The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-27
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Hnw YoRK, Feb. "a, 1899.
rha ouarrels between landlord and lodgeF
a,e tnterminable In this city. he'd rather dine
s..an,less on the crust of bread than enjoy the
..a,le 4 ox with house foil OF people who were |
..t,,n0 me by tho ears. ! had rather inhso"
.ne Of those pretty little twostory brick houses
-e,ch do no abound In the suburbs of Phiiadel-
mia. and be surrounded by small put sminhg
family. than abide in the brownstone gloom o'
/. handsome mansion on Fourteenth street. WIN
rsople on every floor whom dreaded asking
for hoard money and who kept alooi rom 'ns
-n,,on ot paying me. One Of these iaudlord-
.na.tenaut cases was settled, q day or two SINCE
yerv satisfactorily to the latter party IL was ON
sc,io. for the recovery of personal properly
h.longing TO the plaintiff and alleged 10 oe
vrOnefully detained by the defendant ." con
sisted Of wearing apparel, trunks, bureau ped
stead, bedding etc., to the value oi Szoo' Inc
defendant a private clearinghouse Keeper
nlaimed that she left them as heh Iof no"-
paymept of board. The plaintlh' a mrs. "o''
CresSy. sent her husband TO the ooardlug housc
s.oner Miss selleck, and he engaged room
and board on his own peraonal responsibility.
x1non taking possession, Mrs. McCreary brought
~,,b her this $3.50 worth of property to furnish
her room withal. No statement OF charges,
h0WHVeI.
Orsmises let. but Miss sclleck claims that the
law aid not extend this regulation to the keepers
cf priyate boarding. houses. The Judges con-
r,rnot,ou of the case, however, determined
otherwise, and his decision was in favor OF Mrs.
NcCrpady, and Miss Selleck therefore remains
$3.50 short.
These ornaments to their sex, the edltresses
sf the Revolution, have come TO the conclusion
that the yelocipede is a big thing, and being
40. that women ought to ride it. Now 1T is pos
sible for the velocipede to be ridden lady
fashion, in the same way as the genuine
"snimile,n the horse, Is ridden; but this does
not seem to suit the Amazonian breasts OF Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Stanton. II the velocipede
is to be ridden by women at all, they argue that
IA ought to be ridden in the manly fashion.
They would stride Pegasus before attempting to
guide him. In fact lit is necessary for e1iresses
perhaps more than for editors to keep sensa-
sion up, particularly when circulation is going
down. All their arteries draw their life from
The tale the cashiers books tell; aad the
printers ink is SO much blood to them, which
they must take all due meas ures to keep in a
BEAUTIFULLY excited condition.
This letter is to be all about the ladies, so that
need no apology for making mention of some
facts about one of our most accomplished lady
puff-writers, Mrs. Sarah A. Wright. Mrs.
Wright, If my memory holds good, has written
several tales of more or less merit. Indeed 1t
Is not impossible she may have 6guered In some
Of the advertisements OF Street d Smiths Weekly
Shat glorious and triumphant publication whose
pfoprietors spend no one knows how many
hundreds Of thousands of dollars in extending
Sheir fame. Brilliant as she is as story-writer
Il is as q puff-writer that Mrs. Wright is bes
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writes those original, witty, and pcturesqu,
descriptions of fashion and fashionable good
IN the columns of the New York Suuda,
Dispotch-tne only New York Sunday pubica
Non that is altogether weak ant
trashy. She has lately been bringing sui
against Mrs, Imogen Walton, whose husband
lAe plaintiff said, made an arrangement to pa.
her $25 for q certain article, or puff" whicl
she was to prepare. Mr.. Walton denies tn
Sruth of this allegation. He made an arrange
ment with Hrs. Wright and paid for 1t, but sfte
that came to the conclusion that paying TO
"puffsp was not what 1t was crack ed up to be
and refused to enter into an arrangement TO
apy more. His wife agreed with him, and, t,
use @ bold but beautiful figure of speech, the,
beth "shut down" on Mrs. Wright The puff
nuthoress, wounded in her tenderest senslbili
ties, few to the courts for redress; but Mr.. ant
Mrs. Walton both being sustained in their state
mepts by number of their employees, deci
saon was given In favor of the defendant, ant
Mrs. Wright retired worsted from the combat
The visitor to fashionable houses will occa
sionally be dismayed by the eccentricites of
phenomenon whose use and subservience In th
economy of fashionable lie he will not at frs
b able to understand. 1t is one of the innovs
Hons made by bellies who have nothing bette
10 think OF. The phenomenon consists of pag
or ''buttons," of about fifteen or sixteen, who's
principal duty appears to be to carry cards an
notes on salvers, and regard visitors general
as invited to the house expressly to becom
victims of his pleasantries. The "page" Is fas
Becoming an institution in every well-appointe
establishment. The retinue OF servants Is COZ
ssdered incomplete without Ganymede, who
30 far from resembling Jove's substitute fc
Hebe, Ia generally distinguished for the tw
qualities Of brazenness and ugliness-one
those newsboy monstrosties, with split luns
and saw.edged throat, that run over you
your peregrinatlons after newspapers aroun
City Hall Park. ALI BABA.