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Show A N ACE D DARLIflC. CUaiODS CASE OF INFATUATION YEAHS AND WICKEDNESS NO BAR TO LOVE. It is generally supposed that when beautiful young women mrry elderly ! men they do it simply and solely as a matter lf business so much young j flesh and blood lor bo much money 1 aud there ia little sympatny for eitner side if the bargaio docs not turn out as good as waa expected. A young : lady ot Brooklyn has recently, bow-ever, bow-ever, reversed all the tradiiiona in this respect. She is an only daughter, 1 and tho apple of her parents' eyes. Slie ia extremely pretty and peltie, with a rose leaf complexicn, a plump yet delicate form and a profusion of golden brown hair. She haa been educated at home exclusively and seen but little of the world, except one year spent abroad. Thia trip was projected in order to get rid of an . attachment which, to her parenU' ' horror, sbe had formed for a man of I nearly sixty years old, who was in the habit of visiting her father occasion - ; ally, but who look advantage of the privilege accord d to bis ae, and of a still somewhat fine and even distinguished distin-guished personal appearance, romake 1 passionate love to hia daughter. He is a rery pir man so poor that bio board and washing bills are always in arrears, and ho is overwhelmed with debts lor personal indulgences for which l.e nevnr thinks of paying. All Una had no etlecl upon th- girl She insisted upon returning home; and the parents, reaily knowing but little of hioi, after a hard contest finally gave a conditional consent, their d uihter lo first accompany her mother abroad for a year, and if she, on her return, desired to marry her elderly lover they would no more oppose op-pose it, but pay his debts and give liim a home at their house, for they have abundant moans, aud the daughter bas every advantage that wealth could bestow. A few mouths ago the mother and daughter returned from Europe, the daughter still determined on au alliance alli-ance ao repulaive to her family that the thought had made her mother's hair turn gray. But, in the mean time her father had made himself acquainted with some previous paa- sages in the man's career, and as soon aa poisible after her arrival placed them strongly before her. The man waa proud to bo a thoroughly unprincipled un-principled old scamp, the father of an illegitimate child, whose mother be had refused to marry the boy, uow hiteen years of age, supported and kept at school by bis mother's doily labor. He had even been compelled com-pelled to leave one -place where he lived to escape lynching, and left eveiywhere in debt. The father with tears told his daughter he could not let her marry such a man, and that her death would be almost preferable. He pictured her ten or fifteen yearB from this time, in the flower of her womanhood (she is not yet nineteen), with a husband decrepit and helpless, whom she could not even respect. But it was all of no avail. She insisted in-sisted that he had been abused, wronged, and said it was the one desire de-sire ot ber life to be able to comfort iiis remaining years, and smooth his pathway to the g ave. There Beems to me something radically radi-cally wrong and morbid about a case like thia, and I think her parents would be justified in taking strong measures to save their daughter from her Belf-imposed fate. If they do not, she will oertainly blame them some lime for their failure to rescue her from her situation; and should she evou die, as sbe threatens, her death would be easier borne than the long, horrible sacrifice to whiob she wishes to confine herself. |