d grown
threadbare, they are left at peace.

I give here, complete, an article on one of such poor victims, cut
out of a Denver paper, which, in its callous indifference to the pain
it must have caused the lady under discussion, is a good example.
But, as I would not drag this lady into further publicity, I have
substituted an initial for her name, which was plainly given in the
newspaper. "Madeline's Mash" does duty for Madeline's Lover. The
sensational headings, and interpositions in large type, are worthy of
notice.

MADELINE'S MASH.

THE APPEARANCE IN DENVER OF A DISTINGUISHED
SOCIETY LADY.

RECALLING A TRAGEDY WHEREIN AN ENGLISH ACTOR WAS
THE LEADING ARTIST.

The train hence to Kansas City via the Burlington
road on yesterday afternoon departed, as usual, on
time and, as usual, heavily laden. There was
indeed more than the ordinary complement of
pilgrims, remarked the Depot Superintendent, and
made up of the class who travel luxuriously--of
the class to whom luxuries are every-day
experiences and whose journeyings, whether from
lands of snow to lands of sun or to lands of snow
from lands of sun, are accompanied by holiday
pleasures. Among those whom the train bore
Eastwardly was a fair daughter of Eve, about whose
life has been woven a romance, a tragedy as dire
in its effects upon two families, at least, as was
the tragedy woven out of the warp and woof of the
romance born of Paris and Helen. She is related to
one of the wealthiest and most prominent families
of the country, both socially and financially, and
though upwards of forty years of age is yet
youthful in appearance and hoydenish as a Vassar
miss proud in the possession of her first beau.
Twenty years ago she was a Gotham belle, and
related to the L.'s, occupied a position of social
distinction, which wealth, beauty and graces of
character perfectly combined inevitably procure.
In the heydey of her youth and beauty she was
married, but scarcely mated, to a representative
of the Knickerbocker regime and, as is
represented, barely consented

TO ENDURE THE BURDEN

officiously ambitious relatives had buckled on her
back. It ended as all other matches wherein
affection is made to pay tribute to other
considerations end, in separation, infatuation