A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

at first at her mother's house, and later at a school in Bath. In the course of conversation with Lola, she informed me that she resided for sone time with her mother in the city of Cork, Zngland. She said on The Grend Parade. While quite young, she married an officer named James. He took her to India, where she alleged he treated her cruelly. On account of his cruelty, she left him and returned to England, possibly to commence that adventurous life to which she clung almost to the last. In England, her native talent and above all, her outer manners and remarkable disposition, gave her no little notoriety. After residing a short time in England, she visited Paris, where at the age of sixteen, in 1840, she appeared as danseuse at the Porte St. Martin. It will be seen according to this that she must have been married at the age of fourteen, unless her statement that she was born in 1824 was apocryphal. In Paris, it is claimed by friends end admirers, that her wit and accomplishments Grew around her a circle of the literary men and artists of the French Capital. With one of these, Dujarrier, and editor of the press, her relations were said to have been intimate. But yet after what I had seen of the woman in this city in the later "50's," when. she was not more than 33 to 35 years of age, . according to her own story, I could see nothing attractive, either mentally or physically, in the woman. To me she was as shallow as the babbling brook. I remember at the time that, while endeavoring to reconcile this ordinary looking woman with the conquests she was reported to have been, I used to ask myself if she was not a fair specimen of those crafty woman spirits of the neither world whom the Swedish seer called siren-women, who lived in the in° dulgence of their inclinations, regarding only themselves and the world, and making the all of life to consist in a superficial external decorum, in consequence of which they have been particularly esteemed in nolished society. Indeed, in Lola's case, the externel decorum was of decided fig-leafy characer, I remember that while I conversed with this remarkable adventuress, I could not for the life of me imagine how she could have fascinated Louis of Bavaria, in whose capital she appeared shortly after the death of her Parisien friend, Dujarrier, the editor of the Paris Presse, and who lost his life in a duel. . At Munich, she was the subject of a numver of extraordinary adventures, Here she again appeared as a danseuse, but by the exhibition of an incredible degree of daring, found herself in a position to influence political events to such an extent that finally she became the cause of a revolution. The King greatly desired to bestow on her . the title of Countess of Lansfield. His ministry, however, led by Carl von Abel, refused to sanction the proposal of the senile monarch. On this refusal, in 1846, the ministry was dissolved, after which Lola received the title. Subsequent to this piece of folly, on the part of the King, the Countess lived in great state in a splendidly furnished house, @ large pension amply providing for every description of extravagance, in which she fairly revelled. Among the many foliies inGoogle adulged in by King Louis in his mad craze for the woman, was the placing of her portrait in the gallary of the court beauties. This was too much for Bavarian aristocracy, and doubtless tended to accelerate her downfall, which meanwhile was a matter of time. Curiously enough, a second ministry, that of Count Wallenstein, in the formation of which Lola Montez had not a little to do, became hostile to her; as quickly as she perceived this, she procured their deposition through the influence with the thoroughly infatuated Louis. This movement was unfortunate for her . the cause of her downfall. ' fhe members of the despose ministry stirred up the people against her. To use one of Thomas Jefferson's favorite phrases, they appealed to the sections against the demination of the King's favorite. Every imprudent act of hers, to perform which her enemies in the first instance provoked her and because of her hot Spanish Irish blood, it was easy to do this was repeated in the journals of the day with every form of exaggeration. Meanwhile, Lola, on her part, was not idle. She made friends with a score of students of the more aristocratic class, enroll_ backed up by the mob. ing them among her defenders, Nor had these pretty young dancers of hers an easy time of it. They were assailed by numbers of the more deocratic students, who in turn were On one occasion in the streets of the Capital, a riot, in which unfortunately for them, the King and Lola were involved, took place. In this riot, the monarch and his ministers were only saved from personal violence by a charge of a part of regiment of ouirassiers. The outcome of this riot was that the next day the University of Munich was closed by royal decree, : with the result that in February 1848, the capital was the scene of a terrible tumult which compelled Lola to fly to from Munich, with the further result that the King formally abdicated in the following month, in consequence of the general revolutionary movement on the entire continent of Europe. In March 1648, finding her occupation gone in Bavaria, Lola Montez proceeded to England. There her reputation and her consummate audicary again drew around the woman numbers of influential and wealthy friends. In the midst of her fresh conquests, a young English Officer named Heald, a Captain in a regiment of the line, offered her his hand , and was accepted. Fearing a prosecution for : bigemy, James, her first husband, being still “ fled to Spain, in the land of living, Mr. and Mrs. Heald at that time and for many :yeers afterwerd, a sort of paradise for crim\inels on account of the absence of extradition treaties in that country. Meanwhile, fate, or metaphysically adverse circumstances still followed Lola. The death of James in 1850, followed soon after by that of Captain Heald, freed her from both husbands and inspired her with the idea of seeking "fresh fields and pastures new." Accordingly in 1852, she cane to the United States, where shé appeared in what she talléd autobiographical dramas, and abnormally poor productions t: ° thas 6d to set for er various and marvelous playing in nearly all the leading cities of the union. She finally maia tie Isthnus trip to California, starting from New Orleans. In tue Golden Cate metropolis, it was matter of gossip that she was J merried to and divorced from her third hus77

at first at her mother's house, and later at a school in Bath. In the course of conversation with Lola, she informed me that she resided for sone time with her mother in the city of Cork, Zngland. She said on The Grend Parade. While quite young, she married an officer named James. He took her to India, where she alleged he treated her cruelly. On account of his cruelty, she left him and returned to England, possibly to commence that adventurous life to which she clung almost to the last. In England, her native talent and above all, her outer manners and remarkable disposition, gave her no little notoriety. After residing a short time in England, she visited Paris, where at the age of sixteen, in 1840, she appeared as danseuse at the Porte St. Martin. It will be seen according to this that she must have been married at the age of fourteen, unless her statement that she was born in 1824 was apocryphal. In Paris, it is claimed by friends end admirers, that her wit and accomplishments Grew around her a circle of the literary men and artists of the French Capital. With one of these, Dujarrier, and editor of the press, her relations were said to have been intimate. But yet after what I had seen of the woman in this city in the later "50's," when. she was not more than 33 to 35 years of age, . according to her own story, I could see nothing attractive, either mentally or physically, in the woman. To me she was as shallow as the babbling brook. I remember at the time that, while endeavoring to reconcile this ordinary looking woman with the conquests she was reported to have been, I used to ask myself if she was not a fair specimen of those crafty woman spirits of the neither world whom the Swedish seer called siren-women, who lived in the in° dulgence of their inclinations, regarding only themselves and the world, and making the all of life to consist in a superficial external decorum, in consequence of which they have been particularly esteemed in nolished society. Indeed, in Lola's case, the externel decorum was of decided fig-leafy characer, I remember that while I conversed with this remarkable adventuress, I could not for the life of me imagine how she could have fascinated Louis of Bavaria, in whose capital she appeared shortly after the death of her Parisien friend, Dujarrier, the editor of the Paris Presse, and who lost his life in a duel. . At Munich, she was the subject of a numver of extraordinary adventures, Here she again appeared as a danseuse, but by the exhibition of an incredible degree of daring, found herself in a position to influence political events to such an extent that finally she became the cause of a revolution. The King greatly desired to bestow on her . the title of Countess of Lansfield. His ministry, however, led by Carl von Abel, refused to sanction the proposal of the senile monarch. On this refusal, in 1846, the ministry was dissolved, after which Lola received the title. Subsequent to this piece of folly, on the part of the King, the Countess lived in great state in a splendidly furnished house, @ large pension amply providing for every description of extravagance, in which she fairly revelled. Among the many foliies inGoogle adulged in by King Louis in his mad craze for the woman, was the placing of her portrait in the gallary of the court beauties. This was too much for Bavarian aristocracy,

and doubtless tended to accelerate her downfall, which meanwhile was a matter of time. Curiously enough, a second ministry, that of Count Wallenstein, in the formation of which Lola Montez had not a little to do, became hostile to her; as quickly as she perceived this, she procured their deposition through the influence with the thoroughly infatuated Louis. This movement was unfortunate for her .. the cause of her downfall. ' fhe members of the despose ministry stirred up the people against her. To use one of Thomas Jefferson's favorite phrases, they appealed to the sections against the demination of the King's favorite. Every imprudent act of hers, to perform which her enemies in the first instance provoked her and because of her hot Spanish Irish blood, it was easy to do this was repeated in the journals of the day with every form of exaggeration. Meanwhile, Lola, on her part, was not idle. She made friends with a score of students of the more aristocratic class, enroll_ backed up by the mob. ing them among her defenders, Nor had these pretty young dancers of hers an easy time of it. They were assailed by numbers of the more deocratic students, who in turn were On one occasion in the streets of the Capital, a riot, in which unfortunately for them, the King and Lola were involved, took place. In this riot, the monarch and his ministers were only saved from personal violence by a charge of a part of regiment of ouirassiers. The outcome of this riot was that the next day the University of Munich was closed by royal decree, : with the result that in February 1848, the capital was the scene of a terrible tumult which compelled Lola to fly to from Munich, with the further result that the King formally abdicated in the following month, in consequence of the general revolutionary movement on the entire continent of Europe. In March 1648, finding her occupation gone in Bavaria, Lola Montez proceeded to England. There her reputation and her consummate audicary again drew around the woman numbers of influential and wealthy friends. In the midst of her fresh conquests, a young English Officer named Heald, a Captain in a regiment of the line, offered her his hand , and was accepted. Fearing a prosecution for : bigemy, James, her first husband, being still “ fled to Spain, in the land of living, Mr. and Mrs. Heald at that time and for many :yeers afterwerd, a sort of paradise for crim\inels on account of the absence of extradition treaties in that country. Meanwhile, fate, or metaphysically adverse circumstances still followed Lola. The death of James in 1850, followed soon after by that of Captain Heald, freed her from both husbands and inspired her with the idea of seeking "fresh fields and pastures new." Accordingly in 1852, she cane to the United States, where shé appeared in what she talléd autobiographical dramas, and abnormally poor productions t: ° thas 6d to set for er various and marvelous playing in nearly all the leading cities of the union. She finally maia tie Isthnus trip to California, starting from New Orleans. In tue Golden Cate metropolis, it was matter of gossip that she was J merried to and divorced from her third hus77