The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-24

From Our Ol5n Correspondence
New YORK Dec. "a, 1869.
Tho BAL NTnsque mt the French Theatre.
desire 1t to be distinctly understood that
was there.
There Where ~
Why, at the bal doperd on Wednesday night,
given at the French Theatre by the Societe des
Balls dArtistes Francais. IL was an entertain
ment similar to the one intended to be given by
an association of New York journalists, and to
be dubbed la Jeuncsse Doree" Every one pre-
sent was not French, but every one presentwas
full of that proverbial French didblerie, without
which no bal mdsque is supposed to be COM
petc. The dancing commenced at half-past TO-
and continued until o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and the Intervention of the police was
needed only once. Every man and woman, for
the time being, was an animated champagne
bottle stuck full of corks, continually popping
and containing the essence Of elegant intoxica-
tiOn in him or herself. And then the dresses. If
the hooks and glades which Eve frsquented
in Eden had been deftly furnished with undetec-
table mirrors, and Eue had been in the habit of
executing pas seals therein for the especial de-
location of Adam and herself, the scene would
have been something like that at the French
Theatre on Wednesday evening. Never was so
much pinlliness of flesh seen in this city, upon
such an occasion, in so short a space of time
The amount of 'spondulics" spent in spangles,
of "tin" thrown away on tights, is not easily
computable, for every woman who had a good
form was bent on showing it to the best advan-
tage, aud certainly never saw the can-can cele.
brated before with such q generous display of
busts and buskins. But 1 would particularly
invite attention TO the virtue and decorum of
the affair. AS 1 said before, the police only in
terfered once, and only one young lady had her
thigh broken.
Gone Up.
AS write, the rumor floats to my ear that the
Womans Suffrage Association has gone up,
burst broke; that the action of Mrs. Stanton in
handing in her resignation has been precluded
by the unexpected demise of the society itself
1t died of too much strong-minded ''gab." Its
talking was very tall, and it has finally talked
itself to death. Some of the pillars, it is said,
wanted to go over to the Oneida Community,
and would have done so but for the plaintive
vision of disconsolate "hubbies" left mourning
them at home. At any rate, it seems certain
they have met for the last time, for the present,
at Mr.. Packards rooms. 1t may possibly revive
in q week or two under another name.
Sent Her Husband to School.
An interesting case has lately held possession
of one of the Brooklyn courts. 1t appears that
some years ago young lady holding good
social position in Boston gave her heart to a
young man who was greatly her inferior in edu-
cation. Trammelled by no petty conventionalities,
however, the lady made up her mind to marry
him first and send him to school afterwards.
She did 80, paid his schooling in advance,
examined his reports, reviewed his lessons with
him. and did everything in her power to manu-
facture docile schoolboy out of her husband
lover After going through a long course of
nlr ehn Ii,
society in which she moved, and as Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis the two were well received, and lived to
all appearances very happily. A child was born
to them, whom they named Corinna, and Mrs.
Lewis contemplated q happy fortune. About
this time, however, her ungrateful husband
ceased to care for her, went after actresses and
pretty women generally, ceased to take aninterest
in his books, and did all bad man could to
break her heart. Wearied out, Mrs. l.. applied
for divorce, and pending the consequent litiga-
ton, the court awarded to her the custody of
her child. With desperate ingenuity, intent
upon wounding her to the very quick, Lewis
kidnapped this child, his own daughter, and
finally bore her away on a roundabout route
through the Canadas, and so brought her to this
city, where he procured lodgings in East Seven
tieth street. Here they were discovered by a
Boston detective by means of an elaborate per-
sonal inserted in one of the New York morning
newspapers; Mrs. Lewis was telegraphed to at
Boston, and in day or two the matter will be
definitely settled. There's grateful husband
for yon! Husbands are too often like the scrip
turally mentioned children You train them up
and away they go! am afraid after Lewis left
college he attended night school too much
The Smallpox.
1t is said that the smallpox is raging on the
east side of the city; that Mr.. Harris, the Sani-
tary Superintendent, has taken most suspicious
and surreptitious pains to prevent the news of
it getting abroad, but that in the Seventeenth
and Eleventh wards the disease already has be-
come epidemic. / presume the truth is that a
few bad cases have been detected in the worst
wards, and that average caution is recommended.
Merry Christmas.
No reason occurs to me why should not wish
the readers of THE TELEGRAPH merry Christ
mas. They have always treated me well when
ever they have treated me at all, and l do not
decline to make myself at quits with them by
wishing them the compliments of the season.