The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-07
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Strange Double Lives Led by Well Known
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Strange pOuble Lives Led by wen huoWh
People.
There are numbers of people who
lead double lives. While in some
cases tho motives which influence
such persons are pretty evident in
many others one seeks reason in
vain.
A lady we'll known in fashionable
society, particularly in select ball
room circles, and whose wealth and
personal attractions arc matter of
common comment, is in the habit of
donning the role of ballet dancer
at celebrated west end theater,
where, under an assumed name, she
finds ready employment. Her dual
life is carefully kept secret save
from one or two of her most init
mate friends, and neither her aristo-
cratic connections ON the one hand
nor her associates on the stage on
the other have any conception that
Lady A of polite society and CiSsy
NJ of the - theater are one and
the same person. What the lady s
motives can be for indulging in this
dual existence it is not easy to see,
but it is n fact that any scheme for
the social Improvement of theatrical
employees finds in her ready and
munificent patron.
Another lady, also we'll known in
society, leads n curious double lifo,
During the London season she ooou-
pies n legitimate place Mt tho head of
numerous social functions, hut Iii.
rectly tho curtain is drawn over tho
high class carnival she shuts her big
house in Mayfair and retires 10 tho
country. where. under another name.
she superintends and carries on u
prosperous business in tho cheese
farming line. When the season be-
gins again, the management of the
concern is placed in competent hands
and the lady resumes her station in
society. Money making is evidently
not the influencing motive for this
twofold existence, for the lady's
private wealth is large, and the prof
its of the concern mentioned are
said to be greatly discounted in acts
of charity.
A dual life seems to possess great
attractions for people in high sta
tons. A certain peer, bearer of
name that has in its day done
doughty service in political life,
spends half his time in his wonted
sphere as a member of the aristoo-
racy and the other moiety he whites
away by donning the blouse of a me-
ohanic in an engineering workshop.
In similar manner another men,
Der of the hereditary house is in the
habit of often dropping his iden-
tity as one of the upper ten" and
seeks and finds employment as en-
CINE driver on one of our prominent
lines of railways. Yet another live
lord is credited with leading the dual
existence of peer of the realm and
The motives that influence such
cases as these are different from the
reasons actuating a London clergy
man whose income from clerical
duty is so small that he finds it nee
essary to conceal his identity during
four days of the week in order that
he may supplement his scanty sti-
pend by doing the work of a wine
merchants clerk.
By far the larger proportion of dual
lives are adopted for nefarious pur-
poses. Charles Peace, the notorious
burglar and murderer of Mr.. Dyson,
is an example OF criminal wlO for
a long time successful vadopted a
double role in life. At Lambeth,
Greenwich and Peckham, where he
resided in first class
style, Peace led the life of a gentle
man of independent means, enjoying |
the respect of his neighbors, none of
whom had the remotest idea of asso-
ciating him with the daring bur-
glaries perpetrated in their midst
during his residence among them,
and of which he was in reality the
author. 1t was the intimacy which
his assumed position gained for him
in getting admittance to the houses
of the gentry around that enabled
him to commit some of his most no
torious robberies. London Tit-Bits.