The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-11
ODD PEOPLE FOUND
IN THE GREAT CITY
What an Observing Person Can Find In
the Foreign Quarters of Manhattan.


Not all the scions of nobility to be
found in New York live in the fashionable
streets, by any MEANS" said the Observ-
ing Woman who loves to poke around in
the foreign quarters, of MAMMA ttan.
I discovered a baroness in tene-
ment house in New York once. Oh, yes;
a real, live baroness, French one, and
she is living. there yet. I saw her yes
terday morning. "E@
"The story? Well, Nine. la Baronne
was the extremely pretty daughter of a
Paris tradesman. At the age of four
teen aeI she she was ash, married to baron, who
old Provencal family, which once held a
good place in the nobility of France. His
progenltors, however, had effectually
emptied the family exchequer, SO that
reached manhood they found themselves
possessed of an ancient chateau, a town
house in provincial city, and the en-
the Faubourg st. Germain but no income.
The older brother went into the army;
the younger became an engineer. The
possession of the latter title indicates, by
the way, a vast amount more in the way
of professional requirements and stand
ing in France than in America. The
young fellow was smart enough.
young daughter of the bourgeoisie and
nothing would do but he must have her.
Having got her, he proceeded to put her
to the torture. 1t was not a refined and
delicate torture, such as a member Of the
ancient regime might have been supposed
to enjoy. Oh, no; he regularly beat her;
pounded her, thrashed her black and blue
after the most approved peasant style.
He made her a prisoner, too; forbade her
to leave the house except for the mar
keting; and if he foundsthat she had been
an hour with neighboring woman, he
would administer sound corporal punish
ment:
1.-THE girl could get no a.help from her
He'd 10 oil how. ,%>
ries that man of her husbands rank and
station in life was allowed to do anything.
But the proverb of the woman, the SPAN
iel and the walnut tree must have been
apply to her: She endured it for ten
years. Then, being twenty-fouP years old,
and having saved money by stealth out
of her housekeeping allowance, she ran
away. Feeling dislike that was natural,
perhaps; to remaining on the same CONT
nent with her dearly beloved, she put
the ocean between them.
She landed in New York alone and
friendless, but with Frenchwoman's
knack with the needle. Never have 1
seen the woman who could make a dress
and tit in poverty. And in her little room
up four flights where she sewed all day
and got her own meals, she was, strange
to say. happier than when she had been
Madame la Baronne.
After while her husband got a d.
vorce,, OF which she was duly informed,
ana tnen Sne DreatheQ more freely STILL
The bread of independence tasted good to
her, and it was good to lie down at night
without a sore back But she was not
destined to live in lonliness forever. At
ter While some one came knocking at
the door, and when she opened it she saw
young man who had been a draught-
man for her husband in the old days. She
screamed with fright when she saw him;
so near 1t seemed to being the old days.
But he soon treasured her. He had
em1gre to fAmerique, oui, madame, and
had just taken the liberty to hunt her
up.
They were married eventually. He
was several years younger than she, but
they have been very happy. That was
to France intending to buy a tiny cot
interest of their money. Many French
working people in New York do that, you
know. Their savings are enough for
them to live on over there.
But my baroness and her husband
found they had not quite enough to be
comfortable on. and so they are back
again in their little fiat They estimate
that it will take them just five years to
save enough to make them happy ever
aftel In their French village. Meanwhile
Madame goes on making dress now and
then, when she feels like it, speaking her
soft, beautiful Partisan French go there
to exercise my French with her. Her
second husband has never ceased to adore
her, and I am glad that her tragedy in
high life turned into a romance of the
tenements here in New York. New
York Tribune