Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-11
HIS DOUBLE PLAY.
A Society Young Man Full
Of Duplicity.
He AssiduOusly Visits Two Girls
at the Same Time.
Two of his Fiancees Describe How
They Have Been Deceived.
The Affair Liable to Result in q Big
Row If the Fathers OF the
Girls Learn the Facts.
The Story in Brief.

Row II the Fathers of the
Girls Learn the Facts.
The Story in Brief.
A disgraceful case of duplicity, where.
by two charming young girls have been
rendered unhappy, is now being talked
about great deal in society circles. The
villain in the story is the son of digni.
fed political light, now holding office,
who, if he were aware of his boys ne.
farious practices. would probably make
an attempt at reformation with club.
The young man is well known to the
society people of Los Angeles through
his remarkable loquacity, which spares
neither friend or foe. He also is charac-
terized by an inordinate vanity, which
leads him to believe that every lady he
meets must fall in love with him at first
sight. The allowance made him by his
father has enabled him to figure exten.
sively as an escort to the theaters, with
suppers and extras, so that he has been
really considered ladies' man.
The especial fad of the gay young Don
Juan was to use all the Establishments
he was capable of upon the susceptible
ties of debutantes, otherwise buds -
that is, young girls only recently out OF
school and newly introduced to society.
A few months ago the friends of the
gay young fellow noticed him going out
on the Seventh street cable line with
such frequency that they got into the
habit of chatting him about it. He was
then calling at the house OF a we'll known
citizen, who has charming daughter OF
IL. To this girl the hero of this tale
made violent love sub rosa, and had the
better opportunity as the parents of
the young lady are acquainted
with the young mans father,
and looked upon the visits in the light
of innocent interest. The gay cavalier
occasionally remained so late that he
was asked to spend the night, and this
idea pleased him so we'll that some Of
his more intimate male acquaintance
still maintain that he eventually ac-
quired the habit of carrying with him,
when he went to make a call, his robe
de mutt in handbag. The end Of this
,Sranch of the etory was that the girl
liste,,ed TO the VOWS of the lover and
went so far as to engage herself to him
in secret,
.ne meantime, on alternate even
ings. our hero took the electric cars.
which run to Westlake park, and got off
in the hill district, where a pretty little
brunette, one OF the coming favorites in
society, had caught his fancy. His tao
tics here were precisely the same as at
the other place, and the result was the
same. The girl allowed her own feel
irgs to run away with her good sense,
and also agreed eventually TO secret
engagement.
What the blades purpose was in these
cases is hard to understand, if an evil
Interpretation be avoided. He was not
satisfied with his double entanglement,
but with assiduity began paying atten-
tions to third young girl, also we'll
known among those who are in the
swim. With this girl he is etill the ro-
mantle, love sick swain.
A partial denouement occurred week
ago. The two secretly engaged young
girls had previously had only a speaking
acquaintance, but they took a liking to
each other, cultivated each others
society and finally grew confidential.
On the occasion OF a week ago, they
were together, and, as young girls will
do, drifted in their conversation to dis
cussion OF their respective admirers.
With bushes suffuaing her velvet
cheeks, one of the girls confessed to her
friend that she was engaged, and-just
think OF the romance-eDgaged in
secret. The others heart beat in
ecstatic sympathy, when she too ac-
knowledged that she coincidentally,
lived under the same happy circum-
stances.
"Who is he?" said the one, nesting
closely as she listened for an answer.
In a modest whisper her conidante
murmured the loved ones name.
A shrek, deathly pallor and faint
ing spell was the result. The black-eyed
little one had received her first lesson on
the cruelty of the world.
The unprincipled beau who was the
cause of go much misery to two lovely
young creatures, OF course, received in a
day or two knowledge that his duplicity
was discovered, and it 1s probable that
he will hear further from the fathers OF
the girls when they investigate his con-
duct. He has thus far consoled himself
with "reminiscences and with renewed
and assiduous devotion to maiden No. 3.
The latter will, OF course, ere long, be-
come acquainted with the character OF
her pseudo lover.
The story as here told is strictly true
in every particular. and was revealed by
a mutual friend of the girls, woman,
who thought its publication might ex.
tend general warning to young ladies
who are approached with hattery by
hypocritical scoundrels dressed as gen.
tlemen, and may possibly result in fur.
ther discoveries of young women who
think they are engaged to that young
man.
Mr.. J. P. Blaize, an extensive real es.
tate dealer in Des Moines, Iowa, mar
rowly escaped one of the severest at.
tacks of pneumonia while in the north,
ern part of the state during a recent
blizzard, says the Saturday Review. Mr.
Blaize had occasion to drive several
miles during the storm and was so thor
oughly chilled that he was unable tc
get warm, and inside of hour after
his return he was threatened with g
severe case of pneumonia or lung fever
MIR. Blaize sent to the nearest drug
store and got bottle OF Chamberlain
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