The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-05
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| [ don't remember the first year l was
/ sent to school. The date is indisunct. But
! 1 do remember my f1rss Trip across the At
| lantic with my mother and the childish
heartbreak that took me TO bed in tears
when the doors of the convent of the Sa-
ored Heart closed on my mother and Sis
ter Marie Ann tried TO console me. Nine
years sped rapidly, each one fun of girl
ish devotion in the peaceful regularity Of
a clustered home. These were the hap
piest days in my life.
MY mother, on learning Of my CONVEX
sion to the Catholic faith. came immedi-
ately to Paris and took me away on a long
trip.
But I was no longer the silly little con-
vent girl. but the hedging, the ibrd who
knew its strength, the woman OF the
world in embryo. I was a mature girl
and looked older than was. My mother
was as anxious to launch me into the
matrimonial world and see that life which
was the sum total Of her existence. My
father provided unlimited money, and my
mother and 1 spent three months in pre-
pairing my wardrobe for the social plunge.
IN less than three months there were
several men paying me attention. My
mother was a favOrite of Mr.. - of Chi
cago. He was q man Of positively gro
tesque appearance and had neither breed
ing nor blood, at the age of 20. Fancy
that man wooing a. girl not IS.
my mother approved Of the match and
dfeapproved strongly of another suitor-a
young and handsome fellow, who was
charming companion and an aspiring ad-
mirer.
1.-The marriage was arranged, the settle
ments decided, the lamb ready to be led
to slaughter.
But the lamb had not been consulted,
and my mother had no idea that all my
gorlish heart had gone out to the young
suitor; that we were planning to elude
what seemed the calamity of my life.
zone sunny afternoon my mother miss
ed me, and that hour I made the unfor-
tunate mistake that was the beginning of
a series of calamities that seem to have
engulfed me.
MY husband was a scholar-the i'm
practical type of a man who reads but
learns nothing; who sits and gazes dream
lily from book or magazine and lays
plans 10 consummate some utopian idea
whereby to agin a great fortune.
Meantime we grew poor and was
obliged to appeal 10 my mother for help
Before the birth Of my first child my hus-
band believed he had a theory regarding
the breeding Of cattle. and if it could he
put in practice he would revolutionize the
cattle marts of the world. Mother bought
a large ranch in Colorado. We built
house Of stone and fitted it with all the
modern improvements. We furnished It
comfortably, even elegantly, throughout
There We lived until the death of my
mother, when quite a large sum of cash
came into my possession. Then we decid-
ed to take a trip around the world. We
went TO San Francisco; from there to ia
pan, where we spent a charming three
months in Yokohama There is a little
bijou of a. village where we lived amid the
flowers and birds, while my husband en-
tertained himself, intellectually, by meet
ing geisha girls.
From Japan We gradually Travelled east
TO Paris and London. Finally we came
home. It was only then that I really be-
gan 10 know what 1t Is to want money.
A ten dollar bill is not much. but it is an
awful lot when you haven't got it. Now
here I am in the Tombs don't allow
myself to think aobut the future. As
have said before, am guilty Of extrava-
gsnce bred in the bone. If that is a crime.
I am guilty. VIII other extravagant wo-
men take Warning?"