The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-19
JADED WITH PLENTY.
Men Who We're Nauseated With lux
ury and Enjoyment
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the contrary, IS oftentimes productive
of such a feeling of safety. ennui and
boredom as to unhinge the mind. Mel
anchOlia is a far more frequent malady
among the very rich than with those
who are in straitened circumstances,
and as a general rule it is caused not
by the absence Of something needed or
desired, but just because there IS abso-
lutely nothing left for which to long,
no wish that has not been gratihed to
the utmost, nothing in the shape of lux
ury or enjoyment that has not been
drained to the very dregs until a feeling
kindred to that of downright nausea en-
sues
In some instances this form of neuro-
sis, which pathologists describe as
smelancholic chronic discomfort, - leads
those afflicted Herewith to commit sui
eide, while in other cases it's victims arc
induced thereby to perpetuate eccentric
tiles that are worthy only of a lunatic
asylum. Thus Baron Hugo Ortlieb, who
has Just shuff1ed off this mortal coil at
his superb country seat near Kazan,
suceum bling to the effects of a pistol
wound self inflicted a few days pre-
viously i'll a moment of dependency,
had spent the last ten years of his life
in bed without ever getting up. There
was absolutely nothing the matter with
him physically speaking. From mere
bodily point Of view he was as sound as
a bell, and even to the last a splendid
specimen Of manhood. But somewhere
about 1884, after having exhausted
every conceivable form of pleasure and
excitement, lie, although in perfect
health at the time, took to his bed, and
Il. *, T,G
was quite sane in all other respects,
managed his property with the greatest
sagacity and shrewdness to the last and
was most brilliant and witty in CONVEX
sation He had received his education
at Vienna, and owing to his wealth,
amounting to some 81, 600, 600, and to
the high favor which his father enjoyed
in the sight of Gar Nicholas I he was
a welcome guest not only at the court
of st. Petersburg, but also at those Of
Berlin, Vienna and London.
Baron Won MarkOw, who poisoned
himself at Vienna three weeks ago, was
another instance of the same kind. Al
though he was almost 90 years old, be
was in splendid physical health and had
attained every object of his ambition
namely, immense wealth and acceptance
by the most exclusive coteries of society
of the Austrian metropolis. With every
thing Imaginable at his disposal and
practically nothing that was within
reason beyond his reach, with no do
nestle or monetary troubles of any
kind be had everything to make life
agreeable and delightful. Yet it was
just the boredom or the ennui of perfect
contentment that rendered existence
unbearable to him, and that is why ne
committed suicide.
Six years ago the principal banker of
Madrid, M Bauer, brother Of that ex-
prelate, Mgr. Bauer, who was the chap
lain and father confessor of Empress
Eugene and the principal celebrant at
the Inauguration of the Suez canal, cut
his throat just at the very moment
when Dame Fortune seemed to have
emptied the entire horn of her abun-
dance at his feet. He had lovely and
clever wife, who was accepted by all
the great ladies IF the Madrilene arts
tocracy as one Of their set, was person
ally most popular not only with the
masses, but also with the classes, and
enjoyed in Spain very much the same
power and influence as the Rothschilds
at Paris and in London. Yet his bore
dom and ennui were of SO acute a ma
characterized by such look of misery
that his appearance used often to be
compared to that of Christ in his agony.
He committed suicide, not in a moment
of temporary insanity, but in perfect
possession Of his wits and after having
carefully arranged and set IN order all
his immense financial interests. In fact,
the act of felO de Sc was perpetrated
by this greatest of all Spanish fnanoiers
solely because he was tired of life and
satiated ad nauseam with all its excite
ments, its pleasures and enjoy ments.
In Paris quite a number of the so
called princes of finance, - who excel
all the remainder of their fellow citi-
zens in luxury and in the costIiness of
their mode of life, have committed sui
eide from sheer ennui, one of the mem
bers Of the house of ROthsohiId being
among the number, while in England
we find the late Duke Of Portland, who
as one of the great ground landlords of
London possessed from that source alone
revenues amounting to 81, 600, 600
year, so miserable and Respondent from
ennui that during the last 20 years of
his life be Withdrew from the society of
his fellow creatures, declined to permit
any one save an old valet to set eyes
upon him or to enter his presence, and
with the object of escaping from all as
soeiatiOns with or view of the human
race caused a great underground palace.
including picture galleries, Libraries,
chapel and even riding schools and sta
bles, to be constructed at an enormous
expense, where he lived throughout the
latter portion of his life, never coming
by any chance to the surface of the
earth. To this day the underground
portion of that immense palace. known
as Welbeck abbey, constitutes one of
the marvels of the midland counties of