New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-08
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only Jenkins can explain. But we infer that
it includes rosy atmosphere of Jockey Club
and Cocaine, wherein disport exalted beings,
who ride when others walk, who wear velvet
for cloth, who havo ice-cream every day Tor
dinner, who come late to Concerts, who, in
short, are shining members of that fine arls-
tocracy, peculiar to our dear, our native
land. whose foundations are laid broad and
deep in the everlasting rock OF money, which
represents the social and aesthetic worth OF
money, and which is entitled to all the dignities
and honors which money can bestow. VI 1t
are those charming young women who dine III
full dress at the table dh0te 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 spanking team at
Long Branch, and, inviting girl to
drive, smoke cigar at her side;
who stare pretty woman out OF countenance
and turn to look after her on the avenue; who
are horsey in talk and much given to jewelry;
whose ambition it is TO color meerschaum, to
resemble the British Guardsman of Ouidds
novels and to have the reputation among men
of being dangerous fellow among women, by
Joye. OF it are the Mothers who labor and
fret TO hold their girls in training for the Mat
rimonal race and who handicap their neigh
bors' girls with invented frailtes to keep the
running even; to whom conspicuousness is
eninence, and notoriety fame Of it
are the Fathers, who, having forgot
ten the man in the money maker, look upon
daughter as a costly young person whose ex-
penses some other moneymaker will, in the
course of nature, one day assume. OF 1t Is that
brazen horde of the Unmannerly to whom half
the pleasure of a German or n Soir<e DdnSdnte
there are no Dancing parties in High Lite-is
the rapture of seeing the affair described at
length in the Household DaybOok, or the Even
ing Tom Tit or else the Stage, as The Most
Brilliant Event of The Season, or Reunion
Among Our Fashionabes, or The Carnival of
Terpsichore, or Festivities of The Upper Ten,
but under whatever name smelling as sweet of
millinery, Bloom OF Youth, patchouli and per-
sonaities. OF it, above all, its priest and pro-
pLet, its incense-bearer and its herald its
troubadour and little foot-page, is Jenkins;-
Jenkins the omnipresent, the untiring, the de-
voted, the reyerent, the minute, the eloquent,
the rapturous the irrepressible ;-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 prosperous Church may have heaped
aforetime on lock-defying and area-snealSing
j. we know not But, whatever virtuous slight
and snub he dealt, he has been most dreadfully
remembered therefor. The amiable prelate
had daughter to whom came warrior
bold, whose arms, till now some forgot
ten 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. Unl1ind Fate dooms the tender
est of fathers TO give up the most filial of
daughters when the predestinate lover comes
a-woong And the tenderest Of fathers, from
Minnehaha's, up and down, has lamented in
more or less audible and metrical fashion, re-
joiced unselfshly in the larger happiness of
the departing maiden, and crowned the youth
full pair with his blessing. Why this tempered
melancholy, this Swallowed joy, should be made
a mock of in the interest of the cOmmOnalty,
save to feed fat some ancient grudge of Jenkins,
we cannot guess But Knocked it is, and that
most coarsely. In public print, and without
opportunity for refutation, this libeler atlantis
the simple gownsman of belonging to High
Life With fat capitals he procaims We'd
ding IN High Life" AS if that were not in
Jury enough he appends two columns
of impertinent and unkind bosh con-
corning Bishop and Mrs. Bishop -,
1--WE wonder that he did not elegantly and
politely write Mr.. and Mrs. Bishop II and
Miss - and Miss Libbie - and Miss Ida
-. OF course he writes tho names in full.
No scruple of delcacy hinders his great re-
venge. lie has stomach for it all, has jenkins.
He relates how the bridegroom enlisted in the
War as a private, how the influence of "hls
present father-in-law enabled him to stalk
Through the list of nOn-cOmmissiOned po-
"stions," how, again, the influence of that poten-
tial and then postponed relative enabled him to
be breyeted Major and Lieutenant Colonel, how
still again. the same benetcent lover of his
kind, kindly honoring before maturity the flial
drafts of his impending kinsman, enabled him
to obtain q professOrship in certain College.
and how, once more, this paternal horn of
plenty. not TO speak it profanely, shook down
on him Consulate, all ripe and asking to DO
swallowed. Jenkins, thus minute, willfully
leaves the impression, studies to leave IL. TINT
the happy bridegroom is q limp and iner.
ornamentof High Life who graciously consents 10
be boosted, if Society will pardon tho expres
sion, into all manner OF desirable crotches In tho
tree of Time. We have no doubt, personally,
that the young man is the most energetic and
determined-ot his SEX But even from the