The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-05-31
MARRIED HER FATHER.
>vrrvrAM WALDORF AsToR WRITES
ABOUT NINE. RECAMIER.


Mall which will be issued this week.
zliscloses a general attempt on the part
M ali the contributors to write up 70 MI
stars literary and social level.
The Countess of Cork succeeds in get
,;pe auite in touch with the owner OF the
magazine in telling article on so
s;etvn in which sht says that entrance
no It s,cannot'be obtained for the gold OF
england or the silver of the almighty
dollar
BatMr. Astor is, after all, the best
,on eributor to his own pages and his ar
e,cIe On 'Mme, Becamier' is fully az III
sarssting as anything in them, printed or
9strated, He tries to prove that Nine
Reoamier married her own father NJ
Reramier was A. years old when he made
Euliette Bernard his wife; she was 10.
But let Mr.. Aston, tell the story in his
avn words. He writes:
IN. Recamier treated Juliette with
anfailing kindness and indulgence, but
thpre is no contradiction to be found TO
Ehe declaration Of many who knew them
ultimately that they never lived together
as man and wife. This has been ac-
.onnted for by the conjecture that Nine
Recamier has an intense adherence OF
marital relations, or by a surmise i'm
ayirgd after her death that she suffered
.l,.,r;o,I ipfirmitV
..Beth of these suggestions are etfaced
nv the most extraordinary event IN her
life. namely, her resolve in 1907 to sever
nor 6lial relations with NJ. Recamier and
ayrv Prince Augustus, of Prussia,
whose ardent courtship and passionate
soge letters must have given her doubt
suI 5ytimation that he would prove
most unplatonic husband
seThe letters exchanged between the
Recauiers at this strange juncture are
nrabqblv among the most remarkable
ever penned to one another by husband
and wife.
.sNpe. Recamier calmly declaressthat
viel1ing to the assiduities of the Prince
, inf Prussia, as we'll as to her own incli-
nation. she contemplaces sevvering the
anovd thai has joined them for thirteen
:, years
ITO this monstrous announcements Nj.
2F3ecarRier replies with temper, continlpg
Ea7rpseIf to his expressions of chagrin
that divorce with its attendant scandal
,SbauId embitter his last years, now that
in rbe twilight of life he had grown in.
.9frrr. needy and hiendless, living upon
tthe fragments of the fortunes he had
s'Ereeked
>,FEsat he admitted that the tie which
~anited them was one the church would
declare null, and agrees, if Juliette re
,epusres it. to meet her at some place out
Re France, where they can concert the
legal as measures to be taken and seek to
moderate the scandal he breads in Paris.
.<Compliance in husband rarely goes
s&arfher. But this astonishing situation
vExusasns itself If we may believe that NJ.
Recamier was addressing not his wife
but has daughter.
<sThe marriage of Jacques Recamier with
Juliette took place precipitately April
%. 1903. in theemidst Of a reign of ter
ror- And a rich man and an aristocrat
the banker had suddenly found himself
ssuspecte' The Bernard family, on the
contrary, were violent republicans.
.<In those days to become 'suspecte'
usually resulted in a visit to to the gull
lotine. Those were days and nights of
swift and appalling danger, and it is
conjectured that an extreme pa.il led to
the device, whieh probably Nine. Ber-
uard imagined. to avert suspicion OF her
former lover by allying him with her
,lwa revolutionary family. This artifce
Of marriage was perhaps intended
merely as an expedient for few m nths
Jntil the furyof the storm was spent,
but it lasted lifetime.
ut cannot surprise one to know THAT
wheu she had grown old Nine. Recamier
loved s.. ]itu de and the reveries to which
swee1, soft music inclines. No wonder
either THAI sic refuses to 90 through the
lnocBelyg .of writing her memoirs.
<$What an empty recapitulation they
xvo9h have been without some allusion
to the circumstances Of which she was
the living victim aud what rarvelous
aed5tstionk and souvenirs must have
been hers, who was married, yet had no
husband who WAS loved and worshipped