The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-01
Gondon Cor. Washington starr

Uondon Cor. Washington Starr
Human nature abounds in startling
contrasts. but seldom are its contrasts
SO strikingly revealed as in two cases
which have just come to light simulta-
neously. In each of them the person
concerned has rejected a considera Bile
fortune, but for reasons which are as
wide apart as the poles.
/ In the one instance a young woman
of gentle birth and breeding and good
education has refused to accept leg
acy of $4,000. In the other. a young
man who enjoyed equal advantages in
his youth has turned his back on $780,
600
The young woman has rejected her
/ legacy because the condition Attached
to it is that she shall abandon her dis
/ solute life and return TO her father.
The wages OF sin have not bought her
ease and Injuries. She lives IN soriid
poverty amidst the vilest of her sex
But the prospects of affluence do not
! tempt her, because she has a stronger
motive TO gratify-revenge.
Il have been driven to what | am. ."
she says in effect. through the faults
Of others. If my relatives grove for
me they deserve to grieve That my
dishonor may also be their dishon1r I
shall remain an impenitent and unre-
formed Magdalene In no other WAY
can | be avenged on them"
The young man has rejected his leg
acy because the condition attached 10
it is that within ten years ne shall re-
turn to the religious faith in which he
was brought up. He says he prefers
the satisfaction of being true to his
conscience-of following the inward
lght to all the good things thai
riches might buy for him. He refuses
10 abandon his principles to escape pov-
erty. What a sermon mOralists nighi
preach on the difference between I'M,
sacrifice made by the sinner and that
made by the saint!
-Four years ago the young woman
whose case presents such a curious
psychological puzzle was one Of the
bellies of her native Welsh county. Dow
cred with rare beauty, tall, graceful
and accomplished, she had scores of adj /
mirersi The sutton whom she preferred
turned out 10 be a scoundrel He won
her heart only TO play her false. Her |
family did what respectable families /
usually do in such circumstances. They /
made things just as hard for her rs /.
they could. The man is probably still /
one of the pets of society. If he isn't |
II isn't because of the episode which /
has wrecked a wOmans life Embit- /
tered and rebelliOus, the girl left her /
home and plunged into the depths 100
late her relatives relented The help /
ing hand which they then held OUT /
10 her she rejected. A little while ago 4
her mother died, and i'm her will be- /
queathed her $4,000, subject to the con- |
ditions which I have stated. Her bro /
ken-hearted father. a retired colonel in /
the British army, was more than will /
ing TO take her back Time and sor- /
row that have -Whitened his hair had |
sOftened his stubborn pride
II took some time TO find the girl. /
II was discovered that she was living
IN Cardiff, in Mary Ann street, loath- /
some thoroughfare of moral lazar
houses. Despite the life she has led. 1
1isgrace's effacing fingers have not
wholly swept away the lines where
beauty fingers" Her slum woman asso-
ciates speak of her with frank admira-
ton as Lii the Lady" The police,
too, say that even in her most aban-
ioned hours, when she is giving them