The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-09

Editorial Opinions Of the Lending Journals
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FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

Exactly what that phrase imports, perhaps,
only Jenkins can explain. But we infer that
IL includes rosy atmosphere of Jockey Club
and Cocoaine, wherein disport exalted beings,
who ride when others walk, who wear velvet
for cloth, who have ice-cream every day for
dinner, who come late to concerts, who, in
short are shining members of that fine aris-
tocracv peculiar to our dear, our native land,
whose foundations are laid broad and deep in
tbe everlasting rock of money, which repre-
sents the social and aesthetic worth of money,
and which is entitled to all the dignities and
honors which money can bestow. Of it are
those charming young women who dine in
full dress at the table dhote Of Stetson's or
the Union, and waltz in the public ballroom
with any man who asks the cheap privilege.
OF it are the wealthy curled darlings of the
nation, who keep a spanking team at
Long Branch, and, inviting girl to
drive smoke a cigar at her side; who
stare O pretty woman out OF countenance
and turn to look after her on the avenue; who
are horsey in talk and much given to iewelry;
whose ambition it is to color a meerschaunl,
to resemble the British Guardsman of Ouida's
novels, and to have the reputation among men
of being a dangerous fellow among women,
by Jove. OF it are the mothers who labor and
fret to hold their girls in training for the
matrimonial race, and who handicap their
neighbors' girls with invented frailties to keep
the running even; to whom conspicuousness
is eminence, and notoriety fame. OF it are
the fathers, who, having forgotten the man
in the money-maker, look upon daughter as
q costly young person whose expenses some
other money-maker will, in the course of
nature, one day assume. OF it is that brazen
horde of the unmannerly to whom half the
pleasure of German or a SOiTee ddBSdnte-
there are no dancing parties in high life-is
the rapture of seeing the affair described at
length in the Household DdybO0k, or the
EoeniRg Tom Tit or else Tile Stage as the
most brilliant event of the season, OF Re-
union Among our Fashionables, Oh The Car
nival of Terpsichore, or Festivities of The
Upper Ten, but under whatever name smell
ing as sweet of millinery, Bloom of Youth,
patchouli, and personalities. Of it, above
all, its priest and prophet, its incense-bearer
and its herald, its troubadour and little foot
page, is Jenkins-JenSins, the omnipresent,
the untiring, the devoted, the reverent, the
minute, the eloquent, the rapturous, the ire
pressible; jenkins who has the receipt of
fern-seed to walk invisible; Jenkins who adds
Eastern splendor to Oriental magnifcence.
What abuse an excellent and eminent dig
nitary of a prosperous church may have
heaped aforetime on lock-defying and area
sneaking j. we know not. Bot, whatever
virtuous slight and snub he dealt, he has been
most dreadfully remembered therefor. The
amiable prelate had a daughter to whom came
forgotten number of moons wasted, had used
their dearest action in the tented field. That
warrior told his tale and won that daughter.
There was nothing in this to give us pause.
Unkind Fate dooms the tenderest of fathers
to give up the most flial of daughters when
the predestinate lover comes a-wooing And
the tenderest of fathers, from Minnehaha's,
up and down, has lamented in more or less
audible and metrical fashion, rejoiced unset
fishly in the larger happiness of the departing
maiden, and crowned the youthful pair with
his blessing Why this tempered melancholy,
this shadowed joy should be made
mock of in the interest of the commonalty,
save to feed fat some ancient grudge of Jen-
kins, we cannot guess. But Knocked it is,
and that most coarsely. In public pEnt, and
without opportunity for refutation, this libel
ler atlantis the simple gownsman of belong
ing to high life. With fat capitals he pro-
claims wedding in High Life" AS if that
were not injury enough, he appends two
columns of impertinent and unkind bosh con-
cerning Bishop - and Mrs. Bishop -
(we wonder that he did not elegantly and
politely write Mr.. and Mrs. Bishop }, and
Miss = and Miss - Libbie and Miss
Ida -. OF course he writes the names in
full No scruple of delicacy hinders his great re.
venge. He has stomach for it all, has jenkins
He relates how the bridegroom enlisted in the
war as O private how the influence of his
t'present father-in-law" enabled him ''to stalk
through the list of nom commissioned posi-
tions," how, again, the influence of that
potential and then postponed relative en-
abled him to be breveted major and lieute
nant-colonel, how still again, the same benef
cent lover of his kind, kindly honoring be.
fore maturity the flial drafts of his i'm
pending kinsman, enabled him to obtain q
professorship in O certain college, and how
once more this paternal horn of plenty, no
to speak it profanely, shook down on him
consulate, all ripe, and asking to be swal
lowed. Jenkins, this minute, wilfully leave!
the impression, studies to leave it, thai
the "happy bridegroom" is a limp and inert
ornament of high life who graciously consent:
to be boosted, if society will pardon the ex
preston, into all manner of desirable crotches
in the tree of time. We have no doubt, per
sonally, that the young man is the mos
energetic and determined of his sex. But
even from the stand point of Jenkins, we
submit that a person who has ''stalked
through list, has achieved what no son OF
Adam ever did before him, and is entitled, by
virtue of that pre-eminence, to make servants
of servants of his brethren until tapped on the
shoulder by that fell-sergent, Death who
alone could outstalk him.
We should have mentioned that this wed
ding in high life aroused state of sensa
tonal enthusiasm ordinarily permissible only
under spiritual movements, or amid the emo.
tlonal inspirations of camp-meetings and re-
hgieps revivals." eve should greatly have
preferred giving this information in English
as is our custom, but no one in our Office was
found capable of understanding the extraor
dlnary dialect in which it was written.