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Show THOSE WOMEN. ELI rtKKXS O.N THE SUBJECT. T':d you know Mrs.Marih?" skfd our reporter. "Yes, very well, sir. The Marshes ive in a most beautiful brown stone louse on i-'ifty-sevnth Btrcot, near rilLh avenue and Central park. Pur ears Muroh and I had the linet suit if rooms in Fifth avenue hotel. Hit :arrine and footmen are the moat tylish in the park." "And the lady herecll?" "Beautifiil, sir! ono of the most itylidh ladies in New York. She is letite in stature, and bus a head cf diver hair that Mother Washington would have envied. All the ladies in Sew York ,go wild' over Mrs. j " Marsh's fcruy hair. She wears it Pomp&dcur, and displays it with i pearls and diamond dust on all hall occasions, and, goodness! when she rides in the pa:k, or promenades at ( the charity hall, don't the people stare!" t "The Marshes are rich, then, Mr. i Perkins." " Yes Caleb Marsh ia a lich man. They don't live ou leas than $'25,000. a year, and never havo while in New York. To be eure. MRS. JIAUSH NEVE ft WENT IS THE BEST SOCIETY. 8he went in a respectable, but in a second-rate set a set of moneyed aristocrats a fast Bet, who lived in Europe summers and lived in opera-hoies opera-hoies and at fhe big public balls in winter anywhere they cau be the focus of fashionable excitement and the centre of wouderinii, eyes. Que thing peculiar about Mrs. Marsh, she wcldom went with her husband. Caleb almost always stayed at home or floated around the outside of the hall-room, while Mrs. Marsh generally gener-ally appeared in society resplendont with diamonds and toileted in tho richest of Worth's dresses, hut hanging on the arm of gome dashing society bachelor. She liked to be admired by gentlemen. gentle-men. She had no lady friends didn't want any, but when it came to young beaux, why, Mrs. Marsh just took them right away irom the young ladies." "Perhaps that was the trouble between be-tween Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Belknap?" Bel-knap?" suggested our reporter. "Yea, that was just it. Mrs. Marsh waa stylish, but personally cold and selfish. Mrs. Belknap was not so stylish but EHE WAS FULL OF SENTIMENT, full of passion. Her figure was well rounded. She always wore her dresses low, to attract gentlemen. And witli her personal charms she could and did win gentlemen away from Mrs. Marsh, who only held them by her stylish ways and beautiful and cosily toilets. Men were proud to escort Mrs. Marsh , with her diamonds and Worth dresses, in a big crowd, while they were glad enough to get Mrs. Belknap in a side room and flirt with her. Mrs. Belknap wore her dresses o low in the neck in Washington that she caused many modest ladies to blush and turn their heads. Her neck was white and delicate, and her bosom was always hid away in laces so coquetlishly that well, confound It? you know the gentlemen could not keep their eyes ofl of her!" "One day," continued Eli, "some one spoke to old Z.ick chandler about Mrs. Belknap's low - ueck dresses, j when the old fellow remarked, 'Humph! yes, pretty low, but I like it outside of my own family.' " THE WOMEN QUARREL. "What made the fuss betwecu Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Belknap?" "It was jealousy. Mrs. Belknap (nee Bower) gut Mrs. Marsh's gentlemen gentle-men friends away from her more especially a certain Baron de Martini. Both ladies wauled him for an escort in Paris, but Mrs. Belknap (nee Bower) captured him. This broupht about a coldness, and though the two ladies went to Europe together, they returned on 6f-prat ships: and when Mrs. Bower married Secretary Belknap Bel-knap she put, as she thought, the !a?t nail in Mrs. Marsh's rofnn by not inviting in-viting her to the wedding. This set Mrs. Marsh crazy. She suught for revenge. Sue put her husband up to kill Belknap in onler to get even with Mrs. Belknap and watisfy her wounded pride. Yes, sir! Caleb Marsh killed iSelknau to please his wife. Or, in other words, Mrs. Marsh ruined the secretary of war, broke up her own family, and raised the whole row, just so she could 8nap her finger iu her rival's face." C0NCEUNI5G CALEB P. HAESII. "Who was Mr. Marsh formerly?" ' 'Why, Marsh , ' ' continued Mr. Perkins", "was once one of the beat men Cincinnati had. Ho was unco in business with Mr. Probasco the richest man in Cincinnati. Marsh got rich honestly iu the iron business. He could draw his check any time in Cincinnati fur$50,0U0, and the banks would cash it. All the 'swell' people in Cincinnati knew the Marshes the Pendletoufl.GroeaUeck, McLeans, and all of thorn." "How does he look?" inquired our reporter. "Well, Marsh is about 4S years old. His wife, is about 40. He is tall and Blim; has gray hair prematurely j,rjiy like Mrs. Marsh. They are both brunettes. Marsh wears a dainty gray mustache. He is a very stylish man looka about as Fermiwjo Wood did twenty-five years ago." "in he honest?" "Yes, Marsh is honest, hypocritically hypocriti-cally and hypocritically honest. He's a cold, calculating, icehergy man. He never laughs, never melts, never talks much. Hia forte is to stand around and let people look at him, and ace ueople admiro his wife. Ho likes to get on tho box and drive a span Of horses around the park liken a Iront seat at the Jerome races, and always has a front seat nr none at all. Marsh would feel it his duty to tell the truth (if he could make a dollar by it), if it Bhould kill tho president and his entire cabinet. He :s ft cold, selfish man-despising, womau-hatini: man of tho world. Mar.li wouldn't lie to mako a dollar, hut he'd sacrifico all tho personal friendships in tho world to carry a point lo ploano Ins wife, whom ho loves with km undivided undi-vided they having no children. Marsli wouldn't lie, but ho'd run so near to alio that truth would be disgusted dis-gusted and he wouldn't tell a nquaro truth unless he knew ho cou'd hurt somebody by it." MRS. HELKSAf. "How about Mrs. Belknap ?" "Well, she's tho bad egg. The Kentucky Tomlinsons' are bad blood. Hnr first liUHhandwusa rebel cnlonel. He was a rrd faced, rcd-noscd whisky sampler, l'vo sren him many a timo bitting around Saraioga. lie always used to conio there every year. He wore ft lino Fi-ko velvet rnat drank H. O. P. brandy stunk, d Hcnrv Clay cigar, and abusfd tho tln Yankees. Ho was gouty, and when bodied Mrs. Hnwcr was a Imp-ny Imp-ny widow. Everybody laul, Ol Bower iidrad; now tho w.dow will ahinol' And she did shine. bhe mourned two months nnd went to Europe, bhc laid uiego to every man she met whose bank account was over f IDO 000. Mrs. Marsh says Mrs. Belknap caused scandal in Europe and d..-grared herself. But Mrs. Bower was too smart to bo caught in any scandal if aho was engaged in it. , N'o widow in any play ever flourished like her as soon us the grass grew on Colonel Bower's grave She was a second Sallio Ward a Madame Levert without her accomplishments. But ailing to marry a fortune, she came home, and made up her mind to troop in a cabinet minister and make a fortune. Any smart rebel woman can carry oH un honest man if she sets about it. Belknap had not seen much grind, foeieiy, and he fell a victim to the first fire. And she brought his ruin." Indianapolis Sentinel. |