July 23, 1975 (8 pages)

a ———_ ne Eccentric —— ee prany 0 — See —sae July 23,1975 Wed., The Nevada County Nugget 5 sooaniesastaninansinaieaassheenaniddladiineed L AND THE NEWSPAPERS By Doris Foley they had hardly had tiine to give a proper raordinary a personage. ed by the name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna ways called Dolores, the diminutive of which is \ ithe horse whip made famous during her career. A favorite prop in many of her ned it belonged to her father. At age 33 » United States. » California State Library, Sacramento, Ca.) Soon after the birth of this Dolores, the 44th Regiment, of which her father was a captain, was ordered to India. I have heard her mother say that the passage to India lasted about four months that they landed at Calcutta, where they remained about three years, ’ when the Governor General Lord Hastings, ordered the 44th Regiment to Dinapore, some distance in the interior, upon the Ganges. Soon after the army arrived at this spot, the cholera broke with terrible violence and her father was among the first of its victims. There was a young and gallant officer by the name of Craigie whom her father loved, and when dying and too far gone to speak, he took his child’s and wife’s hands and put them in the hand of the young officer, with an imploring look, that he would be kind to them when death had done its work. The mother of Lola Montez was thus left a widow before she was eighteen-years old; and she was confided to the care and protection of Mrs. General Brown. You can have but faint conception of the responsibility of the charge of a handsome, young European widow in India. The hearts of a hundred officers, young and old, beat all at once with such violence for her, that the whole atmosphere for ten miles ’ round fairly throbbed with emotion. But in this instance the general fever did not last long, for Captain Craigie led the young widow to the altar himself. he was a man of high intellectual accomplishments and soon after this marriage his regiment was ordered to Calcutta, and he was advanced to the rank of major. At this time the child Lola was ‘little more than six years old, when she was sent to Europe to the care of Major Craigie’s father at Montrose in Scotland. This remarkable man had been provost of Montrose for nearly a quarter of a century, and the dignity of his profession, as well as the great respectability of the family, made every event connected with the household a matter of some public note, and the arrival of the queer, wayward, little East Indian girl was immediately known to all Montrose. The peculiarity of her dress, and I dare say, not a little eccentricity of her manners, served to make her an object of curiosity and remark; and very likely the child perceived she was somewhat of a public character, and may have begun, even at this early age to assume airs and customs of her own. With this family, however, she remained, but a short time, when her parents became somehow impressed with the idea that she was being spoiled, and she was removed to the family of Sir Jasper Nichols, of London, commander-in-chief of the Bengal forces. His family remained in Paris for the sake of educating their daughters. After several-years in Paris, Miss Fanny Nichols, and the young Lola were sent to Bath for eighteen months to undergo the operation of what is properly called finishing their education. At the expiration of this finishing campaign, Lola’s mother came from India for the. purpose of taking her daughter back with her. She was then fourteen years; and from the first. moment of her mother’s arrival there was great hubbub of new dresses, and all manner of extravagant queer looking apparel, especially for the wardrobe of a young girl of fourteen years. The little Dolores made bold enough one day to ask her mother what this was all about, and received for an answer that it did not concern her that children should not be inquisitive, nor ask idle questions. But there was a Captain James of the army in India, who came out with her mother, who informed the young Lola that all this dressmaking business was for her own wedding clothes that her mother had promised her in marriage to Sir Abraham Lumly, a rich and gouty old rascal of sixty years, and Judge of the Supreme Court in India. This put the first fire to the magazine. The little madcap cried and stormed alternately. The mother was inflexible, so was her child, and in the wildest language of defiance she told her that she never would be thus thrown alive into the jaws of death. bond in his revenerce’s body, keeping chorus, ‘‘Jump along quick, .~ ; f 3 assistance of her friend, Captain James. He was twenty-seven years of age, and ought to have been capable of giving good and ::: safe counsel. In tears and despair she appealed to him to save her * from this detested marriage a thing he certainly did most effectually, by eloping with marriage a thing he certainly did most effectually. The pair went to Ireland, to Captain James’ family, _ where they had a great fuss in trying to get married. Noclergyman < could be found who would marry so young a child without a _ mother’s consent. The captain’s sister put off to Bath, to try and get the mother’s consent. At first she would nct listen, but at last good sense so far prevailed as to make her see that nothing, but evil and sorrow would come of her refusal and ‘she consented, but ‘would neither be present at the wedding, nor send her blessing. So in flying from marriage with ghastly and gouty old age, the child lost her mother, and gained what proved to be only the-outside shell of a husband, who had neither a brain which she could respect, nor a heart which it was possible for her to love. Runaway matches, like runaway horses, are almost sure to end up in a smash-up. ‘i My advice to all young girls, who contemplate taking such astep, is, that they had better hang or drown themselves just one _.; hour before they start. Captain James remained with his child wife eight months in Ireland, when he joined his regiment in India. The first season of Lola’s life in India was spent in the gay and fashionable city of Calcutta, after which time the regifhent was ordered to Kural in the interior. * The fashion of traveling in India, I fancy, can never be made = agreeable to an American or a European certainly not to one of kind and humane feelings; for human beings are there used to perform the offices of horses, carrying you on their shoulders in a. palanquin. A palanquin is a kind of square box, handsomely painted outside, with soft cushions inside, and side-lamps like a carriage. = To each palanquin there are usually eight bearers, four of whom = are employed at a time. It is astonishing to see the amount of ce fatigue which these human horses will endure. But I have seen the poor creatures almost sink down with exhaustion as they set down their burden after a long journey through the burning sun, that would almost kill a man to set still in twenty minutes., But stillas — .; human nature will somewhat adapt itself to whatever cir“== cumstances may surround it, these hapless beings contrive to make a merry life among themselves. You will hear them sing their jolly songs under their heavy burdens. The chants of the palanquin bearers are sometimes very amusing and will serve to: give you an idea of the native genius of India. Though they keep all . the time to sing-song tune, yet they generally invent the words as they go along. I will give you a sample, as well as it could be made out, of what I heard them singing, while carrying an English clergyman, who could not have weighed less than two hundred and twenty five pounds. I must premise that the palkee is the Hin.; dustanee word for palanquin, and each line of the following jargon. © was sung in a different voice: ‘ ee: Oh, what a heavy bag! . No; it is an elephant He is an awful weight ; : Let’s throw his palkee down— Let’s set him in the mud"== Let’s leave him to his fate. No, for he’ll be angry then; tae Ay, and he’! beat-us then. “so With a thick stick. co Then let’s make haste and get along, . = Jump along quick. _ 2 And off they start in a jog-trot, which must have shaken every Here, then, was one of those fatal family quarrels when the jump along quick,” until they were obliged to stop for laughing. child is forced to disobey parental authority, or throw herself away. responsibility for a parent to assume of forcing a child to such alternatives. But the young Dolores sought the advice and a EE ae AC They invariably suit these extempore chants to the weight and -:2 into irredeemable wretchedness and ruin. It is certainly a fearful Character of their burden. : (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) = dS

a ———_ ne Eccentric —— ee prany 0 — See —sae July 23,1975 Wed., The Nevada County Nugget 5 sooaniesastaninansinaieaassheenaniddladiineed L AND THE NEWSPAPERS By Doris Foley they had hardly had tiine to give a proper raordinary a personage. ed by the name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna ways called Dolores, the diminutive of which is \ ithe horse whip made famous during her career. A favorite prop in many of her ned it belonged to her father. At age 33 » United States. » California State Library, Sacramento, Ca.) Soon after the birth of this Dolores, the 44th Regiment, of which her father was a captain, was ordered to India. I have heard her mother say that the passage to India lasted about four months that they landed at Calcutta, where they remained about three years, ’ when the Governor General Lord Hastings, ordered the 44th Regiment to Dinapore, some distance in the interior, upon the Ganges. Soon after the army arrived at this spot, the cholera broke with terrible violence and her father was among the first of its victims. There was a young and gallant officer by the name of Craigie whom her father loved, and when dying and too far gone to speak, he took his child’s and wife’s hands and put them in the hand of the young officer, with an imploring look, that he would be kind to them when death had done its work. The mother of Lola Montez was thus left a widow before she was eighteen-years old; and she was confided to the care and protection of Mrs. General Brown. You can have but faint conception of the responsibility of the charge of a handsome, young European widow in India. The hearts of a hundred officers, young and old, beat all at once with such violence for her, that the whole atmosphere for ten miles ’ round fairly throbbed with emotion. But in this instance the general fever did not last long, for Captain Craigie led the young widow to the altar himself. he was a man of high intellectual accomplishments and soon after this marriage his regiment was ordered to Calcutta, and he was advanced to the rank of major. At this time the child Lola was ‘little more than six years old, when she was sent to Europe to the care of Major Craigie’s father at Montrose in Scotland. This remarkable man had been provost of Montrose for nearly a quarter of a century, and the dignity of his profession, as well as the great respectability of the family, made every event connected with the household a matter of some public note, and the arrival of the queer, wayward, little East Indian girl was immediately known to all Montrose. The peculiarity of her dress, and I dare say, not a little eccentricity of her manners, served to make her an object of curiosity and remark; and very likely the child perceived she was somewhat of a public character, and may have begun, even at this early age to assume airs and customs of her own. With this family, however, she remained, but a short time, when her parents became somehow impressed with the idea that she was being spoiled, and she was removed to the family of Sir Jasper Nichols, of London, commander-in-chief of the Bengal forces. His family remained in Paris for the sake of educating their daughters. After several-years in Paris, Miss Fanny Nichols, and the young Lola were sent to Bath for eighteen months to undergo the operation of what is properly called finishing their education. At the expiration of this finishing campaign, Lola’s mother came from India for the. purpose of taking her daughter back with her. She was then fourteen years; and from the first. moment of her mother’s arrival there was great hubbub of new dresses, and all manner of extravagant queer looking apparel, especially for the wardrobe of a young girl of fourteen years. The little Dolores made bold enough one day to ask her mother what this was all about, and received for an answer that it did not concern her that children should not be inquisitive, nor ask idle questions. But there was a Captain James of the army in India, who came out with her mother, who informed the young Lola that all this dressmaking business was for her own wedding clothes that her mother had promised her in marriage to Sir Abraham Lumly, a rich and gouty old rascal of sixty years, and Judge of the Supreme Court in India. This put the first fire to the magazine. The little madcap cried and stormed alternately. The mother was inflexible, so was her child, and in the

wildest language of defiance she told her that she never would be thus thrown alive into the jaws of death. bond in his revenerce’s body, keeping chorus, ‘‘Jump along quick, .~ ; f 3 assistance of her friend, Captain James. He was twenty-seven years of age, and ought to have been capable of giving good and ::: safe counsel. In tears and despair she appealed to him to save her * from this detested marriage a thing he certainly did most effectually, by eloping with marriage a thing he certainly did most effectually. The pair went to Ireland, to Captain James’ family, _ where they had a great fuss in trying to get married. Noclergyman < could be found who would marry so young a child without a _ mother’s consent. The captain’s sister put off to Bath, to try and get the mother’s consent. At first she would nct listen, but at last good sense so far prevailed as to make her see that nothing, but evil and sorrow would come of her refusal and ‘she consented, but ‘would neither be present at the wedding, nor send her blessing. So in flying from marriage with ghastly and gouty old age, the child lost her mother, and gained what proved to be only the-outside shell of a husband, who had neither a brain which she could respect, nor a heart which it was possible for her to love. Runaway matches, like runaway horses, are almost sure to end up in a smash-up. ‘i My advice to all young girls, who contemplate taking such astep, is, that they had better hang or drown themselves just one _.; hour before they start. Captain James remained with his child wife eight months in Ireland, when he joined his regiment in India. The first season of Lola’s life in India was spent in the gay and fashionable city of Calcutta, after which time the regifhent was ordered to Kural in the interior. * The fashion of traveling in India, I fancy, can never be made = agreeable to an American or a European certainly not to one of kind and humane feelings; for human beings are there used to perform the offices of horses, carrying you on their shoulders in a. palanquin. A palanquin is a kind of square box, handsomely painted outside, with soft cushions inside, and side-lamps like a carriage. = To each palanquin there are usually eight bearers, four of whom = are employed at a time. It is astonishing to see the amount of ce fatigue which these human horses will endure. But I have seen the poor creatures almost sink down with exhaustion as they set down their burden after a long journey through the burning sun, that would almost kill a man to set still in twenty minutes., But stillas — .; human nature will somewhat adapt itself to whatever cir“== cumstances may surround it, these hapless beings contrive to make a merry life among themselves. You will hear them sing their jolly songs under their heavy burdens. The chants of the palanquin bearers are sometimes very amusing and will serve to: give you an idea of the native genius of India. Though they keep all . the time to sing-song tune, yet they generally invent the words as they go along. I will give you a sample, as well as it could be made out, of what I heard them singing, while carrying an English clergyman, who could not have weighed less than two hundred and twenty five pounds. I must premise that the palkee is the Hin.; dustanee word for palanquin, and each line of the following jargon. © was sung in a different voice: ‘ ee: Oh, what a heavy bag! . No; it is an elephant He is an awful weight ; : Let’s throw his palkee down— Let’s set him in the mud"== Let’s leave him to his fate. No, for he’ll be angry then; tae Ay, and he’! beat-us then. “so With a thick stick. co Then let’s make haste and get along, . = Jump along quick. _ 2 And off they start in a jog-trot, which must have shaken every Here, then, was one of those fatal family quarrels when the jump along quick,” until they were obliged to stop for laughing. child is forced to disobey parental authority, or throw herself away. responsibility for a parent to assume of forcing a child to such alternatives. But the young Dolores sought the advice and a EE ae AC They invariably suit these extempore chants to the weight and -:2 into irredeemable wretchedness and ruin. It is certainly a fearful Character of their burden. : (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) = dS