
now the beautiful Mrs. Duncan Elliott. It
happened, so runs the story long ago in the
Uiu Gays whel Miss Hargous used TO go to
oara1o5a instead OF to Newp TT for the long
summer season. At one Of the famous
saFden parties at the Grand Union Miss Har-
g9us was gorgeously gattired in lowered
u.ocaue OF the old-time period, when the
"oLheh wore skirts which were enchant-
.ngy narrow and bodices enchantinRlY
tuH' Miss Hargous looked simply lovely
III a oull yellow satin coat with broad lap
pss turning back from her beautiful neck
sau BOSOM. huge hat with pink feathers
"lVulh the brlm set off her lovely dark
oeauty, and one of her long slender hands
pafiuAy manipulated large moaocle with
party. '''0O 'No kay
among the guests there was one suscepti-
b bo man who had gained admittance almost
~ HECclaent, and it was his heart which
fro,t ,a ~. open by the shafts which cleaned
so oui n -aSo Hargous' beautiful eyes. A long
sns III VI ,"ouid-be Courtship on one hand
W.. o 50 on the other, followed, and it
MIS- I 10y until her return to the city that
tTonti gous was able to shake off her
"VTrlo ~, adorer.
,t Leu MISS Helen Gould made her debut
tba week weeks ago, several detectives were i'll
traas,"uIlu parIors, to guard not only the
Wis., W In jewels and brick.a-brao
s ~nGh abounded, but also to keep away
ts nOAS' VINO might by accident gain admit
trs 1Co 70 the house and be unpleasantly at
"SaF F'e to the guests.
| his Uould is q strikinglv pretty little
hon. nae.'e, and is so awfully rich she cannot
bnpt.o escape from the hosts of fortune
viii Ls- -" no are on the lookout for girls
~. ooeauty and money. Mr.. Sage's recent
Ieace' together with the threatening
m" mas which Mr.. Gould has received. have
.T aae tue little wizard" doubly cautious in
n, sIg watchful care over his daughter,