The record-union., 1896-03-07

! three months, marry a pretty girl, II
you would be happy six months, buy
a fast horse; if you be happy lifetime,
| be temperate I lived regularly at
that time, never drinking nor smok-
ing. and may add that neither drink
nor smoke to this day, and live as reg
ular a life as business man consist
emily can"
With such a parentage 1t is small
wonder that Victoria, after first de-
serting the mansion on the Hudson and
4 then her husbands fiat, should have
remained with the sisters for time.
Being a Catholic and having deliber-
ately left her husband, she could not
obtain a divorce. She met her parents
! the day she left her husband in 1886,
and the reconciliation then brought
about was never disturbed by further
differences.
Down to this point the story is COM
prehensible and natural enough. In a
moment of irritation, occasioned by
an incident at her home, she deter
mined upon the wild plan of eloping
with her fathers coachman. That in
/ diyidual, colorless, good -natured
chap, had been sent away from River
dale because he was paying too much
attention to Victoria. He returned to
! the house on September g. 1884, to
collect bill of one of the help on the
place, and Miss Morosini ran to meet
him across the lawn. Mrs Morosini
saw her daughter kiss the discharged
/ coachman and she exclaimed when
| Victoria returned to the house: Il never
| want to see you again" That night
Ernest Schilling and Victoria Moro
SIM were married in this city.
Months after her mad marriage she
met her father on the street, and she
said, in telling the incident to friend,
that she almost tainted He did not
see me-" she added, "and 1 tottered
home A few days afterward 1 saw
| him again, and he saw me, but neither
/ of us said a word. How I longed to
rush into his arms Although Ernest
was very kind, his friends were not the
kind of people to whom / had been ac-
customed. For days at a time 1 would
dc nothing but weep | must have been
crazy the day 1 ran away"
ON THE CASINO STAGE.
! After a trip to Europe, Victoria de-
cided to go on the stage. There was an
unconscious capitulation to that taint
of fatuous romance that led to her
marriage in the first place. She first
sang in concert, went West, returned
to Boston, then appeared in Indifferent
parts at the Thalia Theater. Finally
her engagement at the Casino brought
her some small measure of success as
a dancing girl
1t could not be truthfully said that
Victoria basked to any extent in the
light of popular favor. She was, to be
sure, the choicest curiosity in town for
months. Men threw flowers at her feet
and applauded because it was the thing
to do at that time. But it was a sorry
exhibition of both stage and parquet,
and she had sense enough at any rate
to finally put stop to it by releasing
herself from the engagement at the Ca
sino.
Such is the story in brief of this fa-
nous elopement. Victoria Morosini has
rot recovered from it as ninety-nine
women out of hundred would have
recovered. She has attempted to bury
herself from the world. She leads the
life, but does not take the vows of
nun. She is not stranger to her
fathers residence, and yet she is not
at home there. At the convent she is
a boarder She is not a religious fa-
without friends. She simply boards in
a nunnery.
Mr. Morosini some years ago presented
himself at the Bank of England and
asked for gold on one of it's f10 notes
He refused either to indorse the note,
according to the British custom, or
even to give his name. The bank would
not pay out the money. Morosini then
/ IaH as1t n ic lfoh 1.d a..
you accept your note in FIVE minutes,
time 1 shall send it to protest. There
was intense excitement in the bank, but
at the end of the five minutes Mr.. Moro
SIM had received his gold.
Just touch of this defiance of the
conventionalities one sees in Victoria,
but, alas! her five minutes have length
ened out into ten years, and still she has
not settled accounts with society.
1t is quite possible that the known
facts in this case may explain the de-
cision of of a society woman to shut
herself out from the ordinary walks of
life. 1t certainly does net seem a com
plete explanation to some people, and it
may be that during this melodrama in
real life Victoria has formed such
friendship which is a pleasure for her
curtain before her curious audience.
WHO IS THIS FRIEND?
It viii be remembered that in the
closing days of the Casino engagement
among Victoria's adrlirers who were
nightly seen in the front rows was a
young rubber merchant. He usually
came with a tribute of flowers, and his
solemn face, earnest even to the verge
of alarm, eventually attracted the no.
tice of Victoria's dancing sisters.
They asked his name and she frankly
said that it was a. friend of hers and of
the family. There could be no doubt
about his being a friend of hers. He
Gid not have the air Of paying her per-
sonal attention. He evidently would
have preferred to see her in almost any
place than on the opera stage His in
teTest even went further than buying
Casino tickets. And this would seem
probable enough when Victoria's S words
to her opera friends are recalled: THAT
man is the best friend I have; if it were
rot for him I think 1 should have died"
| This friend, and he evidently meant
to be the truest kind Of a friend, called
at the Schillings at different times.
! When Victoria finally left her husband,
Mr. Schilling said: "She has gone off
with that rubber merchant / believe
bis father has an office on Wall street
He has been poking round here for nine
months. We got on so nicely-Victoria
and 1. We We're saving money and do
! ing very well until that young man
came on the scene"
As the affair turned out that young
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