Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-07-24
THE SENSATION IN THE FASHION.
ABLE WORLD OF LONDON.

along the Serpsntine, preferred exhibiting her
elegant turnout and her more elegant self
along the Kensington Road, the Knights
Bridge Barracks, the Albert Gate and Apsley
House. The following is the article alluded to:
"ANOMYMA.
TO the Editor ofthe TTnzss
"STr Early in the season Of 1861, young
lady, whom / must call Anonyms, for have
never been able to learn her name, made her
appearance in Hyde Park. She was q charm
ing creature, beautifully dressed, and she
drove with ease and spirit two of the hand
soonest brown ponies eyes ever beheld.
Nobody in society had seen her before;
nobody in society knew her name or to whom
she belonged; but there she was, prettier, bet
ter dressed and sitting more gracefully in her
carriage than any Of the fine ladies who en-
Wed her her looks, her skill, or her equipsge.
a good many young gentlemen seemed to.
be acquainted with her; but their recognition
was generally limited to a respectful bow as
she passed by, or to few friendly words silly
interchsnged on the step Of her pony carriage
when she drew up in some remote corner Of
the Park.
"Anonyma seemed at first to be rather
shy dsmsel. She is somewhat bolder now
Last year she avoided crowds, and affected un-
frequented roads, where she could more freely
exhibit her ponies marvellous action, and talk
to her male acquaintances with becoming pri-
vacy. When all the fashionable world were
sauntering on foot, on horseback and in car
the Serpentine, Anonyma used to betake her
seef to the deserted thoroughfare leading from
Apsley House to KensingtOn.
But as the fame of her beauty and her
equlpsge spread, this privacy became impos-
ri bic to her. The fashionable world eagerly
migrated in search of her from the Lsdies'
Mile to the kensington road. The highest
ladies In the land enlisted themselves as her
disciples Driving became the rage Three,
four, hve, SIX hundred guineas were freely
given for pairs of ponies, on the simple condi-
ton that they should be as handsome ss Ano-
nymas, that they should show as much breed
ing as Anenyma's, that they should step as
high as Anonyma's. If she wore q porkpie
nat, they wore porkpie hats; if her paletot
was made by Poole, their paletots were made
oy Poole; IL she reverted to more feminine
attire, they reverted to it also. Where Al.
drove, they followed; and 1 must confess that.
az yet, Anonyma has fairly distanced her fair
competitors. They can none Of them sit dress.
drive or look as well as she does nor can any
OF them procure for money such ponies as
Anonyma contrives to get for love-
But the result of all this pretty play causes
great public nuisance, and il is on that account
and not at all on account Of my admiration for
Anonyma and her stepping ponies, that now
address you.
II have said that up to the beginning of last
year the fashionable world chiefly affected the
ladies mile in the Park, and that the thorough
fare from Apsley House to Kensington Was
compatlVely unfrequented, except By Anony-
ma But this year, when that road is more
especially required to be kept oLen for the
conysniencs of visitors to the Exhibition, it is
dslly choked with fashionable carriages-from
i've to seven-all on account of Anopyma
SnairS are placed along it on either side; the
pest pdTttS that England knows, the todies
VINO cilng to them, the snobs who copy them
all SIT there, Watching for Anonyma
At ABOUT p. N. q rumor arises that Anon
toffn q.
nlghest pitch; handsome woman drives rap
IDLY oy, IN a carriage drawn by Thoroughbred
ponies OF surprising shape and action the
driver Is attired in the pork pie hat and the
POOLE Paletot introduced by Anonyma; but,
alas she causes no effect at all for she Ia not
Anonyma; shsis only the Duchess Of A,
the Marchioness Of B, the Countess of
G., or some other Of Anonyma's eager imi-
tators The crowd, disappointed, resest them
selves and wait. Another pony carriage sue
ceeds-snd another-with the same depress-
ing result At last their patience is rewarded
AnonYma and her ponies appear, and they are
satlsned. She threads her way dexterously,
with an unconscious air, through the throng,
commented upon by hundreds who admire and
hundreds who envy her. She pulls up her
ponies 10 speak to an acquaintance, and her
carnage Is Instantly surrounded by a multi
tude she turns and drives back again towards
Apsley House, and then-awsy into the un-
known world, nobody knows whittier Mean
time, thousands returning from the exhibition
are Intolerably delayed by the crowd collected
20 gaze on this pretty creature and her pretty
ponies, and the efforts of Sir Richard Mayne
and MS police to keep the thoroughfare open
are utterly frustrated.
Could not you, sir, whose business il Is to
Know everything and everybody, and who
possibly, therefore, may know Anonyma her
sell, prevail on her to drive in some other
portion Of the Park as locg az the exhibition
lasts, II she win but consent to this the
tashIonable crowd will certainly follow her, |
and the road to the exhibition viii be sat free
for the use Of the public ~ shV7F : 1
au, sir, your obedient servant, Hp
When We met with this, the other day, we
euPPosed 1t was an aIlegorical performance,
who could be this Anonyma of nations, or per-
maps politics, who was raising such dust. |
We now learn that the article Is skstch from l
lie OF Q fashionable demirep, who, backed up
oy Loose nobility and their imitatsrs, the |
wealthy ro1tss OF the West end, has turned the |
heads OF even the most quiet Lsndoners The |
snush sristocracy, in all the reigns within . |
hundred and fifty years past, have been much |
devoted to this sort Of people. Even ROYALTY
has amused itself after the same manner, and /
has Left many seions 10 psrpetuate the private |
taste. OF the sovereigns from generation 10 /
generatson: The bar sinister IL one Of the Il
most useful found upon the escutoheons of GER
tain mobiles. But We had supposed that in the /
reign of the wisest aad most yirtuous Of queens
such scene as that Of which Anonyma is the /
principle figure could not have been acted In i
England, or have had 50 large an audience.
Nor did We suppose, either, that 30 knightly
aJournal as the ItnSs would have lowered /
It's lance to such Q woman, But it does, and /
We may conclude that, while its chief business /
has been to abuse the republicans Of the North
for exposing the indecency and licentieusnsss /
OF me slavsocracy Of the South, 1t il perfectly
consistent in recording the conduct Of the |
British aristocrssy when they throng Hyde
Park to give their plsudite to and express /
thsir admiration fer q modern Lais with q RI
bald tongue.-N Y. Post.
ID The City Inspector Of New York reports /
The number Of deaths in that city at 6ee-of whom
Ia were adults and 400 children. This 10 an In.
crease Of % over this mortality of the preyious
wses and q 81 a. compared with the CORES