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An Actress's Photograph
Has been used during the week with
humiliating effect upon the susceptible
weakness of a young lawyer, well known
in uptown society. The actress is a
performer well known in New Orleans
and the West, though more recently a
soubrette at one of the Broadway thea-
tres, and her cartes de visite, with those
of numerous other good looking mem-
bers of the theatrical profession, are
kept for sale at a popular photographic
gallery. A woman of questionable
character having artfully deluded the
unsuspecting son of Themis into a pri-
vate love correspondence, responded to
his final demand for his fair correspon-
dent's picture by procuring one of the
said actress's cartes from the gallery
and sending him that, though still coyly
withholding the real name and address.
On referring to the back of the picture,
the lawyer, who is no opera-goer, nor
familiar with the vis a vis dramatic, discover-
ed by whom it had been executed, and
went to the gallery for information. He
was informed that the carte was of Miss
B--, the actress, and by means of
this clue the professional gent was soon
enable to find the hotel of the lady.--
Going thither with all eagerness, he sent
up his card, and presently the bewitch-
ing Miss B-- gave him an interview
in the public parlor. Rather abashed
at the publicity of the scene, the gen-
tleman commenced a stuttering acknowl-
edgment of the great pleasure he had
felt in being honored with the epistolary
regards of Miss B---. and great was
his horror and mortification when the
actress indignantly denied ever having
written to him or heard of him at all,
and waxed quite faint when he feebly
hinted the sending of her picture. It
is needless to add that he felt himself
cruelly hoaxed, and closed the interview
as soon as he could falter a suitable
apology for his intrusion. My object in
narrating this affair is to warn the fair
sex against permitting the "negatives" of
their pictures to remain in the hands of
the artists furnishing the cartes, as the
thoughtless and common practice of so
doing affords an opportunity to all sorts
of characters to procure, for a trifling
sum, copies of their pictures for infa-
mous uses. It is not a pleasant idea
that the portrait of one's sister or sweet-
heart, can be cheaply purchased at any
time by strangers for the furtherance of
disreputable intrigues, and womanly
delicacy certainly demands that such a
contingency should be rendered impos-
sible,--New York Correspondent.