The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-09
BUT THEY LIVE AS THE LILIES
The Husband Was Raised q Very
Great Pet
And Cannot Work but Strives to Act as an
Ornament
The Wadleighs Made Cleanup In This
City and Are Now Expected Back
to Spend the Winter Months
in Los Angeles.

Everybody knows the Wadleigh fam
lily. Not to know them is to argue one
self unknown. Truth to tell the Wad-
leighs are endowed with the aristocratic
instinct that prompts them to acquaint-
ance. if not close intimacy, with people
Of standing in the community, and poor
folks are not to their liking.
OF course John Wadleigh and his tiny
dot of wife Irene have their peculiar
tiles. Who has not? And if they have
several aliases they are only arrogatng
to themselves the fashion of the Euro
pean countries where, when royalty I'M
bends and shows disposition to act as
ordinary, everyday folks, an incognito
hides, for the time being, the actual per-
sonality. And the Wadleighs are blue
bloods in their way, for they toll not,
neither do they spin, but they live on
the fat of the land all the same. The fact
is, however, that they are not popular.
They retain the old-time monarchical
idea that in levying tribute upon the
public they are fulfilling their destiny,
and dutifully contributing to the evolu-
ton of the race, if not by actively help
ing the world along at least by preying
upon it, and in so posing as living, per-
ambulatin evidences of inherent Gus
sedness and original sin. illustrate by
contrast the beauties of hard work and
resignation under the difficulties which,
more or less, shadow the average fam
lily.
The Wadleighs are we'll known in Los
Angeles and particularly we'll known to
the residents Of Santa Monica. John
Wadleigh is a fellow about 81 years of
age, and his Wife is little woman of
about "a. They are said to have had four
children, but with them the offspring is
a variable quantity, and when they re-
turn here, and they are expected daily,
it will be matter of pure chance wheth-
er they will have one child or half doz-
en-. They made their first appearance
here some years ago, and called at the
offices of the benevolent society," the or
ganization that was later merged IN the
Associated Charities. The story they
told was very pitiful, very pitiful. indeed.
So much SO that the average materfa-
milas would have sat down and had
good cry and then denied herself and her
family for week in order to have given
a dollar or two to the Wadleighs. The
good mother would feel good in so doing.
and would also have made the Wad-
leighs feel good, and 81 the sum total OF
human happiness would be increased.
The ladies at the Office of the benevo-
lent society, however, were somewhat
hardened, and as Mrs. Irene Wadleigh
reeled off long story of miseries that
had overwhelmed them the benevolent
ladies acted, as it appeared to the Wad-
leighs, in most unbenevolent fashion.
They told their visitors that they neither
could or would do anything for them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wadleigh were highly in
dignant that an organization sustained
by the contributions of the community
should so fail in its proper function as
to keep close purse strings against them.
Such a state of things must be rectified-
at least so far as they were concerned.
They proceeded to call upon some of the
prominent citizens and Mr.. Slauson be-
came interested in the couple. He be-
came so interested, indeed, that he
championed their cause before the board
Of supervisors, and the dads" of the
county removed the irritation of mind
caused to the Wadleighs by the action of
the ladies of the benevolent society and
sent them on their way rejoicing.
Times have changed since then-but
the Wadleighs haven't. Like the brook
of the poet they 'go on forever" gurgling
out their little story and seducing the
shekels from the pockets of the right
eous.
This loving couple are cosmopolitan in
their tastes and have Travelled all over
the country, never remaining long in one
place. When they turn their backs upon
a city it may be truly said that 1t is for
that particular city's good. But the life
is a congenial one to them. MY nus
band can't work. you know" gurglcd
the tender Irene, in her wifely devotion,
for he was raised pet'-and suckers
are so plentiful she might have added
with perfect truth.
In Indianapolis, at the end of last year,
the Wadleighs cut wide swath. They
are Protestants, but liberal in their re-
ligious ideas, and SO their proclivities in
this direction serve them in good stead
dicating the breadth of their Christian
charity Before they left Indianapolis
they must have mulcted the good friends
in that city of a good round sum, for
upon next appearing upon the scene in
Kansas City the honored name of Wad-
leigh was cast aside and they blossomed
forth as Mr.. and Mrs. Sunderland. Later
again they figured by the name of Ly-
man, and recently, when they returned
to winter on the Pacific coast. and made
a round of calls in San Francisco, they
had again switched their name to that
of Sutherland.
Their reception at the metropolis of
the Pacific has not been particularly
cordial. But the fine Italian hand of
this interesting couple has not lost its
cunning and they are not in any dis
tresS.
1t is anticipated that the Wadleighs.