The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-15
NEW YORRLSM,g.
From our oWn Correspondent

III Philadelphta and her sister cities have not
ecome intimately acquainted with the move
ments OF the "sorosis,n 1t is not because the
press OF New York has not sufficiently ventilated
Its doings. Some weeks ago its members we're
given dinner by the newspaper people here,
and Delmouico's was inundated with such
feminine feast and flow OF reason and Of soul as
no place OF that character can boast of beng
reealed with, more than once in a century.
Hitherto the meetings OF the "Sorosis" have
been confined to the discussion Of purely literary
and sartstic matters, in which the newest
styles of bonnet and couture not unprOmneutly
figured. 1t would be hrppant aud unjust, how
ever, TO say that the soclcty did not own many
intellectual women among its members, or that
large proportion did not convene for the pur-
pose of seriously discussing serious questions
Few even of the more prominent members
could rightly be termed strong minded They
did not ofliciously advocate women's rights;
they did not banker after the election polls;
they did not aim to become presidentesses of
colleges, or denuucatresses from the lecture
rostrum. Furthest from their thoughts, so far
as have been able 10 penetrate them, was the
idea, lately adopted by sister society at Chi.
cago, of taking into consideration tue socia
evil, and uselessly endeavoring to save those
whom experience has sho wn, nine times out of
ten, to be beyond redemption. A good deal
private scandal has been thrown upon them
however, by the report that they we're about TO
get up dinner (at DelDouico'3, OF course) in
honor of Miss Braddon, who is reported to
shortly arrive in this city. Nov, Miss Braddon
Is an emlnently clever woman, aud lin coniunc.
tion with the memorable "Mr. Burlington
White") executes marvellous quantity of lite
rarY work. But she is not what you would call
genius. She writes with extraordinary facility;
the rib of her pen teens with words; her brain
Is tecund with plots and counter-plots for which
she is unrvaled among Englishwomen.
She has completely overshadowed
the edtrcss OF the ArgosM and
nuthoress OF "East Lyme" and the avidty with
which her earlier stories, published before the
advent of aurora Floyd" are snapped up and
Tepublshed by certain Sunday papers, as the
advanced prootsheets of entirely new copy is
one OF the best Indicators OF her popularity
But she does not write pure English, she does
not picture nature, she does not excel in the por.
traiture of character or scenery which exist
purely in the region OF the Imagination. l
therefore think that the reported dinner in her
honor Is merely a cGnard, for the "SorOsis"
numbers some of the best literary judges in New
York, and rather think these would reserve
their ovation for such writer as Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning used TO be, and as George Eliot
now is.
To the little have to say about the fashions,
! am indebted not to observations along Broad.
way, Or at the theatres, which are attended now
by crowds of country cousins; but to strictly
confidential interview with one OF the most
fashionable of fashionable dress makers here.
when | called yesterday afternoon, with the
nv
GRAPH before my eyes, she informed ME that
never before, in the sum total of her experience,
lad such caprice and lawlessness regued among
the votaues of fashion, as no one style
ieemed to be predominant; every style
vas the rule. Tue most fashIonably
ertravagant women out of town (for there are
ntne an town now borro v their styles as much
from tie remembrances of former days which
hitorical pictures hand down to them, as they
do from that assumed Queen of Fashion, the
Express Eugenie. The costume a la Watte0u'
with ruche.pufings, flower paintings, and rib
hons drawn through the centre or sides, is
geatly affected Jet is worn great deal,
aA being highly contrastive to an other
vie gay toilette. The feminine bathers who
thong The seaside have lately taken
to wearing sailors costume-blue shirt,
vice white trousers, broad .brimmed oilskn
hut, which renders them doubly irresistible.
n, young man who hopes to enjoy peace of
mnd or peace Of body can realize his hopes in
the bathing presence of this feminine sailor
costume. As for promenade and dinner, Cham
bre, gauze is very much used, and the most
distinguished mode Of wearing the Latty round
haisof the day (black and White) Is with the
brimlooped up.
), Owing to the prompt and exemplary action OF
the Board OF Health and Sanitary Inspectors,
the cattle.disease panic has in some degyee
abded and people are beginning to eat their
boiled and roast with their accustomed relish
II connection with this subject an amusing
editorial, entitled, "Wlll Carbolc Acid Cure the
Chtle Disease?" appeared in yesterdays SUM-
Tie entire article reads like puff OF some
chemical soap manufacturer of this city, who
employed the acid in question in his sapona-
.eous operations. The ground taken is, that
s1ap is made from the tallow yielded by the
diseased beeVes so lately imported; and that
the form OF carbolic acid invented by the
chemist ought to be used in all soap 80 made.
Alter adducing the miraculous effects of car.
bolic acid III number of cases, both in the old
world and the new, the writer finally SINNERS
down TO the question whether this peculiar ap-
plication of carbolic acid would render soap tit
for washing dlshes and implies that its effect
upon the human stomach is extremely ambi
guOus.
very singular accident and escape occurred
on Thursday afternoon on the fourth floor of q
Canal street store. 1t is used as a mandatory