The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-12-19 00:00:00

socIAL EVILS.- THE FASHIONABLE
IsS"fOR.

We may be allowed to state at the outset, that it is
not our intention to dwell on all the unwholesome
feints which are associated with the social evil of
fashionable dectors. Thoee are serious enough, and
numerous enough, which are common to an ordinary
observer, without enumerating others that come only
from special knowledge and a plinfull experience.
Fashionable clergymen, with their mixed complexions,
who Nerve God iu lawn or Irish linen on Sundays, and I
the world in lavender-coloured gloves on week nights,
who denounce general sinning in the pulpit, and
render pink blushes and sweet smiles to the retailers
of questionable stories in the club sinking-room, are
no longer considered worthy even of contempt; they
have become harmless, and it is certain that they have
often succeeded in putting a number of good people to ,
sleep The fashionable lawyer offends us but little- '
for that no amount of lisp, or hair-dressing, good
looks, or jewellery, can make up for lack of legal
knowledge. or presence of mind; the only incezigniity
which is certainly di-trenaing in your fa.hionable
lawyers is the art with which they conceal their
cruelty, for everybody knows that a lawyer who can-
not be cruel 'an never win a ,euie One can tolerate a
fashionable lawyer, or even a fashionable bard, or •
faahionable reviewer. whese chief sin against nature
and good manner. is his foielnees for making jokes in
quaint language o,neerning his dige•tion ; the faehion.
aisle actor is eqoally bearable-he no longer swears or
gets truculently drunk. he dresses well, awl if he does
absorb an unreasonable amount of attention front the
girls, he beans the fatigue of their attentions with a
grace that steals all artfulneea from his art, end we
like him bemuse. althoinsh acting all the time, he acts
so welL But your fashionable ilk wtoriellifferent. Time
Was whelk men and wons n trembled in the preeeticc of
a priest ; grew pale ~n !wing brought into contact
with a lawyer; Lot their wile in shaking hand. with a
bard, but grew Merry hi nobnobbitm with a player.
Ent. r the fashionable deetor int . a drawing.room of
toolay, god there is is general exit of all healthy
human emotion. Ile knows everybsely's inside, and
they know thst lie knows'. mid tide mutual knowledge
has a deprerethig effect. Everybody's mouth is shot -
his alone is n everyleely 111 that nom of torture
acknowledges herself hi the plainest manner to be a
lame duck, or him., If to be a ~mew, and wi log ae
this medicine man rem:shim in the wieeniblage of
cripples so long Is everyone kept tinder the spell of
disease, and - what is the mingillar part of the
performanes -milieus at the e ,rliest moinentte, obtain
a prescription ;is. go fir advice ; to be:, after long
waiting, in a crew.led roan of mishap; inquirers. the
exalted privilege of payiug a heavy fee for being
.imwed to Loh in private of his or her own liver, or
his or her nnelma wends:sine. For the 'deem', of
baying thi- hal,tise4 impos'or look down her throat
for OM single second, or for the Pleasure it will give
her frisads, a lovely girl, who ham mthing Wa earth the
mutter with her that the immmeee breath could not
heal, or Mother Nature's embrace could not cure,
will go through au ordeal as intense, searching, and
appalling ea an examination used to be to 1411-born
women in the preemie,: 'if the brutal f'hriatians who
formed the eceretconelave of the I,- lyoffice. Once maces
to your faeldona'de deter that you have got a head.
11 cleat, a sumach, * spine, or an auricle, and it is all
up with you. Vett get reesessed ; and one, lawaasa,l
of • fashMnable doctor, there is aw power on earth to
bring deliverance. Nor is deliverance desired. "("line
and see es. again on Friday," awl the victim goes ;
again is let fall a golden tear, which the Nun himeelf
might have shed. which the frwhionable doctor care-
fully pots into his bottle, facetienely labelled, "sow.,
tien of New (;uities." and the game mice begun it is
carried on by means of ui ingoluity which is al cun-
ning as it is
We have recently been remlinlial, in rel;arl to this
kind of .locbc, that proftesional character is altogether
apart from the personal qualtiee of a Professional man.
thlok heaven, is sometime* the truth. It is a
great pleamire to meet new and then with docten. wh
have not ceisee.l to he nien. But these are not (*Alen-
able ,lectors. The love of t 1111 l wy, the vice of vanity,
the paseion for ;ewer, as fierce as that of a fawning
has never come nigh them, for in great modesty
and with a delicate taste f r truth they long ago
enlisted under the banners of Athena. and finding
such perfect sweetness awl freedom in the service
of the go blew they would rather die than revolt;
these, doctors, however, int bele( fashionable,
do not come within the scope ef our censure. But we
are aaaiired, on no lest authority than the Zoned, and
at • time no later than a tiatuntiv ago, that it requires
much acuteness awl tact to avoid being captivated by
the pleasant and po)ul ir iloct.nr, or misled hy his
agreeable loquacity, and the iniptrecial eophistry
which he is nia.ter. Them is, we are Informed, with
a minutenees of detail which is Mlggefitive of jealousy,
ma sachems pleasantry, ,ir it may Is! a eynipatltetic
I rankness about his manner of dealing with nervier,s
and objects which beguiles the weak and impreeeible.
" Few are safe in his sanupany." This witswee we
believe to be true.
And yet no one rot:Ards Cie withers. The fashion-
able etr,ts where fashionable doctors do congregate
wee more througed than ever with carriages containing
Invalid', who, if they had to earn their own
would be in good health, and are only kept alive by
ffniag to see their dear doctor, have his dear eyes lont
aown their dear throats, and feel his dear hands in
their dear little pocketc
it will take heaven knows how many centuries
ibui„e„, the., charming women can be brom;ht to know
that it wouhl ao them ten times mere good to throw
their gold into the Thanwe than give it for advice to a
faeldsomable .I.stor, tle it it would do the ,I,se,or
self gaml although we are sot concerned for that -
Awl thcconititonwealth would is, improve I in health,
'wealth, aid e ellimaut. Therefore we tgo on
&Mine precast ,at precept. line upon line, here a little
and there a litt/e, until. if we are not able to Iwing
them to perfect iesalth. we can at least tap:seine° aa,as
of the women vellum we love that, in yielding them.
selves to a fashiculable doctor, they are in no better
miss than was the alfLictad WOllntil of the (;,,epela,
whe, after +pending all her sebstance on phyeimane,
WAS him nothing bettered, but hail Hither grewn worse!.
She met with someone at last who cured her for
nothing. '1 hat chance, le mover, is no longer posmible
to the
As for these eroded biles who deal in physic, a%
things iii the men called priests deal in
dogmas Who., 0-e.144.11 their head with one finger, ride
eiend in pi/14,0%es on wheels, ilistort their
fares into loarbees iimsa.ts.and inake believe that they
know more than ;of )simself, and increase their stock
Si money I,y 'such cral ty ways, may the devil ...Oil
fetch them, ,siul leave tip Sr npac for honest men to
occupy. But that is a v.iia prayer, mw would we like
to be eupposed to lie in the attitude .4 the pretty
little peeple who I've to have great f. 4.16 waitom on
them when they eau easily help thenaselve,.. 411
that we ni that we believe of all the fashionable
foili.vs embodiments of imveraties, itilgaritv. and
pocket-pieking ansong men or among priests, spiritua-
lists. nod reber Lager+ now going on in !amulet' -there
it eons greater than your fashienable doctor, that the
sooner he is 'wept into limb , the better, and it doe',
not matter by when It is clone,
We lia,e one little eonsfort heft Tin..? ra,lijoilable
bUI.OtOra are very frequently Noel for. at the last
anouient. siatiel on a pet-bete case. They dare got
refuse to go, and th:y arrive in time to gibe souse
shadow "( cotuf..et to the wetping fashionable wife,
and the faellienably weeping other ladiee who may be
t Of 'aural the Mall ills ; he aouhl have
tr:len her all circumstance"; no one knows this
batter than the faeltionable doctor, who is likewise
th,a oughts' iware of the odinni which will stick to his
name it, the ls ~f not a few ef hie worshipper. fir
manned in what emus of them will reganl as
making better than a deatlly failure. The B.runtinrs.

mann., IgnITITIO/1.-11111 throat and windpipe or
eapeiallv moan to indammattem miming wryness awl
an.fla,a, tickling and irritation, Indming and
aiteethig the voice. .I.tpr thew eyniptoine we irlyeeciho
the term Of jujube& jaY,arilla Ilene agreeable eoi -
feetiona being in pro salty to the dal !A at the inolues:t
they are excited by the act of sucking. laeoviim actively
healing. ad. and 14. bezel Ow poet ti atam,i
gam & Howt.opiiille I !heitii.ta
Thnsailuee,lle Street, aml I7U, - Sold n's
Weymouth by J. V. WlLL:ans. tAwitt.et.,
ROW
HUNYADI J AMOS MINERAL WATER. The beet and
mom agreeable natural aperient...—" Thew who have
used Pullna and Friedrickahall prefer the Hunyadi
water b, either, because the bulk of tha dam ta
leas than either of thaw wntere, and the action is law
4taaatic, producing no distress or mwaeineee."—
Prefeeeor Aitken, FILL., Profewor of P!ethology
Army Medical Lchoul, Author of the "Science ana
Practioe of medicine." aixth Edition, la uriginj
boulas_,lmioe 2a. and Is. 6d., al chemists. —A wins I
glass fail a dame.